Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-08-12
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

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The national camp-meeting at Or
chard Beach, Me-, will be held from Aug. !
to Aug Is, inclusive, and the national
temperance meeting from Aug, II to Aug
q, inclusive.
1t is proposed that the Christian
Church shall celebrate the National Cen
tennial by an offering of a million dollars,
to be funded, and the interest to be en-
plqyed by the General Missionary Conven
ton for the support Of foreign and home
missions
There are sixteen places for preaching
Professionalism in the cities of Buenos
Ayres and Montevideo; in twelve of them
the English and in four the Spanish Ian
guages are used. More than 50 900 copies
of the Bible in Spanish have been circu-
lated in South America in late years.
The Roman Catholic priest at Sarnia,
Ont, denounced all secret societies rs an
tagonistic to the Roman Church, and
warned the members of his congregation
not to assist at or patronize the Odd-Fel-
lows fetes about to be held there on pain
of the infection Of the usual penalties for
disobedience.
The United Presbyterian Church in
the United States has 8 synods; 56 presby-
teries; III congregations, 100 Of them
without houses Of worship; GIL ministers
81 ,23S members, JOB of whom were re-
ceived on profession during the year end
ing May A. The pastors salaries average
$1012; the contributions per member
amount to $1231. The appropriations for
the coming year for foreign missions are
$4,000 and for home missions $40, 465,
making total of sos, 665.
There are in the city of New York
40 places of worship of every Sort 3S9 OF
which are Protestant The Episcopalians
head the list with 90; the Methodists,
white and colored, follow after with 60
the Presbyterians of the different schools
number "a, and the Catholics reach the
same figure lacking one. The Baptists
have 80 chapels and churches, and the
Jews have 30 synagogues or halls in which
to worship and the Reformed (Dutch)
have 90 The Lutherans have '21, and
there is a miscellaneous list comprising
Congregationalists, Unitarians, Universal.
lists, Spiritualists and others of more or
less religious character, with the missions,
which number about 70 more.
The tendency toward ornamental
instruction which has been visible in our
public schools has caused some Missouri
ans to petition their State Constitutional
Convention that the common school sys-
tenn may be abandoned. They declare
that the time of the pupils is taken up
with the ornamental branches to the neg
lect of studies which are really educa-
tional, that the taxes are high, and the
schools cost more than they produce.
There is doubtless a great deal of ground
for such a complaint, though the remedy
asked for is very injudicious one. For
tunate is the parent whose children in the
public schools do not literally waste halt
their time over the ornamental features OF
reading and pennmanship, and the unim-
portant ones of arithmetic, geography and
grammar. The remedy does not consist
of shutting the school doors, however
little personal care in the selection OF
textbooks and teachers will bring about
speedy reformation While book agents
decide what text books school is to use,
and the parents opposition is manifested
only in grumbling, the school system is
evidently not to blame, nor should the
same system be abused because personal
favor or mistaken idea of economy
places at the teachers desk an unfit man
or woman.-Christtdn Union.