Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-01-17
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The official statistics of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church report the in
crease of members for the year at Al
1872, the total being 1922, POI. The
number of churches is 1914, de-
crease of 1873.
A subcommittee of the st. Louis
school Board reports that the kinder
garten experiment in that city is sue
cess. The number of kindergartens
now established is twenty-siX, with aD
average attendance of fifty pupils for
each, or total of 1900 pupils. The
expenditures for carrying on these
twenty-siX kindergartens during the
scholastic year lS76I7 will be about
$500, not including salaries.
Concerning church fairs, the Rev
DR.. Ellinwood says: 1.-The fact that
they have sometimes been abused is
no more an argument for their aban-
donment than is the picking of peck
cts ut a Moody and Sankey meeting
valid objection to reyiyals.' He
finds Scriptural authority for them in
the passage in Exodus, which says:
"All the women that were wise heart
ed did spin with their hands, and
brought that which they had spun,
both of blue and of purple and of scar
let and of fine linen"
AS an illustration of the straits
TO which even capable ministers are
reduced by the eXigencieso of the times,
lions Herald. of Boston. tells the
following almost incredible story:
lone OF the mature members of the
New England Conference, with IA
family, an able preacher. and "A good
pastor, who has filled an average line
of appointments, has thus far this
year received from the station where
he labors the sum of sixty dollars :;
and another, one of the finest, clear
est, most ncisive and philosophical
minds in the Church, will obtain,
when his full salary is paid, the sum
OF $500 for the years work" The
Herald adds. very positively, Aver
age human nature is too weak in these
days TO bear gracefully and sweetly
these severe strains, not SO much upon
faith as upon physical endurance"
In her report before the recent
convention, at Newark, \. j., of the
Women's National Christian Temper
nce Union, the Corresponding Secre-
tary, Miss Frances +, Willard, Of
Chicago. stated that; 1--WE have
twenty-five State auXiliarieS. This,
IN view OF the fact that our organiZa-
ton is but two years old. is very
encouraging record. Local Unions
have pppn formed IN VaupaSsap
Louisiana and Arkansas for the first
time, preparatory TO State Organiza-
tons; and other local Unions have
been multiplied in all save the extreme
southern states and the Territories
of the far West. Since our last
Annual Meeting, fifteen State Conyen-
tons have been held, besides many
District and County Conventions. "
Miss Willard reports encouraging prog
ress of the Temperance cause in
many of the States. Massachusetts,
is pronounced the Banner state of
the Centennial year" She says:
The number of documents scattered
among our auNlharles cannot be accu-
rately stated, but is not less than
twelve or ttteeu thousand. and the cor
reSpondence of the officers by letter
and postal card will not sail short of
the same estimate. To correct mis-
I apprehenSionS, IL should, perhaps. be
+ stated that no officer of the National
Union has received q dollar for
services or travelling expenses during
/ the year.