Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-09-22
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
The heart is the source Of all tru,


The heart is the source OF all true
aloquence. -Longinus.
Our prayers and Gods mercy are
like two buckets in we'll. while ono
ascends, the oil or descends. Bishop
Hopkins,
There is nothing so small, bnt that
we may honor God by asking his guio
ance of it, or insult Him by taking il
into our own hands, -Ruskin,
When Benjamin Parsons was dying
he was visited by his friend Paxton
Hood, and in reply TO the question:
Glow are you to-day?" he replied: "My
head is resting very swectly on three
pillows-Infinite Power, Infinite Wis
dom, Infinite Love"
AT recent meeting of the Regents
of the State University at Wheeling,
w. Va, all except three of the vacan-
cies in the faculty were filed. Prof,
Ogden and President Turner are out
permanently. Nopresident was elected,
and Vice-President Reynolds will fill
the place until June. Only three of
the old faculty were reinstated.
Some people are fond of making out
that future state is to be very like
this, only better, and that we are to
have back again what we have lost
here, don't agree to that, We want
something better and different, no,
better and like | consider that for
permanent life we want many new
powers, and | trust the Almighty that
we shall have them-one of them is the
power to be unwearied by possession
and continuance Ingelow.
Albion college, Mich, has had a
very prosperous year, its attendance
having reached 627. 1t graduated six
ty-seven from the several departments
last month, six of these receiving the
masters degree, which is not given in
course but on examination for post
graduate work. Within a year the in
stitution has erected fine gymnasium,
is completing chemical laboratory,
52XSS feet, and four stories in height.
Plans have been drawn for $4,000
library building, which will be COM
menced in September.
According to the census of Burmah,
only recently published, there are g.
SSS, 075 Buddhists, 1GS,4 49 Nat-worship.
ers III ,577 Hindus, 253,031 Mohamme-
dams, 100, 76S Christians, 3,164 sikhs,
35l Jews, 96 Parsis, and 40 whose reli-
gion was not given. The Christian
churches are represented as follows:
Church of England, 9,Sl2; Roman
Catholics, 20,S2S; Baptists, 1918, Pres
byterians, 500; Wesleyans, 10; Metho,
dists, Ais; Lutherans, 234; Unitarians,
s; Armcnians, 1856; Greeks, 10; Chris.
tians, sects not returned, 800.
"A bill of complaint has been filed
in the United States circuit court, Hart
ford, c., by the board of fellows Of
Yale university against State Treasurer
Marvin H. Sanger. in regard to the di
version of Connecticut's share of the
government fund for agricultural pur
poses from Yale university to Storr'
Agricultural college by the genera
Assem- bly,. 1t is claimed that this is If
violation of acts of congress and ar
agreement entered into by Gov. Buck
ingham in 1862, between the state
of Connecticut and Yale.
According to the official statistics
the total number of schools in the
whole German empire is Sc, 5G3, pupils
1926, 6SS, teachers 120,035, of whom IL,
80 are women The figures for Prussi;
are, schools Bate pupils, 1915 76 anC
teachers 20, 761, S,4S4 being women, II
the entire empire the scholars are 1870
per cent. of the population; in Prussij
1854 in Germany outside of Prussi;
there is one teacher to every 81 pupils
in Prussia one to every TO- These teach
ers receive from $3.50 to $500 a year
The annual cost of educating child i
in Prussia s7,l4; throughout the rest o
the empire S6.7S.