The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-01-23
81 900 to fund for the benefit of General

81 900 to fund for the benefit of General
Lees college.
Hereafter every teacher of the public
schools in New York city is to be paid not
less than $2,250 yearly. -
"A Boston bank President has given
over $12. 600, during the past year, to pro-
mote free public worship
The Cincinnati friends of Bishop
Clark, of the Methodist Church, have pre-
sented him with 81, 800 as token of re.
gard. A- -t
Rev. 81. G. Potter, formerly pastor of
St. Johns Church, Troy, has been ten
dered and accepted the pastorship cs Grace
Church in New York, at a salary of $780,
600 per annum. -.
Rev. Albert s. Hunt, an unmarried
Methodist minister, at Brooklyn, N. Y, re-
ceived for Christmas present from his
Pensioners an India rubber model of a
young lady, stuffed with $500 in green
backs. r4f Is
"A gentleman who has for two years
refused to contribute anything toward the
support of the gospel, recently surprised
HE friends by contributing to the purchase
of a bell for new hurch. On being
ways pr. his money where he could her
it ring.
| DIR. Arnold once lost al patience with
| dull scholar, when the pupil looked up
| in his face and said "Why do you speak
so angrily, sir? Indeed, I am doing the
best l can" Years after the doctor used
| to tell the story to his children, and say:
81 never felt SO ashamed in my life. That
look and that speech have never forgot
ten"
Strange things happen in Boston
churches Thus, on Christmas dav, pater-
familias walked up one of the aisies there
OF, and neglected TO remove his hat until
his pilgrimage was half over. When he
did take off his head-covering, all observ-
ers were duly edited by the sight of a
dancing jack bestriding bald pate. The
puppet had been purchased for home dis
play-an exhibition forestalled by the after
thought of going to church.
The North British Rerieu says The
| pressing need of our faith is not simply
faithful evangelists to proclaim its doc
trlnes, but legiOns of men corsecrating
their worldly vocations, witnessing to that
truth on which much skepticism prevails,
that Christianity, SO received as to become
an integral part of man, Is omnipotent
| to keep him from the evil, not by taking
him out of the world, but by making him
victorious over it. He is most worthy
disciple of Christ who, like Palsy, or
Buxton, or Budget, or .Perthes, exhibits
religion as "the right use of mans own
self"-as the one thing which gives Gig IL
ty and nobility to what is in itself sordid
and earthly-as the handspring Of earnest
and successful strigings after loftier ends
and purer life-as the power, outside of
and within man, which, lifting up conduct
in the individual, raises the community
and not as a state of mind mystical, and in
active life unattainable, high up among
| things intangible, separted from contact,
with work-a day life, appropriate to Sab
bath days and special hours, to leisure, old
| age and death-beds. Every man who is
diligent in business, serving the Lord"
| is sermon brimful Of the energies of
| life and truth, witness to the comprehen-
| siveness and adaptability Of Christ's re-
| ligion, a preacher Of righteousness in
| scenes where none can preach SD effective
| " or so we'll