Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-09-21
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL,

Prof. Goodell, of Yale, accepts the
professorship of Greek in the American
school at Athens
of the two thousand girl students
in the London Guildhall School of
Music about three hundred are study
ing the violin.
One hundred new Christian endeav-
or societies were organized in England
in single week recently. This makes
over 800 in the British section.
DIR. Wishard, of the Presbyterian
mission in Persia, has been invited to
visit the palace of the shah, and to at
tend his wives in their sickness.
DR.. George K. Morris, now pastor
in Cincinnati, has been elected TO the
chair. of practical theology in the divin-
ity school of Boston university.
Quinn chapel in Chicago, eof the
very best churches in the African
Methodist Episcopal church, and which
was dedicated few weeks ago, cost
about 100000.
The Episcopal board of missions
has arranged to pension missionary
bishops who, after at least ten years of
service, are compelled by age or disa-
bility to resign their jurisdictions.
1t is said that only Mecca, in Ara
bia, and Thcssa, in Thibct, are now
closed to Christian preachers, but Il
hundred years ago nearly the whole
world outside of Europe and America
was shut.
Pride (ot all others the most dangerous
Proceeds from want OF sense, or want OF
thought
The men who labor and digest things mos,
Will be much aptcr to despond than boast;
For II your author be profoundly good,
Twill cost you dear before he's understood
-Roscommon
The London Missionary Society in
its hundredth year has LAG native
ministers, 6,75s other male native work
ers, 94,l92 church members, and 1885,.
0s4 scholars in it's schools. The income
has been $780, 300, the year closing with
a debt of about $1GG,0
Probably most of our readers dc
not know that there is New York
State Library school at Albany for the
purpose of training young men and
women for librarians. At its recent
commencement there were four gradu
ates, three of whom were young WON
en-.
The Baroness Langenau, of Wen
ma, who has been much prosecuted be
cause she is Methodist, recently
spoke at meeting of the West Lon
don Mission and presented it with a
necklace worth $4,000, to be sold foi
the benefit of the mission. -Zion's Her
aid.
-Methodists throughout Great Brit
ain were surprised to hear that the
Central Church, Hastings, elected Miss
Dawson, of Redhill, as a district rep
resentative to the forthcoming Wesley
an conference at Birmingham. Hith
erto no lady was allowed to enter the
Wesleyan conference, and whether thi'
will now be permitted remains to b.
seen.
The projects in the several French
Departments have issued orders to TIL,
various schools, dating from the lst o
January, enforcing that all drinking
water supplied to the pupils shall b.
boiled, and that the cleansing of TIN
floors, desks, ETC., of the school-room
is to be no longer done with dry dust
ers and brooms. but with moist cloths
to prevent the spread of dust Once
week a thorough cleansing is to be car
ried out with an antiscptic. Y
Times.
DIR. Johann Anderson, bishop O
Wexio, in Sweden, who died a few day
ago, aged 70, was one of the most fan
Gus prelates in land of cioquen
preachers. lie was an excellent Gel
man scholar, and translated Goethe
'Faust" into Swedish. The transla
tion is so well done that it is a classi
in Swedish literature. The bishop ais
translated Gocthe's ''Gotz," 'Stella,
"Egmont," and 'Clavigo." He wa
the author of many Theological worl,
and books of travel.