Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-06-28
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


Chancellor Of the Catholic Diocese, in
recent discourse in the new cathedral at
Savannah, expressed the hope and deter
minaton of the ecclesiastical authorities
that useless and expensive displays at
funerals should cease
Eighteen free churches and chapels
have been established by Protestant Epis-
copalians in Baltimore within six years,
with seating capacity of six thousand,
and having connected with them about
two Thousand COMMITMENTS and about
twenty-five hundred Sunday-school
children.
The New York Evangelist is opposed
to the attempt to commit the Presbyterian
Church to the denial of the validity of
Roman Catholic baptism, regrets the APP
pointment of committee to report upon
the subject, and maintains that Presbyte-
rians, as such, are wholly free to follow
their own convictions as to the amount OF
truth and error in the Romish system.
1t weakens ones confidence in the
boosted superiority of the American school
system to find that Copenhagen affords
gratuitious technical teaching to even the
very young children of both sexes, and
that three nights every week instruction
may be had in turning, carving, polishing
and other matters OF handicratt. Den
mark has set the world many good exam
| piles in educational matters, and this is not
the least of them.-Detroit Free Press.
Concerning the large Northern Pres
byterian churches, DR.. Monfort, writing
to his Herald and Presbyter, says that Dr.
Talmage's Tabernacle, Brooklyn, has
over l, 200 COMMITMENTS. 1T is now,
perhaps, the largest in our connection,
except Lafayette Avenue Church Or
Cuyler's), which had $50, according to
the statistics Of 1875. Since then DR.. Tai
mage has had large increase. Several
other pastors have large tlocks: Dr.
Booth, 1850; DR.. Crosby, 1,135; DR..
Tucker, 1,512; Dr. Hall, ,1O1; DR.. Hast
ings, 944. The Brick Church. now va
cant, has 900 There are few large
churches outside of New York and
| Brooklyn. DR.. Munn's church in Boston
has 1867. In Philadelphia, the church
of the late DR.. Chambers has 1900; Dr.
X. II. Allen, ia; Mr.. Miller's, 1874 Mr.
| Bcale's, 96l. In Chicago, DR.. Mitchell
has 12O. In st. Louis, Dr. Niccolls has
S31."
In Prussia, says an exchange, the Of
fetal returns show that among the con-
scripts in 1878 to 1874 there were less than
per cent. illiterate; and there was one
province, that of Luxembourg, where there
was not one who could not read and write.
in the Empire of Germany the average
was 6-1O OF illiterate among recruits for
the army and 2 $40 among those for the
navy. In Switzerland the average is 2
per cent, one canton c'The Little Land
OF Appenzell'0 rot having one iliterate.
In France the average is % per cent for
the army and IA per cent. in the navy, one
department (Haute Bienne) having as
many as 90 GAO per cent. In Belgium the
average is % per cent. in England 20 $40
per cent. In the Austrian Hungarian EN-
pire the difference between certain localities
is very marked. The average for the whole
country is "a per cent; but in Lower
Austria the average is only 30 per cent,
in Bohem ia at 81 80 per cent, In Silesia
80 per cent, in Hungary IS $40 per cent,
and in Dalmatia and Istria 80 2-10 per
cent. Ia Russia there We're 80 ITO per
cent. of illiterates in 1868 and in 1871 the
average was still So $40 per cent