Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1889 — FROM ACROSS THE SEA. [ARTICLE]

FROM ACROSS THE SEA.

There has been a recent rise in price averaging about 12 per cent.on the principal building materials in England. Upon the menu of the Lord Mayor’s dinner, at which the Premier always speaks there was printed “After Salisbury, dancing.” The salary of ihe English Attorney General is £7,(KO, with £5,000 perquisites. The Solicitor General’s stipend is £6,000 and £3,000 perquisites. The new Italian penal code provides that such an assertion as that the Pope has a right to Rome as his seat of government is punishable as a crime. ——— The French have a custom of visiting the graveyards wherein their relatives are buried on the Ist of November. Last year there were 270,000 visitors there and this year there were 190.000 in the face of a most terrific downfall or rain. It has hitherto been thought that Buenos Ayres was One of the most expensive cities to live in, a medium sized house renting there for $2,500 a year. It is learned, though, that an eight-room house in the outskirts of Sydney brings $2,750 a year. The result of a meeting of 400 teachers, in Eisleben, in Saxony, for the purpose of discussing the use of the Bible in schools, may be summed up thus: Arguments against the use in schools of the whole Bible or the introduction of a school Bible: (a) The Bible contains more matter than can be gone through at school; (b) it contains much; that is not fit for children, because (1) they cannot understand it, (2) it is without educational value for Children, and (3) it stands in the way of their moral and religious development; (e; the Holy Scriptures were not intended as a school book; (d) the use of the Bible as a school jbook detracts from the veneration in which it should be held by children and by the people. Arguments against a special school Bible: (a) In order to impart as muclTßiblical knowledge as possible, the unrestricted use of the Bible is necessary; (b) a familiar knowledge of the Scriptures, can only be obtained by their constant use; (c) to banish the Bible from the schools would diminish its value in the eyes of the pupils; (d) extracts from the Bible would be the work of man, whereas tho Bible is God’s work, (e)'the introduction of a special school Bible would have many practical difficulties; (f) it would lead to schism and foster distrust of the school and the Church. . “ A sold watch taken from Thomas Allerton, of Plainfield, N. J-, ’ over twenty years ago, was returned to him last week with his name and the date of the theft engraved dn the inside of the back case.