The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-10-09
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Friends (Quakers) IL. England
are Decreasing in numbers quite rap
idly. e.
The University, of Southern Cali
fornia partitions itself. and has college
departments in six towns.
The largest Protestant Sunday
school in Philadelphia is the Bethany
Presbyterian with 2, 456 scholars.
DIR. Newman Hall has nineteen
Sunday-schools in connection with his
church in London, in which there are
5000 pupils.
1T is estimated that the total cost
Of the new Roman Catholic Church OF
the Sacred Heart, Montmarte, Paris,
will be q, 000, 900 francs, or FL. 040s 600.
Eighteen of the fifty-seven surviv-
ing members of President Dwight's
Yale class of 1849 were present at his
inauguration. The class numbered
nincty-four 1t graduation. - Hartford
Post. 1854 teA
Prof. Peabody in sermon at Har-
ward University suggests the danger
that s.athletio culture" be carried ''be-
yond the needs of liberal education"
and sometimes to . ssperilous extreme"
IA missionary in India sends home
strong protest against church lotteries,
husking. bees. rallies and all similar de.
vices for raising money. He fears lest
the heather hear that such methods are
used by some Christian churches, and
and denounce them as discreditable TO
any religion. --Christian Union.
The General Conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South took
strong. ground upon the subject OF
divorce. Ministers Of that church are
forbidden to solemnize marriage be-
tween divorced persons while both
parties to the dive rec are still living,
except in cases VIII ere there was Scrip
tural reason for granting the divorce.
IN. r. Times.
Tho Gospel wagon" which the
Central Union Mission of Washington
is using. commends itself as being the
outcome of practical common sense.
tits an ordinary omnibus, and contains
. cabin ct organ, good choir and sew
eral speakers. Every Sunday after
noon it is driven to regions where the
inhabitants do not often hear the Gospel
preached and religious services of an
interesting character arc held Wash
ington Post,
Colonel d. B. Sickels, formerly the
Representative of the United States in
Siam. has received from Bangkok q
letter which says: His Majesty il 50
we'll pleased with the results of the
system of public education for males.
which was established few years ago
at your suggestion, that he has decided
to establish : school in this city for the
instruction of the native women, and
it is probable that prominent mis-
sionary lady win be placed at the head
of the institution. IN =. Ipdepesdest.
The superintendent of the Buffalo
schools at . recent commencement
said: "Our common school system
should be shaped SO as to best serve
the needs of the industrial masses. The
training of the mind should go hand in
hand with that of the body to develop
healthy and favorable conditions of
both, and to better fit graduates for
LIES duties. To this end educators are
looking ahead to the time when Buffalo
will catch the popular spirit Of progress
that is giving prominence to several
sister cities in this direction, and fur
nish the higher grades an opportunity
to receive elementary training of an IN
dustrial character. "-Bn6dlo Express.