Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-12-27
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Congregational Educational
Society is assisting 800 young men
in thirty different colleges, giving each
about 800 a year.
Dartmouth College has taken a
step toward admitting girls as students
by allowing Il young woman to attend
all class recitationS and lectures
and be examined with the male stu
dents, though reciting privately to the
professors.
The Baptists are distributed in
Europe as follows: Northwest Ger
many, PAST members; Prussia, S,4S5;
middle and south Germany, 2,l76;
Holland, 1876; Switzerland. 4lS; Den
mark, 2,006 Poland, 1867; Prussia,
1850; Turkey, l2l; Sweden, about
1900.
"A strong pressure is being brought
to bear to induce the opening of CO.
lumbia College, in New York, to wo-
men. President Barnard is said to be
strongly inclined to entertain the
proposition, but it meets with decided
opposition from other members of the
Faculty and from the Trustees.
Boston ranks among the highest
in the amount Of material furnished
free to pupils. Last year Boston fur
nished books to the cost of SOL 1873,
while the bill for books, stationery,
etc, was Sl04, 252 for $4,000 pupils.
Philadelphia spent 500, 00S in the
same way for $4,000 children; st.
Louis spent ST, 800 for 1900 pupils;
Chicago $500 only for $4,000 scholars;
and Lowell S795 for 5 300 pupils.
The New York Observer considers
the situation OF the American mis-
sionaries in the Turkish Empire as del
icate if not critical 1t makes Il state
ment which if true, is striking: :" DR..
Hamlin cannot speak in Boston, the
Evangelical Alliance cannot meet in
New York, an influential newspaper
cannot print leader without the
knowledge Of these facts being at once
in the hands Of the Eastern powers"
The editors say that this is not vague
conjecture, but that they have in their
hands facts to prove the statement in
regard to the Russian and the Turkish
authorities.
DR.. Cuyler writes to the Collgregd-
hOnaiiSt to propose that no church
building should ever be undertaken
until the whole sum required to com
piete it is subscribed If the building
is to be only partially constructed, let
the sum required for that part be
guaranteed" He also protests that it
Is not to be regarded AS the province
or duty of Christian churches to en-
gineer and tow along quite all the be-
ncyolent and philanthropic enter
prises in the community. Pastors
onght not to be overloaded, nor the
Time thought and money OF the church
demanded for them. There is a terri
he danger that the church militant
will soon become the church mendi-
can't
" IrenHus," in letter to the New
York Obserrer, on entertaining" min
listers at conventions and assemblies,
gives some of the trials of entertainers
on such occasions. One" I've happened
to have as fellow-mcmber n minister
who carried about with him a reed
shout four feet high and three inches
in diameter. The mystery was 10
what use did he put this staff; but it
was soon solved. The stati-bearer was
monstrous chewer of Raleigh's weed,
and he was seen to screw off the top
OF his hollow cane, which he replaced
after dischargng the elixir from his
hallowed lips. TO save carpets, there
fore, "lrenTus" commonds the hollow
cane as one of the modern improve
ments worthy of ecclesiastical approval