Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-12-21
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

All told there are about 400 mis-
sionaries engaged in work on the con-
tinent of South America, with its
population of 81, OOO, 900 people.
There is widespread sentiment in
the Presbyterian church in favor OF
changing 1.-THE week of prayer" from
January to some time in the fall.
The Young Mems Christian asso-
citation of the city of Mexico is devot-
ing its efforts to stimulating the use
and study of the Bible in the republic.
--Wittenburg Theological seminary
(Lutheran) has received $4,000 from
Mrs Geo. ID. Harter, of Canton, o., for
the endowment Of chair of practical
theology.
Rev. DR.. Durnford, bishop of Chi
chester, England, now in his 92d year,
has just returned home from pedes'
trian tour in Switzerland and among
the Italian lakes.
1t is stated that in France scarcely
5000, 900 of the 100000 reputed Ro'
man Catholics are worthy of the name,
the rest being non-churchgoers, unbe.
levers, atheists and anarchists.
The enrolment of the University
of Chicago is now 1,l00, and it is ex-
pected that it will reach 1000 before
the close of the present year. This
will be twice as many as were enrolled
last year.
Gen. Booth, asked by newspaper
interviewer, "Do you think the millen'
mum will come if the whole world is
converted to the Salvation army?" re-
piled: at would be very near at hand.
| If the newspaper men were converted
it would be very long step in that di.
rection,"
Rev. John Henry Pooley, honorary
canon of Lincoln, Eng, who recently
celebrated his ninety-second birthday,
was ordained deacon in 1927 and priest
in the succeeding year. He has been
rector of Scooter, in Lincolnshire, since
1888, and has been magistrate in his
county for fifty-fve years
AT recent meeting of the trus'
tees of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania
it was announced that Mr. and Mrs.
Henry II. Houston, of Philadelphia,
had given 100000 to the proposed stu
dents hall of the university. The edifice
will bear the name of Howard Hous
ton, deceased son of the donors, who
was a student in the institution.
Bishop Wilmer, of Louisiana, once
had talk with Baptist minister who
insisted that there were several places
in the Bible where immersion was un
questionably referred to. YES" re-
piled the bishop, 81 recall two such in
stances where there can be no doubt
as to the mode; one is where Pharaoh
and his host were immersed in the sea
and the other where the Gadarene pigs
were drowned in the deep"
Midland hall, of the London Con
gregational union, has sheltered 1862,
035 poor outcasts in the last decade
The ministry of old clothes" and tht
ministry of old boots" supply $4,000
garments and 1000 pairs of boots to tn,
needy ones annually. The union hal
more than twenty centers of Christian
work, including fresh-air mission
training and placing girls in domestic
service and aiding immigration.
According to the statistics from ;
trustworthy source Corea contains 600,
600 Catholics, 10000 of whom are mall
adults and the rest women and chill
dren, and 100000 Professionals and Greel
Christians, half of them adult males
Thus more than quarter of the popu
lation is already Christian, SO that tn
present war has in the eyes of the Eu
ropean powers character of which &C
count has not hitherto been taken.