Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-12-23
,u,sLlelous AND EDUCATIONAL.


The University of Chicago has
adopted grange as the university color.
1t doesn't help us to grow in grace
to sit down and pick other people to
pieces Rams Horn.
Rev. John Wilcox, of Rockford, ILL.,,
has been notified of the death of "a
brother in New Zealand, who left him
q fortune of 10000
The will of William NJ. Runk. pro-
bated in Philadelphia recently, con-
tanned bequest of $1,000 to the Epis-
copal Hospital for the, endowment Of a.
bed and 81 900 to the Protestant Episco.
pal City Mission.
Rev. GeorgelF, Pentecost, formerly
a Brooklyn clergyman, and more re.
Gently an evangelist in this country and
in India, has accepted call to become
pastor of the Marylebone Presbyterian
church in London. E
j. VI N. Standish, the new presi-
dent of Lombard university, Galesburg,
H., claims descent from the famous
Puritan captain of that name who
came over in the Mayflower. He is a
native of Vermont and has been. pro-
fessor. of mathematics at Galesburg
since 1854,
During the last quarter, to Septem-
| Der /, 1892, ia colporteurs of the Aineri-
can Tract society labored in thirty
three states and Canada. Theircombined
time equaled 1sS months of labor.
They circulated by sale and grant a.
| 500 volumes of Christian literature; ad-
dressed l,0S5 meetings.
"A Vigorous demand is said to exist
forithe teaching. of Italian in gthe New
York schools, the claim being made
that doctors, lawyers, merchants, sales
men, as we'll as manufacturers and me-
,chanical superintendents, need to know
the language Its introduction is urged
this year because Italian was the
tongue of Columbus,
se-According to recent census Chris
stianity. is the third creed in India in
| point of numbers. And DR.. George L.
| Pentecost, who has been engaged in
missionary work in that country, gives
q hopeful account of the steady growth
of Christianity in India. He reports a
Brahmin as saying that Christianity is
not SO much converting individual Hin
docs, as Christianizing c Hinduism.
Il have said the guide is intellect,
the goal is righteousness, but how are
we to move? What is to make us goi
1t is emotion, passion, feeling, it is love
it is worship and aspiration. These
are TO be cultivated in the young if we
are to live out our lives. This it is the
difficult thing to teach to children. The
other things are easy; but to get then
to care supremely, this is the hard thing
| -Rev. NJ. }. Savage
| --Modesty is a virtue confined to ne
race or country When, Bishop New
man was presiding over the japanese
Methodist conference there was a lool
of dissatisfaction on several faces wher
the list of appointments was read. Tht
bishop said, Perhaps you could do thi
work better than / have done it. l.
any one thinks so, let him rise" In
stantly four young preachers rose.
The soul has duty to itself and {
duty to others. human being is com
PEELED to educate itself. 1t is Obliged
and bound by most imperative dut.
to develop itself to the utmost of, it
natural resources, and make the mos
of what God has designed and mad
possible for it. But its duty does no
rest here. 1t has another duty to it
fellow beings, and one must help hi
c brothers, So mankind has the doubl
E duty of self-culture and self-sacrifce.-
, | Bishop Brooks.