The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-22
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

-''Hushr' whispered little girl %
her classmates. who were laughing dur
ing prayer; I'VE should be polite %
God"
There Is not church within fifty
miles of St Lucie, Fla, and hundreds
Of persons in that region never heard
Chicago Times.
The annual Yale catalogue shows
that the college numbers among its
students representatives Of thirty-five
States, four Territories, and eleven
countries.
There are nine churches of the
Mormon faith in Southern Indiana.
They belong to the Joseph Smith or
anti-polygamy wing Of the church
Indianapolis Journal.
From the beginning Of its Foreign
Missionary work, fifty-three years ago.
the American Methodist Episcopal
Church has expended in that cause
1857, 758. 36.-N. Y Examiner.
The agricultural schools of France
are very popular with the farmers.
Nearly every person who has farm Of
his own is anxious to send at least one
of his sons to an agricultural school.
The school trustees of Hoboken, N.
j., have adopted the resolution that
teachers shall not compel scholars to
hold piece of sponge in their mouths
as q means of punishment. This extra
ordinary act was caused by the practice
of one of the teachers who punished in
the novel way of the sponge gag.
The College of the Propaganda, at
Rome. announces that up to November
1, 1885, in the Vicarate of Cochin China,
9 missionaries. native priests, 50 cate
chists, 30 members of religious orders,
and 1900 Christians were massacred.
200 parishes, IL orphan asylums. and
10 converts were destroyed. and 235
churches were burned.
About twenty years ago Judge Mott,
of Albany. declared in a public speech
of its location in the small town OF
Schenectady, yet at that time it had moro
living graduates than any other college
in the United States, and even now the
number-about 3.OOO-is exceeded only
by Harvard and Yale.-N Y. Times.
Says the Adrdnce, on revivals Of
religion: God assures us, by the ex-
perience of his messengers in every age
that the more earnestly the pure and
simple gospel is brought into contact
with the minds and hearts of men, and
the more persistently it is kept there,
the more ground is there for expecting
it to produce the spiritual results for
which it was given"
NO close analogy whatever can be
drawn between methods used in the
public school, and those which may be
practicable in the Sunday-school. In
the latter everything must be simple,
and corporations on the part of the
scholars must be almost entirely volun-
tary, whereas the "must" has not
quite died out of the public school yet.
though it has been in kind of con-
sumption now for many years.-The In
terror.
The radical fault of our public sys-
tenn of education. and indeed of our
whole system, is that the first is based
upon mere book knowledge and ex-
cludes the idea of manual labor, and
that the second sympathizes with it. II
presupposes that every boy is going to
make his living outside Of productive
industry by mental plotting and schem-
ing or by mere mechanical routine be-
hind the desk or counter. The manual
training system will change all this. Its
first result will be to make labor respec-
table. Chicago Tribune.