Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-06-27
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATlON.,

The London School Board forbid,
girls to wear curl-papers in school,
The religious revivals in Rail-;
more, in connection with the temnsr
ance movement, have closed near on
hundred places where liquor was sold
in that city. u
- The annual income of the Church
OF England is S36,000,000 The cburcb
has 900 religious edifices. includins
thirty cathedrals, 10000 glebe-bonsass
thirty-one Episcopal palaces. and .0oo
600 acres of land, much of it in pooa
condition for tillage.
The Boston schools have savo,
special instructors in music, at a roc,
of nearly 5000 year for salaries
They give from thirty to forty minutes
"A week to the upper classes of tho
grammar schools, less time to the
lower schools, and little to the primarv
schools.
The Sabbath-School lessons for
1878. as decided upon by the Inter.
national Committee will be, for tho
first six months, "Studies about the
Kingdom of JUDAH from Ii. Chron.
icles and Daniel, and for the last half
of the year, " Studies in the Gosnel
according to Luke"
The New England Methodist Con.
ference passed resolutions at its recent
session favOring the introduction of
laymen into the Annual Conferences
In 1872 laymen were admitted to the
General Conference, but the Annual
Conferences are still composed ex-
clusively of ministers. The Southern
Methodist Church gave the lay element
representation not only in its General
Conference, but also in It's Annual Con-
ferences some time before the Law del
egation movement in the Northern
body became successful.
Bishop Jaggar is opposed to chang.
| ing the name of the Protestant Epis.
copal Church to american Catholic"
He said recently: "The effect OF such
property and all trusts would be an in
superable objection to it. The strong
Protestant sentiment Of the Church
is against it, and holds Loyalty to the
present name, as separating the Church
from Rome on one side and non-Epis-
copal bodies on the other 1t is
| Protestant in its maintenance of the
positive principles of the Reformation;
and Episcopal in its adherence to the
ancient, historical and Apostolic or
der"
The City Superintendent Of Prov
idence, r. L., stated, in his recent re-
port, that the sewing department in
the schools of that city was producing
the happiest results. Nearly 600 chill
dren, he reported, were taught every
week to use skillfully their needle, and
the public schools exclusively instruc-
ton in the use of the needle, were, he
said, earning from four to twelve dol
lars week. In private female iRstl-
buttons, needlewOrk, as branch of in
struction, has been quite generally in
troduced, and has come to be looked
upon as an indispensable requisite in
the course of instruction.
No parent or teacher should ever
issue command without the highest
degree of certainty that ii will be
obeyed. TO command a child what,
under the circums tances, he will prob
ably refuse to do, or abstain from
doing, is as false to duty as it would
be for a General voluntarily to engage
in battle where he is exposed to GER
tain defeat. When the moral sense is
weakly, and the propensities strong,
we must begin, in regard to the for
mer, with the lightest possible duties.
Present no temptation to the child that
he has not the strength to overcome.
Let temptation be increased as the
power of resistance is strengthened
". Y. School Journal.