Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-09-13
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Brahmin's faith was thus called
because 1T was supposed to be origin
ated by Brahma.
--One hundred and twenty-one of the
1879 missionary societies OF the world
are supported by the Anglo Saxon race,
Compulsory attendance at school
is to he tried as an experiment in the
Russian governments of Kharkoff, Pol
tava, Kursk, and Volonetz.
The value OF all property used for
educational purposes in the United
States is placed at 5000, 900, 600; the pub
lie school property alone is valued al
$40O, 600, 600
"A ritualist Church of England cler.
gyman in Cardiff has publicly asserted
that the doctrine of the immaculate
conception of the Virgin is a necessary
complement of the Christian dispensa-
ton.
-Unoccupied mission territory tc
the extent of 100000 square miles
still exists in Central Africa an area
larger than the whole of Europe, says
Rev. George Greenfield of the Baptist
Congo Mission.
Among various schemes success
fully carried out by Christian En-
deavor society in Atlanta, Ga, are the
sustaining of free dispensary, BIZ
BILE training class and the raising OF
special flowers by each member of the
flower committee.
The Waldenses, religious sect
were, it is believed, named from the Ger
man word Walden, "a forest" though
some think that the derivation is t.
be found in Valois, province where
they predominated. The former is gen
orally preferred, as their religion,
meetings were held in the woods
"A new heretical sect has been dis
covered in Russia. 1t is known al
1.-THE Pilgrims" or Wanderers" ant
numbers thousands in Tomsk and 9th
err Siberian governments. Their mod,
of life is copied from the primitive
Christians; they believe that the reigr
of antichrist is at hand, and give tina
as their reason for retiring to Siberia
for, when the archfiend comes the Or
thodox church and the bureaucracy o
the government will be the first to fal
into his power.
ALI the French authorized male re
ligious orders have informed the Arch
bishops of Rheims and Paris they in
tend to pay the new tax imposed b,
| fba ,rcvarp ~, ont ~, ,,,opocfio ,,ropa ~ y,
They hold that, having to choose be
tween. compliance and passive resist
ance, the moral necessity does not ex
list that would justify the latter course
They thus take the same ground a
the bishop Of Beauvais, who recent.
came near being communicated TO
nrging compliance with the law.
The Austrian universities, in whicl
the German language is used as me
dunn of instruction, this term have
total teaching force of 1888 and an at
tendance of 1909, distributed as fol
lows: $50 in the theological depart
ment, 34s2 in the law, 5, TAO in the med
ical, and 1,l07 in the philosophical
FlenHd repOTCs o,oOo StuuenUs, urdtz
1925; Prague, 1,10J; Innsbruck, S6i
Czernowitz, 306. The technical school
for German Austria have a teaching
force of II and an attendance of LITE
Vienna having 1,l07: Prague, 25;
Brunn, 217; Gratz 1893.
American students have long bee
admitted to the hi ,her courses of in
struction in France without being abb
to obtain degrees Llless they had al
ready French bachelors degree.
movement is under way to admit
the higher degrees graduates of fol
eign universities OF good standing, lik
Harvard and Yale, as is done in tn
universities of Germany.