The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-13
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The venerable Elizabeth Peabody
continues unwearied in the well-doin0
Of planting the seed of the Kindergarten
system in this country.
DIR. William M. Taylor, pastor of
the New York Tabernacle, will sail on
June 2, with most of his family, for
Europe. His congregation have voted
him four months leave of absence, and
also q gift of 81, 500 to meet some of the
expenses of his journey. The Doctor
has suffered somewhat from the inces-
SAINT hard work of the past year.
The Black Hills (Dakota) Educa-
tional Society, which is composed of
energetic gentlemen, it is said, have re-
solved to establish q first-class collie
giate institution in the beautiful valley
Of the Spearfish. A goodly part of the
funds have been raised and the ground
and the lumber secured. Meetings are
being held to arouse public enthusiasm
in the enterprise.
Says the Christian Union of q re-
cent date: 1.-The joke of year ago has
become q reality. Last Sunday Mr..
Beecher preached to quite little audi
ence at Elizabeth, N. j., to another at
Newark and to several smaller ones in
Brooklyn-all at private residences
which were connected with Plymouth
pulpit by a telephone put up, expert
mentally, by Mr.. Alfred Beach, of the
Scientific american. The experiment
was an entire success"
Sarah X. Bolton writes to the New
York Independent: lin Lasell Semi
nary, at Auburndale, near Boston, for
three years cooking has been taught to
the young women by Miss Parloa, and
for two years dressmaking, with no in
reference with the regular work of the
school. Its aim is, besides giving to
girls all the advantages of frst-class
seminary, to make them self-helpful,
and so Independent. Arrangements are
about completed for practice kitchen,
where the young ladies who wish can
practice what they are taught"
The recent dedication of the Vassar
Brothers Laboratory at Vassar College
was an event of more than local impor-
lance. This building, erected at q cost
of 500, 900, and given to the college by
the nephews of its founder, contains,
besides the lecture-room and chemical
and mechanical apparatus common in
all well-equipped colleges, facilities
which will enable a hundred students to
carry on practical experiments in chem
istry, each one adequately provided
with apparatus for her own special use
The importance of such an advance in
the methods of scientific culture can
hardly be Overrated.
Trinity Church, New York, hand
somely pensions its retired ministers
when old age or disease may lay them
aside. The Collegiate Dutch Church
makes provision for its aged clergy,
which, though not so substantial as that
made by Trinity, greatly mitigates the
sorrows of age and the woes of disease.
The Methodist ministers, in their de-
clining years, rely upon fund which is
provided from the profits of the Book
Concern. This. to some extent, also
relieves the widows of ministers. The
Presbyterian Church has Board of Re-
lief, which helps the aged and their
widows. 1t has never become popular
enough among the liberal givers to
afford very large pensions to those for
whose benefit it exists. Among the
other denominations there is not enough
pecuniary help afforded the aged or in
firm to warrant young men in entering
the ministry simply for the sake Of
being supported when old.