St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-16
ABSOLllTEIY PURE

Absolute
me-" while the cailllren belong firstly
tui The parents. secondly to the church
and thirdly to the state.
2 Rev. P.Henrisser. OF Bryant, s. D.,
thought poverty was p ,or excuse fur.
she wretched condition Of thssparuchial
Schools. ,sse NJ
Z Rev. J.sW. Kildahl. of Chicago called !
attention to the mistake OF making ths
parochial school q private, instead of a
sciurch. affair. his, church, pays the
.parochial school teacher pdtzof til, gem
eralfund Of the church, AMI thus all the
members, and not the parents alone,
'contribute to the Supports of The school
lie also presented su.ha telling arxu.
insnts in favor of the Sunday school. in
which he said children Gould learn more
than many psopIe reaiizs.
Rev. N. Z. Brun, of Like Mills, To-.
thoughtit bordered upbu nelly to
animals' to send children to th5 pnblic
schools for nine months and then one
or two months to the paroehiai school.
Rev. q. Noel. of Canby, Miull., TOLD
about farmer who refused To paysa
school teacher $40 \ month In the winter
on the ground that he got a man to- do
his chores tor his board.
Mr.. RaaboIle. of Goodbue county, had
been teaching in the same community
for the past forty years. but the parochi-
al schools were on the decline. and he
Thought the churches. as SUCH, ouylt to
take mold oftne lnattersin d aad e.rnesu.
Carl Rongland. of Minneapolis
thought the pay of,gparocnial. scift,ot
teachers Was too small, ant the habit of
requiring the teacher to baard around j
made teaching a very unpleasalt Oecu-.s
patton. He knew marry teachers Who
loved the work, but who were forced to
try TO make living at something else. /
He thought the churches ought to pro-.
cure teachers who can teach both COM
mon and parochial schools, aud then
provide homes for them aud pay them
reasonable wages.
Prof. Brohough,. OF Red Wing, and
two ministers were made advisory
nfsmbt-s just before the close OF the /
session.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Rev. A. Void, of Christine, n. D..
opened the afternoon session by read
lug the 1881 Psalm and leading in
prayer.
Eight new churches ware admitted,
aud the application for aIni.sioa by
the B.thiehsnss church, OF Minneapolis,
was referred to a comm ttee of three to :,
be appointed BY the chair. This church I
had Osen organized Dy parties with
drawing from two churches belonging
to tile Uuited church, ami for this
reason R.v. NJ. f. Gjsrtssn, of Mime
apoits, Rev. 5. Strand AMI Rev. N. E. i
30 thought the United church ougat
to consider the application carefully be-
forss acting upon it.
+ Prof. o. l. ,kensyaard, the principal
ofsthe normal school at Madison, Mimi.
srepuftesl that the atten laucs for the
fall, winter and spring terms was 50, 80
and 81. respectively. The total receipts
for the year were S}.3l0.45. There was
deficit of S037.62. Loxensgaard rec I'M
mellded the erection of a dormitory to
xcc0mmO late seveaty students.
= Kew. N. j. Elle5tad, of Chicago. the
superintendent Of hOne missions. sub
anisted gelaborAte report ON his year
work. He dwelt at length up1a the
work in Chicago. and praised tbs young
people OF the Bethlehem church of that
city for the services they had rendered
the cause of the mission. Prof. Weld.
ner. of the Lutheran Seminary OF Chr. :
'eaxo, was also mentioned on account of (
the influence he had exartei up III sew.
enl young man who had threatened to
leave tue Lutheran church The Eag-
lish Lutheran church for young Scan di-
Eaylans in Chicago was great success 8.
Four more preachers were needed IN
the Pacific. coast. 2s.=
q report OH the condition OF the Aug.-
burg Publishing house. anlrecomnend-
ed the publication ora new Sunday
school hymn book.
The discussion of the parochial school
question was resumed about O'Clock.
Rev. Hoff, of Madison. MIMI, was in
favor OF Educating young people to
teach both common an plcociiai
schools, which would give Them en-
p!oyl:eni some nine or t.nsni5nths
year. and thus enable them to make
living by teaching. He deprecated tbs
habit of everlastingly changing teach
ers. as well as the Jack OF pro sress in
the work of many schools.
E. Holland. Of Lisbon. Ill.,, thought It
was unjust and un-ChristiaA TO compel
only those having children TO contribute
to the parochial schools, and told at
length how successful his church had
been In distributing the Burdens of
parochial schools among all members Of
the church, resulting in a greatly in
creased attendance and the retention of
the same teacher for years.
Rev. }. Ofstedahl, of Grafton. n. D.,
proposed that paper containing reg
uIar Sunday school lessons tie published
by the church. ~. 81 3 -. :
Prof. X. Lokensgaard would. hardly
indOrse the proposition to employ the
same persons for teaching common and
parochial schools, and 1t was the aim Of
the Madison normal school to turn out
such teachers. But he was sorry to say
that the teachers generally met with
scant announcement. The farmers
flock to town to see a fake, circus, blow
ing in many dollars. while It was a
tough enough j1b to squeeze a few
cents out of them for the parochial
school. lie told the speakers to b- care
full. III sizing up the common schools,
for these were blessing 10 gurscoun
try, provided the people make the
proper use of thefRs but Oh the s0ther
hand, If the people neglect them. they
may become curse.
4 O.. $. Drykoren,a very successful
sparuehial school teacher from Hader,
Eo0ahue county. MIMI, said sic was