The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-04-06
SCHOOL AND ct,uRcH.

Two scholarships ut oxford, the
Ireland and the first Craven, were WOE
lately by Mr.. Robertson, who is !. we'll
known athlete and one of the univer-
sity crew.
AT the death of John Wesley there
were 312 preachers, 1871 circuits and
missions and 10000 adherents to Meth
odism. Now there are A.. sos minis
ters, 6,494,3 500 members and 20, 37S, 1OS
adherents.
Pope Leo NH. takes occasion &c
express his admiration for Dante and
his approval of and interest in Dante
studies, in a letter of thanks to Mgr.
G.. Poletto, who recently published q
commentary Oh the Divina Commedia.
The Buddhist Magazine of Japan
says: 1.-The greatest movement of the
twentieth century will not be a COM
mercial one, not u military one. but the
nations of the west will invade the
east with great armies of Christian
missionaries. backed by the wealth OF
Christendom.
The Bible Institute Colportage as.
ISOLATION of Chicago is a strong factor
in .l,elping to stem the flood OF vicious
literature, by supplying clean .nd,
healthy reading. The books they fur
nish meet the approval of evangelical
Christians of all denominations and
can be obtained atgreat reduction.
l. Sir Henry Acland, who has just re-
signed the Regius professorship of med
icine at Oxford, forty years ago atte nd
ed President Routh, who lived to be a
hundred, in his last illness Routh had
been in company with DR.. johnson at
Oxford, and had been frequent assoc
ciate of Dr. Lancclot Andrewes, the in
innate friend of Addison.
Columbia college has friends who
do not forget it's interests. AT the re-
cent meeting of its board of trustees an
Of nv r.
ing to over a million dollars. OF these
gifts, 100000 is for the purpose OF
erecting two new buildings on the new
site at Bloomingdale. The names of
the donors are withheld until it is de-
cided what the buildings shall be.
Word comes to this country from
Switzerland that Pastor II. p. Holser.
the American representative of the
Seventh Day Adventists in central Eu-
rope and the director of their publish
ing house in Basle, is now undergoing
| a term iof sixty-one days imprison-
mcnt in that city for allowing work to
be done in the Office on Sunday.
The Baptists in Russia still continue
to suffer deep persecution, to which
has now been added the confiscation OF
all religious literature. In spite OF the
great difficulties under which they
La Dor there the work goes on, and they
now report a membership of more thar
II, 900, with 90 ministers, and the bap-
tisms last year were more than ZOO
The American Assoc iation OF Ed
ucator of Colored Youth propose to
hold their next annual meeting in Lon
don, and have accordingly planned for
an excursion to Europe to cover As
days next summer, at an expense OF
5000 each, hoping to visit London.
Glasgow, Antwerp, Paris and Rome,
and with the purpose also of .acquaint-
| ing the European public with the cd
| vocational, moral and material progress
| made by the American negroes since
the emancipation. The members OF
| the association are all colored men and
women.
The school of mines of the univer-
sity OF Missouri, situated at Rolla, Mo-,
has just opened its new mining and
metallurgical laboratory, which will
mark the beginning of q new career OF
usefulness for the institution A hand
| some building, costing $4,000, has
been erected, containing well-appoint-
ed laboratories, lecture rooms ana
drawing room, with u large mill room
in the rear equipped with the latest
| modern appliances for crushing and
| concentrating ores. as we'll as with
cupola and reverberatory furnaces
and other plants necessary for metal
lurgical operations.