Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1875 — RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. [ARTICLE]

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

—A single contribution made recently to the support of the Church of England Temperance Society reaches the sum of $5,000. —The only Presbyterian church which received more than 200 accessions during the year 1874 was Dr. Talmage’s Tabernacle in Brooklyn, the number being 238. —The second annual Church Congress in the Protestant Episcopal Church will be held in Music Fund Hall, in Philadelphia, during the second week in November. —The Wesleyaiis have, in the Fiji Islands, 683 chapels, 283 other preaching places, 68 Thissionaries, 893 catechists, 25,620 communicants and 124,304 attendants on public worship. Their missions date from the year 1835. —The Presbyterian papers of this country are still engaged in discussing plans for reducing the representation in their General Assembly. There is a strong disposition shown to retain the principle of the direct representation of the presbyteries. —The passage of the University Education bill in France has led to the formation of a league, in Italy for obtaining freedom of education. The promoters of the league are the members of the Young Men s Catholic Association. At present lay education is under State control. —At the annualj cohyention of tlie Protestant Episcopal Djpcgse of Nebraska, held lately at Omaha, an amendment to the canons of the church -was proposed “ admitting female members to all the rights and privileges enjoyed by male members.’’ Aitor discussion, its further consideration was postponed for one year. —Bishop Cummins, it is understood, will ordain a Missionary Bishop without delay, to take charge of the colored parishes in South Carolina that lately united with the Reformed Episcopal Churcl£~They became dissatisfied with the Protestant Episcopal Church because it delayed the ordination of a Bishop over them, in accordance with their earnest request. . . ii. * ‘ —A judicious method of instruction is thus mentioned in Home and School: “ One plan that I have always found successful is to require different pupils, each in his own language, to explain and illus-, trate matters or doubt, and, if necessary, -,to call upon the listeners to criticise the statements made. By this means not only, are the knotty points made clear, but habits of quick attention and correct judgment are formed.”