The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-14

AS some rare perfume in vase OF clay
Pervades it with fragrance not its own.
So when Christ dwelleth in a mortal soul,
All heavens own sweetness seems around
it thrown.
Harriet Beeclstr StOiUe.
Is it a Rose or Reed!
Biblical scholars find it hard to iden-
tify some of the flowers mentioned in the
Scriptures, and among those which have
occasioned most discussion is the Rose of
Sharon. 1t is affirmed now that the diff
ferent plants hitherto regarded as posi-
bly, meeting the conditions of the case
are all summer or autumn bloomers, while
the scene in the Song of Solomon is laid
in the spring. DIR. F. Deutssch, accord
ing to the Edinburgh Revieac, thinks it
was not a flower at all, but reed, and
that it should be translated "Reed of
Sharon"
The Minister Needed.
My dear: Oh, by the way, if you
learn of any one with energy, fearful in
terest in the conversion of souls, attract
i've in preaching, great-hearted, unself-
ish, merry; in fact, holy-let me know.
Paul was much the kind of man we
need. We want man who knows all
about the enemy; has some capacity for
working miracles; is ready to be stoned;
can teach the women, interest the chill
dren, make princes tremble, confound the
Jews, convert kings, pick up sticks, earn
his own living, go through fire and water
for the good of others, with the expecta-
ton that they will interest themselves in
him; and, in general, lead forlorn hope
of dependent followers. Century.
The Angels that sinned.
The reference to them by Jude, was to
an account of them as given in the book
of Enoch-an apocryphal work in which
it is said they sinned. We find an allu-
sion to them in Genesis, where it is said
that the sons of God saw the daughters
of men, that they were fair to look upon,
and took them wives of all Shey chose
We learn that some manuscripts of the
Septuagint have the reading angels of
God, instead of the sons of God. Philo
and Josephus prefer this rendering. By
such marriages giants were produced,
who devastated the earth and oppressed
the people. These giants, it is said by
Enoch, were $50 feet high and devoured
the labors of men, and corrupted them
by magic, and unlawful disclosures. The
sin of these angels, and of their progeny,
the giants, conceived by the daughters
of men, was SO great according to this
apocryphal book as to cause God to send
| a deluge to sweep them from the earth
UmiUersal5st Herald
Robert Collyer on the Sermon on the Mount.
The sermons of some preachers I have
heard are like glass of Missouri water,
you must let them settle in some quiet
place before you can see through them
and then there is apt to be gritty and
earthly sediment which you are bound to
reject. The Sermon on the Mount is as
clear as the springs that percolate through
granite. There is no room in the Sermon
on the Mount for our CLOSES and emend-
ations. no crevice in the preachers shin :
ing mail and no mean and poor conclu-
sion affronting the noble truth. DIR.
Furness told me that to hear Claiming
read it was the sum of all preaching, and
H. -
seemed to hear the house slide and shud-
der to it's doom. It was the echo in our
century of the wonder which seized those
who heard the matchless discourse.
Hindu Religion.