Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-04-12
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati,
who is now seventy-six years old, will
next May celebrate the jubilee of his ad-
mission to the priesthood.
DR. Cumming, the distinguished Mil
lenarian divine Of London, has discovered
that before September, 1876 the sure word
of prophecy will be fulfilled the Eu.
pirates will dry up, the Jews will go back
to Zion, and the heavens and earth will be
removed
The annual missionary report of the
Methodist Episcopal Church for 1875
shows the following facts Foreign mis-
sionaries and assistants, 600; native
preachers, 2Sl; missionaries and assist
ants in the Territories of the United
States, 10; missionaries to foreign popu.
lations in the United States, 297; domestic
missionaries, 2,37S The number of mem
bers in foreign countries is Is 775; proba-
TONERS, S,2S2
We see good deal in the papers
against the endowment 10y the State of in.
stitutions OF high grade, of which we do
not believe a word. High schools, nor.
nal schools for the training OF teachers.
professional schools for the education of
lawyers and physicians. institutions for
| special Instructions in the higher depart.
menls of science, universities where all
kinds OF liberal culture may be acquired
are eminently for the public good If
| private munlticenCe does not provide them,
the State should. The better the common
schools are the more demand there is for
the university and the professional school
| What the State contributes in this way is
more tuan repaid To- it by the better service
rendered its cultured men, Northeastern
| Christian 4dcocate
Iennessce, which not long ago stood
| second among the States in the grade of
| illteracy, now holds the sixth place. The
| ST. Louis Journal II Education, calling
attention tn the fact, says: - 1t shows
that great work has been done in the
State; that the people are becoming more
and more concerned in the progress of
education; and that the schools have
large number of earnest, capable and de-
voted instructors, and corps OF efficient
and wide-awakc County Superintendent,
! commanded ny live State Superintond.
ent Many of the popular heresies and
! preiu1iCes about public schools have been
| efadicated; and rs the people see the ad-
vantages and benefits ot the new schoas-
! tic regime, the more willing do they be.
/ come Ia contribute To It's maintenance
/ The schools are no longer confined to
J towns and wealthy neighhorhoods.
AS regards the growth OF sects. It is
| stated that a century ago the more i'm.
portant religious bodies tested by the
! number of churchesl were ranked in the
/ following order Congregational, Bap-
list Church of England, Presbyterian,
/ Lutheran, German Reformed, Dutch Re
! formed and Roman Catholic. BY the
census of 1850 they stood: Methodist,
Baptist, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic,
/ Christian, Lutheran, Congre gstional and
/ Protestant Episcopal, The growth of re.
/ ligiouS organizations has outstripped the
/ growth of population, Al the beginning
! ot the Revolution there was less than
1850, with population Of $500 eco,
| showing a church for every !, 200 souls
There are now more than - 600. which,
with a population of Is 900 900, would
show a church Tor every 193. In other
words, while the population has multiplied
. eleven fold, The churches haye multiplied
nearly thirty seven fold --PapEiu &'lsgcs
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