St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-09-22
schOcL AND CHURCH.
There are 100000 Presbyterians
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There are 100000 Presbyterisns II
Australia. ~
DIR. Schcle De We're is still in active
service as professor Of modern lam
guages in the university of Virginia
lie is seventyfour years of age and
has held the present place for fifty
years.
Gen. F. A. Shoup, who was chief Of
artillery of the confederate army at
Shiloh. and afterwards served ut Gen.
Hoods chief of staff, is now = member
of the faculty Of the University of the
South, at Suwanee, Tenn.
A movement has been begun to pre-
sent a well-bound copy of the Bible in
japanese to each one of the 10000 ma
tive physicians in Japan. 1t is proposed
that these Bibles shall be given by the
medical men of America and England
Miss Mary Garrett, of baltimore.
has. founded a European fellowship
scholarship of = value Of five hundred
dollars a year and FIVE graduate schol-
arships worth two hundred dollars a
year at Bryn Mawr college, Pennsyl-
vania- -.
DIR. Karl Blind informs the stu
dents of Oxford that their, annual GUS
tom of bringing in a boar's head to
their Christmas banquet is a survival
of the sacriacial. banquet the old Vik-
ings used to hold in honor of Freye,
the Morse sun god.
Jean Inglelow spends her winters
in the south of France. where she has
a cottage overlooking the Mediter-
ranean. Her London house is in Ken
sington, and stands with its crown Of
ivy in the midst Of spacious garden
half hidden among trees. tsst
.-Rev. Joshua v. Hines, aged ninety
pal clergyman in the United States, as
sisted the Battle Creek Mich. church
the other day in its celebration of its
fiftieth anniversary. He is still in ex-
cellent health, and his voice is firm and
resonant.
Rev. Mr.. Murdoch; IA Methodist
minister of Rome, Ga, has been de
prived of his pastorate by his bishop
because he is the editor of paper.
His newspaper is said to be reputable
and honest, and only the bishops mo-
tion that newspapers and ministerial
duties don't mix crused Nurdoch's dis
missal from his church.
There was an income in the Educa-
tional society Of the Methodist church
of Canada during the last year of over
$4,000. There are eleven educational
institutions under its direction. The
aggregate attendance of students ut
the several colleges is about 1000. OF
these 200 are students of theology pre-
pairing for the ministry.
1t is said that DIR. Moxom. of Spring
field. has two hearers who come every
Sunday from Boston. q distance of about
one hundred miles, to listen to the SER
mon DIR. Moxom evidently has an at
tractive power of unusual range. and
the example of these two hearers might
well be laid to heart by the host Of
people who live under the caves Of
churches, but never enter them. ia.
The Churchman speaks of st.
Paul's Cathedral. London, MS an edifice
in which all classes of people may hear
the greatest of English preachers. The
great cathedral Sof the English me-
tropolis has SO many substantial
claims on the regard Of all English
speaking people that it is pity to put
forth claim for it that might con-
ceivably be untrue. If the greatest Of
English preachers happened to be .
dissenter; as might easily be the case,
he could not be heard in St Pauls.
The Moslems believe in the exist
ence of ''seven great hot hells'' bear
ing the names. of Sohannam, Latha.
Hutamah, Sa'ir. Sakar, Jehim and al
Kariah. The first is to he the endless
abode of the Dahriyah, sect which
denies the creation; the second for
Manichees and Arabs; the third for
Brahmans; the fourth for The Jews; the
fifth for Christians, and the sixth for
the Magians. The seventh, the great,
great, hot, hot hell" is to be reserved
for liars and hypocrites- -