Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-08-09
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Rev. Newman Hall estimates
that the churches of Great Britain have
lost 30, 900 members within three years
by intemperance.
Providence, X. l., has vacation
schools for the children who are una
BILE to leave the city. The discipline
of these schools being somewhat less
strict than at others, and the meth
DDS Of teaching more entertaining,
they have become popular with the
children.
AT conference of delegates from
the various rating authorities of the
metropolis, at London, a petition was
adopted praying Her Majesty to APP
point Il royal commission to inquire
into the subject of elementary educa-
ton in the metropolis. with u view of
alleviating the burdens of the rate
payers.
-Sunday-schools of the American
pattern are making Roadway on the
Continent of Europe. France has now
more than thousand OF them, eighty
four Of these being in Paris. The trav-
cling agent visited los places in Ger
many, and found twenty eight schools,
four of them conducted by clergymen.
but neayly I'LL by tradesmen, workmen,
or farmers. In Schlig the Countess
Goetz is at the head of a school with
twenty-five teachers and 2GO scholars.
"A recent number of lettings from
the SHADE Of the city # Lond0n, a
London missionary journal, says; " In
Bridgewater Gardens several persons
came to sad end At No. , Il man
tried to drown our voice with a brass
instrument. He died suddenly. At
the corner house a man SWore all the
week that if we came to preach there
again on the Sunday he would drench
us with water. He was taken with Il
ut on the saturday. carried to 1t. Bar
tholomew's Hospital. and never came
homie again alive. At No. "A lived an
old man who boosted that he had not
been 10 church or meeting for fifty
years. | opened the door and said :
Mr.. H.. | make no apology for COM
ing to-day, for / was passing, and |
feel that this is the last time | shall
speak to you about your soul. He took
iio libtitt. bbl Sllll WENT Oh iIdtilllltI-
ing the old shoes he was mending.
being cobbler. The following day he
was taken i'll, and the first thing
heard on returning on the Monday
week was that old IL. was dead. >"
The summer vacation brings the
usual educational conventions. How
many school teachers or professional
instructors attend them il is difficult
To say, but for several obvious reasons
the number cannot be large. And we
suppose there is a still smaller repre-
sentation of the average school COM
mitteeman, who above all others
ought To be on hand on such occasions
To have his old notions shaken out of
him. The attendants at these conven-
tionS are chiefly heads of institutions.
professors, educational agitatorS and
retolmerS, who have certain ideas To
urge on certain points. and who hope
to start general discussion upon them
with view To their ultimate adoption
IN practice. OF course, where SO
much is said good deal of it must he
of snail consequence, though. as u
rule, We imagine. the valuable hints
offered outweigh the useless ones. If
these conventions could only be attend
eel by the mass of the school teachers
"a thing not to be expected, unfortu-
uateiy-their usefulness would be I'M
menScly increased. Christie. EL.iyt.