Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-01-03

In the south Of Scotland, in 1920, there
were thirteen drifty days. which killed
nine tenths of all the sheep. On Eskdale
Moor, out of 10000 only As were left alive,
and the. shepherds everywhere built up
huge semicircular walls of the dead Great
ures, to afford shelter to the living till the
gale should end. An inch an. hour is
thought to be the average rate of deposit,
though four inches are raid to have fallen
during severe storms. ---
Religious and Educational.
MIR. Joseph Mackey, of the New York
Dry Goods Reporter, has fitted up room
for a MONDAY prayer meeting at his office.
The scholars in the public schools at
Clinton, Iowa, attend school but half q
day--the boys in the morning and the girls
in the afternoon 20 ~ IL Il u
Man is Ikea watch if evening and
morning he is not wound up with prayer
and circumspection, he is Improbable and
FALSE or serves to mislead.-Felt1lana.
= --Sixty-five new Sunday schools, 1000
scholars, five churches organized, and
1900 conversions, are reported as the re-
guilt of one missionary's labor in South
Carolina the last two years. -a,s7 7esis,
The Rev. T. Fisk, a well known Uni
versalist clergyman, died recently in Phil
adelphia. He was for many years con.
nected with the newspaper press Of Wash
ington, D. O., and Norfolk, Va oite1tedoa
Holy fear is the sdoor-keeper of the
SOUL. AS nobleman's porter stands at
the door and keeps out Migrants, SO the
fear of God stands and keeps all sinful
temptations from entering.-St. Bernard.
The Episcopal Church in the United
States numbers "a dioceses, Al Bishops,
2,416 priests and deacons, 1905 parishes,
161, 1884 members, ISL ,S19 Sunday School
scholars; contributions, over $3000,000.
According to recent statistics there are
2,442 Catholic churches In the United
States, and $4,000 Protestant churches.
In Florida, once entirely Catholic, there
are now eighteen Protestant churches to
one Catholic.
r., The Baptists of Illinois now number
48, 1919 members in 1887 there were only
LOO. In the last two years they have
baptized 10000. The Baptist ratio of in
crease has been twice as great as that of
population. In the present year they have
built a church and baptized about one
hundred members every week, on an av-
erage.
BE not sudden take Gods work to-
gether, and do not judge Of it by parcels
or pieces 1t is, indeed, all wisdom and
righteousness but we shall best discern
the beauty of it when we look on it in the
frame, and when it shall be fully complet.
ed and finished, and our eyes enlightened
to take fuller and clearer view of it than
we can have here. Obi what wonder
what endless wondering will it then Gem.
mand leighton. ~ ~ -. y '''5'''''
The publishing house of the Method
list Episcopal Church, New York, is a vast
establishment-one of the wonders OF
modern ecclesiastical history. 1t publish.
es, for example, some 1900 bound volumes
of Sunday School books 900 bound vol.
umes, including Bibles. commentaries, hi.
ographies, and kindred works; over a
thousand tracts and all the pharaphernalia
of Sunday Schools, including maps, cate.
chisms and the like. Three hundred per
sons are constantly employed in this Soon
Germ" They issue the Christian Adyocate,
weekly journal, which has circulation
of about $4,000; the Sunday School Advo-
cate, of which 100000 copies are distr1b-
uted; Good NesoS, of which 90, 900 are sold,
and the Quarterly Re0Sea0, which has a
steady sale of 1000