Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-09
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
-Thirty-six members of the En-
glish House OF Lords are Roman
Catholics.
The colored Methodists in the
South outnumber the colored Baptists
there being 666, 6S1 of all branches
of the former, to about 5000 of the
latter.
Mr.. Moody has received numerous
letters from young men who have de-
trauded their employers. confessing
their crime and stating that his preach
ing had driven them to make restitu-
ton.
1t is claimed that the population
Of Palestine is now double what it was
ten years ago. The principal migration
Of Jews thither is from Russia.
The last ineligible words spoken
by the late DR.. Muhlenberg were:
"Lower not the flag at half-mast, but
place it at the top as an emblem of my
victory over sin and death.
The Christian Inte1ligencer says
that when a woman enters the pulpit
to preach, the congregation should go
out doors andD leave her to preach
alone.
Three million children are enrolled
in the elementary schools of England,
and the average daily attendance
reaches 100000.
Secretary Northrop, of the Con-
necticut Board of Education, pleads
strongly in his annual report for the
adoption of the metric system for
standards of weights and measures.
A good Scotchman has counted
the promises in the Bible, and finds the
number to be 10000, any one of which
is heritage worth possessing, but all
may be ours.
Archbishop Blanchet, of Oregon,
is the oldest Catholic prelate in the
United States, being now over eighty
years Of age, but still active in ecclesi-
astical duties.
The American Baptist Home Mis-
sionary Society has schools in the
South for preparing freedmen to be
teachers and preachers. They are
in Washington, Richmond, Raleigh,
Columbia, Augusta, New Orleans and
Nashville.
The Women's Christian Temper
ance Union, of Massachusetts, has 1872
auxiliary organizations and 10000
members. There is Vice-President
in every county of the State. The Re-
form Clubs of men in Massachusetts
are 100, and enroll 10000 members.
How many people there are in the
world who are so pressed by business
that they can never find time to keep
the commandments. And how many
who are SO abSent-minded or so eager
to press on to future triumphS that
they forget all about the payment of
their honest debts. Human nature is
sometimes very discouragins. ". Y.
Herald.
A story told by the Congregations
0list shows one effect of Mr.. Moody's
preaching which all will be glad to see
extended in every direction. a lady
went into one of the Boston dry goods
stores and asked to be shown some
English laces. After examining those
before her. she asked, care these
really English lace?' The salesman
was confused, but finally stammered
out, Eyes, ma'am-they were until
Mr.. Moody came
The church Union says; "Two
steamboats, are TO be fastened together.
stern to stern, in San Francisco bay,
for trial of power. We never saw
the thing tried with steamboats,, but
we have seen it tried with churches
many time. They take two churches
of different denominations and place
them stern to stern. in a western vii
lage. Then they whip up. Each
pulls with forty-yoke power. They
fill the whole region with their din,
and the end is, neither goes forward a
peg, They just neutralize each other
--that's ALL. F."