Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-08-21
Religious and Educational.

-Colorcd children are not yet admitted
to the public schools of Washington.
BENJAMIN f. Bates, of Boston, has
donated 100000 TO Bates College, Maine,
and an equal amount has been donated by
other parties.
In Louisiana there are about 800 col
ored Baptist ministers. Though greatly
deficient in mental culture and theologc-
al training, still many of them are accom-
piishng great good.
The forthcoming report OF the Com
missioner Of Education says that over
II per cent Of the adult males of this
country, and over % per cent. of the fe-
males cannot read or write.
Some of the Eastern Congregational
churches are adopting the responsive read
ing of the Scriptures, and correspondent
Of the Congregationatia predicts that it is
bound to become popular.
There is n body of Christians in Maine
calling themselves depository Baptists,"
a schism from the Free.will Baptists.
Their distinctive principle is opposition
to an educated inistry.-Standard.
The total membership In the Protest
ant churches in this country Is estimated
at about 8,7sO507. The net gain of these
churches within the last ten years was
considerably more than One-third, while
that of the population of the country was
less than one-fOurth.
The Philadelphia Presbyterian admits
| that fastidiousness I'm the ministry, Hnd the
reluctance TO go where comfort is not as.
sured, has something to do with the cor
responding facts of vacant churches and
unemployed ministers.
In North Carolina the state Of cduca.
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 ut 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 J. Fox ID. d., the pastor
of the Methodist Episcopal church in
the city of Charleston, 3. g., 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.
DINA, 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-.
scnting the recommendation which Is Ia
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
| rsxu, l. T.N~ A,y,
about ten thousand miles annually. Five
years ago both branches, o. s. and N. s..
In the State, numbered less than forty
day there are one hundred and forty-two
churches, and more than one hundred
ministers.
"A correspondent of the New York o.
serper draws pleasant picture of Sun.
day school at Beyrout. at is" he says
presided over by the pastor, Rev. DIR. 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 have ever Witnessed >
There are twenty-five Sabbath.scho0ls
with 900 scholars connected with the Syr
i'm mission.
Some OF the questions discussed at the
recent annual meeting Of the Thinkers in
Pennsylvania show very earnest, though
perhaps not wisely directed anxiety t.
keep clear ofconformity to the world One
was, us ii according to the Gospe! to sub
scribe for railroad stock?" Another, "Is
1t sinful for ministering brother to occu
ply stand elevated above the level of the
surrounding space occupied by the assem-
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preachingY" Another question related Ia
the owning and use Of musical instru
mente. |
j "A touching incident is related of the
Rev. Richard s. Storrs, the father of the
Rev. DIR. Storrs, of Brooklyn. On the first
Sunday of July, the sixty.first anniversary
ofhis settlement over the Congregational
Church, of Braintree, Massachusetts, was