The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-01-06
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Schools at Oxford were esta blislted
by Alfred the Great a bout $40.
National grants in aid of educa'
were first made in the United States in
1903
schools of commerce, business col
leges, have existed in Europe for over
two hundred years.
The church of England has organ
lied society for the promotion OF
kindness to animals.
There are siXty-fvc Baptist
churches on Long Island, with a total
membership of 1900, and property
valued at 81 100000.
The American Unitarian Asso:i;i.
ton and many benevolent institutions
in Boston have received considerabl
amounts of money from the estate. OF
the late Annie NJ. Sweetser.
The use Of the magic lantern has
become SO general in England that "a
Methodist Lantern union has been
formed for the loaning or interchange
of slides, for missionary, scientific, evan
ge1istic and other purposes.-Zion' s
Herald.
rectors of the American Unitarian as
ISOLATION to prepare a liturgy has fin
ished its task, and the result appca rs
in the volume just issued by the associ-
ation-''Booll of Prayer and Praise for
Congregational Worship
The cost of n medical education, n C.
cording to the Hospital, is, in London,
$500 to $500 per year, for five years, plus
s7OO to 81 900 in fees, making a total OF
s2.IOO to So, 800. In this city it would
be 5000 Il year for three years, and $500
for fees as a minimum estimate.-N. y:
Medical Record.
DIR. William II. Green. senior pro-
fessor in the Princeton Theological
seminary. has announced that SUDDEN Is
in that institution must not play foot
ball hereafter, because 1.-The rough and
brutal game does not comport with the
purpose for which students there,
and must be abolished.
The number Of church members in
congregational churches. printed
January /, 1898, was 542, 10. The do
nations to the boards work for tt. =
year ending August 81, 1895, were S4S:i.
1877. rs, less than an average of two cents
a week for each mem Der. n nickel
a week from each would be nearly :,
million and half year. n special
donation of sixteen cents from each
member would meet the deficit with
which the current fiscal year opened
n. Y. Observer.
1T will be remcm bored that NJ. de
Rougcmont was in this country last
summer with view to the csta b!iSh-
ment in Paris of secular journa |
which should be in the interest of good
morals and Professionalism. This has
been accomplished. lie Signal is under
the editorship of NJ. Eugene Rcveil-
laud, and it appears to be d new de-
l,arturc in French journalism. We
observe that the international congress
at Lausanne passed Il resolution cor.
daily indorsinG it.
Prof. Thaycr, of Harvard, espresso
the opinion, touching the discovery OF
the Gospel according to Peter, that
brief as is the recovered fragment. it
attcsts individually all four of our
canonical books Furthermore, when
Prof. Hall and DIR. Harris published
articles to show that Psalm was
written by David, they assumed the
office of higher critics according to
their lights. 1t is the abuse, not the
use. of this any other method of
Bible study that is to be condemned
Christian at Work.
During the last six months, to Sep
tembcr 1. 1898. 115 colporteurs of the
American Tract society labored in
thirty-three states and Canada. Their
combined time cuualed $50 months OF
labor: they visited 1851 families, in
57,1 la of which they engaged the per-
sons in religious converse ton or prayer:
circulated by sale and grant 1000 vol
umes of Christian literaturc: addressed
2,S25 meetings; found 6,O:;o families
destitute of all religious books except
the Bible, and 5,19A families without
the Bible. They visited 1.S?2 Roma II
Catholic families. and found II. 10 I'rot-
cstant families who rarely ever attend
evangelical preaching. Stand
ard.