Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-24

0BkAAAx yoeeoru4y m0oe an agreeable
demonstration Of tho reciprocity Of good
win existing between that nation and
ours, by forwarding 1000 marks, the first
installment of money collected by them in
aid of the sufferers by flood in the Ohio
valley. This help in any sense is not
really necessary. The light call which has
como from our western neighbors finds
ample response in the one or two states to
which the appeal has been directly sent,
but if it were required, the amount we
sent to aid in alleviatiug the misery Of the
German sufferers would scarcely DO an
item to what America would furnish for
her own distressed people. With none the
less appreciation, however, should this
Offering from the German empire be accept.
ed, not only on account of the purposs
for which it was sent, but equally as much
because it is gratifying token of the ex-
tension of sympathy and friendship not
only between Germany and America, but
among other countries as we'll.
The approaching meeting of tho Meth
odist conference in this city may be en-
livened by ventilation Of the orthodoxy
of the popular preacher, Rev. H. A.
Cleveland, now of Reading, who is accused
oA frateruizing too warmly with the
Unlversalists. They asked him to assist
them in installing their pastor. He &C.
cepted, and, after listening to a Universal
list sermon on "What motive does the
Universalist church furnish to Christian
when it destroys the doctrine of eternal
punishment ?" said that '::he had listened
with pleasure and profit" He also
charged tho congregation etc show in
their daily lives that this gospel is true,"
and added /" that the gospel of this pulpit
will bs tolerant and Catholic" The Phil.
adelphia Methodist closed an editorial on
the address by asking, els not this a
fair endorsement of Universalism ?" and
Mr.. Cleveland made his reply tho mex,
Sunday night by insisting that no testi.
mony could be brought to show any com
promise of his manhood or faith. The
matter was not allowed to drop, and it is
now the special theme of conversation ir
the Methodist circles.
EVIDENTLY the Egyptians have not lost
remembrance of old Ptolemy's Pharos
with its marble topped tower and grea
beacon fires thro wing their glare out ove
the bay before Alexandria, and making :
bright farewell or welcome to the hard!
sailors of two thousand years ago, sine,
their government has just commenced The
erection of lighthouse much on th'
same plan. This one is to be raised on {:
coral island in the Red Sea, but instead o
the CHEEKY flames of the Pharos the mari
ners will be guided from their dangers 5!
tho refracted white rays of a powerful
dioptric light that will be visible at a dis
tance of fourteen miles. This is only an
other indication of how steadily th'
appliances of modern times hasten tn
feet of progress even in the ancient lant
of the sphinx and the obelisk, and here
after, when the comfortably situated citi
zen of the Sahara hurries over on a
morning train to visit some opulent town
in the present wastes of tho Nubian desert
he. will speak Of a stone lighthouse with
white light upon it that was erected
ages before his time, and ruminate, as VI
do now upon Ptolemy's beacon, an,
worder why something better could no
have been thought of.