The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-03-17
SCHOOL AND CHURCH..


Bishop Haygood, of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south, has refused
to continue Sam Jones as regular
preacher, on the ground that evangel-
ism has no place in the Methodist
polity.
Charles L. Yerkes, of Chicago, the
owner of the ca ble-road system of that
city, has withdrawn his subscription of
$4,000 for prizes in the public schools,
with the terse remark that he could
find better use for the money else
where.
To pass the time pleasantly in
church Morris Wilmington and James
Brow, of Baltimore, supplied them
selves with poclsetfuls of peanuts and
audibly munchcd them during the
service. They were reques ted to de-
sist, but without avail. Then they
were arrested and each fined ten dol
lars and costs by Justice Schene&el.
Miss Katharine Conan, who has
charge of the political-economy depart
ment of Wellesley, wants her pupils to
be practical stateswomen. To this end
she sends them into the Bureau of AS
sociated Charities in Boston, to labor
unions. to tenement houses and to
manufactures. She hopes that such
methods will ultima tely lead to a day
when women will study the great ques-
tions of their times.
An important contribution which
America has made to Christianity. is
the solution which it has found of the
problem of church and state. Here
touch the distinctive feature Of our
American Christianity in its organized
form and in it's relation to national
life. Our republic, Offering home to
men of all crceds, declined to unite it
self organically to any church, while
protecting and encouraging every form
of religious faith and life. A free
church in a free state was for the first
time realized in America.
The jubilee year of the Young
Mems Christian association will occur
next summer. Fifty years ago, Juno 6.
1914, George Williams organized the
first association in London. The
Worlds conference committee has de-
cided to celebrate this jubilee by hold
ing the next triennial conference in
connection with that anniversary in
Exeter hall. London. Already steps
have been taken for an excursion party
from the associa tions of this country.
George A. Hall, state secretary of New
York, is in charge of these arrange
ments.
of missions. 1t is calculated that the
trade with heather lands opened up
directly by missionaries has exceeded
$50. 900, 900 net profit annually during
the past 100 years. making a total of
50, 900, 900, 900. The amount given from
all sources for missions during the
century aggregates about $500, 600, 900
Net profit, 81, roo, 900, 900. It pays finan-
cially to save the world During the
past IS years Europe and America have
spent $50, 600, 600, 900 to kill one another
enough to save and civi1ize all the
world.--Gospel in All Lands.
The French government will pre-
To ha f..f Of oil
nearly all, of its educational exhibit
which was at the Worlds fair. The
exhibit consists of the work of pupils
schools. There will also be given to
the state a pedagog1c library, contain
ing textbooks used in the spublic
schools, books of reference, etc. The
exhibit is now on it's way to France.
On its arrival there, some of the per-
sonal property belonging to teachers
will be taken out, and the rest of the
exhibit, containing the articles men
toned, will be sent back to Albany.
Although there are more students
attending higher institutions of learn
ing in New York than any other city
of the Union, student life makes no
marked outward impress upon the
city. 1t would be hard to define a
student quarter in New York. although
regions lying near all the great
schools have each considera BILE stu
dent population. The Chelsea square
region. with it's Gothic structures and
it's occasional professions of figures
clad in gowns and mortar boards,
bears. perhaps, the strongest impress
of student life, though the great cam
pus of ST. Johns college at Fordham is
picturesqe from the presence of similar
elements.