Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-02-17
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

There are supposed to be about
10000, 900 Christians in the world.
The way to be somebody in Heaven
is, to be willing to be nobody on earth
--i,am's Horn.
The University of Pennsylvania
gets S7Oo, 600 by the will Of Chas. Len-
mig, of Philadelphia.
President Low announces a gift OF
$4,000 to Columbia college, to be di-
vided between biology and history.
Calvary church, New York city,
will maintain trade school for boys.
The first instruction will be the art OF
printing.
The public schools Of Chicago EN-.
ploy $500 teachers, ninety-five per cent
OF whom are women, and between 400
and 500 of them are married
Union Theological seminary New
York, has recently received gifts
amounting to $4,000. d. Willis James
gave 800, 900 of the amount
There is, it is claimed "a human
element in the Bible" However that
may be, and whatever it may mean,
there is none to doubt that there is an
inhuman element in men.
President Harper, of Chicago uni.
vcrsity, proposes to locate the great
Yerkes telescope at Lake Forest, sub
urb of Chicago, provided the trustees OF
Lake Forest university will make that
institution department of Chicago
| university.
bishop Hurst says the ninety-two
acres bought in Washington for site
for the proposed Methodist university
have increased in value until they are
worth 100000. lie reports also that
subscriptions to the $4,000, 900 fund
continue TO come in,
The contest for the position Of pro-
fessor Of modern languages at West
Point military academy a position with
a salary of $4,000 per annum and the
rank of colonel, has ended in favor of
Capt +. L. Wood, of the eighth cavalry,
| the present assistant professor of Span
ish at the academy.
! p. D. Armour will invest nearly
! 5000, 600 in a manual training school
in Chicago which will be as well
equipped as any institution of the kind
| in the world. The Armour institute is
valued at $500 900 and its endowment at
81, 400, 900. The school will be opened
September l, next.
AT a conference just held at Methu-
cR Mass, Rev. Dr. Judson Smith, ono
of the secretaries of the American board,
stated that only a little over one-half
of the slcO. 900 pledged to the board at
Pittsiicld had been paid in, He also
said that there would have been a seri.
Gus deficit last year if there had not
been large increase of legacies.
God has given you infinite faculties
of enjoyment But lie has given
You with these the higher trust of be.
ing manly and of caring for your fell
low man and their miscres and sins.
Oh, don't think it Il vulgar thing to BE-
preacher, or even priest, and q
tine thing TO be an artist If you
do you will not be true artist, but al
arti1icer to please the word. Rev. F.
ID. Maurice.
When death enters a Christian
home and some member of the littlC
circle is taken away, each one feels
that lie wishes to be alone with God
that like the disciple of John he may tel
Jesus Of his sorrow. The fumily, too
naturally come together around th'
family altar--ncur to each other near t,
God: the loved dead seems almost will
'hem again!
The american board has put II,
81 900, 900 rs its goal in annual receipt
for foreign missions 1t hopes to reacl
this mark by constant advances, and n
the missionary impulse grows stronge
in the Congregational churches. Tn
Mcthodists have fixed their high waite
mark at 81 $50, 900 for home and foreig
missions, and they will reach it. Til
Presbyterian church has propose
100000 for its aim. 1t is creeping II
slowly to that point, having contribute
over 100000 last year.-Missionar
Reporter