Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-04-22
NUMBER 90.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

Bishop Thoburn reports ninc hum
dred conversions from paganism in the
Mussorie district India. within the last
year.
There are only eight states in the
union in which the school children do
not receive systematic instruction on
the subject of temperance.
"A petition signed by three thousand
women of Greece, asking that public
schools of art and industry be estab-
lished for women, has been presented
to the government.
The practical seminary at Breck'
lum, in Schlcswig, Pastor DR., Jensen,
director, has already prepared forty
| young men for the Lutheran ministry
in the United States.
There are 1000 native students in
colleges and 46. 900 pupils in schools OF
various grades in heather lands. These
schools are all under the care OF mis-.
sionarles and teachers Of the American
| Board.
Methodist city missions in Cliicago
| Missions organized in 1891, fourteen;
children gathered into Sabbath schools
l, 500; number united with the societies,
537; churches erected, ten, increase in
church property, SlOO, 900; missions sus-
taincd forty; aggregate cost per mis-
sion, 1915.
Mgr. Gilbert who is spoken of as
possible successor of Cardinal Man
ming, is much esteemed by the English
clergy He is one of the greatest OF
London preachers. an eloquent pulpit
orator. and his church is crowded.
Moreover, he is an idol of the London
worlSingmen, and, like Manning, q
priest of simple and severe life.
DIR. Julius d. Archer the president
of Roanoke college, Salem, Va, served
as a commissioned officer in the con.
federate army before he was Is. After
the war was ended he earned the mon
ey to take him through Roanoke, from
which he was graduated in 1871. Seven
years a. Yer, when he was only SO, he
was elected president Of his alma mater,
post which he has since filed with
conspicuous ability
OF the many rare Bibles the
''Breecher" edition is perhaps the best
known, but the bishops Bible" is
equally deserving of study by those in
terested in biography. Samuel Hutch
inson of Charleston, Mass, was pos
sessed in 1775 of copy of the issue, SO
called on account of it's being the trans
lation done by eight bishops In the
reign of Queen Elizabeth, and his de-
scendants own it now. Christopher
Barker, Of London, was the printer,
. and the black letter-press, marginal
notes and concordance, all between the
, same covers, give the quaint old volume
a flavor distinctly its own. N Y.
World
Prof. VIM, I. Knapp who has just
been called from his chair of modern
languages at Yale college to fill asimi.
lar position. in the new university at
Chicago, has had remarkable career.
He is about fifty years old, marriedand
childess, Twenty years ago he went
to Spain as a protestant missionary
A., After being mobbed few times he
/, concluded that missionary work was a
!, failure and went TO Madrid. Gen.
Siclles was then minister there. He
gave Knapp work, and the latter work
cd on his own hook. During Cushing's
term as minister Knapp was the head
8 Spanish correspondent of the London
Times. lie was successful. but he pre-
5 ferred to return TO this country. About
[ 1883 he was appointed to his present
) position in Yale. He is one OF the most
, learned men in the country in modern
| lar Cuapes.