Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-09-07
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

God never gives much of his truth
to those who are not willing to live it
Rams Horn.
One of the brightest students oi
Smith college is Winnebago Indian
girl from Nebraska.
The English women are still com
ing to the front in college life. Miss
johnson, a member Of the senior class
of mathematics at Cambridge, has won
the honor of senior wrangler.
According to the estimate of Rev.
Henry Loomis the total adult member
ship of the Protestant churches in ia
pan at the close of 1893 was 1888, an
increase for the year of 1864.
"A committee of the Columbia col
lege faculty has been formed to help
students who come to New York from
distance and enable them to earn
something toward the cost of their ed
ucation and maintenance.
-Tanetaro Mcgata, who in 1874 was
one of the first japanese students ever
at Harvard, is now superintendent OF
the custom house in Yokohama, Japan,
a position as important as that of col
lector of the port of New York.
1t is stated that during the last de-
cade the number of Episcopal clergy
men in England has increased three
times as fast as the Nonconformists
In the two previous decades the latter
increased twice as fast as the former.
Mrs. Elizabeth Garrett, of Phila
delphia, has left an estate valued a.
S75, 900, which after the death of hel
husband is to be divided among three
boards of home and foreign missions
and the benevolent institutions of the
Presbyterian church.
"A Christian baker in Shangsan
China placed on the baskets in which
bread Is carried to his customers, thu
words: "Jesus Christ appeared in thu
world 1894 years ago." This leads PEG
pie to question him, and gives him al
opportunity to preach the Gospel.
The degree of d. d. has been con
ferred by the University of Oxford
England, upon William David Walker
Episcopal Bishop of North Dakota
This clergyman was born in New Yorl
in 1910, and when elevated TO the Epis
copate in 1883 was minister in charg,
of Calvary chapel, New York City.
"A student of Boston's School o
Technology lived at an expense of S1.2
per week, without meat, and mainl,
upon Educator crackers 10 cents, drie'
fruit 80 cents, whole wheat bread 3
cents, and seven quarts of milk 5
cents" On this he was able to stud,
by day and work in printing offic
evenings. 1t is simple as oats and hay
but similar also in containing all nee
essary elements of nutrition.
According to the Baptist Year Bool
for 1894 the number of persons bar
tiled in 1893 was 176,077. The increas
by baptism, by letter, by cyperienc
and by restoration amounted TO 303
704 and the decrease by letter, exclus
ion (47,650), erasure and death amount
ed to 49,, 454, leaving net gain of III
$50 for the northern, southern and col
ored Baptists. The value of churc
property held by the three denomina
lions is SIS, COS, 100, and the total mem
bership is 3,496,0Ss
In the service of the gospel there
place and a call for the best talents
man can bring-learning, eloqucnc'
common sense, devotion--but in non
of these dwells the power to cleay
hard hearts, to soften stubborn wills
to awaken dead souls. Only God ca
reach and save His own Spirit in mar
He must he in and behind both messer
ger and message, or nothing will com
of devoted and intelligent service
Rev, Charles A. Berry.