The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-03-04
RELIGIOUS and Educational,

Religious and Educational.
"A religious paper states that there
are eighty-seven Protestant missionaries
now working in Japan, nearly all from
America.
in view of the long.continued
financial depression of the country, the
Christian at Work calls upon the Presi-
dent to proclaim day of fasting aud
prayer throughout the land.
PROF. Ford of Niles, editor of the
Michigan Teacher, in abiding to the fail
ure of the Compulsory School law, says
that in this free life of ours the State
must draw and not drive; must allure
rather than compel.
The Baptists erected four church
edifices in Colorado during the year 1874,
costing in the aggregate $500, the
average debt on them being but 1925.
This does not include what was done in
church building at Denver and Central
City.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
has twenty-seven universities and col
leges and sixty academies and semina-
ries, the estimated value being $7,OOO,-
600, exclusive of their three theological
seminaries. The property in schools
under the supervision of the church is
$4,000, QUO.
The British and Foreign Bible
Society has, during the past year, distrib-
uted two editions of the Finnish Bible,
numbering $1,000 copies. Missionaries
in other parts of Russia report The de-
mand for Bibles to have exhausted an
edition of 10000 copies. Another one is
being prepared.
President Eliot, of Harvard, says of
the compulsory physical exercises in
schools: They should form a part of
the programme of every school for boys
and should be insisted upon just as regu.
larly as Latin and mathematics from the
time boy is ten years old until he is
sixteen or seventeen"
There is q Bureau of Education. in
the Department of the Interior at Wash.
ington, of which Alex. Shiras, D. D., is
Commissioner. Its business is "to col
lect such statistics and facts as shall
show the condition and progress of edu-
cation in the several States and Terri
tories, and of diffusing such information
respecting the organization and manage
ment of school systems and methods of
teaching as shall aid the people of the
United States in the establishment and
maintenance of efficient school systems,
and otherwise promote the cause of edu
cation"
The National Teachers Monthlv saws:
" We should compel an original but in
dolent pupil to be faithful to the author
in hand by demanding of him the words
of the book By this course his origi-
nality will not be impaired, while his &C.
curacy and industry are increased. But
we should never be satisfied with the
words of the book from child capable
of memory recitations only, and should
never ask of such question that would
suggest even remotely on what page or
part of the page it's answer could be
found. The bright child sees through
rules, principles, definitions, descrip-
tions and explations without burdening
himself with the medium of his enlight-
eminent; the dull one grssps the language
of the author-only that, and nothing
more"
The colored churches of this coun-
try may be designated as follows: The
African Methodist Episcopal Church,
founded by Richard Allen, having over
100000 members, and is distributed
through most of the States. The African
MetnOulSC LpISCOp6l AOu OnuTCu IL an
offshoot of the preceding, numbering
nearly 100000 members. The two are
sometimes briefly known as the Bethel
and Zion Churches. The Colored Meth
odists, in connection with the Methodist
Episcopal Church, are numerous body.
Their preachers, in some instances, are
organized in separate conferences, and
in some places are united with the white
ministers. The Colored Methodist Epis-
copal Church is an offshoot of Southern
Methodism. The African Church has six
Bishops, the Zion six, and the Colored
Church four.
1T is announced that q gentleman of
New York intends to establish and en-
dow in his lifetime an American College
of Music to be dedicated to the daughters
Of America. It is proposed to erect in
New York an edifice Of architectural
beauty and large proportions with all the
appliances necessary for the purposes of
both school of music and the rendering
of the works Of the great masters for
public entertainment and instruction.
Mrs. Gen. Meyer, Of Washington,
has one advantage over her neighbors.
Being tho wife Of aOld Probabilities, .
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