Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-09-13
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The American Board of Foreign
Missions Congregational will hold its
slXty-seventh annual meeting at Hart
ford, Conn.,, on Oct. Sc. The Rev.
DIR. w. M. Taylor will preach the
opening sermon.
An interest is being developed in
Europe on the Sunday question. A
conference is to be held at Geneva,
where reports will be made from every
country, and two popular conferences
will be held in France and Germany.
"A Baptist farmer who was short of
money wanted to give something to
the missionary cause. SO he set apart
the proceeds of one hive Of bees. The
busy bees improved the shining hours,
and their owners first remittance is a
ten dollar greenback.
The introduction of more form
into the Congregational churches of
New England is very noticeable.
Nearly all the country congregations
repeat the Lords Prayer in concert.
and one never can tell, these days,
whether to expect the benediction
VI SlltIIiS. 81 says lilt
Springfield Republican.
Bishop Coke protestant Episco-
pal) of Buffalo believes that the prim-
tive Order of Deacons ought to be re-
stored and that there ought to be two
deacons in every parish to look out for
the sick and poor persons, assist the
priest in divine service, and to do other
work of like nature. There ought
also to be, he thinks, deaconesses, or a
corps of pious women set apart for in
structlng the young, and ministering
in various ways to the afflicted. He
does not object to having some secular
occupation connected with these Of
fees.
The writer of a paper in the Vest
ern advocates breathing exercises for
the reading-clasSes in the first grade
of the public schools, and concludes
his very practical reasoning thus: "Is
it difficult to understand that all good
reading must owe the fact that it is
good reading to correct breathing? If
in the first years of training the child
is allowed to breathe naturally, and is
aided by the teacher, not retarded. it is
likely that the middle grades would be
a time of preparation for the higher
grades, and not Of attempting the So
luton of the impossible problem. that
of teaching Il child, who does not
breathe correctly, in reading, and
whose voice has lost its flexibllity, to
read with correctness and naturalness.
In the higher grade, instead of having
to teach vocal mechanism to pupils
who cannot read with expression, there
would remain the pleasant duty of
teaching the technique Of mechanism
to those well versed in its practice"
Prof. Ladd, of Plymouth, n. H.,
in discussing the teaching Of science in
the public schools, says: "Text-books
prepared for children are still too tech
nical, and must not be followed close
ly. The fact of science should be
idealized. AS the ancients taught
their children the forces, sounds and
shapes, in brook, field and forest, by
their personiiications in naiads and
dryads, so by stories of the insects,
birds, plants, animals and stones, told
with scientific truthfulness, we should
attract children to these living forms
and beautiful shapes. Rote teaching
in these elements of science is utterly
defenseless. Every class of facts and
principles should have illustration by
specimen pictures and simple appara-
tus. The living way Of Sauveur in
language should be applied to these
elements Till every sense and power Of
the child has grasped them. The
child should then be introduced TO the
whole range Of sciences in their natu-
raj order, instead of being kept in the
region of abstract truth.