The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-05-18
SCHOOL AND CHURCA.

1.-The Yale campus is to have
of the late William Walter Phelps.
Mrs. Mary Reynolds Scl1au fiser. the
first single lady missionary to the for
eign field, died recently near Rochelle,
N. Y, aged nincty-three.
DIR. Silveftnan, a New York rabbi.
has excited good deal of comment
among his congregation by preaching
a sermon on the lessons OF Irilby.
by the will of Cornelia NJ. Jackson,
Providence, II. l., Tufts college will
get $50, 900 for the erection of Il college
for women, to be known as the "Corne-
liz Maria jackson College for Women
The British and Foreign Bible So
ciety has published n translation of
the gospel of St. Matthew in the kisu-
xuma language. which is spoken in the
neigh borEood of Lake Victoria Nyanza.
The society now publishes the scrip
lures in over 800 languages.
The pastors college in connection
with Spurgeon's church has sent out
?o1 persons into the ministry-twenty
three in the last year. OF this number
100 have died, leaving 731 still actively
working, $50 of whom re Baptist min
listers. missionaries or evangelists.
Rev. Samuel &. Jones, the father of
''Snn' 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. Tho
university convocation has adopted tho
report of the Gresham commission to
that effect, and Lord ROsebery has eN-
pressed himself in favor of the scheme.
One of the leaders in the movement is
Prof. Huxley.
Prof. Ritter, of Germany, an cmi-
nent European scholar, says that the
Americans have outdone Europeans in
the field of archaeological education, at
least as regards its practical bearings.
The technical ranclles he believes TO
be less complete in the United States.
but he sets.opposite this inferiOrity the
| truly grand achievements in engl-
neering and machine construction.
FOR two years the plan of making,
the church absol utely free to all wor-
shippers has been tried at st. Georges
Roman Catholic cathedral, South
| warlS, London. The bishop reports
that the first year the voluntary con-
tributions fell only $500 below the
former receipts. while the number of
| worshippers increasted by 3O&. Last
year there was 4 further increase of
155 each Sunda y, with a reduction of
| the deficiency to $500.
"A curious breach of the Sunday law
came up recently in London court.
The Internation Tract society, the
agent of a Sabbatarian Christian sect
which breaches the observance of
Saturday instead of Sunday, was COM
planned of for violating the factories
act by employing labor on Sunday. AL
though the law makes provision for
Je VS. working Sunday, it does not
for Christians, and though it was
shown that no work was done by the
society on Saturday, and that Friday
was kept as q half holiday, fine was
imposed.
DIR. Percival, head master of Rug
by, has just been made bishop of Here
| ford. In the half century since DIR.
Arnold's death there have been six
head masters of Rugby. OF these TAFT
was made bishop of London, and later
archbishop of Canterbury; Temple,
bishop first of Exeter and now of Lon
don; Percival, bishop of Hereford;
Coulburn, Hayman and Jex- Blake were
| made deans. DR.. Pcrcival is an Oxford
man; his appointment makes the num-
Der of bishops from Oxford twenty, to
ten from Cambridge, though both arch
bishops are Cambridge graduates He
is a liberal, and in favor of disesta blish-
| ment in Wales; he attacked horsc-rac-
ing, however, and Lord RoSebery, when
LadaS won the Derby.