The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-09-16
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The annual report shows that thers
are nearly 10, 900 pupils in Cumber-
land Presbyterian Sunday-schools, an
increase of 20, 40 over last ear.
Rev. Albert T. Swing has been ap-
pointed professor of church history in
Oberlin theological seminary. Mr..
Swing is an alumnus of Oberlin college
and Yale seminary, was for several
years a successful pastor, and for the
past three years has been devoting
himself to the study of church history
in the German universities.
President Eliot of Harvard expresses
the opinion that there is a great dimi-
mutton in drinking in all colleges. and
that great progress is being made in
that direction, especially in the col
leges OF England. The effect on col
leges here and abroad, he thinks, has
been brought about, to a large degree,
by the decrease in drinking in society.
Pacific college, Newberg, Ore, the
youngest Friends college, and the only
one on the Pacific coast, was organized
two years ago, and graduated its first
class IN June 81. Although the class
only numbered two, yet it was a great
day in the history of the college. The
faculty consist of a corps of enthusiast
tic young men and young m Be
sides the usual literary courses there
are well-equipped departments of art
and music. and the outlook for the col
lege is bright.
After postponing the matter year
after year for a considerable period the
French academy has just given it's con-
sent to a scheme for a reform of French
spelling. The new rules, with com
mentaries, will shortly appear in a
small book issued by the academy.
Among the alterations to be submitted
for public approval are the suppression
of the hyphen in compound words and
the reduction to symmetry of regular
plurals by making the addition of "a"
the uniform sign of the plural number.
-Atthe American chapel at Lucerne,
a Protestant Episcopal minister from
this country dow church) read the les
sons with such n~aturalness of manner
and propriety of emphasis as to elicit
the admiration of a visitor, who after
ward remarked: "How delightful to
hear the Scriptures read with such
sense and feeling" She was surprised
to hear the sister of a (high church)
rector, American also. exclaim: 81 can't
agree with you. l think it almost
blasphemous for a man by such stress
and emphasis to impose his own inter-
| probation on the Word of God. The
| Scriptures should be read in monotone"
Though Corea is yet, in the main,
unreached and unaffected by the Cos
| pei, yet an entrance has beer affected
by our missionaries, and this right at
Seoul, the capital. the Jerusalem, as it
were, of the nation. That Corea was
not long ago absorbed by one or the
other of the great empires between
which she lies argues an inherent vigor
and individuality of race that quite en-
hances her Importance in the general
| estimate. That a population of s, OO0,-
900 to 10, 000, 900 in a country but four
hundred miles long by one hundred
and fifty miles broad. shaped much like
Italy, should maintain their distinctive
position and characteristics with such
tenacity as to have become popularity
known as 1.-THE Hermit Nation" i'm
parted a special interest to efforts to
reach them with the Gospel.-N. Y.
Evangelist.