Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-04-28
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Mrs, Linden Kent, of Washington,
has given the university of Virginia
100000 to found Shair in English lit
erature
The United Brethren young PEG.
pies societies of Pennsylvania confer
ence have paid $780, 90 this year toward
their mission in Carlisle.
Over two thousand schools In Penn.
sylvania, outside of Philadelphia, are
already supplied by the respective
boards with free text books.
AS covetous men never think they
have gold enough, so Gods children
must and do think they have never
graces enough, Thomas Taylor
According to Mrs. Maud Howe FL.
lott Gen. Booth and the salvation
army are doing work in the slums OF
London which never could be done by
any other methods.
Leland Stanford, jr., university sup.
ports baseball team made up OF men,
bers of the faculty. In game played
against the freshmen, the latter were
easy victors,
Hon. James w. Patterson, ex-United
States senator, who has just resigned
his position of superintendent of public
instruction In New Hampshire, has be.
come professor Of oratory in Dart
mouth.
The Presbytery of Rochester, at a
special meeting held February IA, to
consider revision, after long discus
sion, voted toreturn general negative,
not on the plea Of unconstitutionality,
but because opposed to the whole move
ment as inconsistent
1t Is easy to behold the Christ on
the heights and in great enthusiasms
But our blind eyes must be anointed to
behold the undeveloped godlike posi-
bilities awaiting our loyalty and serv.
ice, in the unclean beggar and in the
abhorred task.-Anon.
When the lock was taken off the
door of the old episcopal church at
Rome, Ga, which has just been pulled
down, it was found to contain silver
dime made in 1850. 1t Is supposed the
dime has been in the lock for many
years, and key was once broken In
the lock on account of the dime CLOSING
its passage.
-Ex-President Harrison, it Is BOW
publicly announced, will delivss q
series of lectures at the Leland Stan
ford University, at Palo Alto, Cal, be-
ginning in October The proposition
was made to him some months ago, but
he did not finally decide to accept until
few days before the expiration of his
term of Office as president.
The natural world is q glory and a
delight. To such us look only at the
lower shelves it is dull, prosy world.
Every rose is an autograph from the
hand of Almighty God. One of the re-
markable things in the world Is the
abundance of beauty. Even homely
things have n certain use. In the
material world there is no such things
as death, only change. / own all the
beauty of the stars Theodore Parker.
"A committee of prominent residents
ut Union Springs, N. Y, including the
Episcopal and Catholic clergymen are
trying an interesting experiment in as
suming the exclusive sale Of liquor
They propose to allow no treating, nc
drunkenness or approach to it, no selling
to minors or to anybody in regard tc
whom proper persons forbid them
They also reserve the right to refuse
liquor to certain persons on q majority
vote of their own number. They will
sell no more than single glass except
on physicians order The entire
profits are to be handed over to the towr
to reduce taxes. %