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! holding reunion without authorization. The
| case came before the Correctional Police The
Procureraur de Ia Republique pleaded that three
! II not four persons had been present without
| cards OF Invitation also and moreover, that u.
lacheret had preached with windows open, and
] that passers-by might hare heard what he said,
| and probably did so. The Court lined II. La
cheret Is francs for his sermon, Is more for dis
tributiDg tracts without q license, and costs.
| The biennial meeting Of that branch Of the
Worlds Evangelical Alliance represented BY this
country opens in Pittsbu1g ne1t Tuesday, An
interesting and profitable meeting Is expected
among the topics treated will be ''The Sabbath
Question" BY the Rev. Drs. Valentine, Of Get
cal Seminary; 1.-THE Best Way Of Reaching the
Masses" by the Rev Dr.. Heacock, Of Buffalo;
- The Reunion Of Christsndorn,' - by tho Rev.
Drs. Budingtou, Of Brooklyn Cause, Of New
Seminary; "sunday-Sehools,' n by the Rev. Drs.
Vincent and Ormiston. OF New York; 'Ihs Law
OF Divorce by tha Hon. Ira Harris, Of Albany;
- Art in Relation to Worship" br the Rev. DFs.
Weshburn. Of New York, Manning, OF Boston,
snd Morris, Of Baltimore - Ultramontanism
and the Civil Power y by the Rev. Dr.. Sampson,
OF New York, and Bishop Simpson; Tho Sup
precision Of Intemperauce," by the Rev. J. II.
Buckley, OF Stamford, and che ReF. Dr.. ". II.
Taylor, of New York - Bible Revision, /" BY the
ion in the Common Schools" BY the Rev. Dr.
John Cotton Smith. Of New York, and the Rev.
Dr. Porter, Of Brooklyn.
THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION QUESTION.
The New York lndeDentle7lt has the following
criticism on tho policy Of religious education in
the common schools:
Tha comnenta Of the religious press upon the ac-
ton Of the Chicago Board OF Education IN excluding
the Bible from the public schools pozitively or
3yng. One paper sees 1T to claas Prof. Swing ard
Robert Collyer with the stssloon-keepers gamblers
rowdies fast u,ea and dissolute woen," Of Chicago
on account Of their defense Of the measure The ig-
noranca Of such editors Is AMPLY dense. The State
propcses to give, not complete education but ee-
mentary Instruction In reading, arithmetic etc. This
son for mixing matters with this
enc as there Ia for insisting that instruction |
tn ahoamaking hactsmithing should in !
cludc course In the Catechi&ua- To be sure,
has proved that the State only mischief when
it takes to teaching religion. Hence public lnstruc-
ton must be limited to purely secular matters and
the howl that henca such instruction il athestic
just as ssnseleas the claim that factory IL
atheist because he does not give III bis apprentices
course In theology. course In theology Is good
things It Ia very desirable that ahould udezatAud
our relations to God and His governmsut hence, any
instruction in oston-spinning which does not In
cluda course in theology Il perniciouay imper3ect
and Ia Likely to draw down the of God upon tho
heads Of blasphen2ous and athaistc nation
THE AMERICAN sUSDAr-scHoo1 UNION.
From March ! to Oct !, this year, this So |
caty, through the personal labots Of missionaries
and aided 7S4 Snnday-schools in the |
Northwest, which have d membership of 3313 |
teachers and q, ,2l9 scholats,-about rs many ns |
there are in tha 6unday-schools Of Chicago.
When it ia remembered that the - Union !abors
for the children and youth who are not other
wise cared for by any other agency, this work
assumes greater Importance.