Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-07-22
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Harvard examinations for women
concluded few days since There were
eight applicants, three of whom passed
last year and applied this yearior advanced
standing.
The California State Teachers Asso.
citation have adopted a resolution in favor
of the abolition of the offices of State Su.
perintendent and of County Supcrntend-
cnt, on the ground that they cost more than
they are worth.
The income of the Wesleyan Mission
airy Society in England is much larger
than ever before, and decidedly larger than
any Christian society in the world For
the present year ii amounted to e1S5, 900
sterling, about 1925 900 That of the Es-
tablished Church Missionary Society was
upward of el75, 600
Nine commissioners have been APP
pointed by the General Conference of the
Methodist mot EpiscopaD Church to meet
nine commissioners appointed last year by
the General Conference of the Methodist
Protestant Church to devise basis of
union. A meeting of the Joint commits
sioners will probably be held during the
present summer.
Rev w. James, Presiding Elder in
the United Brethren Church in one of the
districts in Kansas, says that in the bounds
of his work one of the preachers, for want
OF Bread takes but one meal Il day, and
another could not attend his quarterly
meeting for the want Of shoes. The ques-
ton of bread is very serious among them,
as the grasshoppers have destroyed every
thing.
The Southern Presbyterian General
Assembly, which met at St Louis, resolved
to purge its records Of all reference to
politics. The resolution is thus wordcd:
" That a committee be appointed to re-
view the records of our church courts, and
to eliminate therefrom everything which
would give il such (i.e a secular) tinge; and
that we here resolve and declare that we are
and intend to be a non-secular and non-po-
litical church."
The contributions to the Woman's
Board of Missions in the Presbyterian
Church in 1871 were $1,000; in 1872,
1927 900; in 1878, $4,000 in 1874, $751;
600; in 1875, $4,000; thus showing a
steady increase since its organization
amounting to one, fifth of the entire annual
receipts of the Foreign Board The sue
cess of the Woman's Board is not the mu-
niticence of few, but in gathering up the
mites from the many.
"A little fact has recently brought to
light the extreme poverty of many of the
country ministers of England The
Christian World, the most widely circu-
lated Of the English religious papers, ex-
pressed the apprehension that many of
them were utterly unable TO purchase
"evcn one new book of real value" and
received letters from 260 confirming its
statement. 1t has started plan for sup
plying some of the country ministers with
ten dollars worth of books each
The Unttes Frotrum, or Church of the
United Brethren, after an existence of 400
years, reveals no decay of vitality. The
latest statistics for America show that the
number of COMMITMENTS has doubled
since 1855. 1t has now $1,000 members.
The whole number of members in all the
world is 1927, to which is to be added
$4,000 persons connected with the State
churches of Europe who attend Moravian
ministrations. II has always been a part
Of the plan OF the Brethren to form socie-
ties within the churches for Christian edi-
tication. This body is the only one in
Professionalism which is strictly ecumeni-
cal, although the leading churches in the
United States are, through their missions,
rapidly taking on this character.
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