Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-11-02
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Slowly modern education is recog'
nizing that it's subject is not learning,
but the learner.-Mary E. Laing.
The man who has begun to live
more seriously within, begins to live
more simply without Bishop Brooks.
South Carolina names it's normal
and industrial college after Robert G.
Winthrop, Massachusetts leading citi-
zen.
The mission of the English Church
society in Ceylon has 2,797 Singhalese
and Tamil communicates, and S,005 adj
herents.
The Womans Missionary society,
of the Methodist church, has 2,05s aux
iliaries, with 39,l4l members, and ,1S5
young peoples and juvenile societies,
with 2S,096 members, total of 6s,297.
By the will of the late j. C. viii
medring, of San Francisco provision is
made for founding school of indus.
trial arts in connection with the state
university of California, to cost $780,
600.
All censure of others is oblique
praise of self 1t is uttered in order tc
show how much the speaker can bear.
1t has all the insidionsness of self
praise and all the reproach of false.
hood. Addison.
One after another the theological
seminaries of this country are opening
their doors for the admission of women,
and especially for such as would fit
themselves for labor in the mission
field. The Cumberland Presbyterian
seminary, at Lebanon, Tenn, is one
of the last to fall into line in this great
NATTER Missionary Review,
One of the former students of Har-
ward annex has been chosen dean Of
Barnard college, the annex of Column
bia, hefplace being practically that OF
president. She is oddly named Miss
James Smith. She is only thirty, and
will control nineteen professors, all OF
whom but one are men, who are in
structors in the college, and the one
hundred and six young women whom
they instruct.
-Mohammedanism is to-day, as in
the past, great missionary and prose.
lyting religion. In the last thirty
years it has made numerically more
proselytes than Christianity. The
, Moslem missionaries, whom the sultan
of Turkey is said in Constantinople to
be sending through Africa, are prob
ably part of the preachers of Islam
always supported by the sultan in his
capacity as caliph and represent nc
new policy.-Philadelphia Press.
Probably the oldest clergyman in
the world was Greek priest who late
ly died in Thessaly, Greece, after com
pleting his 12Oth year. He never left
the place in which he was born and
where he died. He was accustomed to
begin his priestly offices before sun
rise, and to retire promptly at 9. His
sight and hearing were in excellent
condition to the day of his death, an6
he never made use of glasses He was
in the active ministry for ninety-nint
years-N. Y. Tribune.
Mrs. Fawcett, of England, has fol
{ some time been collecting the photo
graphs of babies whose mothers hav,
received university education. Thi
/. collection she has lately presented tt
Newman college, and it is said that ;
3 more vigorous and healthy set of young
= ones it would be hard to find. Thes,
: sturdy little beings represent an actua
y condition and not theory, so thos,
5 who still object to the higher mathe
MATES for women folks will have t,
, move their guns to another point.