The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-12-22
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


Roy. A. w. Wild. Of Leacham, Vt,
replying to 2 charge Of pulpit plagiar-
ism, said it had long been his habit, as
Of other pastors. to have clippings from
newspapers constantly on hand for free
use. and he didn't propose to abandon
il.
1T is fact worthy of credit that
the United States has as many inst tu-
tions for the instruction of the blind as
either Germany or England. and has
more educational institutions for the
deaf aud dumb than any other country
except Germany.
REV. O. p. Clinton, seventy-three
years old, has travelled as missionary
in Wisconsin, in saddle and buggy,
over 10000 miles, preached over 5000
sermons and officiated at 800 funerals.
Recently he rode sixteen miles in the
saddle over terrible roads on Saturday
to officiate at . funeral, preached twice
the next day and rode twelve miles,
and reached home Monday noon. maxi
ing twenty-five miles, as good as new.
The will of Francis P. Shoals, late
President of the Broadway Savings
Bank, New York, which was filed for
probate few days since, gives $780,
700 for charitable uses, including $780,
600 each to the Home and Foreign Mis-
sions of the Presbyterian Church,
1925, 900 each to the American Bible So.
ciety, American Tract Society and
American Home Missions, $40, 900 each
to the Presbyterian Association for the
relief of Disabled Ministers and Fami.
lies, the Presbyterian Home for Aged
Women, the Board of Education of the
Presbyterian Church, the New York
Presbyterian Hospital, the Presbytery
OF New York for the extension of their
church, the Board of Home Missions
of the Presbyterian Church, and the
American Seamen's Friend Society, and
5000 to the Hampton (va.) Normal
Institute.
Bishop Whipple, who recently Wis.
tied the Indian Mission at White Earth,
says that in taking the offerings every
man, woman and child came up and
deposited the gift in the aims basin.
He wants to know whether, if we had
this custom, rich men would bring dimes
and quarters. Bishop Whipple also
visited Red Lake, where there is a
tlourishing Indian church, while three
years ago there was not a single men,
Der. Five miles farther up the lake
more than half the Indians are Chris
tians, where hardly three years ago
there was not baptized person in the
place. The Indian chief, who is an ex-
emplary Christian and one of the no.
blest specimens of his race, has had
much to do in bringing about this Won
derful change. The journey into the
Indian country, which lasted between
u ride of seventy miles in a lumber
wagon.
MIR. Kimball, the great church.
debt extinguisher, says that there are
three standing calamities of churches.
The first is a fund for the support of
the preaching, SO that the people who
60 to church need not pay. The Sec
ond is the presence of one or two rich
men, on whom everybody leans, and
whose property the church feels at lib
erty to appropriate. The third is a
debt, whether of the mortgaged or
''i'oating'' sort. Comparatively few
churches are endowed with such fund
as Mr.. Kimball mentions. When there
is such an endowment, its operation is
almost uniformly as he states. In q
certain church, whose endowment is so
great that the highest pew-rent was
only four dollars year, the members
became so spiritually lazy that they had
either to go to sleep or to quarrel. Rich
men are more plenty than endowments,
and are bonanzas TO churches which
properly use them and teach them how
to give. For every church which has
either rich men or endowment. there
are twenty poor ones which have moth
ing but a debt. Kimball thinks all the
churches ought to do business on &C.
q. D." basis, and then there would be
no church debts.