Missionary's Indian Vision for Bethel Village Gains Etched Hope
A preacher returning to India spoke of ten years in the Deccan shaping a plan for a model Christian village named Bethel the House of God. He praised railway and telegraph networks aiding gospel work, noted books in fourteen or fifteen languages, and urged reforms from sanitation to patriarchal customs. The plan includes a church, manse, sheds, medical schools, wells, and irrigation, with Muslim authorities reportedly favorable.
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Christ
India
Deccan
Seriatim
Christian Vernacular Society
Anmed ‘Bethel
House of God
Hymn Book Alterations Prompt Letter to Correspondent
A reader objects to a Congregational Union hymn collection noting many hymns altered or omitted. He cites three examples, argues for preserving writers’ originals, and questions the criteria for marked alterations versus unmarked text while urging fidelity to authors.
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The
Congregational Union
James Montgomery
John Wesley
Charles Wesley
Poesy
Lora
T. ‘I. Lynch
Dean Alford
D. L
Education Act reforms and Norwich school board results
The Norwich School Board election produced a board with five Churchmen six Nonconformists one Catholic priest and one Secularist led by J. H. Tillett. Separate notes cover Bradford School Board fee cuts discussion and the Privy Council Education Code changes 1874 including standards, grants for singing and teacher conditions.
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Norwich
C. J. Bunting
H. Birkbeck
E. A. Hillyard
The
Norfolk News
Bradford
Hanson
Taylor
Education Cour
Code of Regulations
Education Committee of the Privy Council
The New Education Bills and Universal School Boards
A bill by Dixon Mundella Lubbock Trevelyan and Melly proposes universal school boards and compulsory attendance in England and Wales. It blends with the Elementary Education Acts 1870 1873 1874, sets six month deadlines for board formation, and requires byelaws on school attendance with penalties, subject to Education Department approval.
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Committee of Privy Council On Education
Forster
Duke of Richmond
Lord Landon
Ipswich School Board
Ipswich
England
School Board Chronicle
London
The
Leeds Mercury
Dixon
Mundella
John Lubbock
Trevelyan
Melly
Wales
Education Department
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