Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-06-19
NUMBER 81.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Louise Michel has started school
in London, where she gives free instruc-
tions to forty poor children.
-Ex-Gov Evans, of Colorado, has
presented the university of Denver
with 100000 for it's further endow-
ment.
After long opposition on the part of
the vestry, the electric light has finally
been introduced into old Trinity church,
New York city.
The shah of Persia recently visited
the residence of the American mission
aries in Teheran, the first time he had
ever honored any foreigners there, and
was delighted with the housekeeping,
and especially with the artesian well
which they sunk.
In 1904 there were thirty-five trans
lations of the Scriptures in existence;
since the formation of the British and
Foreign Bible Society in that year, ten
millions of money have been expended
in the work of circulating the Bible,
and there are now nearly 800 transla-
tions of the Scriptures.
1t pays to do every thing well, be-
cause one thing done well is part do
ing of the next thing that we would not
do otherwise than well. "Play always
as if a master were listening" said
Schumann, himself a musical master,
who knew whereof he advised. If the
| doing of one thing is, in effect, the
preparation for, and part doing of an
other then it were we'll to perform any
part always as if the Master We're list
ening, because, if the Master is ever to
listen, He is, in effect, listening always.
| Sunday School Times.
The life of Christ is the exhaust
less fountain whence the preacher is to
draw his supplies for pulpit and pastoral
work Paul was wise in his determines
ton to "know nothing among you but
Christ" Peter was wise in his oxhor-
tation to grow in the knowledge of
Christ" The preacher who Knows
Christ, in the Scripture meaningof that
word, has an inexhaustible storehouse
from which to draw. If the preaching
is Christo-centric, there will never be q
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Christian Advocate.
1t is to be regretted that theological
controversy so often degenerates into
personal bitterness Says the Christian
Register: "In all such discussion let
there be no poisoned arrows; and it is
well to remember that David, when he
used his sling, did not fill it with mud,
but with smooth stones from the brook,
and he took aim for the giants FORE
head, as if the intellect was the thing
he meant to reach. " 1t is hard for most
of us to combat what seems erroneous
views without dealing a blow now and
then at the man who holds them. But
If we have the spirit of Christ we will
aim to lead our mistaken brother into
the light rather than to abuse him for
being in darkness. ss.-Cumberland Pres
byterian.
Christian Optimism, if you wish to
call it, holds by the inspired assurance
that God is working all things together
for good to those who love him and
who are called according to his pur-
pose. This does not proclaim every
thing to be good for everybody, IRE.
spective of character and conduct, as
though the universe were a huge ma
chine, impersonal and irresponsible and
irresistible, that had somehow got a
twist in happy direction and so went
on grinding out happiness for saint and
profigate alike, with neither thought
nor merit in the operation. But this
conception of Christian Optimism does
see divine order and holy purpose in the
universe, because it sees God as planning,
originating, ordaining, directing, effect
ing all things in fulfillment of His wis
dom and love. Minneapolis Ensign.