Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-07-20
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL,


Christ honors the draft of work
ing faith. -Beecher.
1T is said that when Tennyson was
asked what the highest aim was, he re
Piled. MY supreme wish is to get a
clearer vision of God"
lion. VIM. Gladstone, his daughter
says, always avoids travel on Sunday,
and puts aside all secular work and
thought on the rest day.
-lIoratio w. Parker, of Boston, has
been elected to succeed DR.. Stocked
as battelle professor of music at Yale,
Dr. Stocked having resigned.
The Kansas City Christian Endeav-
or free soup-house last winter fed near
ly 10000 hungry men. 1t required 1000
gallons of soup and more than 10000
loavcs of bread.
AS some rare perfume in a vase of clay
Pcrvadcs it with fragrance not its own,
So when thou dwcllcSt in mortal soul
All Heavens own sweetness seems around
it thrown.
H. B. Stowe.
Prof. William II. Holmes curator OF
the Anthropological section of the Ma
tional museum, has rendered his resig.
nation in order to accept similar po'
sition in the Columbian museum at
Chicago.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale, ID. D.,
of Boston, has announced that $3.50, 000
has been bcqucathed to Radcliffe col
lege by the will of Mrs. Sarah Parker
who died last week at her home in
RoXbury.
The religious Tract society of Lon
don at its recent annual meeting re
ported total receipts of $o0S,00 There
had been jS3 new publications sent out
during the year The society now pub
fishes in 209 languages, dialects and
characters.
The sevcnty-fifth annual com
mcncement of Maryville college took
place May 81. The graduating class
consisted of four young women and
nine men, all the latter completing the
classical course. The past year has
been in many respects the best in the
history of the college, 37i students hav-
ing been in attendance.
The general convention of the
Christian church South, met at Nor
folk, Va, May 4. w. w. Stalcy, d. D.,
was elected president. The report on
Elon college showed that $40, 900 had
been collected for the building fund,
and that the entire assets amounted to
SCI 900. 1t urged that endowment is
the great work of this centennial year
of the denomination.
1t is said that in order to keep the
native worllmen in the mines of South
Africa from the influence of liquor,
which ruins them for service at the
same time that it steals their earnings
the entrance TO every mine is enclosed
by high walls. Within these walls
may be obtained everything necessary
for the worllmen, and as they enter
they make contract agreeing to stay
for certain number of months. These
enclosures, or compounds, the mission.
aries are using, establishing schools
and reaching the natives under cspcc'
tally favorable auspices.
Woodstock academy Woodstock
Conn.,, with larger number of stu
dents than at any time during a score
of years or more, has surprised its best
friends by its prosperity the past ycal
under its able and popular principal
Mr. f. R. Hall. The graduating exer
ciscs took place June Is, and ar
interesting programme was ar
ranged. Eight students graduated
and connec ted themselves with Yale
Amherst, Columbia and other colleges
The friends of the academy have sue
cecdcd, during the past few years, il
} raising very handsome endowment
fund amounting to some $4,000 o
more; but that amount, liberal as i
has been considered to be in the past
in view of its previous condition, is no
adequate to place the academy on Thu
same footing with the best institution
of its class in New England. 1t
friends are now urged to help swell
, that fund to $4,000, which is the mari
! fixed upon as necessary