The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-07-15
SCHOOL AND CHURCH,

Amherst college was founded IN
1921, mainly for the purpose of edu-
eating poor and pious young men for
the ministry"
Mrs. Geo. Ii. Whitney has given
Herring medical college. Chicago, $780,
900 for grounds and buildings for col
lege and hospital purposes.
|Chauncey Depew said to the stu
dents at Yale recently: What made
the class of SO so famous is that half Of
its members went into journalism and
praised the other half
The average of missionary con-
tributions of the South African Wes-
leyan Methodist church, with six dis
tricts having 1880 members and 20, III
adherents, is SIS. I'd. per member. and
Is. Cd. per Observation-Disclosures Advo-
cate.
Cardinal Rampolla, papal secretary
OF state, is n of the youngest mem
bers of the sacred college, not being
yet fifty years of age. He is a tall,
handsome man, but already begins to
be bent-not with the weight of years,
but with the weight of work which the
pope imposes on him.
At the recently-held thirty-ninth
general assembly of the United Pres
byterian church of North America it
vas reported that there are 664 young
peoples societies in the denomination,
which have 2S. 092 members. these con-
tributed $50, 900 last year to the general
work of the denomination.
"A step of great ecclesiastical i'm
portance in the church of England was
taken by the appointment of Rev. Ar
thur Hamilton Baynes. vicar of Christ
church, Greenwich, to the bishopric OF
Natal. The see of Natal had been re-
garded as extinct since the ''deposi-
ton of Bishop Colenso in 1868. but
legally it had only been vacant since
the death of that distinguished prelate.
N Y. Tribune.
Miss Sara A. Burstall, a graduate
of Girton college, England, is now in
this country inspecting the public
school systems of different cities. She
is one of the five travelling scholars
appointed by the Gilchrist trustees of
England to inspect American schools.
The Gilchrist educational trust is COM
posed OF many prominent Englishmen.
who are e~ndeavoring to promote the
cause of secondary education for wom-
en- by a comparison of the meth dds of
other countries.
Rev. DR.. Craig, of Keokuk, Ia. the
present moderator of the Presbyterian
assembly, is known at his home as the
fighting preacher. He obtained this
sobriquet through his readiness to take
Off his coat at any time when an insult
was offered him. On one occasion, while
talking to an excited member of his
congregation, the latter called him a
liar. II am going to make you take
that back" said DR.. Craig. He then
started in. 1t was a good fight, and the
fighting preacher won. Since that time
no n has ever dared to apply an in
sulting epithet to him.
The record of the Union Rescue
mission on Kneeland street for the
year ending April 1, shows remarkable
activity for this new work. With few
exceptions meetings have been held
every night in the year. and the aggre-
gate attendance has been about "a, 600;
1882 men and women have bowed in
prayer in their w behalf; ~, 04S
homeless men nave been sheltered over
night, 5,5S7 hungry men have been fed
at the free suppers which are given
there every week; 4,s62 days work have
been furnished to men out of employ
ment; in the rescue home 10, 1873 meals
and 5,400 lodgings have been furnished
to hungry men. In the industrial de-
partment the men who have been
picked up from the street nave manu-
featured in the year S9,s74.60 worth of
brooms and whisks. which have been
sold.-Boston Congregationalist.
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