The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-04-22
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

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Dartmouth is soon to have the use
of the income of $500. 900 left by Tappan
Wentworth in 1875.
The famous Baptist missionary
steamer. Henry Reed, has sunk in the
Congo river off Intete.
A Christian Endeavor society at
Oakland, Cal, gave nearly 81. 900 for
b~enevolence last year.
Harvard did a big business in ath-
letics last year. The receipts were $685.
441.59 but the expenses were also big.
Translated into the Sioux language
the equivalent Of our English words:
christian Endeavor Society,"" is so
ciety Of those who want to work for
Jesus"
In 1870 the London school board
began it's work with not a single school
under its control. In 1891 it possessed
410 schools, affording accommodation
for 42S, 900 children.
The secretary of Harvard university
says that a student can complete the
college course there ''honorably and
happily" for $500 a year, while Prof.
Palmer believes that an annual income
of $1,000 is a positive injury to a stu
dent
During the last decade. according
to the United States census, the growth
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
south, was forty-seven per cent. the
largest of any church in the United
States of equal numbers. That Of the
Methodist Episcopal church was thirty
| per cent
The old Pohick Episcopal church in
Fairfax county. Va, for the rebuilding
OF which George Washington drew
plans in 1879, is still standing. The ex-
terror presents the same appearance it
did when Washington drove up to it
regularly on Sundays in his famous
coach. The interior suffered severely
during the late war.
The success of the Woman's col
lege in connection with Brown univer-
sity has dispeled all doubts as to the
practicability ofthe undertaking. Forty
| pupils have been enrolled. One of the
women has taken the French prize, and
it is understood that all prizes are
w NC oPCA - COluPCtltlou ny tlC
young women as we'll as by the young
men. @.f
From March I, 1892, to February 1,
1898, the missionaries of the American
Sunday School union'in the North west
ern district organized and reorganized
1853 Sunday schools, into which they
brought 3,762 teachers and %, AIS schol-
ars They aided other schools in i O9S
cases where 90, 703 teachers are giving
Bible instruction to 1879, 6Ss scholars.
They also held 7.145'religious meetings,
made As, 9S6 visits to families. distrib-
uted 5,2o2 Bibles and Testaments and
$4,S43 worth of religious literature,
and travelled 277,416 les.-Christian
at Work.
According to census bulletin No.
$40, the Unitarians have organizations
in 81 states and in the District Of Col
umbia. The summary shows that
there are in all 42l organizations, with
81. TAO members, 424 church edifces,
with q seating capacity of 165, 900, and
So halls. etc, with seats for TO- $40. The
value of church property is SO, 1856, 100.
More thar half the strength of this de-
nomination is in Massachusetts,, which
reports 1S9 organizations, with 1850
members; 2l7 church edifces, with a
seating capacity of Ks, 346, and Z halls,
ETC, with seats for LIS, and the value
of church property is s5.o78,37O. The
Unitarians are congregational in their
church polity. Their national confer
ence meets biennial1y.