The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-11
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Baptist Missionary Union has
sceived thus far in the present financial
year $78,358. It needs $3.50, 600 be-
tween now and April l to meet its liza
bilities.
The number of clergy in the Epis-
copal Church of Ireland is decreasing
greatly. At disestablishment there
were 1850; now there are but 1,67O, a
clear loss of 10.
Rev. George D. Boardman, pastor
OF the First Baptist Church of Philadel-
phia, recently delivered an address in
favor of the establishment of parochial
schools by all religious denominations.
Canon Siddons, like his great con-
temporary DR.. Pusey, invites confess
sions and receives them from all kinds
and conditions of men, chiefly from
Oxford students. His penitents are
not asked to 60 through any formula,
as in the Roman Catholic Church. but
merely to state their troubles. The
canon is very sympathetic, helps the
kneeling man as far as he can, intrudes
no rash questions and abstains from
suggestive ones. He gives his advice,
and, if the penitent desires, administers
absolution in words taken from the
order for the visitation of the SICK"
in the Book of Common Prayer.
The Archbishop of Paris in his re-
markedly liberal Lenten pastoral de-
nounces Goddess schools. but does not
insist on exclusively monastic teachers.
1.-The Catholic Church," he. says, ''has
formed teaching orders because of an
advantage to society resulting from
having class of persons devoted to in
struction with the energy and liberty
derived from the religious profession;
but any school the teachers of which are
sincerely imbued with the principles of
the faith and acknowledge religio as
an essential part of education is Chris
tan school, and there can be no jeal-
ousy between two Christian schools"
The American New Testament re-
visers represent seven denominations,
as follows: DIR. T. d. Woolsey (Congre-
gationaD, New Haven (Chairman);
Prof. j. H. Thayer Congregational,
Andover, Mass. Prof. Ezra Abbott
(Unitarian), Cambridge. Mass; DR.. J.
K. Burr (Methodist), New Jersey; DR..
Thomas Chase (Friend), Pennsylvania;
DIR. Howard Crosby (Presbyterian).
New York; Prof. Timothy Dwight
(CongregationaD, New Haven; DIR. A.
c. Kendrick (Baptist). Rochester, N.
Y; Bishop Lee EpiscopaD, Delaware;
DIR. NJ. B. Riddle NpiscopaD, Hart
ford; DR.. P. Schaff (Presbyterian), New
York; DR.. Charles Short (EpiscopaD,
New York; DR.. E. A. Washburn (Epis-
copaD, New York.
In these days, when every effort is
made to arouse a feverish emulation in
school children, and when public
school teachers find the surest way to
keep their places is in making
their pupils yield high averages,
the conduct of the Lowell Mass
School Committee is refreshing. A
Mr.. Carney left bequest for
medals to be bestowed on high
school graduates, and these have been
given for some years past. The result
has been over-exertion and jealousy
on the part of the scholars, and the
necessity of disagreeable discrimina-
ton on that of the teachers. The COM
mittee has, therefore, abolished the
medals. There will always be lazy
scholars, and medals will rarely stimu-
late them to honest industry. There
are many more whose zeal needs abat-
ing, unless parrot-like tluency is pre-
ferred to health of body and mind.
The Lowell committee has acted sensi-
bly.-Cinci7a7aati Gazette.