The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-03-09
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

An agitation to change the name Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South
is likely to result, it is thought, in choice
Of Episcopal Methodist. chieego Herald.
Father Knox. for fourteen years o.
Roman Catholic priest in New Bruins
wick, was recently received in the Epis-
eopsl fold 1t Sc. LoAis rs assistant rec
tor of st. Johns Chupch.-SG Louis
Globe.
The child is '.father of the man."
and the inverted scriptural text, parents
obey your children, is accepted In Q
spirit of such religious resignation on
the part of many fathers and mothers
that their only privilege in matters of
education is reduced to the one of duly
paying the bills. Boston Herald
The largest Synod in the Presby-
terrain Church is that of Penssylvanis,
which reports this year las ,146 commu-
nicants. New York reports 139.048.
Ohio comes next. with 71,0S9. New
Jer.ey is fourth, with 1880, and ILL.,
nois fifth, with 1880.
Reports from the colleges that h ave
opened their fall terms indicate that the
freshmen are above the average in
physical strength. That is the opinion,
at lesst. of the professor Of athletics at
Harvard. aud he looks for an exception
year In sports.-N Y. Times.
The Russian Government has is
sued decree making the Greek Church
the established religion of the Baltic
provinces. Professionalism will only be
tolerated. Children born of mixed mar
riages are to be trained in the Greek
Church. The decree excites great dis
content among the German settlers.
"A Canadian medical authority has
given the following as being safe periods
of quarantine. which teachers should
exact of pupils, who have suffered at
tacks of the diseases mentioned, before
their return TO school. Scarlet fever,
eleven days; measles, sixteen; epidemic
roseola, sixteen, chickep-pox, eighteen;
smallpox, sixteen; humps, twenty -one;
whooping-cough, twenty-one; diphthe-
ria, ten.
"A boy in q California school re-
marked that the teacher had red hair.
He was whipped to make him retract,
but he insisted that he could not tell
lie, and he had the utmost confidence
in his judgment of color The woman
declared that she would beat him to
death unless he changed the word from
red to auburn. and he abused his con-
s'ience to that extent, but afterward took
the case to the trustees, who sustained
him and dismissed the bright-headed
punisher.-N T. SUM-.
"A preacher at o camp-meeting fer
wildly said, when . proposition was made
to shut the gates on Sunday: Brethren.
there are souls that will be damn'd il
you don't hold over Sunday. They are
almost persuaded by Saturday. Sunday
will bring their convictions to q crisis.
o! brethren. LET us save them! Thou
come ut no other time" The Christ,an
Advocate makes the report, and its editor
adds that by personal investigation he
found out that the urgent speaker
ownedthe refreshment stand.
The Women's Temperance Christian
Union of Boston has been instrumental
in procuring laws in fourteen States for
compulsory education in the effects of
liquor on drinkers. The society now
seems to feel the responsibility of indi-
eating what the lessons ought to be. II
has been decided that, in Massachusetts
st least, children shall be instructed that
alcohol is never desirable as an article of
food; that any considerable indulgence
in it is sure to be correspondingly injuri-
Gus to the body, and that mental and
moral ruin is bound to result from sx-
ceS.-Foston Journal