Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-01-14
Religious and Educational.

"A convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese of Illinois will be
held in Chicago Feb. 3, to elect Bishop.
New delegates will be sent from all the
parishes in place of those of the last
convention, at which Prof Seymour was
chosen the successor of Bishop White
house.
The Wesleyans in England are great
ly exercised over their liturgy, because
they have discovered germs of ritualism
in it. A committee was appointed at
the late conference to consider the re-
| vision of their liturgy and to remove all
expressions that Can be construed into
ritualistic form or meaning.
Meetings are now being held in Paris
| for the promotion of the "higher life"
/ better known perhaps as conservation
meetings" These gatherings have at
tracted much attention, and persons have
attended them from all parts of France.
The leader in this evangelical movement
is Theodore Menod, divinity student
of the United States. His teachings are
| similar to those of the sanctification
wing of the Methodist Episcopal Church
in America.
Father Boehm, the oldest Methodist
preacher in the world, is having published
his memories of the past century. In a
few months he will be an hundred years
old, yet "his general health 10 good, his
mind clear and wonderfully discriminat-
ing, his memory remarkably accurate
and his power of expression excellent
He is able to shave himself three times
| q week, and is altogether remarkably
well-preserved old man. He is ten years
older than the Methodist Episcopal
Church, in which he began the life of an
itinerant preacher in 1883.
MIR. Timothy NJ. Allyn, of Hartford,
Conn, offers 800, 900 to the city for the
establishment of an industrial school for
tree instruction to boys and girls in the
business occupations of life, agriculture
and the mechanic arts. He believes
the amount named will be sufficient to
purchase ground, build suitable build
ings and supply all the tools and appara-
tus necessary for the enterprise, and the
expense of the school, after deducting
the amount 1t would be entitled to re-
ceive from the school fund, should be
borne by the city. He wants the boys to
be taught any of the principal trades
and the girls are to be instructed in the
practical knowledge OF housekeeping,
chemistry of cooking and the skillful use
of the needle.
The Patee House, In st. Joseph, Mo-,
the finest and largest hotel in the Mis-.
souri, Valley, which cost $3.50, 900 in gold In
1880, was purchased lately by the Western
Baptist Educational Union, corporation
composed of leading citizens from Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Col.
orado. Rev. /. 8. Kalloch is president of
this organization; Rev. J. McBrear, Vice
President; George G. Hall, Treasurer;
George Rees. Secretary. The object of
the corporation is to establish a first.
class university of the highest grade
under the control of the Baptist demon.
nation. Some of the wealthiest citizens
of st. Joseph are members of the Board
OF Trustees. Articles of corporation
place the endowment fund at $500. 900.
with power to increase to 100000.
This is the first instance on record of
that denomination establishing a first
class university overstepping the State
lines in its organization and contrA.