The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-01-23
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


= Students at Amherst College WIFE
hereafter be refused diploma at grau
uation unless they attend to tnelr gy"
nas,um duties during the course.
Fourteen of the three hundred ana
eight graduates of the Woman's Meul-
ca1 College at Philadelphia. are now
practicing medicine in India.
No. nv dear teacher, there is NO
salvation under heaven for you OF
nunils. unless you work for the 1mme-
date and everlasting good OF eacn M
d;v;dnal child.-Practlcdl Teacher.
A leading Eastern religious paper
says that reading hymns from the Pui-
pit is rapidly going out of style. Inns
does not apply to this city. wnere
hymn reading is as popular as ever
Chicago Herald.
One of our American missionaries
in Armenia had lot OF Moody anu
Sankey hymn-books come through tne
mails. but the eagle-eyed inspector OF
the Turkish postoffice decided tna'
Hold the Fort was intended to en-
courage rebellion, and expurgated thas
inoffensive lyric from every COPY
Ctristian Union.
Some time since a Miss Caldwell,
devoted Catholic, left $500. 600 to ASSIST
in founding great Catholic university
in this country. This sum has been IN
creased to about $4,000. 900. and It has
been decided to locate the university I'D
Washington City, the $4,000. 600 to De
used in the purchase of a site and the
erection of the buildings; then it is ex-
pected to raise at least 81. 600, 600 more
by way of endowment.--N. y. 1rto"''e-
The Catholic ladies of Washington
have tabernacle soc ety." the object
of which is to aid poor and needy ms.
sion churches throughout the United
States with the necessary altar vest
ments and linens for the decent cele-
bration of the divine mysteries. IneY
meet at the Carroll Institute every day
of the week except Saturday and sun
day to labor in their pious work.
Washington Star.
The twenty-ninth annual meeting
of the Society for the Increase of the
Ministry was held recently at the Office of
the society. at Hartford, Conn. The total
receipts of the year have been nearly
$4,000. Fjfty-five scholars, from twen-
ty-four dioceses and four missionary jur-
isdictions. have been added during the
year. The president for the ensuing
year is the Right Rev. John Williams,
d. d. LII. D., OF Connecticut.--Broo6-
Ign Eagle.
An American traveller in Europe
fancied he could make people under
stand him by speaking with a loud.
clear and slow pronunciation, forget
ting for the moment that his words had
no meaning whatever to his listeners.
Similar is the blunder of the teacher
who hopes, by the mere urgency of his
manner. and BY his clear use of words
familiar to himself. to carry his ideas
into the very center of the pupils I'M
Outstanding, without any reference to
that pupils previous knowledge of the
subject. Pilgrim Teacher.
We met at public service in one
of our churches. few evenings since,
Congregational minister, of the latter.
day dispensatiQn, who was bold to claim
that he had as good right to preach
the propositions of Universalism as our
selves. We presume there are not
many who would think of asserting
such claim; but to all who would we
say: I'VE rejoice in whatever way the
truth gets proclaimed. and will rejoice.
But it seems to us meet, right and
proper that ship which carries Ufii-
versalist freight should fly the Univers-
alist flag. 49, Christian Leader.