Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-07-13
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

TN the fear of the Lord is strong
confidence and His children have
place of refuge"
Tie increase of schools in every
country has generally been attended
by decrease of crime.
1t is said that German school boys
study harder and play less than those
of any other of the great nations.
No man can pray with much spirit
for his brother as long as he realizes
that he is not right with God himself.
The number of educational institu-
tions of one kind or another in India is
put down in Cham bers' Cyciopedia (1s92)
at $4,000.
The University of Missouri has re-
ceived from the state legislature since
February, 1891, by direct appropriation
and in interest on its endowment fund.
1925 900 No other state in this coun-
try has given its university so much
money in so short time.
1t appears that the Protestant min
listers of Ireland are almost to man
opposed to home rule. Only Prot
sStant ministers out of ZOO favor it;
only Wesleyans out of 200. The Con-
gregationalists, Primitive Methodists,
Unitarians and Friends are all against
it.-Lutheran World.
The United Presbyterian Church of
Scotland has membership of 1SS,664,
an increase of 1859 over the previous
| Go h. I, Il, Al ,,e,
141, 545, an increase of 1929 The total
offerings for missionary and benevo-
lent purposes were $4,000; the mis-
sionary contributions showed an in
crease of $1,000
Among the public requests by the
will of Charles Scott, of Washington,
d. c., are $50, 900 to the American build
ing fund of the Protestant Episcopal
church of New York; SIS, 900 to the st.
Johns Protestant Episcopal church of
Waterbury; $1,000 to Trinity Protest
ant Episcopal church, and IS, 900 to the
Waterbury hospital.
Young man, listen to these words
of Kossuth: IF had to choose my
place among the forces of nature, do
YOU know what | would choose to be?
| would be the dew, that falls silently
and invisible over the face of nature,
trampled underfoot and unconsidered,
but perpetually blessing and refresh
ing all forms of life
Bishop Blyth, the Anglican bishop
of Jerusalem, asserts in his annual re
port that about 100000 Jews have en-
tered Palestine during the last few
years, of whom $4,000 have come within
the last seven years; and the arrival OF
a vaster host is imminent" No one
can, he says, possibly forecast the ex
tent of Jewish immigration to Pales
tine within the next seven years.
, The number of corps now in the
Salvation army is 1874, with 10071 Of
fcers, of which 1, 913 corps and 4,317 of
tccrs are in the British Island, and the
/ rest in other countries. Operations are
, expected to be begun in Japan this
/ year. The social work includes As
: rescue homes, Ga Stun posts, IL prison
! gate houses, 81 food depots, 30 shelters
II factories, II labor bureaus, and
, farms, with the management of which
1,046 persons are engaged. Thirty-tivC
t weekly newspapers and s monthly pub
locations, in IA languages, have tota
annual circulation of S,6S5,7s copies
The total amount of e700, 405, or more
than So, $50, 600, is accounted for in the
financial statement of property and re
ccipts.
. The General Theological Seminary
of the Protestant Episcopal church hal
l come into the possession of the larges
A collection of Latin Bibles in the world
p, consisting of 543 editions in 1894 vol
!. umes. One of the most interesting i
? the Servetus edition of 1912, which wa
$ so vigorously prohibited and Suppressed
: that all the copies obtainable wer
0 burned with the author.-New Yorl
a | Christian Advocate