The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-07-17
Edited 9ntes a1rd 9erus.

olu on MONDAY, July D.
There are no less than 1853 graduates
in the present Congress.
The Advance says that DR.. Withrow
is Presby- gationalist."
The trustees of Marietta (O.) College
have refused to admit lady students.
The Emperor of Germany has sent a
message of thanks to the New York Judge
who condemned Herr Most, the noted
Socialistic agitator.
Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor of the
Christian Union, is spending the summer
in Colorado and Utah. He is now in Den
yer, and expects to visit Salt Lake in a
few weeks
-Advices from New London say that
ex-President Arthur has not gained
strength or improved since going there,
but seems to be gradually growing
worse.
Rev. DIR. Schaff has been studying
the land and people of Spain, and gath
cred valuable historical impressions,
which he hopes to utilize at some future
day in his church history.
Mr.. Gladstone telegraphs with refer.
ence to the Irish question: "Wales and
Scotland have seen their duty quickly.
England will have to learn hers, but slow
ly and painfully"
In sentencing convicted boycotters
to imprisonment and labor, Judge Bar
rett, OF New York, said that this was a
violation of peace to a country that well
coined foreign-born citizens, and offered
freedom and the privilege of right. They
had violated public rights and opinions.
and their offense was not short of black
mail.
Rev. j. Ii. Munro. of PHILADELPHIA.
says that the reason why SO many clergy
men go to Europe every summer is that
the expenses of the trip are but little If
any more than those covering a summer
jaunt in this country; and that the great
advantage is that when once across the
water they are not likely to be recalled on
"any little emergency"
"A prize of one thousand dollars. for
the best book on The Christian Oblioa-
lions OF Property and Labor" is offered
by the American Sunday school Union.
OF Philadelphia. The book must contain
between 10000 and 100000 words. and all
competing MSS. must be sent in by Nov.
l, 1887. Such an offer ought to stimulate
writer's and thinkers to produce a work
That Will be of great service in the solu-
ton OF the complicated questions involved.
Prof. Timothy Dwight, new president
OF Yale College, said in his inaugural
that all were agreed that Yale College
was to be university, and considered
now the end could be attained. "We are
not planning a new institution, but are
beginning new epoch in one that has
existed two centuries. The work before
us Is one OF development under predeter-
mined conditions. Within the past thirty
years the number of students has in
creased fourfold, and the college has
greatly gained in resources"
The Jewish Messenger has been read
ing the Bible, and it is struck with the
frequency of some Biblical words that
have special application to our times:
The Bible commands that servants shall
be treated with love and kindness mora
than seven hundred times The poor
and the needy are referred to more than
one hundred and fifty times, while the
WORD rich" appears only twenty.one
times. On the other hand, widows and
orphans are spoken of-compassionately
Oh course-more than one hundred times:
the expressions fright" and "iustice' ;,
appear six hundred times, and "love"
and mercy" three hundred times.
The 250th anniversary of Harvard
College occurs next November. There
has been no program decided upon, but
about four days, it is supposed, will be
devoted to the celebration. Many noted
men will be invited from abroad, espe.
cially from Emanuel College, Cambridge,
OF which Harvard is an offshoot, and also
from the great German universities.
Among the American celebrities who will
receive invitations are President McCosb.
OF Princeton, Porter and Dwight, of Yale.
Barnard, of Columbia, President Cleye-
land and his Cabinet, Governor Robin
son, James Russell Lowell and others.
Rev. DR.. Rust. of the Freedman's
Aid Society, recently addressed the New
ark M. e. Conference on the work of his
society. In giving some instances of the
anxiety of young colored men to preach
ne said that one young man, who was
considered unfit for preaching the Cos
pei, said that he knew he had been called
to preach because in dream he had seen
the letters, &C. P. c." and that meant.
$50 preach Christ" An old colored
brother rose in the conference and said:
Young man. you no doubt saw the let
tiers q. T. o. but you did not interpret
them right. They meant for you to Go
pick cotton. or Go pillow corn"
-"The Scriptures" said DR.. Woodrow
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