The Opelousas courier., 1889-05-04

During the last year the sum total
OF educational gifts in this country was
nearly 5000, 900.
-Amusements are to religion like
breezes of air to the fane-gentle ones
will fan it, but strong mes will put it
out.-Dr. Thomas.
The Soudan has beten almost totally
neglected by Professionals as a field for
missionary effort. lt.hRs a population
of about SO. 900. 900 people.
"A grant of$600 a year was recently
made out of the appropriation for the
Indian Bureau to aid the industrial
school carried on in DA1ota, near the
Grow Creek Agency, by Miss Howard,
a daughter Of Joseph Howard, Jr., the
journalist.
Young people ought To be interest
ed in our public schools. These schools
open the doors of knowledge to all
classes and conditions Of American
youth. Weean not begin,to estimate
their importakse in the Development of
our national life.
No business pursuit or employ
ment should be engaged IN. however
profitable it may be, or may promi>e to
be. it we can not gloEify God in con-
nection with it. No plga\ of necessity,
orforce of circumstances.ets justiiable
for wrong doing. "
Again and again, at .Spe and
abroad, the world has seen and con-
fessed the power of the old :ashic15x1i
Bible and it's truth to brighten the face
of human society. If free religion can
do it better, by all means bet the world
see it done at once. Boston Congre-
gationalist
-ltis no more possible for an idle man
to keep together a certain stock of knowl-
edge, than 1t is possible to- keeptogether
a stock of ice exposed to the meridian
sun. Every day destroys a fact. a rela-
ton, Or an influence; and the only way
OF preserving the bulk and value of the
pile is by constantly adding to it
Rev. Sydney Smith.
The cost of maintaining public
schools in New YORK State last year
was $14. $50. 841, an increase of more
than 81. 200, 900 over 1887. This money
was for the educ, zion of /. ZIP. 958 chill
dren of school age. of whom 1,033 1853
attended school. The number of teach
ers employed was 81. 726, at an average
annual salary of $419.75 I.
The foundation OF all education,
from the time a child first begins to
learn, is thoroughness. Whatever is
attempted must be carried out thor
oroughly. until the Learner becomes
master of the subject IhoroUghness
is the groundwork of all good habits of
mind. and a child's minds as:much a
bundle of habits as its body.
I've have SO much to be thankful
for" is an exclamation often heard
from the thankful heart, and it is all
true-so true that if but the vail that
obscures our earthly vision were lifted,
and we could see for a moment how
much has been done for us. perhaps it
might lead to increased thankfulness
expressed in life and deed. W. if less
in words. Christian at Work.
The records of the Association Of
Collegiate Alumna show of 7@Se o24
members, II physicians, 9 journalists,
8 authors, 8 librarians, 5 lawyers. 3 art
lists, 3 printers, 2 each of school princi-
pals, musicians, elocutionists, and pri-
vate secretaries. and one each of lee
turer, chemist. typewriter. government
clerk, and merchant. Others are enc
gagged in bookkeeping, dairy farming.
stock raising, insurance. biology, the
drama, and one is the editor OF an ag.
ricultural paper.