Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-02-19
Religious and Educational.

Bishop Hennesay, of Kansas, has pro-
hibited dancing in that diocese at Catho-
lie fairs and festivals.
Maryland spends $4,000 year on
colleges and academies from which
women are excluded, and only S. 900 for
the exclusive education of young women.
The Springfield (Mass.) School Com
mittee recommend their teachers especial
ly to watch carefully the health of their
scholars, and if they err at all it should
be from assigning pupils too little study,
rather than too much.
Benjamin Franklin once read the
prayer of Habakkuk to an assembly of
French infidels, and they pronounced it
one 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.
Henry Ward Beacher says in the
Christian Union: ITO build theology
solely by the logical faculty is as IRA
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"
i'm Arabic and Turkish books gener-
ally the consonants only are printed; and
readers must supply the yowels. As diff
ferent words frequently have the same
consonants (e. g., hat, hate, hot; dog, Dig,
the exact word is to be inferred from the
| connection. tits amusing TO see Turkish
readers puzzling over some doubtful
word. Perhaps our young friends would
| like to try their hand at little English
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An Eastern correspondent of the
| Chicago AdDance, who has been in Nab.
| lous, the modern name for Samaria, Pales-
| tine, says that venerable journal is care
| fully preserved there, in which appears
the following entry in the handwriting Of
| a Samaritan high priest named Shabott:
SIN the year from Adam 4,2S1, in the
nineteenth year Of my pontificate, Jesus,
the son of Mary, was crucifed at Jerusa-
lem" It is said that the old journals of
| the priests of the Samaritan synagogue
are still in existence, dating back to fifty
or sixty years before Christ was born.
| 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
| crucifxion of Jesus was notable event
not only throughout Judea but the whole
Roman Empire.
I John Bright, in letter published in
the Euaagelical Magdzine, gives some adj
4 n to az
ing sermons. He says: Given a man
| with knowledge Of his subject, and gift
for public speaking, then / think reading
a mischief: but given man who knows
little, and has no gift Of speaking, then
reading seems to be inevitable, because
speaking, as / deem it, is impossible.
But il must be terrible thing 10 have to
read or speak sermon every week on the
same topic TO the same people-terrible
to the speaker, and hardly less SO 10 the
hearers. Only men of great mind, great
knowledge, and great power can do this
with success. Iwonder that any man can
do it! / often doubt that any man has
ever done it, / forbear, therefore, from
giving a strong opinion on the point you
submit TO me- Where man can speak,
let him spsak--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 Tor every
20S, 1893 of her population; Illinois ranks
next, having one normal school Tor every
54,941; Ohio has one for POI, l4Oi 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, 10 city schools, ~ connected
with colleges and universities. and the re-
mainder supported in various ways
There are 1892 pupils in these schools
and 445 teachers. Nearly one-tenth OF all
the normal pupils in the country belong