The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-06-01
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Yale campus is to have
memorial gateway erected by tbe heir
OF the late William Walter Phelps.
Mrs Mary Reynolds Schauffier, til
first single lady missionary to the fo1
eign field, died recently near Rochelle
N. Y, aged ninety three.
DIR. Silverman, New York rabbi
has excited good deal of common
among his congregation by preachin.
q sermon on the lessons of Trilby.
by the will of Cornelia M. jackson
Providence, r. l., Tufts college will
get $40, 900 for the erection of college
for women, to be known as the .sCorne
liza Maria jackson College for Women.
The British and Foreign Bible so
cfety has published n translation OF
the gospel of ST. Matthew in the Kisu.
kuma language, which is spoken in the
neighborhood of Lake Victoria Nyanza.
The society now publishes the scrip
lures in over 32O languages.
The pastors college in connection
with Surgeons church has sent out
921 persons into the ministry-twenty-
three in the last year. OF this number
100 have died, leaving 737 still actively
working, $50 of whom arc Baptist min
listers. missionaries or evangelists.
Rev. Samuel q. Jones, the father of
"Sam" Jones, who died in Georgia not
long ago, was ninety years old. Al
though having five sons in the minis.
try. he himself did not join the Meth
odist church till the age of sixty, and
late in life became ordained to preach.
Mr.. Jones leaves one hundred and
thirty descendants.
London university, after limiting
itself for nearly sixty years to confer
ring degrees upon examination, now
proposes to take up instruction. The
university convocat ton has adopted the
report of the Gresham commission to
that effect. and Lord Rosebery has ex-
pressed himself in favor of the scheme.
One OF the leaders in the movement is
Prof. Huxley.
Prof. Ritter, of Germany, an emil
nent European scholar. says that the
have outdone Europeans in
the field of chronological education, at
least as regards its practical bearings.
The technical branches he believes TO
be less complete in the United States,
but he sets.opposite this inferiority the |
truly grand achievements in engi-
leering and machine construction.
For two years the plan of making
he church absolutely free to all wor-
hippers has been tried at st. Georges |
roman Catholic cathedral, South
vark, London. The bishop reports
hat the first year the voluntary con-
ributions fell only $500 below the
ormer receipts, while the number of
increasted by 3o4. Last
ear there was a further increase of
IS each Sunday, with q reduction of
he deficiency to $500.
"A curious breach of the Sunday law
anne up recently in London court.
he International Tract society, the
gent OF q Sabbatarian Christian sect
Thich breaches the observance of
aturday instead of Sunday, was COM
lained of for violating the factories
ct by employing labor on Sunday. Al
iough the law makes provision for
ews working on Sunday, it does not
'r Christians, and though it was
lown that no work was done by the
'ciety on Saturday, and that Friday
as kept as half holiday. a fine was
nposed.
DIR. Percival, head master of Rug
7, has just been made bishop of Here
I'd. In the half century since DR..
rnold's. death there have been six
lad masters of Rugby. Of these TAFT
as made bishop of London, and later
of Canterbury; Temple,
shop first of Exeter and now of Lon
IN; Percival, bishop of Hereford; =
'ulburn, Hayman and Jex. Blake were q
AIDE deans. DR.. Percival is an Oxford
an; his appointment makes the mum. u
r of bishops from Oxford twenty, to
q from Cambridge, though both arch :,
shops are Cambridge graduates. He ~
a liberal, and in favor of disestablish-
mt in Wales; he attacked horse-rac- -
3, however, and Lord Rosebery, when II
das won the Derby. VI