Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1875 — RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. [ARTICLE]

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

—The Methodist Episcopal Church has over 140 Christian women engaged daily in spreading Gospel truth in India. The total number of adult baptisms in the different missions in that Empire during last year was about 3,000. —The Cumberland Presbyterian “ Pacific Synod” has agreed upon a basis of union with the Presbyterian “ Synod of the Pacific’’ under,the name of the Presbyterian Church of the United States. The basis prescribes that the doctrine of the united synod shall be in conformity with the confession of faith of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and the government shall be that of the Presbyterian Church. —The New England Journal of Education is tried with the current mispronunciations of words and is moved to ask if ortheopy “ ought not to take its place in a specific daily exercise? Ought not that large body of words currently mispronounced, amounting to some 3,000 or more, to be taken up seriatim and be made a careful study by both teachers and pupils? Why not have pronunciation distinctly and regularly taught?” —Nearly all the New England States are making preparations for a display of their educational work at the Centennial Exhibition. The Worcester County Industrial Institute, of Worcester, Mass., has appropriated $3,000 to defray the expense of its exhibit, and has applied for 5,000 square feet of space. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is also taking measures to secure a thorough exhibit of its various departments, and the Boston Natural History School intends, if possible, to make a complete display of the natural history of New England. » —The Presbyterian reports that the minutes of the General Assembly give Philadelphia the largest Presbyterian church membership in the United States. These are seventy-three congregations and 22,720 New York has thirty-seven Presbyterian churches and 15,514 communicants. The seventy-three churches>of Philadelphia raised hist year $047,746, of which $417,553 wete for the purposes of the congregations themselves, and $230,113 folrbenevolent objects. The thirty-seven churches of New York raised and reported $737,324, of which $362,870 were for the purposes of tlie congregations themselves, and $374,454 for benevolent objects.