Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-12-05
NUMBER 8.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

--Vassar has 1874 new students regis
tered, an increase of twenty-five over
last year.
The Inequalities Of the Lords house
reach q good deal deeper than mere
matter Of building and pew sitting
Bishop Huntington.
Clark University. at Worcester,
Mass, has announced course on the
history and principles of education
which is to be exceptionally scientific
and philosophical. .1
The amount Of property in Boston
exempted from taxation reaches total
of Sal ,64s, 1858, of which $l4, 700, 800 Ia the
estimated value Of houses of religious
worship and the land upon which these
structures stand.
The surest way to produce moral
blindness is to neglect moral convic-
ton. One who pursues this course will
soon admire his own errors, credit his
own lies, and take pleasure in his own
wickedness. Christian Statesman.
During the six years comprised In
the period 1883 to 1883 no less than $50
pupils of the public schools in Prussia
have committed suicide. A large num-
Der of these suicides was inspired by
the fear of not passing examinations.
"A school girl coming home to report
having won two prizes, says the Cincin-
natl Commercial Gazette, remarked that
one of them was for having the best
memory. Being asked what the other
prize was for, she replied: For the
life of me, can't just now think what
that was for"
Our Sundays should be like hills in
journey, mounting which, now and
then, we got enlarged views and are
lifted to a higher range, on which we
catch the divine sunrise, and whence we
move on afresh, purer and Drawer for the
kiss of the hem Of the garment OF God -
John D. Long.
The growth of the Christian En-
deavor movement is shown by it's rapid
spread into other countries. Australia
| has followed the lead of Great Britain,
| and has established Victorian section
of the Young Peoples Society of Chris
| ton Endeavor, from which encouraging
reports have come The society in New
town, New South Wales, is the Oldest in
the colony, In the Northwest Territory
also societies are being formed, and
Christian Endeavor Union is projected.
Christian At Work.
| Not least in connection with the re-
| Norlro 10 A4 ertx 10 u.
cago University is the creation and en-
dowment of the academy, which is to
have given 1t, besides the admirable
buildings now occupied by the Baptist
Theological Seminary at Morgan Park,
an endowment Of at least 500, 600.
There is now no more definite educa-
tional need in Chicago than Just such a
thoroughly well-equipped academy. The
next thing to it is the splendid acade-
my-department connected with Beloit
College.
4 One OF the most pregnant sentences
that Beecher ever uttered was, do the
best you can where you are, and when
that is accomplished God will open
door to higher sphere" In actual life
this truth is proved to be one of the
natural laws in the spiritual world, and
one of the natural laws in the business
world, and one Of the natural laws in
the world of scholarship as we'll. These
opening doors are always above us, and
the ladder by which we climb to them Is
always the same. Tho rungs are in
dividual duties we'll performed, and
they must be mounted one by one.-
Golden Rule.