St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-12-13

SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

-McGin University. Montreal has
received $3.50. 600 from Sir Donald
Smith, to establish woman's branch.
Methodist laymen in Nashville.
Tenn.. have organized to build churches
in needy portions Of that city.
Tho United Prcsbyterians havc
spent $40. 500 the past year In building
eighteen parsonages-an average OF
g, 700 each.
-Methodism in Maine has been un.
usually active this year, building .
larger number Of churches than in any
recent year.
Tho gold medal awarded Michigan
for her educati ational exhibit at the Mel
bourne (Australia) Exposition in 1883
he's Just been received at Lansing. 1t
is of Australian gold, and weighs nearly
two ounces
Tho great Shanghai conference ap.
peals to universal Christcndom for an
increase of the missionary force from
Christian countries to China, Of IN ag-
gregate annual average OF two hundred
for Ave years to come.
"A cha ir OF music has been estab-
lished 1T Yale College by the gift OF
SO. 900 from Mrs Ellen Battell Eldridgc.
Dr.. Gustave I. Stoeckel. who came to
the college about the same time with
President Dwight fills the professor
ship
To build Talmage's new tabernacle
he and his people have borrowed Sl25. 600
from Russell Sage. Tho loan will be
secured by the bonds Of the board Of
trustees, the value Of the church lots.
and . policy for SIS. 900 on Talmage's
life, taken out to help meet this emer-
gency. The site for the new tabernacle
cost sos, 600. and the church Is to cost
$3.50. 900 more.
Over $50 men arc busily employed
1T present about the Stanford, Jr. Uni
vorsity buildings At Palo Alto. says the
San Mateo Times Every effort is now
being made to get tho fine four-story
dormitory under roof before the rains
begin. The foundations of tho second
dormitory building havo been laid. but
work ON tho upper walls will have to
wait at present The six school build
ings grouped around the main quad
rangle are all done, except interior
finishingS
Tho Southern Presbyterian church
has Il Presbyteries, an increase OF s
over last year; l,170 ministers, an in
crease of "a; 9, 400 churches. an increase
of 20; II, 400 additions on examination.
an increase Of 1. 800; 16S, 79l communi-
cants. an increase Of 7,046 Tho con-
tributions for all purposes have in
creased. except for education. which
has fallen on nearly $4,000 below tho
unusually largo sum Of SS4.s63 Of last
year. The total for congregational
purposes and benevolence is 81. 7s7, 26a
President Charles X. Adams Of
Cornell University has Just returned
from Europe. To reporter OF the New
York Tribune he said that the Oxford
and Cambridge Universities. wbere no
had spent . month, werc not SO we'll
adapted to the needs Of England at pres.
ent IS our colleges and universities arc
to the needs Of America. They arc all.
he thinks too much tied up with tradi-
ton to be able to adapt themselves to
present educational needs. He cx-
pressed himself Is being especially
pleased with tho schools of Switzerland.
which have reached high grade OF per
lection. particularly the technical
schools. One In Zurich alone has .
chemical laboratory larger than all
those in New England put together.
-"Ihave little Bible at home." said
the bad man, "that in 1863 I wrested
from unday-school class Of nineteen.
I haven't opened it since. and 1t Is now
as clean as the day got It" Bring
It down some day; I'd like to see it +"
said his friend. carelessly. The next
day the bad man came into his friends
Office and. throwing little half-worn-
out book on the desk, he said: "There
she is, old man, but was little wrong
about it, condition" II should say 80.
said the other. "How does 1t happen
that this little book 10 20 badly worn
when you thought it was clean and all
right at homer ''Well," said the bad
man, and his voice WAS . bit husky,
..the truth Of the matter Is I've got .
wife up at the house and couple OF
young onea They sometimes rummage
through my thingA"-Philadelphia
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