The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-04
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
The Baptist theological seminarie.
in the United States have $50 young
men studying for the ministry.
The Rev. Canon Barry, of London,
asks for "a more adequate professional
recognition" of the masters and mis-.
tresses of elementary schools.
One hundred and thirty Indians
were confirmed by Bishop Hare, of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, during the
last year, and seventy-three Indian
adults were baptized.
The Lutheran Observer says that the
principle of benevolence can be en-.
forced only by the power of conscience,
and that the Christians ought to give
away at least one-tenth of their incomes,
The State Superintendent of Public
Instruction in Missouri has just made
his thirteenth annual report, and saws
that there has been a decided improve
ment during the past year, and that
the State has now better schools. bet
ter teachers and a larger attendance
than ever before.
The friends of Fisk University, at
Nashville, Tenn, report that the pres
ent is its most prosperous year. There
are three hundred and thirty-one stu.
dents, of whom ninety-two are from
outside of Tennessee, and represent
thirteen States. Several hundred
former students are employed in teach
ing, and one hundred and fifteen of the
pupils now in attendance spend part
OF each year teaching in the public
schools.
The London Times publishes the
following record from Bishops work
book for 1879, with the remark that
the work described is by no means ex-
ceptionally heavy: "Sermons, 80;
clergy ordained, SO; churches conse-
Grated, 4; churchyards consecrated, 2;
churches opened, %; combinations
held. So; candidates confirmed, 1911;
speeches at public meetings, 46; inter-
views, 474; letters received, 6,744; let
tiers answered with his own hand,
1929"
The Freedmen's Aid Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church received
during the past year, from private so
licitation and public collections,
$75, 26O.76. an increase over the pre-
vious year of $11,857.91. To obtain
and disburse this sum cost $5, 422.O7,
of which the salary of the Correspond
ing Secretary, including travelling ex-
penses in supervising the schools, Of
fee expenses and clerk hire, amounted
to $4,O91.O6. The extire cost of the
society for running expenses was seven
and three-tenths per cent. The sala-
ries of the officers amounted to about
one-nineteenth of the receipts only
little above five per cent.
The Church of the Savior, Moscow,
intended as memorial and a thank-of-
fering for the deliverance of Russia
from the French invasion under Napo-
leon l., is to be consecrated on the next
of the Cars coronation,
August 26. Its construction was be-
gun in 1888. The height of its dome
is 1863 feet six inches. Nearly 1900
tons of iron or other metal were used
in the cupolas and roof. In the gild-
ing about 925 pounds of gold were en-
ployed. The crosses have been cast in
bronze and are freight. Within the
church are several columns of jasper,
each of which cost $4,000. There are
in the dome sixteen windows, each
twenty-six feet high, whose bronze
frames weigh each three tons. The
double doors are also of bronze, each
half weighing about two and one-half
tons. The entire cost of this mag
nificent church has been about $751;
OOO, 900.