Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1875 — RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. [ARTICLE]

RELIGIOUS A ND EDUCATIONAL.

—Rev. Dr. Storrs, of Brooklyn, has acaccepted a call from the Old Brick Church in New York. * -J The annual expenditure for each scholar attending the Ohio public schools is at present $14.13. —The Protestant missionaries in Mexico are discussing the question of forming an undenominational union. —There are two Normal Schools in the Argentine Republic and the establishment of a third one, for women, in Buenos Ayres, is proposed. —St. John’s Church, Wheeling, W. Va., which was erected in 1868 —being built of stone, with a slate roof, a Johnson organ costing $2,000, two memorial-windows, a stone wall and an iron fence, at a total cost*,of $25,000 —has been sold for debt for the sura of SIO,IOO. —An interesting discussion - in regard to the education of girls has recently been in progress through the columns of the New York Tribune. The prevailing opinion seems to be that many, if not most, of the lamentable failures in the education of girls are the legitimate and inevitable results of paternal, and especially maternal, influence and training. —The venerable Bishop Smith, President of the Protestant Episcopal House of Bishops, has written a letter expressing a hope of an ultimate organic union of the orthodox churches. Among the greatest obstacles at present to such union he recognizes the Episcopal doctrine of the divine right of the Episcopacy, and the Baptist doctrine of adult immersion. —At the late Illinois yearly meeting of Friends an aged Quaker, eighty-seven years bid, living fourteen miles distant, missed but one meeting, riding back and forth the twenty-eight miles in a carriage, sitting the long sessions, and at the close of the last meeting, of five and a half hours’ continuance, declared that he was feeling better than at the opening. —T. S. Hall, of Meriden, Conn., caused f. scene at the Methodist church on a recent Sunday. When the Rev. Mr. Bagnell had finished his sermon, in which he claimed that there is an intermediate state between death and the final disposition of the soul for eternity, Hall arose and asked: “ I want to know if this is Methodist doctrine ; if it is I want to withdraw.” The minister said it was and the two had a warm discussion in the presence of the astonished congregation. — Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup, for the Cure of Consumption, Coughs and Colds. Tha great virtue of this medicine is that it ripens tho matter and throws it out of the system, purifies the blood, and thus effects a cure. Schenck’s Sea Weed Tonic, for the Cure of Dyspepsia, Indigestion, etc. The Tonic produces a healthy action of the stomach, creating an appetite, forming chyle, and curing the most obstinate cases of indigestion. Schenck’s Mandrake Pills, for the Cure of Liver Complaint, etc. These pills are alterative and produce a healthv action on the liver without the least danger, as they are free from calomel, and yJBt more efficacious in restoring a healthy action of the liver. These remedies are a certain cure for Consumption, as the Pulmonic Syrup ripeus the matter and purities the blood. The Mandrake Pills act upon the liver, create a healthy bile, and remove all diseases of the liver, often a cause of Consumption. The Sea Weed Tonic gives tone and strength to the stomach, makes a good digestion, and enables the organs to form good blood; and thus creates a healthy circulation of healthy blood. The combined action of these medicines, as thus explained, will cure every case of Consumption, if taken in time, and the use of the medicines persevered In. Dr. Schenck is professionally at his principal office, corner Sixth and Arch Sts., Philadelphia, every Monday, where all letters for advice must be addressed.