Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-11-13
Religious and Educational.

The Jew Congregational Church has
| Just been dedicated at Reno, Nevada.
| This is the only church Of that denomina-
ton in this young State.
The Agricultural College at Amherst
proposes 10 graduate no student who shall
not be qualified to organize, clothe, equip,
drill and command a regiment of in.
fantry.
During his recent journey through
| Wyoming, the late Bishop Randall had a
| variety Of experiences. In some places
he baptized Indians, and at other points
narrowly escaped losing his scalp.
The subject of foreign missions is
beginning intensely TO occupy the atten-
ton Of the Quakers, and they have recent
| ~ sent number of missionaries into the
| field Madagascar has been their princi-
pal objective point so far.
The persecution of the Catholics has
now ceased in Japan, in accordance with
the edict Of liberation, which is at pres
ent hardly required for members of other
religions, Professionalism having made but
little progress among the japanese.
The proposed pilgrimage Of Ameri-
can Catholics TO Rome, the shrineS of st.
Philip and st. James, and TO the Lady I'M
maculate at LOurdes, leads a writer in the
Freeman's Journal to propose journey to
st. Augustine, Fla, as the cradle of CathOl-
icIsm in this country.
The Reltgious Herald, of Richmond,
Va, assures US that the confessional is
already established in most of the Pro-
testant churches in that neighborhcod
They are quite inclined to confess to their
ministers the faults of other people, but
have not usually much to say about their
own.
The amount raised by taxation in this
country, last year, by direct taxation for
the support of schools was $7,O00OOO. 1t
is estimated that $20,000,000 more were
spent for private instruction at academies
and colleges, and more than $10,0000 900
were voluntarily given as donations from
private individuals to institutions of
! learning.
Men say their pinnacles point to
| Heaven Why, so does every tree that
buds and every bird that rises as it sings
Men say their ases are good for worship.
Why, SO is every mountain glen and
rough sca-shore. But this they have Of
distinct and indisputable glory-that their
mighty walls were never raised, and never
shall be, but by men who love and aid
each other in their weakness.-Husktn.
| Conscience is the voice of the soul,
the passions are the voice of the body. Is it
astonishing that often these two languages
contradict each other, and then to
which must we lsteng Too often reason
deceivcs us; we have only too much ac.
quircd the right of refusing to listen to it !;
| but conscience never deceives us IL is the
true guide of man it is to man what in
stinct is to the body, which follows it,
obeys nature and is never afraid Of going
astray.-Roussedu.
| Bishop Cummins, of Kentucky, who
in common with the Dean of Canterbury,
has been receiving almost daily epistolary
shots through the press for partaking of
the communion outside of the Church
Episcopal, confessed in DR.. Halls Church,
| daring the Alliance sessions, that to his
shame he had not sat down at the table
of the Lord with his Presbyterian breth.
rem for twenty five years; but he declared
that if Heaven permitted, an equal space
of time should not elapse before he again
enjoyed this blessed privilege. The let.
ter-writers would deny it to him.
Much has been said about a new in.
vention in Europe to stop the echo in
cathedrals and churches by stretching
wires across the audience room Rev
Joseph p Taylor, of Brunswick, Me-, hav.
ing suffered from an echo in his church,
adopted precisely the same process, pre-.
vious to the knowledge of the invention
in Europe, it having been suggested to
him by the analogy of waves broken
against piling, driven for the purpose, he
judging that waves of sounds would be
destroyed in similar way. His expert
ment in ST. Paul's, Brunswick, Me-, q
building where the echo was exceptional.
| ly troublesome, is a perfect success, and
we suggest to any person who may need
similar remedy to make the trial. The
church consists Of nave, transept and
chancel, and the wires are stretched to the
arches of the open roof at two inches
distance from each other, at the intersec.
ton of the ransept and nave, coming
down to the corbels, and also across
portion of each of several arches in the
nave, beginning at the top. Rev. Mr.
Taylor suggests that the wires need no,
be nearer together than one foot. The
wire is SO small as not to be seen from
the floor of the church, and consequently
does not detract from its appearance
Why do not people go to church
iuOTe! Vic tnllhS III Is tnlS anu dnOtIe!
thinks it is that. You can open church
in howell, and let voice go forth that
has the power of touching men, and you
will find it crowded and thronged. You
do not want the cobs that used to have
corn. That which man wants is sappy
food, refreshing food. Men are willing
to be dealt with, to have their sins flashed
in their faces, willing to have their con.
sciences aroused, but do not want to be
handled they want a preacher that takes
hold of them in some way, and if he can
do more than that If he can give them
that which every man consciously needs
some men have aspirations, and some
more indulge in superficial thought-and
II he can give him strength to bear his
burden. Men that are sore in life; men
who are in sorrow; women who do moi