Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-02-02
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The next meeting of the Ohio State
teachers will be held at Putin Bay, June
p, 1876, and will continue in session
three days.
Kansas sets a beautiful example to
some OF our older States She has ex-
pended So, 1856, 0S5 in school-houses and
has a school fund of over $1,000,00 and
constantly increasing,
The Centennial Commissioners have
appointed Mr.. j. Middleton, of the Meth
odist Episcopal Book Concern, New York,
to take charge of the Sabbath school de-
partment OF the Exhibition
According to the Dispatcb there are
in Richmond, Va, 50 churches, with 90
9JS communicates tan increase of 2,130
during 1870, and 1850 Sunday school
scholars. The Dispdtch estimates that one
person out of every two and a half of the
population of Richmond is member of
some church.
The ladies OF the Baptist mission to
the Chinese in Portland, Ore, report
as the result of the years successful work
the conversion of fourteen Chinese youths,
one Of whom is preparing for the minis
try, an increasing moral and civiliZing in.
tluence over forty other pupils in their
schools, the majority of whom have re-
nounced Idol worship, and strong inn
preston on the Chinese population of the
superiority OF Christian customs.
Some remarkable facts respecting the
spread of Christianity in India have lately
been brought out 10y the census, which
was prepared with great labor and care 10y
the Indian Government Two hundred
and twenty-five thousand Protestant ma
tive Christians are reported, showing that
during the past ten years there has been
an increase of 81 per cent of The Chris
tian population, while the natural increase
of the Hindu population has been but 8
per cent
The eighth annual meeting OF the
NomanS Board of Missions of the Con.
gregational Churches was held in Boston
a short time ago. The report showed the
total receipts for the year 1915 to be Si2,-
GOO. Three branch societies have been
added during the year to the nine already
in existence. The society has now twelve
branches and 500 auXiliaries There are
now tiity-nine missionaries supported by
the society, of whom five We're sent out
during 1915, besides fifty Bible women
and native teachers.
Under the old Constitution of Ala
bama one-tiith Of the revenues of the
state were appropriated to the public.
school fund. But owing to the delay of
the Auditor of the State in issuing his
warrants for the collection of the school
tax until after the adoption of the new
Constlt ution there are only SO, 11343 in
available funds for The support OF the pub
lie schools in that State during the pres
ent year. Unless further means are pro-
vided by the General Assembly most of
the schools Will have to close.
The full title of the proposed new Ma
tional Church OF Mexico is " The Mexican
Branch of the Catholic Church of >ur
Lord Jesus Christ, Militant upon Earth. "
This Is abridged Tor popular use, thus:
Church OF Jesus in Mexico" 1t had by
the last accounts from the Rev. DR.. Riley
nity-scven congregations, nine day
schools, two Christian periodicals. and one
oIphanage. \ commission of seven
American PrOte- tant Episcopal Bishops
has now the general superintendent of
this movement until a Mexican Bishop is
appointed
Catholicism in Minnesota, which, in
the OoyhoOG of its recently -consecrated
Bishop, Ireland, consisted OF few mis-
sl"naries, mlnisterins in log cabins to the
pioneer settlers and the Indians, has
grown 70 u hierarchy of three Bishops.
one mi'red Abbot and an army OF secular
anu religious clergy, amonastery, a Jesuit
and Beneoiciine college, a score of con-
vents, with their schools and charitable
institutions; magnificent church editices
uot.tu al. over the Stale, with parochial
schools attached, and Catholic popula-
ton of 10000