Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-04-07
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

- TIC lulc iHillipS DTOohS was o
member OF the class of 's5 at Harvard.
William Astor has promised 81, oO0,-
400 to found university for colored
people at Oklahoma.
Nine hundred and eighty millions
of dollars are invested in the 100000
churches in the United States.
-0nc-third of the students abroad, 1t
is said, die prematurely from the effects
of bad habits acquired in college,
When God sees that we are in earn
est but lacking in faith, lie will give us
something to do that will increase it,
Rams Horn.
There is no beautifier of complex
lon, or form, or behavior, like the wish
to scatter JOY and not pain around us
r W. Emerson
Cavalry Baptist church, of Wash
ington, d. c., celebrated New Years
day by collecting subscriptions amount
ing 10 nearly $500
Nothing is more friend to society
than religion; it regulates everything,
puts everything in its place and makes
everything happy. -Rey.
Tho late Thomas G. HodglSins, of
Setauket, L. l., bequeathcd his entire
estate, valued at $500, 900, to the regents
of the Smithsonian institution at Wash
ington
r.. K Parsons has offered $3.50, 900
to the Congregational Theological sem
mary of Chicago on the condition that
sio0, 900 additional be raised by Novem-
Der l next.
"A religious census of Lafayette col
lcge, taken in connection with the day
of prayer for colleges, shows total
church membership of 200 in an under.
graduate body of 9s5.
The recently elected mayor of Cam
bridge, Mass w. A. Bancroft, is known
to college men throughout the country
as Foxy" Bancroft, the great stroke
and coach among Harvard oarsmen.
--Lehigh university proposes to build
laboratory that shall have no equal
in the college world. 1t will be 24O feet
long and sixty feet wide, and will be
four stories high, with basement
The cost will be over 100000.
Mr.. John L. Woods, retired lum-
Der dealer Of Cleveland O., has given
s12O, 900 to the medical college Of the
Western Reserve university. This makes
the amount of money received by the
university in the last two years $780,
600.
old Morris chapel, one of the IA
nous Methodist churches Of Cincinnati
at whose affairs hundreds Of souls have
been saved, is now thcater with a sa'
loon attached. Old Langley avenue
Methodist church, Chicago, is dancing
academy,
A total of $,,9O61, 927 was contrib
utcd during the past year in sums OF
$40, coo and upward 10 the foundation
or support of universities colleges
seminarics, manual training schools
churches, libraries, museums, art col
lections, etc.
The utterances of our Lord may not
be separated from His incarnation; theil
life is in His life; they are illustrated
by all that was accomplished in Hin
upon the earth. II the World is this
seed, His earthly life as the Son of Mar
was the first fruits thereof. None the
less it is true that it is the word which
especially dcsignatcs Him as the di
vincly sent-God in His Word
When in doubt and difficulty go t.
the soul who believes the most 1T i!
not when you are walking with YOU
fcllow-sinncr, and grovclling with hin
in the same road, that you are mos
able and disposed to aid him and lif
him out of his sins. The higher we ar,
above our brothers. sin and shame thu
more inspired and disposed we are t.
help him. 1t is out of chambers where
we have wrestled for their own soul
and prevailed that those have come wh'
have mnistcred with the strongest anc
tcndcrest hands the great bread of life
bishop Brooks.