Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-12-22
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

--Lehigh university is to have the most
extensive laboratory ever fittel ont. II
will cost about $780, 600
New writings of Mohammed, which
may possibly revolutionize the religion
of the Orient have been discovered.
Twelve hours per week is all that
Is required at Harvard. Students are
discouraged by the faculty from taking
more.
The faculty of the medical depart
ment of Western Reserve university,
Cleveland, O., has extended the school
year of that department to term OF
eight months
"A new home for the training in
speech of deaf children has been for.
mally opened in Philadelphia. There
were addresses by the governor and
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of tho state, and
| others,
The Presbyterian church north has
stations in Colombia, Brazil and Chilli
The NJ. f. church has prosperous mis-
sion in the Argentine Republic, which
has extended into Uruguay, Paraguay,
Peru and Brazil.
The expenditures for missions by
the Protestant Episcopal church in the
United States the past year were: Do
nestle missions $126 54O0l; Indian
missions, s44,27Z62; colored missions,
s52, 741.7l; foreign missions, s172, 500. 10;
total, 1896, 455. SO.
"A new Methodist church for Fer
nando Pc is being constructed in Lon.
don. The church now in use on the
island has been used by the mission for
twenty years, and has been so injured
and worn that it is not considered quite
safe during such cyclones as happens
in that part of the world
The Woman's Board of Missions OF
the Interior recently held its twenty
fifth annual meeting at Rockford, His
From the report of the treasury it was
learned that S25, 900 or over one-third OF
the entire receipts of the year had beer
contributed from Illinois alone. The
movement covers thirteen states. Mrs
Moses Smith, of Glencoe, H., was
elected president for the coming year.
The American Presbyterian board
OF education reports as receipts for DC
tober: donations, s43, 1892; legacies
50, 562. rs; total, $50, 75067; as against
S45, S14 59;S14, 241 90 and $50, 056. 81 for DC
tober, 1892; loss of 81, 3O5. 81. The two
months, however, show a gain of S.,
$50. SO, the total being $50, $3.50 for this
year against S75, Solar. The legacie'
were equal, about $4,000, the gain be
ing entirely in donations.
Chicago university is likely to ge'
another million dollars between now
and next July, About a year ago Mr.
Martin A. Ryerson, who had previously
given splendidly to the university, of
fered 100000 on condition that $500,
900 more be secured by July l, 1892; HI
afterward extended the time to July l
1894. Mr.. John d. Rockefeller nov
promises $500, 900 providedathe terms o
Mr.. Ryerson's pledge are complied with
This will make Mr.. Rockefeller's entir
gifts to the university amount to SO,
$4,000
The church is greatly dependen
upon her rising ministry for her futur
peace and prosperity. She will b
nodded and affected by the piety, tn
the soundness of faith, the ability an,
spirituality of the preaching of TIL
young ministers who are yearly sen
out to man her pulpits and to fill pc
sitions of influence in her communion
Let prayer, frequent and constant, as
cend in the congregation and aroun
the family altar, that our seminarie
may be baptiscd with the Holy Ghost
that the instructors may be spiritua
and evangelical, as well as intellectua
and scholarly. The Presbyterian.