The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-27
Edited 9erus and s9otes.

Rev. DIR. J. L. Withrow, of Boston,
has at last accepted the call from the
Third Presbyterian church of Chicago,
as successor to DIR. Kittredge.
Petitions are being circulated which
will be presented to Congress asking for
the passage of the Blair educational bill.
Rev. DR.. R. s. Storrs, who has just
celebrated the fortieth anniversary of his
Brooklyn pastorate, was once a student
in the Office of Rufus Choate, the famous
advocate.
The bills for the Cook County, Hi.
nois, poorhouse, show that 286 gallons
OF whisky were consumed in that insti
tuition in the last two months. Said poor
house evidently needs looking after.
There is altogether too much whisky to
the square inch.
Col. L. W. Higginson corrects in the
Boston Post a misapprehension as to Miss
Frances Power Cobbe's religious attitude.
She has never been Positivist, he SAYS,
nor found her God in collective human
lty, but is strong Deist, and probably
comes nearest to the opinions of Theo-
dore Parker, whose works she edited in
England.
-"Know, dearest brother" SAYS st.
Francis of Assist, "that courtesy is one
OF Gods own properties, who sendeth bis
rain and his sunshine upon the just and
upon the unjust out of his great courtesy.
And verify courtesy is the sister of char
ity, who banishes hatred and cherishes
love-"
"A dispatch from Montreal, Nov. 10,
says: cit is announced that Cardinal
Taschereau will leave early in December
for Rome with Cardinal Gibbons to re-
ceive the red hat at the hands of the pom
tiff himself, in the consistory to be held
next month. When in Rome the oues-
ton of the church and the Knights of
Labor will be definitely arranged"
The Charleston Meas remarks, and
In our opinion, very wisely: The trouble
with DIR. Talmage and many other "popu-
lar preachers" of the day is that they try
to make religion too common, and instead
OF building men up to God they try to
drag God down to the low level of human
ity. The Sam Joneses of the pulpit of to-
day have done as much to profane sacred
things and to bring reproach upon religs
ion as all the infidel pamphlets and lect-
ures that have been printed or spoken in
the last quarter of century.
The Interior on the Methodists and
the Thanksgiving bird: The Interior,
always and spontaneously, takes off it's
hat before the statement of Methodist
minister on the subject of turkeys. What
he doesn't know about them is of no con-
sequence and no man need try to find out.
Therefore, when such a minister states
that turkeys are unfit for the table in
October, we promptly rise to withdraw
our second to the motion that Thanks
giving day be changed from November to
October. In the face of such reliable
testimony, the thing can't be done.
Rev. R. Heber Newton, before a
large congregation in his own church,
said: "The time is coming when the diff
ferences Of kings and emperors shall be
settled before boards of arbitration. In
all the universe what is there 80 beauti-
fnl as peace? In all nature what is there SO
bountiful as peace? The pensive woods, the
tranquil lake, the solemn mountains, the
deep blue skies, and the infinite calm that
broods over the universe, all give rest to
the soul. The time is coming when love
will take the place of fear. And when
men love God they will love each other"
1t is not generally known that the
poet Moore, Notwithstanding his book in
defense of the Roman church. chung to
Universalism. In his rhymes on the
Road" we read
well might the Loves rejoice, and well did
they
Who wove these fables picture in their weav-
ing,
That blessed truth (which in darker day
Origen lost his saintship for believing
That Love, Eternal Love, whose fadeless ray
Nor time nor death nor sin can overcast,
Even to the depths of hell will find his way
And soothe and heal and triumph there at
last
One may do we'll enough (writes
some one) in the ordinary affairs of life
when the tide makes with us and the
wind is fair, but when the great crises
come, when giant winds are driving us
relentlessly onward toward lee shore,
We want an anchor that will hold. Poor.
lone Hannah,
sold with watching
Stitch by the window binding shoes.
Not sail returning will she lose;
Whispering hoarsey, Fishermen,
Have you, have you heard of Benz
Oh, her hearts adrift with one
On an endless voyage gone"
Yet she hopeth, and this hope is her all
Would you rob her of it? Whether true
or false the Bible is our all; the one re-
generative, redemptive agency in the
world-the only word that even sounds
as if it came from the other side of the
wave.
Never was better answer made,
says the Christian Life, than a poor
Irishman made to Catholic priest, while
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