Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-11
Religious and Educational.

The Methodist Church in this coun-
try increases at the rate of two church
edifices each day Of the year, besides those
erected by the Extension and Loan Com
pany.
tain 1922 members, of which the First
church has 1923, the Second, 1917, the
Olivet, 5S1, and the Union Park, 431
The Rev. Abraham Gaeger, the re-
Gently converted Rabbi, of Mobile, has ac-
cepted an appointment as Assistant Pro-
fessor of Hebrew in the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary at Greenville, >, Z.
The Wesleyan Church in England
raised last year for missions, 100000.
One of the secretaries, being asked how
they were able to raise so much, an
swered, "By the grace of God and the
penny week"
A writer who recently visited the
Shakers at Albany County, N. T., believes
that their zeal and members are declin-
ing. Unless religious revival occurs to
replenish their members, their existence
as community will necessarily cease.
The late Rufus Dodge, of Beaver
Dam Wis, bachelor, left the Fox Lake
Female College, Ripon College and Be
lott College $1,000 each, and 100000 TO
found female seminary at Beaver Dam.
Congress has at various times appro-
prated public lands for the benefit OF
railroads, canals, etc, to the amount OF
more than 190,000,000 Of acres. The en-
tire amount granted to the States for edu-
cational purposes is less than 150,0O0,OOO
| acres.
The Kanawha Valley Baptist Associ-
alton resolved "that the Kanawha Valley
| Association, representing over thirteen
hundred Baptsts, fully and heartily in
dorse the present prohibitory liquor law
of West Virginia,sand we pray that itmay
be continued and enforced"
The Moraptan wishes "that religious
journals which profess to seek the glory
of Christ might seek to promote it in a
more excellent way than in beating out ol
each other what they consider heresy.'
| The wish is expressed in connection with
a discussion between the Independent and
the Intelttgencer.
One of the Professors at the College
of Sarbonne, France, has been in England
soliciting funds to aid in establishing
schools in Luxembourg district, strong
hold of Catholicism. In an address the
| GTOIcSSOT says Inht IdiCC has NV piohte,
much by the hard lessons Of the war, ant
In his opinion only the Bible and Protest
ant schools can save her.
The English Bishop of Salisbury ha
been talking about confession. He be
lieves that the clergy possess the power o
dissolution, but that "there were two con
ditions for its right exercise. First, tina
1t be used as remedial only, for the res
toration of true access to Christi" and
secondly, "that it be exercised not b.
right of the priest separately but by tn
Church who gave the priest his commits
sion.
The American Baptist Mission t.
Burmah has suffered much of late from
the i'll health of its missionaries. Their
have been five men and women disabled
within short time; and, although severa
recruits have gone out, ttere have no
enough been sent to make good the places
of those who have been forced to leav,
their work. Notwithstanding these dis
couraging features, the work is on the ad
vance, and several new schools have beer
planned and put into operation.