The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-06-25
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The London Religious Tract so
ciety last year issued n, ,OoO,O 900 publica
tions.
The Synod of Kentucky expended
last year over $4,000 in evangelistio
work, with large results, and will raise
large sum this year.
(. The Icelandic Lutheran congrega'
ton in Manitoba and the northwestern
states recently celebrated the three
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the
translation of the Scriptures into Ice
landic.
in Africa the number of mission
aries exceed 500, and the number OF
converts 400, 900, increasing by about
5000 a year. During the past five
years Africa has furnished more than
200 martyrs. Christian Union.
Yearly returns of the Welsh Cal
vinists for 1890 show communicates
roll of 1872, 354, an increase during the
last ten years of $4,000. This includes
the Welsh churches in London, Liver
pool, Manchester and other parts of
England.
OF the 478 ministers who left the
Established church of Scotland at the
disruption, forty-two are still living in
Switzerland, while few others are liv-
ing in other countries. DR. Beth, who
was ordained sixty-eight years ago, is
one of them.
"A copy of the Bible was sold in New
York the other day for S148O0. This
was not because it contained any more
truth than any other copy, but because
| it was printed by Gutenberg in l455-
the first complete book ever printed
with movable type.
These are the figures which the
Methodist Episcopal Advocate of Port
land gives concerning the relative stand
ing of the churches in Oregon: Method
| ist societies. 211, members, 10,050; Bap-
tist, 106, 5,043; Presbyterian, 20, 3,575;
Episcopal, 50, 1000; Congregational, 80,
1919.
The grandson and last descendant
of the great educator, Pestalozzi, died
recently in Zurich. This was Mai. Carl
Pestalozzi, born in 1925, and for a num-
Der of years professor in the polytech-
nical institute in Zurich. For long
time he was president of the Zurich
Pestalozzi endowment for the education
of neglected children.
The executive committee of the
board of trustees of Cornell university
has completed the formation of the staff
for the new Susan Linn Sage school OF
philosophy. The new school viii begin
instruction on the first day of the next
academic year. The trustees and the
dean expect to make this one of the
most important departments in the uni
versity and the most complete of its
kind in America
The City Mission society of Berlin
is fortunate in having liberal FRIEND
in the person of the emperor. For the
new church in the part of the city callet
''Moabit' he has granted sum of 200,
900 marks, besides securing for it a sitC
valued from 10000 to $4,000 marks ThC
aforementioned sum the emperor did no
give himself entirely, but only in part
the rest having been secured through
his example and influence from wealthy
men in Berlin.
E Prof. Dorner, son of the late ia
= nous teacher in the University of Ber
lin, has been appointed full professor il
/. Konigsburg. His chair is the same a
that held by his father-namely, sys
tematic theology. DR.. Dorner was borl
in 1910, and for number of years wa
d professor in the practical theological
Y seminary at Wittenberg. He has writ
e ten two important works, one tn
O Church Father ST. Augustine, and on
n on Church and the Kingdom of God.