Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-11-16
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

--IIe who 10 res God most, loves Gods
creatures most, and them for Gods
sake, and God for their salle.-C. Kings
ley.
The heart that departs from COD Is
lost, not merely to that which Is good,
but to that which is great. Matthew
Henry.
Every day brings its own cares and
duties; every day, like Paul himself,
we must serve God with many dis
tractions;" but amid them all like
hi Ii, we must be saic to say: This
or,e thing do | press toward
the mark. e. w. Warren.
OF recent years Methodist missions
In India have been meeting with q
wonderful ingathering. Bishop Tho.
burn sums il up by saying that for the
last three years the Indian converts
received by the Methodist missions
have averaged fifty every day.
by the will of tho late N. P. Co
burn, of Newton, Mass, the sum Of
SEQ, 900 is left to the Massachusetts,
Home Missionary society, $4,000 to the
Newton Cottage hospital, $4,000 to the
library of Colorado college at Colorado
Springs and $4,000 to the American
College and Education society of Mas
sachusctts.
| i can earn and ] can eat my own
dinner, if that DC all Il speak after the
manner OF mem; but if | am to reach
| n1 I 49, ~ ,,, l,.u 4, 4
chastity of m immortal spirit, if lam to
conquer sin and vanquish death, and
pass through binding chaos into life
eternal, ] must have help, guidance,
compas sion. Rev. Chas. A. Berry.
AT Tarnopol, in Galicia, a secret
society was recently discovered, com.
posed of some seventy high school
boys, of which the object was the sep
aration of Galicia from the Austrian
empire and the establishment of an in
dependent Polish kingdom. The boys
met regularly an hour before school,
to deliver speeches attacking the en-
pcror and the pope. The government
has actually prosecuted eighteen of
them for high treason.
"A hitherto unknown work of Mai
monites, the greatest Jewish theolo-
gian and philosopher of the middle
ages, has been discovered by Prof. Gas
ter among number of Hebrew manu-
scripts which he acquired from the
East, and is soon 70 be published by
him, with translation and notes. II
Is short treatise written in Hebrew
entitled Commentary on the Sacred
and Profane names of God in the Pen
tateuch, by Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, =
intended as guide to the scribes OF
the Sacred Scroll, who, if they made a
mistake, could erase and rewrite the
profane names of strange deities, but
might not erase the sacred names Of
God, and SO must copy over the whole
column.
Teachers from all the scandinavian
countries met recently in South Jut
land to celebrate the ffteth anniver
sary of tine establishment of the peas
ant high schools There are sixty.
seven Of these schools now in Denmark
, | WihiNh oAC AbbOiNCb idDoll hCu
during the winter months and by WON
en- in the summer; they board at the
schools, give up all their time to study
while it lasts, and arc taught science
history and literature; the schools
charge about SIS for tuition and board
but there are many free scholarship
provided by the government and pri
vate individuals. From these schools
the brighter pupils go to the state ag
ricultural schools. The author of the
system was Bishop Grundtvig. It i
claimed that the increased int lligcnc,
developed by the system is all tha
saved Denmark from ruin, when obligct
to turn from corn-growing to dairy
farming between 1870 and 1880.