The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-08-21
that Of the population of the country was
less than One-fourth.

that Of the population of the country was
less than one-fourth.
The Philadelphia Presbyterian admits
that fastidiousness in the ministry, Rnd the
reluctance TO 60 where comfort is not as
sured, has something to do with the cor
responding facts of vacant churches and
unemployed ministers.
I'm North Carolina the state of educa-
ton generally is considered far from sat-
isfactOry. 1t is to be feared that in many
if not most of the districts, there will be
no schools at all, on account of the aver
sion of the people to paying school taxes.
In South Carolina, too, few schools are
supported through the year.
Rev. Henry ]. Fox, d. d., the pastor
of the Methodist Episcopal church in
the city of Charleston, s. e., has recently
been elected by the Board of Trustees,
Professor of Bellies Lettres, including
rhetoric, criticism, English language and
literature, in the University of South Car
olina, at Columbia.
AT late meeting of the Board of
Education of the city Of Chicago, the
Superintendent made a report which be-
gins with the following sentence: In pre-
senting the recommendation which is to
follow, would premise these statements:
For one year we have tried the expert
ment of the disuse of corporal punishment.
1t has succeeded beyond my most sanguine
expectations.
Rev. Timothy Hill who is stationed
in Kansas in the interest of Home Mis-
sions, travels about one thousand miles
month, and has averaged for five years
about ten thousand miles annually. Five
years ago both branches, o. 8. and N. s.,
in the State, numbered less than forty
churches and twenty-five ministers. To
day there are one hundred and forty-two
churches, and more than one hundred
ministers.
"A correspondent of the New York o.
se'ver draws a pleasant picture of Sun
ay-schoOl at Beyrout. ut is" he says,
presided over by the pastor, Rev. DR.. Jes-
sup. The boys and men, arrayed in the
various costumes of the East, and the girls
in beautiful colOrs, each with white veil
over the head, presented one of the most
beautiful sights I have ever witnessed"
There are twenty-five Sabbath-schools,
with 900 scholars connected with the Syr-
ian mission.
Some of the questions discussed at the
recent annual meeting of the Thinkers in
Pennsylvania show a very earnest, though
perhaps not wisely directed anxiety t.
| hCCp CICdL VI COulOIIulCy " CHc WOlu OuC
was, as it according to the Gospe! to sub
scribe for railroad stock?" Another, us
it sinful for ministering brother to occu-
Ply stand elevated above the level of the
surrounding space occupied by the assem-
bly, for reading the Scriptures, praying or
preaching?" Another question related to
the owning and use Of musical instru-
ments.
"A touching incident is related of the
Rev. Richard S. Storrs, the father of the
Rev. DR.. Storrs, of Brooklyn. On the first
Sunday of July, the sixty first anniversary
Of his settlement over the Congregational
Church, of Braintree, Massachusetts, was
celebrated. GAS the venerable pastor
moved with feeble steps up the long aisle,
he was greeted with Auld Lang Syne on
the organ. Overcome by the touching re-
ception, the old man threw himself on the
sofa and wept like child. OF all who
were present at his settlement, July 3,
1911, no one remained to see tho present
anniversary"