Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-10-26
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

lin Liverpool recently $50 temper
ance sermons were preached on what
was observed as Temperance Sun.
day
The damage done to the Methodist
Episcopal mission property in Toxic,
Japan, by the recent earthquake is es1
timated at about $4,000.
The Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of the United States has 81, $50
members according to the latest
statistics.
Archbishop Villatte, the head of
the new Polish Catholic church, is
about forty years of age, and was for
time a clergyman of the Episcopal
church.
The latest statistics show that in
Brooklyn there are 95 young peoples
societies, with membership of about
10000, and 40 junior societies, number
ing about 1, 700 members.
From this time on the North At
rican society will train its missiona-
ries in book or literary Arabic before
they leave England. A school for this
purpose will be established.
--Dampness has made the Corinthian
capitals of the church of the Madeleine
in Paris crumble, and recently pieces
of stone have fallen, endangering the
passers by. The capitals are to be re-
moved and new ones put in their place.
Boston university established a
professorship for the comparative study
of religions as long ago as in 1878, and
now President Warren is asking for
500, 900 with which to found an ''Amer-
lean Museum of all Religions" similar
to the Guimet Institution in Paris.
The Society of Mutual Helpers, of
Boston, distributed last year $4,000
bouquets in the tenement house dis
tricts of that city, to the sick and aged.
The friends in the country gather the
flowers and send them to the city,
where they are distributed. Sixty
towns are interested in this work.
Argentine republic has made rapid
strides in education during the last
thirty years. Her system of public
schools is modelled on that of the
United States. There are 3,056 schools,
or one for every 1000 inhabitants Be-
sides normal and agricultural schools
there are 20 national colleges and 2
universities.
The Cumberland Presbyterian
church, which is represented in IL
states, generally those of the South
and Southwest, reports 1s4,13s com.
municants. OF these 1910 are found
in Tennessee and the next larger mum
be7,S2s, 1854 in Texas. Missouri comes
third with 27,579 and Kentucky fourth,
with 16,467. The total of contributions
raised last year was $676,465. The ad'
ditions to membership were 1888
The number of congregations is 1851
of ministers 1,70s and of Presbyteries
1876 Besides the ministers there are
296 licentiates and $50 candidates. N
Y Independent
oh, it is hard to take to heart the
lesson that such deaths will teach; but
let no man reject it, for it is one that
all must learn, and is mighty uni
versal truth. When death strikes dowr
the innocent and young, for every fra
gile form from which he lets the pant
ing spirit free a hundred virtues rise
in shapes Of Mercy, Charity and Love
to walk the world and bless it. Of ev
cry tear that sorrowing mortals shcC
on such green graves, some good il
born, some gentler nature comes. Ii
the destroyer's steps there spring VI
bright creations that defy his power
and his dark path becomes way o
light to Heaven. -Dickens.