The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-12-15
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

| IA violent discussion Is going on in
France over the cocducation of the
| seScs..and French public sentiments il
much opposed to the attcrnY. to intro
| ducc it.
There arc now 1G.O33 chapters OF
| the Epworth league in the Methodist
Episcopal church, an increas<. of AIS in
| the month en6ing September 90. OF
| the total number of chapters 2.soO are
of junior leagues.
"A German Evangelical Deaconess
hospital was dedicated at Jerusalem
July ). The edificc with the lot cost
SOC. 900 francs. 1t has accommodate ions
for fifty or sixty patients. The sick Of
any religion or nationality arc to be
admitted.
"A writer in The Living Church an-
alyzes the returns of the Protestant
Episcopal church, and shows that there
are 4 .3i6 churches with less than 100
commandments each, 1,5O6 having be-
tween 100 and 200, "a with 1000. two
with over 1000 and one with over 5000
communicates.
ordained an Armenian priest in Septem-
Der. 1898. and whose influence in the
Armenian church in Consta n tinople has
been thorough for many years. died
lately at the age of one hundred and
seven years. His last sermon was
carried into the church in a chair
OF over 100000 children in ele-
mentary schools in England only $780,
600 pay for their schooling, ard of these
100000 pay no more than penny IL
week. according to a recent official
statement. OF the voluntary schools
in which the whole part OF the tut
ton is paid by the parents, 5000 re-
ceive from 10 to 90 sllillings head for
the children in attendance. 1000 be-
tween anc 10 shillings, and 5000 I'M
der shiilings.
DIR. Good, a missionary in the i'm
terror of Africa. says that the poverty
of the native languages is serious
hindrancc to missionary effort. In the
Bule language, for instance, there is
no word for thanks or ''thanksgiv-
ing Ito believe ito trust ito
have faith are all expressed by one
verb to which there is no correspond
ing noun. There is no word for s.spir-
it. The Bulc have always believed in
an invisible god, but they have never
given such Il being name. With the
Bulc Il living man has a body and a
literal shape cast by the
living perSon-which at death leaves
he body and becomes Il disembotlied
spirit with Il new name which can not
Ne used to apply to God and the angels.
so DIR. Good is driven to say that God i
= :: ''*''a'''N ami that Christ vs4sE
d. .'''+ - MY Ai':k'tSFF At.'f 1hi-u
,ctrls. -.
When one addresses u lcttsr = Mrs. 3
- chairman = -, ..tc.. tic tic irr -
oF"'''" ny = '+s.., GA tiIt feeling 4
'"i'.'. 1'' ICa So ''aucancctl'' to
mink ''mcn may as well be abolished.
lnywaN:' and that the feeling is not
confined to this side of the water. is
ho,vn by Prof. Charteris's remarks. at
he University of Glasgow, in July.
When. for the first time, a Scotch uni
ersity conferred medical degree
lpon two women. one of whom was
made bachelor of medicine, the other
faster of Surgery. He said he hoped
he time would come when DEGREES
would be bestowed that would do less
io1cncc to the Sex. and would run
Spinstcr in Medicine' and Mistress
n Surgery. The Italian language
furnishes the pleasantest way out of
he difficulty, the il dottore needs
My to be changed to la dottora and
here you have her, and many of her.
90: for the groundswell of medical
ducation for women has reached
|ecHy old Italy. in which country one
the ministers of instruction is the
Tidely celebrated and progressive DIR.
'acclli.