Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-06-12
NUMBER 36.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

lily a new law in Ontario, ministers
are now compelled to pay taxes upon
their incomes and also upon their resi-
dences.
The total issues of the American
Bible Society for the year ending March
81 were 1902, ,624 volumes This does
not include publications in foreign
lands.
There are 1880 foreign students at
German universities; 331 of them are
from Russia, 293 from Austria 255 Swiss,
III English and 436 Americans, mostly
from the United States.
According to Dr. w. II. Roberts,
American statistical secretary of the
Presby yterian Alliance, the Presbyterian
and Reformed denominations through
out the world have 20,265,5 500 adhe-
rents.
The British and Foreign Bible So
ciety has been established eighty-seven
years. During its long period of exist
! ence it has issued $4,000, 600 copies of
| Scripture writings, translated into 200
tongues.
Prof. Poulson, of Berlin, is the
most popular of Germany's host of pro-
fessors of philosophy. He is forty-five
years old, tall, rather stout and vigor-
GUS. He is very modest and his lectures
are always crowded
The issues from the Bible house, in
! New York city, during the month of
March, were ITO, 3O7 volumes. The to-
tai issues from the Bible house during
the year ending March 81 notincluding
those issued in foreign lands, were l.
652, 624 volumes.
Trinity church, New York, is to
have three gates of bronze, figuring III
bas-relief the story of Eden. They are
to cost 100000. Splendid doors of mas
sive oak grandly polished are to give
I place for them and they are to serve as
monument-memoria of the late John
Jacob Astor.
The truth that "a Christian who
engages in any lawful business is hon
oring God, that he may be just as
Heavenly minded in trade as in preach
ing the Gospel" is not as generally un.
derstood as it ought to be. We do not
serve God by merely singing and pray
ing and preaching; these things are the
preparations of the SOUL the drill which
gets us ready for the real service in shop
and store and field every day of the
week.-Cumberland Presbyterian.
Ground has been broken for the
new one hundred and twenty-five thou
sand dollar dormitory at Yale univer-
sity, nearly midway between Osborn
Hall and Lawrence Dormitory and
fronting on College street, The build
ing will be 1885 by 40 feet in dimensions,
and four stories high 1t will be con-
structed of rock-faced red Longmeadow
stone similar to that of the Kent labora-
tory. The inside of the walls will be
brick lined, and the interior stairways
will be of buff-colored brick. The
gable roof will have dormer windows.
This dormitory is expected to be the
most imposing at Yale, and will be un-
like any Of the other buildings.
That bone of contention among
modern educationalists, the needfulness
of the dead languages to a college
course, has lately been tossed about by
a gathering of prominent schoolmas-
ters in England. At present not quite
80 per cent. of boys in the higher schools
take Greek, and yet no young man can
enter the university course without
passing Greek examination. The dis
cussion referred to was opened by Rev.
j. L. c. Weldon, head master of Har-
row, who moved resolution that it
would be gain to education If Greelt
was not compulsory subject in the
universities of Oxford and Cambridge;
and this was only defeated by 81 to 30.