The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-07-22
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

st. Louis had in 1879 fifty-three
dourishing kindergartens, with about
1000 pupils, $50 paid teachers, and IS
volunteer assistants. The entire cost
tor the year was little over $40, 600
500 for each pupil.
Mrs. Elvira A. Crabb has taught q
little school in Troy, N. Y, for fifty
years. Though now over eighty and
partially paralyzed, she keeps up her
school. The great-grandchild OF one
OF her pupils is now living, and she has
taught four generations Of the same
family.
The Rev. DR.. Blake, who has been
Tor a third OF a century pastor of the
United Presbyterian Church in Boston,
has just resigned his charge. The only
Boston pastors whose terms of service
in their present pastorates antedate his
are the Rev. Drs. Bartol, Ellis and James
Freeman Cllrke.
There are thirtv-three missionary
societies at work in Africa, and there
are %, 600 converts belonging to Prot
estant churches, with an outside popu-
latiOn of $780, under their influence.
In Central Africa there are already ten
Christian organizations established
with more or less encouraging pros
poets.
DIR. Muhlenberg, the author of the
hymn II Would Not Live Away" left
a boarded heap of gold behind him.
Two gold pieces-forty dollars in all
this was his savings to pay for his
burial! All that he had, all that he re-
ceived, all that he was, he gave to
Christ and his friends while living, and
died leaving not enough to pay the ex-
penses of his funeral.
Mr.. James B. Colgate, of New
York City. has given $685. to Madi-
son University, at Hamilton, Madison
County, N. Y, and a similar amount to
the Colgate Academy, in the same beau
full village. Mr.. Colgate's generous gift
makes up the sum of $500. 900 he has
bestowed upon the University, and in
creases the endowment of that impor-
tant institution to $5O9.OOO.
In 1872 five young Japanese girls
were brought to this country to be edu-
Gated and made inmates of the resi-
dence OF Mr.. Lanman, of Georgetown.
The youngest of them was then only
five or six years old. Two of the girls
have since returned to Japan two 9TH
ers are students at Vassar College, and
the youngest still remains with Mr. and
Mrs. Lanman, and is an excellent stu
dent and superb pianist.
The method of teaching used BY
Prof. Henry Adams in his historical
courses at Harvard has been adopted
by some of the instructors in other de-
partments. and has been particularly
successful in physics and in German.
Under this system each student is
made tc undertake special and exhaust
i've study of some part of the work of
the course, and to lecture to the class
upon that part.
The Rev. DIR. William Butler, who
is colored, is displeased because col
Ored Bishop was not elected by the
Methodist Episcopal Convention. In a
ministers meeting in Philadelphia, in
which returned delegates related their
experiences, he said: ~ am opposed
to a color line, but 1 feel it everywhere.
1t is prejudice, born of two hundred
and fifty years of servitude. When
arrived at Cincinnati there was a COL
Ored man to meet me. When l was
assigned to my seat it was among the
co!ored people, and was appointed to
preach in a colored church. There was
the color line. We hear these old fell
lows say: eve won't elect any Bishop
on the color line,' when they draw one
every day. The color line was forced
on us"