The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-09-18
SCHOOL AND cAURch.

A merchant OF Lubbock has boz
oueathed to the University of Jena the
sum of SO0,000 marks 10 found Q OAR
win chair.
There are 40, 430 Methodists in
Kansas. Nearly one-fourth OF the en-
tire population of that State are mem
hers of some Christian church. CHRIS
tidn Union.
The census of 1881 showed that
there were in Ireland 1851, 1888 Roman
Catholics, 6S5,67O Episcopalians, 1885,
sos Presbyterians. 1863 Methodists.
Bismarck, with his eye fixed on
prospective German colonies in the
East. is about to found in Berlin
school for the teaching of living ORR
entail languages.
Lord Randolph Churchill 10 author.
ity for the statement that the Protest.
ant religion has existed in Ireland for
sixcenturies, antedating the Reforma-
ton by almost three hundred years.
"A decision has been filed at Ithaca,
N. Y, decreeing that the legacies of
Mrs. Jennie McGraw Fiske to Cornell
| University are valid, and directing the
executor to pay the balance of Mrs.
Fiske's estate to the university as re-
siduary legatee. By this decision Cor
uell University will receive about
S1,5O0,0O0.
Rev. E. P. Hammond has been
holding meetings for the last six
months in London, laboring in as
many as fourteen different localities.
All denominations have united in the
work, ministers and others heartily Co
| operating in the services. Many
Church of England people have en-
| gagged with Mr.. Hammond in revival
meetings, even some of the high
| churchmen. ts
| MIR. Wilcox" says the Congrega-
tionalist, s.writes from Western Africa
a graphic account of the giving up by
| natives of their ornaments for the sake
| of Christ After they had surrendered
tobacco and beer, the missionaries
asked who was willing to give up the
ornaments of brass and iron on their
wrists, ankles and necks. All at once
began to strip them of. Some were
so grown into the bodies of the wear
ers that they had to be cut with instru-
ments. Excepting the girls, not one
left the place wearing an ornament. "
The Christian Union thinks sit is
certain that to-day the demand is not
| half so much for finely educated schol-
ars preaching to cultivated congrega-
tons as it is for men who have come
up from the people without having
come away from them, who know their
lives and homes and thoughts and
hearts, and who can speak to them Of
their own lives and in their own Ian
guage. The church is tolerably well
equipped with preachers in silk gowns;
what it most needs to-day is more shirt
sleeve preachers.
"A pastor of one Of the Southerp
Illinois churches is authority for the
following: His superintendent often
visits colored Sunday school in the
city to advise and assist them in theil
work. A recent Sabbath afternoon be
spoke to them of the Congo mission
and endeavored to rouse their interest
in its behalf. His success was phenom.
email. A short time afterward one OF
his auditors met him, when the follow.
ingensued: s.Mr. -, Use been tlnkin'
bout dat Conger mishun, and Use go
in dar. Iwrote John A. Logan to gil
me pass dar." ibid you get itp''
questioned the superintendent. sHe
said no pervishun had been made. bu
when it was he would send me. Chi
cago Standard.