Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-17
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

Make life ministry of love and II
will always be worth living. Brown
ing,
--Seventy-two thousand additions tc
the Presbyterian church are reported
for last year
The great want of the day is spir
itually-minded man of the world
Margaret Fuller.
Last year the Presbyterians put
INTO the general fund of their Mission
airy Society SS43,4ll.
Although 1874 Harvard graduates
died last year, Rev. DR.. Furness, OF
Philadelphia, lives on hale and hearty
the oldest alunnus of the university
nged %.
"A Catholic sisterhood which opens
homes for The reclamation Of lost
women has skeltered 1877 ,ois of this
class in This country stuce rs organiza
ton in 1913.
The Woodford prize in oratory
which is given annually at Cornell uni
versity, has been awarded this year tc
a woman, for the first time in the his
tory of the university.
Westminster Chapel in London
the largest Congregational church in
the world, has been without pastor
for seven years. 1t has recently called
to its passionate Rev, w. Evans Hurn
dali.
Whatever our place allotted to III
by providence, that for us is the post o
honor and duty. God estimates us no
by the position we are in, but by the
way in which we fill it.-Tryon Ed
wards
President Elliott, of Harvard, in {
recent address, advised students t.
thus apportion their days; Study, tel
hours; sleep, eight; exercise, two; so
cial duties, one; and meals, tire,
hours.
Rev. George X. Morris, d. d.
formerly of Philadelphia and at presen
pastor of st. Paul's NJ. E. Church, Gin
cinnati, has been elected to the chat
of practical theology in the School o
Theology, Boston university.
One of the eldest ministers in New
England is Rev. Stephen Coombs, o
Penacook, n. H., who is ninety-tiv
years of age, and was ordained in tb
Baptist church at Hyannis, Mass, il
1924. He enjoys excellent health.
Prof. Drissler's half century of ao
tive service at Columbia college ha
drawn attention to the fact that Pro-
Schele de We're is now completing hi
fiftieth year as professor of moder
languages at the University of Vii
ginia.
--Africa's 100000 square miles ar
crowded by population of from $50
100000 to 100000, 000. If the mission
aries now in Africa were equally distr
buted, geographically, each would hav
parish as large as the state of Cor
necticut.
AT the commencement exercises {
Elmira college the degree OF doctor c
philosophy was conferred upon Mis-
Jeanne Elizabeth Hotchkiss, of tn
class of 81. DR.. Cowles was the frs
president of this college, which wa
the first college in the world for tn
higher education of women.
The new president of Bates colleg'
George Colby Chase, is graduate {
that institution, and has been activel
connected with it as professor of EN-
lish literature and in other depar
ments for over twenty years. One I
his ancestors was Samuel Chase, sigl
ers of the Declaration of independence
The thirteenth year of the Youn
Peoples Society of Christian Endeavc
has been the most remarkable of all
point of growth. The average increa'
for the last four years has bee
over 100000 members per year, al
over 5000 societies. The increase du
ing 1s03-94, has been still larger. TT
facts are noted, not for the sake
Boosting concerning a man or an G
ganization, but as sober and insplrir
fact to all who are interested in Il
great movement.-N. Y. Observer.