The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-27
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Congregational Church at To-
peka. Kas., has adopted plans for new
church, to cost $l8, 900. to be built
without debt.
The Salvation Army Is carrying on
its work at Newark, N. j., and'has en-
rolled seventy converts. A large hall
has been hired for five months.
The Missouri State University has
just finished second course of lectures
on .pedagogics--four OF them having
been delivered by q female professor;
and has published in one volume those
given last season.
1t is proposed in Memphis to in
crease the pay of teachers to fifty dol
lars per month in the first grade, sixty
dollars in the second grade, seventy
dollars in the third grade, and ninety
dollars in the fourth grade.
The Rev. George T. Ladd, Professor
OF Philosophy in Bowdoin College, for
merly a pastor in Milwaukee, is deliver
ing course of twelve lectures on Con-
gregationa)ism to the middle class of
Andover Theological Seminary.
According to the Louisville Chris
tan Observer, Presbyterianism is losing
ground in the South. The ministry is
considerably reduced in numbers, and
since 1873 the Theological Seminaries
report decrease of students every
year. Ea
Carleton College, at Mortified.
MIMI, will Immediately rebuild Willis
Hall, recently burned. A new building
for scientific instruction and practice
will be erected. 1t is hoped that the
foundation for q ladies' hall will be laid
this season.
The Boston School Committee is
about to formally discuss the matter of
corporal punishment in the public
schools, and to consider what means
can be adopted to remedy the existing
evils. A special instructor Of hygiene
for the schools is to be appointed.
=. The leading theological seminaries,
with view to the establishment of
more intimate relations, recently held a
conference in New York at which
twelve seminaries were represented.
As the result of very interesting discus
sions plan for inter-seminary mission
airy organization was adopted, and it
was decided to hold a missionary con-
ventiOn at New Brunswick, N. j., in
October. .....-,
Missionaries in North China say that
an extraordinary interest in their meet
ings is shown by the Chinese women.
one for severa! months walking dis
lance of five miles every Sunday in
order to attend the services. Others
have walked ten miles, and usually re-
main the entire day. with many of
them" says report, "all trust in idols
is gone; few have laid hold of the
great facts of the Gospel
There is no better form to give to q
memorial gift, says the Christian Union,
than the building of a church which
shall stand for generations, not only as
q monument of the person whose
memory it is desired to perpetuate, but
as structure whose use and comfort
are conspicuous and far-reaching. We
notice with pleasure the recent erection
of such q memorial church in New York
at cost of something like $3.50, GOO, the
gift of Christian woman in memory of
her deceased father.
The movement against expensive
funerals is gaining ground steadily.
The St. Louis clergymen of various de-
nominations have adopted resolutions
on the subject in which they "regret
the unnecessary expense to which be-
reaved families are subjected by the
prevailing CUSTOMS" and advise that
only the members of the family and
specially invited guests be present at
the interment. the officiating minister
being not expected to attend the inter-
ment unless it should in peculiar cases
be necessary that he do 50. It is rec
final leave of the remains privately.
Sunday funerals are discouraged, ex-
cept under circumstances which make
them unavoidable.