Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1875 — RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. [ARTICLE]

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

L i —The Texas Legislature has fixed the compensation of public school-teachers in that State at ten cents per day for each pupil in actual attendance. —ln the final arrangement for the English Church Congress it is announced that the Bishop of Tennessee is to be one of the speakers at the first meeting. —The revisers of the authorized version of the New Testament have completed their revision to the middle of the nm/h chapter of the first epistle to the Corinthians.

—ln J 820 the receipts the Methodist Missionai’V Society we?? something over three cents a member,- in 1836, less than three cents; i’.u 1840, twerty-fuur cents; in 1850, eighteen .cents; in It9SO, thirty cents; in 1870, fifty-one cents.

—The prize offered some time ago by the Rocky Mountain Presbyterian for the best hymn sent to it upon home missionary work has been awarded to “ A Lady of Virginia,” whose name is not to be made public, although her hymn has been printed in the Presbyterian journals.

—The Rev. Thomas Toller, of Kettering, an English Independent minister, eighty-nine years of age, on Sunday, Sept. 25, resigned his,charge after a service of fifty-five years. His father ministered to the same church for the preceding fortyfive years. Mr. Toller conducted his fare-w-ell services without any assistance.

—The following are the statistics of the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church South: Local preachers, 133; white members, 12,991; colored members, 24; added by baptism, 754; added on profession of faith, 1,390; infants baptized, 361; Sunday-schools, 198; officers and teachers, 1,364; number of scholars, 7,922; volumes in library, 12,518; churches, 145; value, $140,800; parsonages, 13; value, $9,850; value of other church property, $3,845; salary of ministers, $16,482.46; expended for Sunday-schools, sl,208.02; building and repairing churches and parsonages, $5,911.20; foreign missions, $302.29; domestic missions, $388.98; conference claimants, $572.40, and Bishop’s fund, $189.25. —Habits should enter largely into the choice of a teacher. If you wish your boys to become inebriates employ a teacher who uses intoxicating liquors, frequents saloons, etc. If you wish them to eat tobacco, procure a teacher who will use it in their presence. The idea with some is that if he only smokes or chews a little it don’t matter; better obtain one who is a perfectly dirty habituate, then your boys may become disgusted with its use. If you wish your schoolroom a hot-bed of disease procure a teacher who is ignorant of the laws controlling health, who will keep the air vitiated with poisonous vapors and heated to a degree that removes the oxygen of the air. Such a one will most generally be those whose lungs are so compressed with some fashionable appendage as to be unable to manufacture enough heat to sustain the body and extremities during winter. If you wish your girls lea into fashions which dwarf the body get a teacher who is corseted, bustled, with light, high-heeled boots and delicate apparel. If you want the mind dwarfed obtain a teacher whose time is devoted to the reading of novels, fictitious magazines and other nonsense, instead of good, sound literature.— Cor. Western Farm Journal.