The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-07-10
Edited 9ntes a11d 9etus.
T. W. WOODROW

The prohibition law went into effect
In Atlanta, Ga, Thursday.
President Porter, of Yale College,
takes spin in a she'll on Lake Whitney
several times week.
General Francis A. Walker can have
the presidency of the Stanford Uni
versity at San Francisco, it is said, if
he cares to accept the position.
DR.. Holmes expresses a belief that
professorships tend to produce longevity.
Quarterly payments of fixed stipend
arc tranquilizing prescriptions" says he.
-"Our Chicago contemporary, the IN
terror" says the Presbyterian, sis genu-
inc Calling gun. When the editorial
crank is turned, the missiles fly in every
direction"
In the midst of his infrmities, dur
ing which he has sometimes for days to-
gether been unable to hold pen, Mr..
Spurgeon has issued his nineteen hun.
dredth sermon.
The Omaha World has an eye to bust
ness. 1t says: pleasure and recreation
will bring almost as much money to
Omaha as business. Sam Jones, for this
reason, should be secured"
Rev. DR.. s. j. Mcpherson, one of the
abloct o1arnv,ooap ;p Nb;oono hos 5o,Ion
ed in favor of manual training in the pub
lie schools. His position on this ques-
ton is being very generally endorsed.
The New York Conference of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church has
commended the stand taken by Profess
sor Taylor, superintendent of schools at
Vincennes, Ind, in behalf of equal
rights.
Mr.. Alex. Gustafson, the noted tenn
perance writer, who is visiting in this
country, gives it as his opinion that theor-
etically England is ahead of America in the
temperance reform, but practically Amer
lea is far ahead of England.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton has this to
say: "A writer cannot acquire experience
in his profession without discovering
that the spirit of justice is the greatest of
all hindrances to effect. Just writing
does not amuse, but malevolence can
easily be made entertaining"
The National Couacil of the Congre-
gatioual Churches of the United States
meets in this city in October. The ses-
sions will be held in the Union Park
Church, and will begin at 10 o'clock A. M.
on Wednesday, Oct. Is. The council
will probably continue in session about
one week.
Stewards on railroads lines running
through Iowa seal the wine closets with
a seal of red wax at the Mississippi or
Missouri river, and this is not broken
until the train passes the border line of
these rivers either way. This looks as
though prohibition can prohibit.
The defeated Home Rule bill of Mr..
Gladstone was attended by some curious
condolences of numbers. 1t was brought
in by Mr.. Gladstone in the year '86. The
principal support he relied on for its
support was eighty-six Parnellites. 1t
was thrown out on a date which, accord
ing to common abbreviation, would be
written $3.50.
Prof. Swing, in his sermon on the
new Unitarian controversy, said: '"To OBJ
ject to written creed was very much
the same thing as an objec ton to the art
of writing. The real objection to writ
ten creeds gel orally ought to be that
they contained so much dogma, SO much
that was untrue, extraneous and unintel-
ligible. A creed might die of impertinence
in demanding too much of man; but it
was a mistake to suppose that the world
asked for a church without creed"