The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-11-27
Religions and Educational.

RELIGIOUS and Educational.
Some modest man, who refuses to
give his name to the public, has made q
$40, 900 donation to the Female College
at Greencastle, Ind.
"A high Roman Catholic authority
asserts that any baptized Catholic who be-
comes Free Mason, by % doing is an
apostate from his church.
The Fijians take to Christianity with
amazing docility, and to-day the converts
number 1O9, 900, while there are $4,000 ma
tive children learning to read and write in
the missionary schools.
South Carolina has q sect called
"Zion's Travellers" and they migrate &C.
cording to news received from Above
Lately they obtained marching orders for
North Carolina, and are now on their way
thither.
The English Sunday-Schooz Teacher
says: 'The Bishop of London has but
stated truth when he said that Sunday
schools are necessity both for children
and grown-up members of the church.
And it will be q great blessing when
Rrown-up members realize the idea.'
Prayer is not only request made to
God, but converse had with Him. It is
the expression of desire to Him so as to
purify it; of purpose, so as to steady it.;
OF hope, 50 as to brighten it. 1t is the
bringing of ones heart into the sun
shine, so that, like a plant, its inner life
may thrive for an outward development.
"A stickler for the outside husks of
worship writes to the Christian at Work,
asking what the proper posture in prayer
Is. 10 which it pointedly replies: The
only posture to be avoided is imposture.
Let the heart be in the service, as well as
the lips, and prayer on the back, or the
head, or the feet, or the side, is all the
same.
The Congregational minister at West
Hartland, Conn.,, the Rev. Mr.. Tabor-de-
votes his leisure hours to the printing
business. He has q press, a few fonts Of
type, and other printing material, and he
prints for weekly gratuitous distribution
outlines of his sermons. This is novel
idea, but good one, for it serves to fasten
his thoughts upon the people.
DIR. Gordon w. Russell, of Hartford,
has presented to the Retreat for the In
sane the handsome sum of $4,000, With
the request that the same may be applied
toward the erection of memorial chapel
on the grounds of that institution for the
use of its inmates, which shall be devoted
exclusively to religious purposes. The
gift has been handsomely acknowledged
by the directors of the institution.
The Bishop of Manchester at a recent
congress of the clergy in Bath, England,
made the younger clerics look sheepish
by remarking that smooth mown cro-
quet lawns, and glades at each end of
which an archery-target was set up, were
places where young clergymen should
not be found, if they would leave people
to believe that they were the men of God,
bringing to them the light of heavenly
Dean Stanley, in his lectures on the
History of the Church." in Scotland,
thus explains the epithet "Blue Presby-
terians:" The distinct dress of the Scotch
Presbyterian clergy was blue gown and
a broad blue bonnet. The Episcopalian
clergy, on the other hand, either wore no
distinctive dress in public services, or
else wore black gown. From this arose
the contrasting epithets of "Black Pre-
lacy" and True Blue Presbyterianism."
This is the way Detroit clergyman
talks to the tardy: II am glad to see PEG.
pie come into church late. 1t shows that
they are very anxious to come to church.
Yet think it would be better for them
if possible, to be present when the services
begin. These always begin when the
voluntary on the organ commences, and
think that the excellent voluntary from
the organ in this church is calculated tc
inspire one with devotional feelings. Il
there are any that are not able, or if there
are any that are too lazy to get there unit
services are half over, I shall always bt
glad to have them come at that time, for
am not nervous, and cannot be disturbed
by their reaching church at late hour
and shall never complain"
I'm the Christian at Work of recent
date there is a vigorous onslaught or
small type and its bad effects on the eve
sight Of readers. The editor thinks thai
1.-THE poorest compliment ever paid to thu
Lords Prayer was the cutting it in small
letters on five-cent piece. 1t is a hard
| thing for an octogenarian to read his title
clear in type smaller than nonpareil OF
agate. 1t is grand thing to have page
| so plain that old age can read it with OF
without spectacles. Mother had two pair.
her 'near-sighted' spectacles and hel
'far-sighted' ones. She wore them botl
at once-onc upon the forehead, the othel
on the nose-the distance of the object
deciding which pair she should use. Blu
one day she took off the 'far.sighted' spec
tacles with which she had often looked
toward heaven, and put on the near
sighted ones; it was just as she went into
| the gate"