St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-02-02
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

All told there are about 400 mis-.
sionaries engaged in work on the con-
tinent of South America, with its
population of 37.OOO.O 600 people.
There 3s a widespread sentiment in
the Presbyterian church in favor OF
changing 1.-The week of prayer from
January to some time in the fall.
Tho Young Mems Christian asso'
citation of the city of Mexico is devot'
ing its efforts to stimulating the use
and study of the Bible in the republic.
-Wi:tenburg Theological seminary
lutheran has received $4,000 from
Mrs. Geo. ID. Harter, of Canton, O., for
the endowment of chair Of practical
theology.
Rev. DR.. Durnford, bishop of Chi.
chester, England, now in his 92d year,
has just returned home from a pedes'
trian tour in Switzerland and among
the Italian lakes.
1t is stated that in France scarcely
$500, 900 of the 10000, 900 reputed Ro'
man Catholics are worthy of the name,
the rest being non-churchgoers, unbe.
levers, atheists and anarchists.
The enrolment of the University
of Chicago is now 1,lO0, and it is ex
pected that it will reach 1.6OO before
the close of the present year. This
will be twice as many as were enrolled
last year.
Gen. Booth, asked by newspaper
interviewer, do you think the millen'
MUM will come if the whole world is
converted to the Salvation army?" re
piled: at would be very near at hand
If the newspaper men were converted
it would be very long step in that di'
rection."
Rev. John Henry Pooley, honorary
canon of Lincoln, Eng, who recently
celebrated his ninety-second birthday,
was ordained deacon in 1927 and priest
in the succeeding year. He has been
rector Of Scooter, in Lincolnshire. since
1888. and has been a magistrate in hi:
county for fifty-five years.
AT a recent meeting of the trus
tees Of the Univel sity of Pennsylvania
it was announced that Mr.. and Mrs
Henry II. Houston, of Philadelphia
had given Sl00. 900 to the proposed stu
dents hall of the university. The edifice
will bear the name of Howard Hous
ton. a deceased son of the donors. who
was a student in the institution.
Bishop Wilmer, of louisiana once
had talk with Baptist minister who
insisted that there We're several places
in the Bible where immersion was un-
questionably referred to. Yes" re-
piled the bishop. Il recall two such in
stances where there can be no doubt
as to The mode. one is where Pharaoh
and his host were immersed in the sea,
and the other where the Gadarene pigs
were drowned in the deep"
Midland hall, of the London Con
gregational union, has sheltered 16..'
935 poor outcasts in the last decade
The ministry of old clothes" and the
ministry of old boots" supply 30.0Ot
garments and 1900 pairs of boots to the
needy ones annually. The union hal
more than twenty ccnters of Christian
work. including fresh-air mission
training and placing girls in domestic
service and aiding immigration.
According to the statistics from a
trustworthy source Corea contains 6oo,'
600 Catholics. $4,000 of whom are male
adults and the rest women and chill
dren. and 700. 600 Protestants and Greek
Christians, half of them adult males
Thus more than quarter of the popu
lation is already Christian, SO that the
present war has in the eyes of the Eu
ropean powers a character OF which ac
coupt has not hitharto been taken.