St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1893-03-18
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

I There are supposed to be about
leo, oO0, 900 Christians in the world.
The way to be somebody in Heaven
b. to be willing to be nobody on earth
+. Rams Horn.
!; Tho University Of Pennsylvania
gets soc, 900 by the win Of Chas. Len.
mig. Of Philadelphia
President Low announces . gift OF
/ $4,000 to Columbia college, to be di.
vided between biology and history.
Calvary church, New York city,
will maintain trade school for boyA
The first instruction will be the art OF
printing.
The public schools Of Chicago EN-.
ploy $500 teachers, ninety five per cent
OF whom arc women, and between zoo
and 500 of them are married
Union Theological seminary, New
York. has recently received gifts
amounting to sl75, 600 u. Willis James
gave sl00, 900 of the amount
There is, It. Is claimed. - human
element in the Bible" However that
may be, and whatever it may mean,
there is none to doubt that there Is an
inhuman element in men.
President Harper, Of Chicago uni
vcrsity, proposes to locate the great
Yerkes telescope at Lake Forest, . sub.
urb Of Chicago. provided tho trustees Of
Lake Forest university will mako that
institution q department of Chicago
university.
Bishop Hurst says the ninety-two
acres bought in Washington for . site
for the proposed Methodist university
have increased in value until they are
worth s5o0, 600. He reports also that
to the SIC, 000, 600 fund
continue to come in.
The contest for the position of pro.
lessor of modern languages at West
Point military academy, . position with |
q salary OF $4,000 per annum and the |
rank of colonel, has ended in favor of |
Capt E. E. Wood, of the eighth cavalry,
the present assistant professor Of Span
ish at the academy.
p. ID Armour will invest nearly |
&. 0c0, 600 in manual training school |
in Chicago which will be rs well /
equipped as any institution of the kind |
IN the world. The Armour institute n /
'aiued at $500 600 and its endowment 1T
II, 400, 600. The school will be opened
September l, next
AT a conference just held at Methu-
n, Mass, Rev. DR. Judson Smith, one
Il the secretaries Of the American board,
tated that only little over one-hah
4 the sicO. 900 pledged to the board Ut
had been paid in. He also
aid that there would have been . seri
'us deficit last year il there had not
zen large increase of legacieA
God has given you infinite faculties
( enjoyment But He has given
GU with these the higher trust Of be-
IS manly and of caring for your fel.
DIV man and their miseries and sins
h, don't think it a vulgar thing to be
preacher. or even q priest, and q
nc thing to be an artist II You
o you will not be a true artist, but IN ,
rtificer to please the world.-Rev. F. I
. Maurice.
death enters q Christian
ome and some member of the little
rcle is taken away. each one feels
nat he wishes to be alone with God,
lat like the disciple of John he may tell
.sus of his sorrow. The family, too,
aturally come together around the
mily altar-near to each other; near to
I'd: the loved dead seems almost with
EN- again! =
The American board has put up
,000, 900 as its goal in annual receipts /,
r foreign missions 1t hopes to reach 4
is mark by constant advances, and as
e missionary impulse grows stronger
the Congregational churches. The
ethodists have fixed their high water
ark at 81, $50. 600 for home and foreign
ssions. and they will reach it The
esbyterian church has proposed
ZOO. 900 for its aim. It is creeping up Z
WHY to that point, having contributed
er eesosoqe. last yeaE-Missionary
porter.