Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-11-11
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The York Lutheran says there are
not far from $500 church members con-
ncctcd with nine Lutheran congrega-
tions of York, Pa, , and its suburbs,
They number more Communicates than
do each of ten synods belonging to the
General Synod.
/ "A new missionary society, called
the Army and Navy Missionary Union,
has been formed in England on
strictly undenominational basis, It's
object is chiefly to encourage mission
ary interest and enterprise among the
officers and men Of the two services.
The pope has ordered researches to
be made in all the documents bearing
upon the relations concerning the re-
union of the eastern and western
churches. lie is preparing an import
ant document which win announce to
the world the initiative programme for
this reconciliation! .t }.
The American Bible society is talk
ing advantage of modern science to en-
ter new fields of usefulness. Photo-en-
gravcd plates for the printing of the
Scriptures in Zulu and the languages of
the Gilbert islands are being made,
This makes Ave, e,foreign languages that
the society will be printing this year.
Missionary Review HGE
Mrs. John A, Logan has undertaken
on behalf OF the Methodist university
at Washington, d. c., to raise from the
women of this couutrySiD00, 600 as
fund for the benefit OF women students
The whole fund for building and endow-
ment will bc-slO 900, 900. Mrs. Logan's
plan is to organize the women into
state, congressional, district and local
leagues.
The seventy-sixth annual report of
the American Bible society shows that
the cash receipts Of the society for gen.
eral purposes are $3.50, 527, and the total
cash disbursements for general pur-
poses, s593, $685. From legaces the ag-
gregatc amount received was sl27,o33
The issues for the year at home and in E
foreign lands are 1,295, 1875 copies of tho
Scriptures.
s--of the last class at Wellesley eleven
return to Wellesley or go to other col
leges to pursue special studies. These
will take up the study of social prob
lens in connection with college settle
ments in cities. Three go to foreign
mission fields, two win enter journal
ism, one medicine and one phianthro-
py. Three go to Europe forstudy, eight
will teach, and one goes west to take
charge of ranch. & EsG
Prof. Charles w. Scribner, of Cor
nell university, has accepted the chair
of mechanical engineering at the uni
vcrsity Of Illinois. Prof. Scribncr grad
uated from Princeton college in 1886
and from Stevens Institute of Technol-
ogy in 1882, and for several years was
engaged in practical engineering work
and in studying the methods of instruc-
ton in the best mechanical schools in
this country and Europe.
The Southern Cross says that the
Methodist churches of various names
all over Australia are conferring with
a view to union. In Sidney the repre-
scntatives of the various bodies have
concluded a two~days' conference, in
which it was resolved, by practically
unanimous votes, that union was de-
sirable and that in doctrine and ritual
the various Methodist churches are
practically identical The name of the
united church is TO be "The. Methodist
Church Of Australia. " HFs8