The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-04-23

k0HS1OuS and Educational.
The Northern Christian Adcocate is
discussing the probationers, holding that
the facts show only about twenty-five per
cent. hold fast.
In the recent educational discussion
In the Ohio Constitutional Convention
several speakers advocated the admission
of women 70 school boards.
DIR. Brooks, the Universalist author
Of New Departure" says: "The doc
trine of fixed and unconditional saliva
ton, .ertain for all as death, has had a
fair trial in our history, and the verdict is
Tekel. II has been weighed in the bal.
ances and found wanting"
The annual report of the Iowa Bap-
tist anniversaries gives the whole number
of churches of the denomination in the
State as $40, with an aggregate member.
ship of 1889. There are It's pastors. in.
Guiding 20 missionaries, who have done q
noble work in destitute parts of the State.
The Pilot says that in 1925 there was
one Roman Catholic priest in Massschu-
sets, one in New Hampshire, one in
Maine and only eight churches in New
England, and that now there are in
New England six Bishops, AL priests,
4S2 churches, and nearly 1,000,OOO Cath
olics.
"A table is just published showing the
relative strength of the Episcopal Church
in the several dioceses in the year 1873.
Texas shows the largest relative increase
Minnesota is second; North Carolina
third; New Hampshire fourth; Missis.
sippi fifth Alabama sixth, and Louisiana
seventh.
The Sustentation Committee of the
Presbyterian Church report that over 500
of the missionary pastors are unpaid, and
have been anxiously waiting since De.
cember for the promised relief. Thirty.
four thousand dollars are necessary to
cancel the amount due, and relieve the
wants of these laborers in the vineyard.
The CAristian Inseuigencer says
" All that the Iliad is to scholars, that and
. thousand times more the Bible is to q
vastly wide company. It Is not merely
an object Of interest, absorbing as 1t may
be to select few Homeric students; it il
the center of hope and influence to
Christendom and the source ofthe worlds
true civilization
The Church Nescs admits that in st.
Louis the Episcopalians have not in
creased a. they should within the last
twenty years. but at the same time the
churches have doubled in number, and
the communicates have gained nearly q
hundred per cent The number of com
municants In the city Is now 2,019, being
gain of 013 since 1858.
The Chairman of the Domestic Mis-
sions in Western Texas calls for help to
enable the church to care for the amazing
number of emigrants that are flooding
the country from almost every part of the
world. Many of them are Presbyterians
from the older States, and settling, a. they
often do, out of the reach of the church,
will be lost to the communion unless fol.
lowed up.
The Eleventh Annual Provincial
Council of Baltimore has been convoked
BY Archbishop Bayley for the first Sun.
day Of May next. The Council will EN-.
brace the twelve dioceses and one Vicari.
ate which comprise the Province of Balti.
more, and - this see Is the oldest, and,
by . brief of Pins TX, the Primary See
Of the United States, it's deliberations will
be Of important weight, involving In
some measure by it, decisions the relig
ious concerns Of all Catholics in the
country.