Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-12-06
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

"A portable Hindu Bible has just
been published by the North India
Bible society. 1t will be sold at thirty
five cents copy
Mgr Stadler, bishop of Serajevo,
in Bosnia, has been made apostolic
legate for the union OF the Oriental
churches in the Balkan peninsular.
An effort will be made to unite all the
S,sv Cath olics in the peninsula and
resist the aggressions of the Russian
Orthodox church.
--,Da i'd II. Wheeler, d. D., late pres
ident OF Allegheny college, has become
professor of Sacred Rhetoric in Garrett
Biblical Institute, Northwestern Uni
versity, Evanston, Ill. He was former
ly editor of the Methodist of New
York, which was consolidated with the
Christian Advocate.
Col. Stitt, governor of Gen. Booths
Hadley farm, Col, Brig. Clibborn, a
surveyor by profession and Salvation
Army officer by choice, and Mr., Law
ford, an English farmer, are now ex-
aiming northwest Canada with view
to settling its suitability, or otherwise,
for the coming site of the first Of Gen.
Booths colonies for the English sub.
merged tenth.
"A number of young Welsh colo.
nists in Buenos Ayres who were under
going the annual military service, re.
fused to drill on Sunday, the only day
fixed by the authorities. They were
imprisoned twice. Then popular feel.
ing, it is said, called for petition to
the authorities, and SO general was the
feeling of sympathy for them that the
whole case has been referred to the
president of the Argentine Republic.
The work on the Protestant Epis'
copal cathedral of st. John the Divine
in New York city, is continuing slow.
ly but satisfactorily. Notifications
have been made in the dimensions OF
the cathedral, which are now as fol.
lows: Total length, 500 feet; total
width of transepts, 200 feet; width OF
front, 10? feet height of front gable,
1874 feet; height of front towers, 24s
feet; height of fiaaking towers, l5s
feet; height of central lantern. a.;
feet; height of dome Gnterior). 253 feet
width of nave, 90 feet; span of lantern,
05 feet; length of choir and ambula
tory, 1874 feet.
The fourteenth convention of the
I Old Catholic church in Germany was
held lately in Bonn. According to re
ports there given, the number of Ole
Catholic clergy is now some sixty. o.
these eight are stationed in Bavaria
which has an Old Catholic contingent
of $500. In Hesse there are 36 congre
cations, in Baden 81; the total number
in Germany is 90 In many places Ole
Catholic services are held in Protest
ant churches The Prussian bulge
gives this communion annually the
sum of $4,000 marks, and the Bader
government gives it 1900.
Some one has been at the trouble
to compile d list of those who received
the degree of PHI. d. from American
colleges last year for work in politica
and social science, economics or his
tory. The list shows that forty-ont
students received the degree from four
teen universities, twelve of the de
grees being conferred by Johns Hop
kins, and four each by Columbia, Cor
neil and Yale. At nine universitie
fifty-nine students appointed to fellow
ships and postgraduate scholarships
of whom the University of Chicago APP
pointed. twenty-five, and Columbia
Harvard, Johns Hopkins and the Uni
versity of Wisconsin seven each.