Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-10-01
Religious and Educational.

Colby University has opened its
portals to lady students.
The prevailing church in Iceland is
the Lutheran. They have 32l churches
and 1S9 ministers.
Several prominent religious journals
condemn college regattas, and urge their
discontinuance in the future.
The Mtssi0nqry Link publishes let
ter from Miss Chase, of Calcutta, in
which she says that not less than twenty
missionaries and native helpers preach
every morning and evening in the differ
ent bazaars Of that heather city.
The minutes of the General Congre-
gational Association of the State of Illi-
nois show that there are in the State
twelve district associations, pa churches,
20, III members, 80 ministers, and %, 766
Sunday-school scholars.
The Congregational churches of
Massachusetts, in the last report number
314 pastors, 116 acting pastors and 100
other ministers. The membership is 3d.
479, and they count in their Sunday
schools 90, 600 scholars, with an average
attendance of 10000.
The Southern Baptist Publication
Society was organized three years ago,
when it was decided to raise fund of
300, 900. This amount has been obtained,
together with property worth $4,000,
and an effort will now be made to raise
$l20, 900 more.
A certain learned professor in one of
our principal colleges, who has long been
skeptic in religious matters, recently
assured his solicitous friends that he
could doubt no longer 81 have read the
Bible over and over again." he says,
land some internal process seems to be
going on in my heart that / cannot ex-
PLAIN. A sort of fire appears to be en-
kindled there despite all resistance, and
am now quite ready to write book on
the evidences of the truthfulness of
Christianity"
"A pamphlet recently published by
the United Presbyterian Church states
the following as the salaries paid to some
foreign missionaries: In India the
American Board pay 81 900; the Presby
terian 81 900 to 81 $50; the Reformed
Dutch, $1,100; the Methodist, 81 200.
In China the American Board pay 5000,
and in Southern China $500; the Presby.
terrain Board, 81 600; except in Canton,
5000; the Methodist, $3.50; the Baptist,
$500 and house; the Episcopal, 81 900.
In Bulgaria and Western Asia the Amer
lean Board pay, according to size of fam
| lily, from $3.50 to $3.50; Presbyterian
Board from $500 to 81 800, and no house
the Methodist, $3.50.
There is place of worship in Pitts
burgh, Pa, the official title of which is
the "Church of God" The members of
the congregation are called by outsiders
Winnebrennarians." One of the pecul-
iarities of their service is the sacrament
of "feet washing which Is thus de-
scribed in local journal: "The front
seats were entirely filled by men and
women who desired to take part in the
ceremony. The females, however, largely
preponderated, and of both sexes there
were probably twenty-five or thirty. The
pastor partially filed two basins with
water. The feet washing was done by a
man and woman, each of whom wore an
apron in imitation of the girdle worn by
Christ, and each taking up basin of
water washed one by one the feet of
those OF their own sex, the shoes and
| stockings as a matter of course having
been taken off. Both feet were placed in
the basin, and upon being taken out we're
wiped with the apron worn by the washer,
whereupon the one performing the cere-
mony and the one submitting to it shook
hands and kissed each other as well as
the women. During the performance Of
the ceremony the congregation sang with
unusual vim and vigor:
''This is the way long have sought,
And mourned because found II not"