The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-11
Edited 1ntes and 1etus.


establishing free kindergartens in that
city.
DIR. Storrs, of Brooklyn, has recently
celebrated his sixty-ifth birthday, and
will celebrate his fortieth anniversary as
pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims in
November.
The Swedish congress has granted q
subsidy of 5000 crowns for the promotion
OF temperance by means OF literature
dealing with the effects of the use of
alcoholic liquore.
The Methodist ministers of Iowa
offer reward of one thousand dollars
'or the arrest and conviction of the muir
derer or murderers of Rev. George G.
Haddock, at Sioux City.
Mrs. Sherwood writes to the Boston
TraUetler that 1--WE find Paris dull and
dirty. No city has changed SO much in
two years; that wonderful cleanliness has
departed, and disorder reigns."
The presbytery of Augusta, Ga, ac-
quilted DR.. Woodrow of the charge of
heresy made against him for his evolu-
ton tenets. The case will be taken to
the synod of Georgia, whioh meets in
October.
The Pope has published decree, re-
Installing the Jesuit order in all privileges
conferred upon it by his predecessors
ever since it's foundation, notwithstand-
ing the decree of Pope Clement XIV,
against it in 1772.
1T was said by former king of Prus-
STA that, as we are Intellectually blind
the Deity sent us religion as a stick to
guide us on our way; but instead of using
it as heaven intended, we began to be-
labor each other with it.
Twenty-Five names Of persons claim
ing to be more than 100 years old, were
reported by the enumerators who took
the inter decennial census in Iowa. The
oldest was Jacob Heike, of Grundy
county, who gave his age as 121.
DIR. Deems, the venerable pastor of
the Church of the Strangers, In New York,
has strong convictions upon the subject
of closed churches, and expresses them
very frankly. He keeps his church open
all the year round, and always has con-
gregation.
The Episcopal general convention
will meet in Chicago during October
Among other important topics to be dis
cussed will be the revised prayer book,
and the establishment Of an appellate
court, to which cases now adjudicated by
the bishops court may be carried.
-" Bear ye one another's burdens"
Is it strange thing to ask or hard task
to perform? Not from the Christian
standpoint A Scottish minister has re-
Gently said, most trutbfully: 1t is only
by bearing one another's burdens that
we can really bear our own" STANDARD.
Preaching recently at Nottingham,
England, Cardinal Manning is reported
to have said that he would wish to have
the four gospels form part OF the course
Of study in every school throughout the
land, and to have made the statement the
basis of an attack upon the Board schools.
The obituaries in the Bible it will be
noticed are very brief-sometimes only a
line or two-and yet how much they con.
tain. 1t might be well for ministers to
study these, and SO learn to condense. 1t
is possible to say as much IN ten lines as
is often said in half column Christian
World.
The late Amos A. Lawrence, remarks
the Boston Herald, set high value on
the possession of good Judgment. 1t
was saying of his that the breed Of
merely Smart" men was increasing
fast, while the men of sound Judgment
were becoming comparatively few, and
must command higher price.
Figures, which proverbially can not
lie, show that the cornfields Of the United
States cover territory as large as En-
gland, Scotland and Belgium united,
while the grain fields surpass Spain in
territorial extent. The acreage of our
farm lands under cultivation is equal in
extent to all of the United kingdoms
of Great Britain and Ireland, France,
Belgium, Portugal, Germany and Austro-
Hungary.
We have read, says the Christian
Evangelist (St Louis), with considerable
interest an article in the August Forum
entitled Confessions of Roman Cath
olic," in which an intelligent member OF
that faith lays bare what he regards as
the weaknesses of his church. On the
whole the article is a fair minded criti-
cism of Catholicism, and if it had been
uttered three or four centuries ago would
have sent its author to the stake.
"A great deal has been said of late
about the drunkenness on the part of
Congressman. This leads Mr.. Mussey,
OF the Commercial Gazette, to write the
following: San extract from some Wash
ingtoD correspondence has been going
round, containing some pretty wild state.
ments about the drunkenness prevailing
among Senators and Congressman. One
might believe from some OF these state
ments that Congress was body of inebri.