Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-06-24
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

"A school of buddhism has been
founded in Paris, and its limited accom-.
modations are already overrun with pu-
pills.
In Iceland the Protestant religion
is the national one, for there is not
single Roman Catholic place of worship
on the island.
If we know God and believe in Him
we shall be filled with all JOY and peace
in believing, for He is the God of hope.
james Freeman Clark.
Psi Upsilon, the old and widely dis
tributed college fraternity, has had upon
its rolls the names of several men who
have been United States cabinet minis
ters, United States senators, large
number of Congressman, Is bishops, %
college presidents, $40 clergymen. Z
chief justices, and more than 500 law
yers.
The pope is said to have arranged
for monumental church on Mount
Janicolo, with u dome like st. Peters,
having around it edifices for all the
Roman Catholic universities of the
world. 1t is to be colossal interna-
tional building, to cost twenty million
dollars, the money to be collected from
everywhere.
Faith belongs to that original spot
of our being where it adhcrcs in God
and draws on divine resources Out
from that spot our powers divide, radi-
ating into separate giftswill, memory,
feeling, reason, Imagination, affection;
but all of them are varying expressions
of that essential sonship which is their
basc.-Canon Holland, in LUX Mundi" "
The scholastic garb known as the
"mortarboard and gown" is growing in
the favor of the students of American
colleges. Among the Yalensians it will
soon become a familiar spectacle The
| academic seniors are to wear it in chapel
and in the public meetings of the class.
The students of the Law school and the
Medical school boys voted that they will
not yet adopt it.
Rev. Geo. Greenfcll, of the Baptist
Congo Mission, says that in Central
Africa there is an area of 1000 square
miles larger than the whole of Europe
unoccupied by single missionary; that
the center of Africa can not permanent
ly be evangelical by white men, but
| the greater part of the work must be
done by the natives themselves, and the
natives are showing their fitness for the
task. ILLUSTRATED Christian Weekly.
Heaven will not be pure stagnation,
not idleness, not any mere luxurious
dreaming over the spiritual repose, that
has been safely and forever won; but
active, tireless, earnest work; fresh,
live enthusiasm for the high labors
which eternity will offer. These vivid
inspirations will play through our deep
rcposc and make it more mighty in the
service of God than any feverish and
unsatisfied toll of earth has ever been.
The sea of glass will be mingled with
fire.-Phillips Brooks.
The biggest university in the world
is at Cairo, Egypt-a country which is
not mentioned at all in the statistics
and it has 1000 students. They come
from every part of the Mohammcdar
world, and they study Mussulman law
history, theology and other branches
needed to confirm them in the faith o.
Mohammed, They sit on the floorof ar
enormous court and study aloud, and the
Western visitor who calls on them dur
ing study hours thinks that he ha.
struck the original site of the Tower o
Babel, and that the confused of tongue
haven't stopped talking yet.-N. Y
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