Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-06-14
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

There is a fourishing Young Won.
ems Christian Association ia Calcutta,
India.
The German Presbyterians have
$50 ministers in the United States and
154 churches, with membership of H..
$50.
During 1894 the circulation OF
Scriptures by the American Bible So
ciety in China was 3O5,7 IT'S volumes, a
greater number than ever before.
The German Evangelical Presbyte.
rian Missionary Society has recently
opened a theological academy at To-
kio Its library has 5000 volumes.
Rev Jules l.. Provost and his wife,
missionaries, have started from New
York for their post of duty at st.
James Mission, old Fort Adams, 900
miles from the mouth of the Yukon
river, Alaska.
I'm Japan there are more than 1900
places where Christianity is taught.
More than 1000 Protestant schools,
and every year about 1880 young per.
sons go out from these schools into the
life of the nation.
During the last four years there
have been erected in the city of Chica-
go forty new Methodist mission
churches, valued at nearly half mil
lion dollars. OF these thirty-one have
become self-supporting.
The Methodist National University
at Washington has received an endow-
ment of $l00,755 for the Chair of His.
tory from New York woman. The
fund for the proposed Hall of History
now amounts to SOL, $50.
Rev. Washington GLADDEN. has been
awarded the Fletcher prize of $500 Of
fered by the trustees of Dartmouth
College for an essay upon the subject
''In What Ways Ought the Conception
of Personal Life and Duty to Be Modi-
fied?"
Forty cents was all that the aver
age church member in the United
States could spare last year to send the
gospel to the uttermost parts of the
earth. 1t took 1862 church members
to support one ordained foreign mis-
sionary last year.
The General Assembly of the Pres
byterian church of Ireland has recon-
mended a scheme of church fire insur-
ance. This is the result of investiga-
tions which showed that during five
years, in which they paid $4,000 in
premiums, the total loss by fire was
only 81, 500.
This Easter, for the first time, the
boys of Christ's Hospital, in London,
in their blue coats and yellow stock
ings, marched to the lord mayors
house and were presented by him with
bun apiece. Following the example
of the Charterhouse, the old school
will be removed into the country dur
ing the summer
Rev. John Constantine, of Ommot-
Geloy, town located in Kurdistan, on
the boundary between Turkey and
Persia, and priest of the Restorian
church, that remarkable body of Chris
tians who have held their faith in the
midst of at first hostile infdel and
later fanatic Moslem population since
the end of the fifth century, is circling
the earth on a begging tour for the
support of Christian missions among
his people.
In the government of Kasan, in
Russia, no fewer than II, 034 converted
heather, $500 of them women, relapsed
from the orthodox faith into their orig.
inal idolatry last year. During the
same period in the same district, IL, 1876
Tartars, including 5,767 women, gave
up the Greek church for Mohamme'
danism, and the religious authorities
believe that the greater part of the
converted orthodox Christians are al
heart either Mohamme6ans or heath