St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1893-04-01
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

No stale bread is ever served st
Gods table.
The university of Chicago is making
4 collection of literature Of the various
churches Of Chicago
Whenever we help the poor. 1t is an
opportunity God gives us to show that
we are true to him.-Ram's Horn.
God begins trying to say something
to man in Eden, but it took Him four
thousand years to finish the sentence.
Rams Horn
Yale freshmen will not be permitted
to participate this year in the inter-
collegiate baseball; this u punishment
for recent alleged acts of rowdyism
Rev. J. W. NJ. Williams, u D.. has
been pastor of the First Baptist church
in Baltimore for forty-two years. and
is still serving that congregation &C
lively.
Arthur Soper, of New York, has es-
tablished prize of SO. in Hamilton
college, for the senior who writes the
best essay in defense of protective
tariff.
The Congo valley contains I, 800. 600
square miles (one-tenth of Africa). with
an estimated population of thirty-nine
mill;ons-all open to missionary opera
tons.
There are 4.s76 students at the Uni
versity of Berlin this winter, the largest
number in the history of the institu-
ton. This is about q, eco more than are
in attendance at Harvard.
Rev Chandler A. Oakcs, OF Strouds-
burg, Pa, has been engaged as assist
ant pastor of DIR. Talmagc at the Brook
lyn tabernacle. He was classmate OF
DR. Talmage's son Frank.
President Gilman, of the Johns Hop.
kins university. has accepted position
to preside over the higher education
section of the worlds educational con-
gress, which will meet at Chicago, July
- next
The law of God was rot to be writ
ten on the doors of the temple, but
upon the posts of the dwellings; and
thou to mediate upon it, with thy
! children. in all the turnings Of life
Browning.
Tho new president Of the Swiss re-
public-who has held the Office during
six previous terms-is q Calvinist cler-
gyman and was regarded until lately
rs one OF the best all-round athletes in
, Switzerland.
The students of the department ofin-
industrial and fine art at Pratt institute,
! Brooklyn, have established . Charles
Pratt memorial fund for the aid OF
pupils wishing to pursue an extended
art course in the department
Miss Nary T.. Garrett, of Baltimore.
has offered s3o6, 977 to the Johns Hop
kins university to complete the endow-
ment fund of $500. 0OO for its medical
school. and the offer, which bears Ger
tain conditions, has been accepted by
the trustees
| DIR. Kohn(or Cohcn) the poor canon,
| eon of Israelite peasants, who was re-
Gently raised to the rich archbishopric
| in Europe, that of Olmutt, went to
meet his father and mother at the rail-
! road station, where he kissed their
hands in lowly humility and affection,
! and has installed them in his episcopal
palace
The question Of making the en-
| ira nee examinations In English harder
than at present at Harvard university is
being discussed with much interest
The matter has been forcibly brought
to public attention by a report of the
committee on composition and rhetoric,
appointed by the board Of overseers.
This committee consists of Charles
Francis Adams. E L. Godkin and Josiah
Quincy.
Recently there has been established
in the west a new organization which
promises to be of grea: help to the mis-
sion cause.-the Cross Bearers Mission
airy Reading Circle. Rev. L. NJ Williams,
secretary. St. Joseph, Mo This circle
is based on the Chautauqua plan, and
has a three years course of missionary
reading, composing biography, history
and travel Already the C NJ. L c. has
members in fifteen states