Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-06-21
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Order of the Sisters of Charity
now numbers over $4,000 members
throughout the world.
The British and Foreign Bible So
ciety published 1862, 1S5 copies of The
Bible, the New Testament and text books
of the Scriptures last year.
During 1875 Massachusetts employed
in her public schools 9,216 teachers.
Nineteen and half per cent. of the
whole number had been at some Normal
school
Opposition to the union of church
and state in England is organized and
active. A fund of 100000 has been
raised, and within year nearly 900
meetings have been held and a vast guam
tity of publications issued
AS an evidence of the decline of in
FAINT baptisms in the Methodist Church, it
is stated that in the New York Eastern
Conference, which comprises 272 churches,
only 1871 infants had been baptized during
the Conference year This is about three
quarters OF an infant to each church
Rev. Dr. Landels, prominet English
Baptist, is anxious THAT his denomination
should have not only Il pastors and wild
ows' relief fund, but also ministerial
augmentation fund to sustain pastors in
their work He wishes to see congrega
tons surround the pastoral office "with
those things which express respect" and
he is very certain that the preachers would
do better work if relieved of all pecuniary
anxiety. An effort is to be made 10 raise
SOD, 900 for such a fund
By vote of seventy ight to thirty
nine, the Southern Presby terrain Assem-
bly,, at Savannah, has decided to be repre-
scented at the Pan Presbyterian gathering
to be held in Edinburgh in 1877. A long
and rather exciting discussion took place
over the question, as the minority made
the point that by joining in with all the
other Presbyterian bodies, the Church
South would necessarily have to meet the
Church North, and thereby seem 10 be on
traternal relations with it,
The Baptists grow in England as they
do everywhere else. Last year, across the
water, there was an increase reported of
twenty-four new churches and thirty new
chapels; OF $500 members and 10000 Sun
day scholars and ninety three new pas
tors-a supply not equal to the demand.
Three million and "a half dollars were
raised for all denominational purposes, in.
GLIDING pastoral salaries, benevolent
funds, etc. In England the Baptists
are largely open communion -Chrssttaa
Union
The clergy OF the Church of England
are showing a somewhat unusual interest
IN the cause OF temperance, taking hold of
1t with large degree of unanimity Their
interest Is shown rot only in efforts To re-
form the incorporate in their parishes, but
also IN a strong movement for securing
Parliamentary action in connection with
the matter. \ clerical delegation, headed
by Bishop Abraham and Canon Ellison.
recently waited upon the Archbishop of
Canterbury and a number of Bishops, and
presented u memorial asking the bishops
70 support the measure in Parliament for
the further restriction of trade in intoxi.
eating liquors. This memorial was signed
by 1897 clergymen, including eleven
Bishops, nineteen Deans, sixty ArChdea-
cons, tOrty-two Canons, ljl honorary
Canons and l25 prebendarles. The Arch
bishop OF Canterbury assured the deputa-
tlon that the Bishops were As much awake
10 the great evil of intemperance as any,
body could possibly be, and he was thank
iul that the Church OF England had lately
been, he might almost say, taking the
most prominent part In drawing the atten-