The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-10-29
RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.

Nearly fourteen million people are Ia
Sunday-schools, either as scholars or
teachers.
The attendance at the Baptist Mission
tent, Second avenue, New York city,
has been as high as l,469 persons.
Bishop Harris says Mexico is the
hardest missionary field in the world,
and he has visited nearly all the fields,
Mr.. Inskip and his company of evan
gelists, who are TO make a singing and
preaching tour OF the world, are now in
London.
OF The 10000 passengers carried from
New York to Europe during the sum-
mer, nearly 1000 are said to have been
ministers.
A colony OF 1000 German Mennonites
from Southern Russia is to settle in
Delaware, where 5000 acres of land
have been bought for it.
The New Me1ican Christian 4dvoc,ste
is new Methodist pas.. published in
Spanish and English, at Sar Fee, by
the Rev. Thomas Harwood, .pI Iionary.
A society is attached TO Mr.. Spur
geon's London tabernacle to furnish
clothing to needy persons and their fam
lilies. 1t distributed 81 200 worth OF
goods last year.
Under the superintendent of the Rev.
DR.. Fauld, of the United Presbyterian
mission in Toxic, the Gospel of Mark
has been printed in raised type for the
blind Japanese.
The American board has the Oldest
mission among the Maralhas, in West
ern India, beginning at Bombay in 1916.
1t now has twenty-five local churches
and 2,202 communicates.
Our population is now over 48. 900 OOO
Dur church edifices are estimated as
aiiording q seating capacity of %, 600, 900
used on an average lnday by less than
$4,000, ,000.-Neto York Sun.
DR.. Somerville, the English evange-
list, has just closed season of four
months in Italy, during which he held
successful meetings in Rome, Naples,
Palermo, Leghorn and Florence.
The spot where the first stone house
N Boston was built, 2l7 years ago, is
now the site of the Congregational
house. which contains 10000 volumes
and 100000 manuscripts concerning the
history of Congregationalism
The Belknap On. H. Congregational
association has issued an emphatic d.
| claration against divorce, "except for
the single valid Scriptural cause" and
has called upon the ministers and asso.
Citations to take stand on the subject.
Evangelistic meetings are hold at
Marseilles, France, in six halls, with
congregations which are said to number
5000 weekly. A school for evangelists,
for which four scholars have already
been engaged, is to be begun in the fall,
and dispensary is to be opened.
The Rev. Enoch Pond, d. D., of Ban
gor, a Congregational theologian, has
recently passed his eighty-ninth birth
day. He has recently published book
entitled Sketches of the Theological
History of New England" and still
keeps his mind active and Lis pen busy.
The Germany and Switzerland Meth
odist Episcopal conference has just held
its twenty-fitth session, Bishop Merrill
presiding. Letters from there report an
increase in members and collections, ard
general good prospects. Bishop Merrill
preached Oh the Sunday to a congrega-
tion OF about 200 persons.
The Methodist Episcopal church,
South. has church of Mexicans at
Laredo, on tie Rio Grande, with about
seventy-eight members. and Sunday
school of sixty-two Mexican pupils,
forty-two of whom are men and
women, "some aged and grsy-haired.'
The Presbyterians also have Mexican
Sunday-school and congregation at this
place.
The Baptist General Association of
Texas represents l4l churches and over
twenty associations. 1t supplied twenty
mission stations last year, and organ
lied twelve new churches and thirty
four Sunday schools. The Methodists
at Ennis lent the association their
church to meet in, and the association
in turn raised money to have the church
| mt in order after IL afiournpd.
The minutes of the CONGREGATIONAL
general association of the State of Michi-
gan show 2G4 pastors in the State, of
whom seven are installed, 107 not in
stalled, and fifty-two without charge.
There are ~ n6t church members, of
whom {, ,045 are males. Ine.s are 81 ,925
scholars in the Sunday schools. The
value of church editices in thJ State is
1921. .624, and of parsonages S52. 1888.
TraInin.. szoifers.
It is an easy matter to train a heifer to
stand quietly TO be MIXED, says an ex-
change. but it is easier to train them to
lump, kick and run. The way TO teach
them to stand still is to require them al
ways to do SO. If there is naught to
hinder a wild heifer from running, ano
if her fears prompt her to run she car
and will run. If she cannot run, in
| short time Sne loses ner lear anu slanus
from habit; and habit is one OF the most
powerful influences in this world toi
either brute or man. If you want te
transform a wild heifer into we'll
behaved, well-trained COW, you must bs
patient and exhibit no temper. Never
strike her. She must first of all gel
acquainted with you and learn that you
will not hurt her. She must learn moi
to fear you. If, in winter, it is best tc
milk in the stable make as little fuss and
as few alarming motions as possible: !:
handle her very gently. BE careful moi
to pinch tie teats. This is the greai
scource of trouble. A cow naturally
wishes to be rid of her milk. She stand.
quietly until some careless milker has
given a squeeze that hurts, when SHE
kicks and runs. BY allowing such s
course few times the habit will be con
firmed. The best way TO manage, If you
have no stable, is TO have well-fencec
yard, and teach your heifers to stand fol
milking in that, or, next best. to tit
them, using them very quietly. No mar
or boy is fit to handle animals unless he
can control them and control himself
Neither is it riyht TO chastise the igno-
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