Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-03-07
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

hLLlUlOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
Brooklyn has dismissed $4,000
worth of music-teachers.
The Alabama House of Repre-
sentatives has adopted an amendment
TO the School bill approprlating $780,
900 per annum for the schools from the
treasury in addition to the trust funds.
Six universities in Germany have
more than one thousand students each.
Leipzig and Berlin take the lead, hay
ing respectively 2,730 and 1,977. In
the twenty-one universities Of the
country there are now II, 143 students
and 1927 teachers.
The Unitarians have arranged a
series of Sunday-School lessons for
their schools. 1t is divided into three
MISUNDERSTANDING, junior and
senior. The course of study includes
general church history. The last year
of the senior department will be de-
voted to Religion as Affected by
Modern Science"
The Moravian Provincial Elders
Conference makes an appeal to the
churches under it's care to contribute
literally to the support of the retired
ministers and ministers widows. The
circular says that never was assistance
more necessary for this purpose than
now, the income of the sustentation
fund having been cut down several
thousand dollars by the hard times.
"A Teachers Parlor" has been
opened in the new building of the Bap-
fist Publication Society, which stands
on Chestnut street, Philadelphia. 1t
is handsomely carpeted, and furnished
with chairs, tables, books and maps,
and Is free to all persons. The begin
nings of a complete library are also to
be found there. On Tuesday evening
of each week the Sunday-School lesson
for the succeeding Sunday is taught.
The venerable DR.. Lovick Pierce,
now in his ninety-third year, is writ
ing a series of "reminiscences of the
century. He is the oldest Methodist
minister living on this continent, and
probably the oldest of any denomina-
ton mere. He points to the great diff
ference that exists between Method
ism at the beginning of this century
and now, and concludes that either
primitive Methodists We're more relig-
lous than was needful, or else modern
Methodists are less so.
The British SANITARY Record OBJ
jects to the long hours of school study,
the numerous SUBJECTS taught and the
slight attention given to the laws of
physiology and hygiene in the physi-
cal training of pupils. 1t advises
more careful attention to the relations
existing between a pupils physical
Well-belng and his mental activity, and
says; There is serious danger of per-
manently injuring the health of pu-
pills unnaturally crammed, and closer
examination of the physical condition
of pupil should be far oftener taken
as guide to the amount of time to be
spent in study than is now done.
The committee appointed by the
Presbyterian General Assembly of
1876 to mature plan OF representa-
ton, have published their report. The
committee assume that synodical rep
resentation has been rejected. They
express the opinion also that large
Assembly Is not necessarily an evil.
The Free Church of Scotland had GAG
Commissioners in its last Assembly the
Established Church about 700. The
following suggestions are therefore
made: l. To increase the number nee
essary to constitute Presbytery from
five TO ten. 2. To require of each
Presbytery to pay the expenses of it's
own commissioners. or to arrange the
fund on basis which viii pay
one-half the expenses of the contribut-
ing Preshyteries. 8. To increase the
fund, and pay from it part
OF the expense of entertaining tie AS
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