The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-25
Edited 4ntes and 51erps.

MILWAUKEE, is disposed to crow over
the successful establishment" OF a sum-
ner school Of philosophy there.
Rev. Charles W. Wendte proposes to
Unitarian church in Oakland.
Cal, just across the bay from San Fran.
cisco.
Try kissing your children when they
do right, sometime, instead of furnishing
them when they do wrong, and see how
it will work.
An unnamed member of Henry Ward
Beecher's congregation is said to be writ
ing novel, of which the great preacher
is to be the hero.
Says George F. Parsons, in the Sep
TENDER atlantic, at is absurd to look. in
parties dependent upon the saloon, for
enlightened patriotism, progressive pol
icies, or any real care for the welfare of
the nation
The new Western Unitarian Associa-
ton has established head. quarters in
Room 20 Montauk block lis Monroe ST.
Chicago. This will be hereafter the office
OF The Unitarian. This is one of the
changes resulting from the recent split"
Celia Burleigh once said: "When
God would educate a man, he compels
him to learn bitter lessons. He sends
him to school to the necessities rather
than to the graces, that by knowing all
suffering, he may know also the eternal
consolation"
The Herald (Universalist) remarks: "If
the nature of salvation were better m
derstood there would be less objection to
its Universally. To be saved is not to
go to heaven when you die. 1t is to be
saved from the sinful condition, and made
holy. Salvation in sin is therefore an
absurdity."
1t is easy to show that old Jacob
Behmen's book was dreamy and mystical;
but many soul was moved to a better
life by those simple words he never failed
to attach to every letter he wrote: "The
open fountain in the heart of Christ Je-
sus-may it refresh us and illumine us
forever. Amenp'
The decree of the Pore that the
Knights of Labor is mischievous organ
izatlon and must be vigorously opposed
" al Iofh SC Ill, H.
some trouble. Monsignor O'Brien, the
papal ablegate said in Toronto recently
that the decree is absolute and must be
obeyed in all parts of the world.
The Chicago University has finally
decided to suspend it's educational wo rk.
This institution was under Baptist con-
troll and for years has been burdened with
a debt of 100000. 1t is now rumored
that the property will be purchased by
Archbishop Feehan for use as Catholic
Theological Seminary.
In speaking of the Salvation army in
this city, The Interior, supported by the
Presbyterian church, says: But little re-
liable intelligence can be gained of the
inside work. OF its outside work we
have more than is desirable. When it
promenades the streets, as it invariably
does twice on the Sabbath, with a band
of music and half dozen frightful sing
ers, it vexes the pious people, desecrates
the Sabbath, gives occasion for vast
amount of other Sabbath breaking-and
ought to be arrested"
The Bishop of Rochester, an English
divine of learning and wide influence,
thus speaks to young clergymen about
preaching: "Do not really give in to what
is often only worldly cry for short SER
mons. You need great deal more expert
ence than you car claim now for making
fifteen minutes sermon that shall be re-
ally useful. Either so much will be COM
pressed into it that it will become loaded
and obscure, or (what is perhaps more
likely SO little will go into it that it will
be impossible to endure it,"
The late Professor Stowe had sort
of old-school courtesy, though always the
habit of student, and not that of man
OF the world. One day, a couple of years
ago, when Modjeska was in Hartford at
the house of friend, she called upon the
doctor. He had never seen her on the
stage, but he admired her character and
genius from report, and he was evidently
exceedingly pleased to see her When
she rose to go the old gentleman, making
an effort to rise from his chair, said,
MADAM, 1 am very glad you called. 1
should not like to have gone to heaven
without seeing you"
The New York Examiner discusses
the preaching of the day and the duty of
preachers in the premises. 1t says: "The
great need of the time is fresh, interest
ing preaching. The American pulpit, as
whole, is respectable in scholarship,
sufficiently sound in theology and fairly
trained in the art of oratory. But it
would be greatly the gamer if the old
truths were enforced from newer points
of view, if the treatment OF texts were
less mechanical, if the style we're less
conventional, il the range of topics was
as full of variety as the Scriptures them