Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-10-18
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


"A Psrsee sacred are, which is burn.
Ing in temple at Legiguil, Persia, is
known to have not been extinguished
since the days of Rapbereth, who lived
twelve centuries ago.
The sect of the Nazarenes was
named from Nazareth. Its members
were Christien Jews, that is, Christian
believers, who, nevertheless, practiced
the vows and ceremonies of buddhism,
PROT. Rudolph Won Roth, the fam.
GUS Sanslsrit scholar, died recently in
Germany, He has been for fifty years
professor at Tubingen and with
Bothlingk published Sanskrit die.
tionary.
"A convent is so called from two
Latin words, con and venire, meaning
ito come together" The inhabitants
of a convent enjoy some degree of so.
cial life-that is, they associate with
each other.
Paris has decided to keep the Boule
school for cabinet making and art APP
piled to industry, open in the evening.
This school has "a instructors and a
staff OF 81 persons, with only 100 day
pupils, and has room for five times as
many. 1t costs the city 500 900 year,
while the furniture turned out by il
sold last year for S40O.
Gov. Morton, of New York, Is 70
be praised for signing the bill known
rs the Ainsworth Mandatory Temper.
ance Instruction bill. 1t provides that
the nature of alcoholic drinks and 9TH
err narcotics and their effects on the
human system shall be taught in the
public schools for not less than ten
weeks in each year in all grades below
the second year Of the high school.
The German official Ecclesiasti.
cal Gazette reports that there are now
"a Old Catholic congregations in good
order and with vigorous church life; 40
in Prussia, 81 in Baden, 8 in Hesse and
IA in Bavaria. Eight new churches
have been built by subscription, and
others are to follow. The theological
seminary at Bonn has an endowment of
over $685. 900; the fund for clerical pen
sions has capital of $500; that for
aid to clerical income capital of $l0,-
600 and the Biblical fund capital O,
IS, $50.
"A comparison of the contributions
and legacies received by the Baptist
Home Missionary society for their gen.
cral missionary and educational pur-
poses for ten years shows that the
highest total figures were reached in
in 1SsS-$429, 1853; next comes 1887
1878, 675; then 1s95-S355, 1877; then 1892
$34S,79S The smallest amount re-
ceived since 1884 was in 1891 -$24S, 946.
The contributions reached their high
est figure in 1ss7-$257, 1907, and the leg
acies in 1sss-$24l, 9S6. The donations
in 1895 were only little less than
those in 1ss7-S255, 400.
Slowly but surely the crusade for
the higher education Of women is max
ing progress in Germany. The first
regular woman's college, the Mad
chengymnasium," in Carlsruhe, is prov
ing to be a success, and the Cultus Min
istry in reply to petition, has declared
that with the enlargement of the
course of study, the graduates of the
college will be admitted on equal
terms with young men to the entrance
examinations for the universities.
With the new academic year two new
classes will be added to the course.
Berlin and Leipsic have also such girls
colleges, and the latter in charge of
Miss Windshield, who year or more
ago received the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy at Heidelberg