The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-02-19

ono Of the best specimens Of English com-
positions to which they ever listened,
and, not knowing much Of the Bible, in
quired where it might be found.
According TO the Methodist Allaanac
for 1874, the total amount contributed to
the Methodist Episcopal Church ins1678
was I'll, 068,925 Of this amount, 90, 1885,
100 were paid for salaries of ministers;
new churches and church Improvements,
$5,9O6,O2 Ministers in the United States
lo,4S4; local preachers, q, 739; lay men,
bers, S,629,S S7, including the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, the colored
Methodists, and the Evangelical Associa-
ton churches. The Northern iata
number !, 464, 1927.
Henry Ward Beacher saws in the
Christian Union: ITO build q theoloev
solely by the logical faculty is as IRA.
tional as to try to make flower with
carpenters tools. But this is what men
have done from the time when Paul
wrote to the Corinthians against 'enticing
words of mans wisdom down to the
latest expositor of Jonathan Edwards"
An Eastern correspondent of the
Chicago Aduance, who has been in Nab.
lous, the modern name for Samaria, Pales.
tine, says that a venerable journal is care.
fully preserved there, in which appears
the following entry in the handwriting OF
q Samaritan high priest named ShabOtt
In the year from Adam 1921, in the
nineteenth year of my pontificate. Jesus,
the son OF Mary, was crucified at Jerusa-
lem" 1t is said that the old journals OF
the priests of the Samaritan synagogue
are still in existence, dating back to fifty
QIYfv hoECro snk
There is said to be nothing improbable
about the story. The priests of the Jews
like the monks of the middle ages, were
the recorders of passing events, and the
crucifixion of Jesus was q notable svent
not only throughout Judea but the whole
Roman Empire.
John Bright, in letter published in
the Ecangelical Magazine, gives some adj
vice with regard to the mode of deliver.
ing sermons. He says: Given q man
with knowledge of his subject, and elf,
for public speaking, then think reading
mischief; but given man who knows
little, and has no gift of speaking, Their
reading seems to be inevitable, because
speaking, as deem it, is impossible
But it must be terrible thing to have to
read or speak a sermon every week on the
same topic to the same people-terrible
to the speaker, and hardly less so to the
hearers. Only men of great mind, grea,
knowledge, and great power can do this
with success. wonder that any man can
do it! often doubt that any man has
ever done it. I forbear, therefore, from
giving strong opinion on the point you
submit to me. Where a man can speak,
let him speak-it is, no doubt, most effect
i've; but where a man cannot speak, he
must read. Is not this the sum of the
whole matter?
Every State of the Union has normal
schools except Texas and Nevada. Massa
chusetts has one normal school for every
2O8, 1913 of her population; Illinois ranks
next, having one normal school for every
25f,941; Ohio has one for 296,14O; and
New York has the greatest number OF
normal schools, yet only one for every
39S,432 Of her population. The whole
number of normal institutions in the
United States is ia, of which 81 are State
schools. 16 city schools, % connected
with colleges and universities, and the re.
mainder supported in various ways
There are 1O,922 pupils in these schools
and AS teachers: Nearly one-tenth of all
the normal pupils in the country belong
to the Female Normal College of New
York city. During the three years thai
the college has been in existence not &
single student has been expelled, not one
suspended, and not more than half {
dozen cases for discipline have been re
ported to the President, and these wer,
but for trivial offenses.