The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-10
The Religious Press.
THE CHRISTIAN UNION.

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The lecture-room talk is on "The Ten.
derness of the Divine Providence:
| 1t is a matter, not of speculation, but of OBJ
| servation, that when men have been brought
through trials and troubles, and they have
| held out to the uttermost, then God interferei
in their behalf. There is, believe, a specia
divine providence, but it does not take care o
| the careless and the lazy. 1t takes care o
people that take care of themselves. 1t operates
at that point where men have taken hold and
done the best they know how, and failed. just
there the help of God comes in, as, where a
little child strives to walk, and fails, the help
OF the mother comes in.
man that never had any troubles, was
going to say, never had manhood.
In Mrs. Stoves story Ida, we presume,
states the writer's position AS to woman
suffrage. She deprecates the ultra-woman
papers, and thinks s'the elements of mis-
chief and confusion in our republic are
gathering as fast as they did in France be-
fore the revolution" Further, we read
am, on the whole, very we'll pleased that
there is no immediate prospect of the suffrage
being granted to women until a generation
with superior education and better balanced
minds and better habits of consecutive thought
shall have grown up among us. 1 think the
gift of the ballot will come at last as the result
of superior culture and education. And
am in no hurry for it before. g Il
think that these are rights, and that it is very
important for the good of society that these
rights should finally be respected.
Charles ID. Warner writes humorousIy
of the art Of dining, and there are variety
of able contributed articles.
INDEPENDENT.
The editorial leader nominates General
Grant as "the peoples candidate" ''The
party wants its strongest man, and that
man is Ulysses s. Grant--and it will have
him." The Y. M. G. A. is criticised for
not doing its social duty to young men,
since it refuses to bring him into the
society of refined women. 1t urges it to
follow the Chicago example in bringing
ladies aud gentlemen together in socables.
Further
We have another complaint that applies to
all the associations. They make no provision
Tor the sabbath. Young men are then at lei.
sure. Good or bad influences work with ten
times their ordinary power on young man
who is unemployed. He cannot spend the lives
long day in meeting. That is not rest The
folly. of the Y. M. G. A. is in. closing their
reading-room on Sunday. s. By the
insane pharisaism of the Y. NJ. G. A. home
less young men are shut out of the Christian
quiet OF the reading-room on Sunday, and
handed over to the ever busy evil influences
that rush in to fill all vacuums.
OF the Commune we read
The experiment of government composed
of men with nothing to lose, and with no stake
OF ofproperty or character in society, has been
tried. 1t can hardly be that the lesson will be |
lost.
In the supplement the Summer Stories"
are begun, with a characteristic story by |
Rev. E. E. Hale, an outgrowth of the Har-
ry Wadsworth idea, "Mouse and Lion"
Congressman Dawes, on the Outlook, says:
N friend of the present administration need, |
therefore, hesitate for a moment in putting its |
claim for continuance of public confidence |
upon its past record for no one that has pre-
,eded it has in two short years accomplished |
30 much worthy OF commendation and support,
and in so little has come short of its own pro-
nlses and the public expectation.
GOLDEN AGE,
The woman suffragists are told
A sweet spirit should belong to reformer
lbove all other men or women. This is par
icularly true of reform whose object is wo.
manly refinement and elevation.
There are number of brilliant con-
rlbuted articles we can quote only from
D. G. Hollann on Egypt and India:
The grandest architecture of Egypt and of
ndia, indeed the crowning glory of the art of
III nations, was the birth of the religious sen.
iment. In Judea, in ancient Greece, Rome,
Persia, and in Christendom, the art which re-
igion inspired exceled all other forms of art.
four things attest the supremacy of the re-
igious sentiment: l. The architecture of all
lations. 2. The authority and enduring rank
If books which embody a peoples religion.
J. The surprising eminepce and enduring in.
luence of the persons who stand at the head
If the great historical religions. A. The su.
'eriority of the oratoro. 10 other forms of
music, the oratorio having its origin in and
eing the expression of the religious sentiment.
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