The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-07-31
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converted to Christianity.
-"The brethren who talk never tire"
says the Richmond Advocate. But those
they talk to do get tired-sometimes
Prohibition is matter concerning
which men of all denominations
bly, excepting ethodists-differ.- Chris
tian at Work.
The railways of the United States
to-day are said to represent about four
thousand millions of dollars in purely
fictitious capital.
The Spiritual Offering observes that
Language is inadequate to express the
anguish engendered by the false and
cruel dogma of Eternal Punishment"
According to Joseph Cook, Horace
Greeley called the Sunday newspaper a
social Demon" We would like chapter
and verse for this remark of Greeley's.
The Christian Register sententiously
remarks: "Parishioners will not COM
plain in this hot weather that the minis
ter's sermons are lean, if the leaning is
toward mercy"
"A writer in the Times Hondon)
points out the interesting fact that the
future heir to the Bavarian throne is the
Stuart heir apparent to the English
throne, the Jacobite Prince of Wales.
Salvation says Amiel, Giles in the
Cancellation OF duty and happiness, in
the union of the individual will with the
Divine Will, and in the faith that this
supreme will is directed by love-"
The Journal of Education thinks the
American universities and colleges too
free with their honorary degrees, the re-
suit being to bring into contempt and
suspicion our intellectual standards.
The Dean of Winchester states that
in England and Wales there are 100000
Sunday-school teachers and 100000
scholars; that is one-fifth of the whole
population are in Sunday school.
The Boston Globe thinks that the
curse of the present college course is the
prevailing extravaganza, and adds that
rich parents are wholly to blame. 1t
fails, however to suggest a remedy for
the evil.
The Current favors a reform in the
treatment of jurors: "Treat juror in
criminal case as citizen should be treat
ed. Send him to his home or his hotel at
night. Leave him free to inform himself,
and supervise his business. That will
unfarce the thing"
The death of Rev. Charles A. Dali
Unitarian missionary at Coonoor, India,
in the seventy first year of his age, is an
nounced. He has been in the missionary
service for over thirty years. During
the early years of his ministry he resided
at st. Louis.
"A religious revival in Paris is some
thing to which the world has not been
u,
ever, that the high life of the French cap
ital is passing through some sort of re,
ligious experience and exhibiting re-
vivalistic pause.
In Berlin, says the Pail Mall Gazette,
there is an association of theological stu.
dents bearing the name "Wingolfites''
which has for years observed on the
Wednesday before Ascension Day, the
curious custom OF divining for the EN-
peror's destiny. Wholesale beer drink
ing is part of the ceremony.
A clergyman wrote critique on DR..
Farrars volume entitled External Hope"
and sent copy to brother clergyman.
After reading it, his friend wrote his ac-
acknowledgements as follows: 81 have read
your criticisms, and feel compelled to say
that you are not fair to Farrar, and that
Farrar is fairer than you by far are +"
The Interior announces that Louise
Michel hopes to come to America after
death, when her soul migrates, and adds:
IF other anarchists should come as
disembodied spirits, or attain that condi-
ton Immediately after their arrival, it
would be an immense benefit to the coun-
try"
In the August installment of Mr..
Howelps new novel, The Minister'S
Charge" now appearing in the Century,
occurs the following passage: "Sewell
1.-THE minister unused awhile. Then he
said with smile, It's very much SIM
pier to fit people for the other world than
for this, don't you think Yes, it is re-
piled the EDITOR. 1T was a cold day for
the clergy, when it was imagined they
ought to do BOTH"
Some hymns which have become
widely popular, had very narrow escape
from oblivion during their infancy. This
WAS the case with DR.. Muhlenbergs ST
would not live Away" 1t first appeared,
as the "Rock of Ages" and as many other
famous hymns have, in the columns of a
newspaper. The committee of the Epis-
copal Hymn al rejected it as too senti-
mental, and its author, who was on the
committee, voted against it. Bishop On
derdonk induced the committee to recon-
slider their vote, and at his urgent en-
treaty they accepted it. 1t is now known