Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-09-20
EdlIcntiOn0Z---Rezi
There are eight hundred Baptist
Churches in Mississippi.


y Churches in Mississippi.
1t WAS a common saying among Il
Puritans. 'Brown bread and the gospel
: good fare"
= OF the Chinese children in San Fral
cisco, 100 &c to private schools. There al
none in the public schools.
, If you have religion you need not te
people about it; they will find it out afts
trading with you for a little while.
The project has been brcached of
i, World Missionary Convention" to b
held in London in the autumn of 1878.
Plants look up to Heaven from whcnc
all their noUrishment comes. 1t would b
well for mankind to take the hint.
My friends,'' said a Spirit,,list lectu
rer. If We stop giving each other hell W,
shall find very little he'll anywhere else"
fully believe in prcdestination: if MAJ
will drink wliiskcy, and won't work. he i.
predestined to become ragged and go to the
deyil.-Josh Billings.
! | do not hesitate to maintain. that ctluca-
ton must fail. as long as we continue to
think that children are born alike. and may
receive Wit, equal advantage, every kind OF
ciucation.-.Sputzheim.
Ex-Governor Letcher, of Virginia. re-
turning from church fair. was asked by a
friend what he had been doing. Il have been
eating oysters for the Lord at dollar doz-
en- > he replied
Dir. Domey. of Berlin. wrote to the Pan
Presbyterian Council at Edinb;rg: ..Thc
Presbyterian Churches represent the Mus
c,llar system in the great body of Ev;ngcli-
cal Clhistianity-thc principle Of powerful
motive and initiative"
A lawyer and minister. both impec,,-
NOUS. boarded with Il certain widow lady
at South End. Boston. Neither could pay
his board. The lawyer married the lone
woman. and the minister performed the
ceremony, thus siuaring accounts.
In Washington it costs from 81 to S5
to swear on the street When man slips
up Gna piece of orange peel.he is careful to
go into the nearest hotel to relieve his
mind. Any hasty expression of opinion
outside would be followed by an arrest and
fine.
A man should neither be a hermit nor
a bufloon: human nature is not so misera-
bic, as that we should he always melan-
choly: nor so happy. as that we should
be always merry. In 4 word, man should
not live as if there was no God in the
world; nor at the same timc as if there
were no men in it.
When circus bills are posted. they are
examined sharply by church members. to |
see if there is a nlenageric connected with I
t. that will permit their attending for the
benefit of the children.
There is a natural order and progress
sion in the development of the faculties
First the blade. then the car. afterwards
he full corn in the ear" And in the mind |
Is in the grain, the blade may be so treated
hat the full corn may never appear.-Hor'-
zee Mann.
England has spent, since 1870. S4O.-
100, on her Board Schools, or on schools
to our common school. In 1870
here We're accommodations for 1.S7S.5S4
hildren; now there are accommodations
or 3, ,426, 7N. The report on education for
S75-H shows that over 600 schools-most
# them Observation-Disclosures during the
ear transferred to the School Boards.
Ministers should remember that the
Weather is growing very cold, and the
anne congregation which sits delighted
Trough two and One-half hours of a five
ct comedy can't possibly endure more
han twenty-five minutes of sermon and a
prayer. There is limit even
D human endurance.
The son of the editor Of the Chicago
'eflgto- Philosophical Jowmrl (Spiritualist
rgan). has succeeded to his fathers posi-
on as the editor of that periodical In
ie last number he AYERS that his flther has
ecome a celestial correspondent of the
'",mai. and to prove it prints the follow
& letter received by the courtesy Of a me-
ium: My Dear Francis: have not been
Die to meet many beside my own dear
nes yet. / have been called upon by The
lore Parker, John Pierpont, Joshua Gid
ngs and Robert Owen, but above pass
'g salute nothing was said. Was too {
eak to talk with any one''
writing and ciphcring are the c
ndamental arts, which every person can G
arm and ought to be taught in our prima- s
schools. But for forty years past the
hools have been nnglertiny these arts a
ore and more, and substituting in their
ace studies Which properly belong to the t
igh School. Namely, photography, or f
oepy, calligraphy, analysis and theory II
numbers. Instead of learning to read. d
lite and cipher, the child learns to jabber fl
q metaphysics about rhetoric and num- "
rs. What is needed in the common
lools nOwi is reformation so complete :.
1t 1t might almost be deemed a revOlll- k
n. The school authorities need to see
1t logical drill belongs only to the later
Rod OF school life; that the attempt to
ch children in the primary school to un-
'stand the reason of every step III
terribly injurious every way. 1t is I'll
'sping at shadow and losing the sub Sd
nee. 1t is this false method of teaching Sc
ich has made our modern school so in M
cient IT,. practical ends, making a pre- W
ture and Intellectual logical gylnnastic dc
e the place of a familiarity with the pro- h,
ses of arithmetic. -,
shrewd old gentleman once said to his
lghter: "Be sure. my dear, you never yo
rry poor man; but remember that the ~
'rest man in the world is one that has ha
ney and nothing else.'' lea
>~>.- sh
'lccess must be conquered. The man who cu
for place is seldom neglected. He ere
ceases to strive, in order that he NAV the
ioWn and complain that he is sighted, Wi
ROCKED, forgotten, may rest assured :