St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-07-28
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
Pope Leo XIII. recommends the
reading Of Thomas . Kempis' ''Imita-
ton of Christ"
The Buddhists In japan have
formed Hawaiian Mission associa-
tion" to send missionaries to look after
Buddhist Japanese in the Sandwich isr
lands.
Rev. Stephen Beggs, Of Joliet,
NJ, has just completed his seventy-sec
ond year in the ministry. He is now
ninety-three years of age, hut still
breaches
Denmark is said to have 149 Y. W.
c. AS, the oldest dating from 1880. The
other branches have over 100 each, while
the smallest one is said to have five
members.
"A Moslem society has been estab-
lished in New York, and recently the
first call to prayer by an Arabic muczzin
was sounded out from = window Of
Union Square hall.
Rev. A. C. Dixon is in favor Of
opening the church three hundred and
sixty-five days in the year, more preach
ing in them, and in using opera houses
and theaters for evangelistic services
Rev. Dwight L. Moody is a poos
man. Although he has made thousands
Of dollars, he has saved none of it. The
bulk of his earnings has been used foa
the support of his summer school.
DR. Edward Everett Hale announces
that by the will of Mrs. Sarah Parker.
who died in Roxbury, Mass, Radcliffe
college. which is the new name of the
Harvard annex for women, will receive
el5O.c00. Mrs. Parker left practically
the whole of her estate, except about
81, 900, to the college.
Among the public bequests by the
will Of Charles Scott, of Washington,
d. c., are SlO,O 600 to the American build
ing fund of the Protestant Episcopal
church of New York; s5 900 to the st.
Johns Protestant Episcopal church Of
Waterbury; S, 900 to Trinity Protestant
Episcopal church, and 8. 900 to the Wa
terbury hospital.
The cornerstone Of the Pythian
university. at Galatea, Tenn, was laid
recently by Knights of Pythias, under
whose auspices the university is to be
built and conducted. The contemplated
cost of the building is two hundred
thousand dollars, and . large amount
has been set aside as an endowment
fund for professorships.
The board of education Of the Meth
odist Episcopal church shows an income
Of ss7. $50, of which go, 900 was collected
from Sunday-schoolsa and churches. The
complete list of the educational institu-
tions of the church shows that there are
202. with over Il. 600 students, and prop
erty and cndowments valued at ~, ,563,-
600. and an annual income of 81 $40. III.
Christian Work.
Pope Leo XIII. is reported to be
vexed with some Spanish Jesuits who
have been burning . lot Of books, in
cluding one of Zola's, at just this mop
perfume moment when his book on
Lourdes is appearing. It is = wise re-
mark attributed to him, and character
istic Of the age, that it would be better
If, instead of burning bad books, they
would write some good ones. Y. In
dependent.
s&fHe Young Peoples union of the
CA4ted Brethren church includes about
400. societies, with 81 900 members The
growth has been very rapid. In 1891
.thete' were 205 societies and $3.50 men,
heas; in 1892, AS societies and 1871
members: in 1893, $50 societies and a.
l95 members. The union is Carrying
~ i prosperous mission church 1t Los
Angeles. Cal, to which it has coatrib-
uted oyer ZOO.
s-Andover theological seminary has
\ senior class this year Of twenty-seven.
There are twenty-five in the middle and
fifteen ins the junior class, together
with two fellows, one special student
and one resident licentiate, making sew
enty-One in all. Two chairs are vacant,
those of sacred rhetoric, and the rela-
ton Of Christianity to the secular SCH
ences, Professors Gulliver and Pease
having died within few months-
The chair of pedagogy in the Uni
versity Of the City of New York is to be
6lled by George Francis James, late
secretary of the University Extension
society. Mr.. James graduated from
Michigan university in 1886, and took .
postgraduate course in that university,
receiving the degree of Master of Arts.
lie studied pedagogy and literature in
Halle and Paris, and taught it in the
university Of Nashville for two years
He will enter his work in New York
city next October. -.