Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-07-21


England has 1859 Dissenting places
of worship.
The German schools Of Detroit have
only one session day during the warm
weather.
Milwaukee, has passed an ordinance
prohibiting dancing on the LORDS Gay.
The Free Church of England sp..
peals to the public for an extension FUND
Of 10000.
"A Methodist minister Of Lake coun-
ty. Cal, is building church with his
own hands. =
The Methodist missions among the
Chinese on the Pacific coast are greatly
prospering.
-Commissioner have selected $4,000
acres additional lands, under the act OF
Congress, for an Agricultural College IN
Oregon.
Fourteen young japanese noblemen
are studying in the grammar school con-
nected with Rutgers College, New Bruins
wick.
"A Minnesota preacher supplies nine
churches, his circuit being ITO miles long.
Last year his entire salary was $SOS ".
The Ohio Congregationslists have
refused, by vote OF IS to 50, to allow
women to sit as delegates in the annual
conventions.
The members of the new School
Board of Cincinnati, which was recently
organized, are all in favor OF the Bible
in the public schools.
There are in India 600 missionaries
and 1000 native preachers. About vi
900 GOO are expended in this field by TWEEN
ty-five societies.
A good sign at the numerous college
reunions which have taken place this sea.
son has been the absence of wine and
other LIQUORS from the festive board.
A movement in Hungary, headed by
Professor Schwicker, looks toward the
establishment of Hungarian National
Church, Independent OF Rome.
The venerable Dr. VIM. r. Williams,
the Oldest Baptist pastor in New York
city. ia said to be engaged in writing a
history of the Baptist churches in this
country, TO be published by the Harpers.
An effort is being made to provide
uniform course Of Sunday School lessons
for all Christian denominations In the
United States. Committees from the va
rious churches are in consultation about
the project. !,
Fifteen of the Congregational
churches of Vermont report revivals last
year. The 1879 churches have 1889
members. of whom LIZA were received
during the year, making net gain OF
AL. During 8 years Q new churches
have been formed.
An Allegheny county, Pa, pastor
announced from his pulpit an evening
| lecture entitled, Hunting an Appetite
/ A large audience were deeply interested,
| and at the conclusion Of the address the
pastor announced that as he had received
no salary for six months past the sexton
would now collect something Tor him 10
hunt an appetite with"
The Chinese Sunday schools in San
! Francisco are ten Ia nuniDei, having 3o1
| teachers, and an average attendance OF
! 764 pupils The denominations under
! whose auspices these schools are carried
| on are the Baptist, Congregational, Pres
byte,ian, and Methodist Throughout
the State of California there are said to
be twenty of these schools, having more
than 1000 pupils.
Two preachers of Peru, Ind, agreed
to exchange pulpits on the evening Of a
recent Sunday. One of them took an
evening nap at his room and it lasted
until his brother preacher had finished
the exercises. The congregation had as
sembled, waited long, but the minister
not coming, the lights were put out and
the people dispersed. A few minutes
after the sleepy preacher arrived, but it
was too late.