The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-07-09
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


Five Turkish students, whose ex-
penses will be betrayed by the sultan,
have arrived at the university of Ber-
lin.
Baltimore Methodist conference has
given forty-two thousand two hundred
dollars for missions, gain of one thou
sand nine hundred and sixty dollars
over last year.
Circles of the Kings Daughters are
being formed in the Jewish church un-
der the name of Daughters of Israel.
They wear the same badge and engage
in similar lines of work.
According to the American Baptist
Yearbook for 1891, the Regular Bap-
fists have in the United States 1882 as
sociations, "a, 7SO churches, with a mem
bership of 8, 1914, 227, an increase for the
year of upward of "a, 200 members.
The Baptist church at Haddon-
field, N. j., besides the new church edi-
fee, costing $45, 600, is able to show four
chapels for mission works, built at as
many points of the compass, and four
Bible schools in the country, conducted
by the church, with vigorous Christian
Endeavor society at home.
The entire clergy of Dalmatia have
petitioned the pope to permit the slav-
onic priests of the Balkans to celebrate
mass in their native language. The pc
tition sets forth that the Slavonic peo-
pie, on account of their antipathy to
the mass in the Latin language, go over
to the Greek orthodox churches.
The Methodist Episcopal church
has three conferences in India. In con-
nection with these conferences are 81
foreign missionaries, 81 native mission
aries, SO zenana missionaries and 10,24I
native communicates. There are 1O1
churches, Al, 1913 scholars in the Sunday
schools, and 20, 458 pupils in the day
schools. The baptisms last year num-
bered 4, 3O8.
A devoted Moravian missionary
named Letzen has, with his wife, lived
for thirty years at station in the Thi-
betan mountains, preaching and helping
the natives. To reach the nearest post
Office he must ride fourteen days over
the high passes and the dangerous
mountain streams of the Himalayas
No other Europeans are to be found in
this vicinity.
We have commented several times
of late upon the wonderful growth Of
the Protestant Episcopal church in the
United States ''Whittaker's Church
Almanac" for 1891 contains additional
information. The increase in eommuni-
cants in the last decade was Az per
cent, just double the increase of popu.
lation. The increase last year was 81
per cent. In 1910 there were but IS, 427
communicates in the United States,
with population of 1909, 500; now
there are "a, ,949 in Pennsylvania alone,
with population of 5,24S, 74.--Toronto
Evangelical Churchman.
The Baptist Missionary Magazine
claims to be the oldest missionary pub
lication in this country which has APP
peared continuously under the same
name. The first number was published
September, 1903. and was printed by
Manning and Loring, and sold at their
bookstore, No. 2 Cornhill" No name
is mentioned as editor, but it is UNDER
stood that Rev. Thomas Baldwin had
editorial charge of the publication,
which has continued without interrupt
ton to the present time, at frst as
quarterly, then as bi-monthly, and
since January, 1926, as a missionary
magazine. Christian Union.