Quarterly Report of the State Sabbath-School Association.
By Editor
OWING to the close proximity of the camp-meeting to the time for holding the quarterly meeting of the State Sabbath-school Association, that meeting was permitted to go over until the next quarter. We however give below the report for the quarter ending Oct. 19, which, we think, will be of interest to every lover of the Sabbath-school. Although this is by far the largest number of schools we have ever had reports from, yet the list might have been swelled considerably larger had all the schools reported. The schools failing to report are as follows: "Red Bluff, Christine, Guenoc, Mendocino, Locust Grove, and Lakeside. We are unable to account for the failure of these schools to report, as blanks were carefully sent to all. Brethren, next quarter let us hear from all. J. E. White, President,
W. J. Bostwick, Secretary. BISHOP HUNTINGTON, of the Central New York Episcopal diocese, advertised for five young clergymen to do home missionary work for board, clothes, and $150 a year. The requirements were thus expressed: "They must be well educated, sound in mind and body, users of no artificial stimulants or narcotics, men of good practical sense; and the possession of these qualifications must be sufficiently certified to." Severe comments having been elicited by this advertisement, the Bishop replies that he neither creates nor approves the conditions, and adds, (speaking of himself in the third person): "His gross sin is that he imagines that out of hundreds who have forsworn the world for the kingdom of Heaven, and who preach sermons and sing hymns about cross-bearers and marching soldiers, and a suffering sainthood, and the glories of self-renunciation, there may possibly be five, who would not count a very abstemious ministry in one of our middle States intolerable, or the offer of it either an affront or a 'joke.' The days of great sacrifices and great honors, young man, are gone by; Christian heroism is out of fashion. After you have recited your Pearson and Hooker, take down your list of good 'parishes,' light your pipe and discuss with your companions the comparative salaries, the social refinements, snug rectories, and other material advantages. If you hear of a bishop who wants the other style of man, laugh at him. Make early arrangements for matrimony and settling down. Resent any expectation that you are to be more sparing of yourself than the children of the world whom you are going to convert; and preach the crucifixion of eighteen centuries ago."