The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-12-18
Edited Merus and 9otes.


The Andover prosecutors have amend
ed their charges. "What they need to
do" sharply remarks the Register, sis to
amend their theology"
"A subscriber in Springboro, o.,
writes: "The blessed truths that The UNI
vERsALIsT speaks from week to week are
of more comfort than all the orthodox
literature in the world"
The Rev. DR.. Withrow, of Boston,
who strongly opposes the accused An
dover professors, says that he made up
his mind about doctrinal points thirty
years ago, and never means to change it.
The Church Press says: "We have
been asked why we have not taken DR..
his recent utterances on the Church. It
has simply seemed better to let him
alone" Better, undoubtedly, for the
Church Press; but this is not the mean
ing of the writer.
=" The Faith that makes Faithful is
the pleasing title of volume composed
of eight sermons by William @. Gannett
and Jenkin Lloyd Jones, to be published
this month by Charles Fl. Kerr & Co., of
Chicago 1t will no doubt be very read
able volume, as both the authors are men
OF religious genius and fine literary gifts.
1t is but reasonable to suppose that
Oliver Wendell Holmes feels greatly an
noyed because he has been quoted in a
Boston paper as saying that Emerson
came from the dirtiest instead Of the
"daintiest sectarian circle of the time"
Robert O. Winthrop is also displeased at
the Substitution in print of Alderman
Sidney" for what stood in manuscript
"Algernon Sidney"
The December number of the Allan
TIC Monthly publishes DIR. Oliver Wendell
Holmes Harvard celebration poem in
full. The lines 10 which DIR. McCosh
took exception are as follows:
"As once of old from Ida's lofty height
The flaming signal flashed across the night,
So Harvard's beacon sheds it's unspent rays
Till every watch tower shows its kinding
blaze.
Caught by a spark and famed by every gale,
A brighter radiance glds the roof of Yale;
Amherst and Williams bid their hambeaus
shine,
And Bowdoin answers through her groves of
pine;
Ger Princeton's sands the far reflections
steal,
Where mighty Edwards stamped his iron heel
Nay, on the hill where old beliefs were bound
Fast as if Styx had girt them nine times round.
Bursts such a light that trembling souls IT,
quire
If the whole church of Calvin is on fire;
Well may they ask; for what so brightly burns
AS dry creed that nothing ever learns?
Thus link by link is knit the flaming chain
Lit by the torch of Harvard's hallowed plain,
Friends IN Scott City, Kan, send in
an appeal for books, papers md maya
zines for their newly established reading
room in that city. We publish the ap.
peal and commend it to the attention of
our readers: The recently settled towns in
western Kansas seek your aid in the es-
thDi5uuShb Vi Ouuudy-scuOOls anu f6du-
ing rooms for the benefit of our young
men and women who are bravely doing
pioneer work on Kansas prairies, praying
that the gospel of good literature shall
WELD its mighty influence in these re.
Gently settled places. The long winter
evenings are here and the young men in
all frontier towns need the protecting in
huence of a cheerful reading room, well
stored and equipped to keep them from
the evil snares set for them. Have youa
book, magazine or paper you would like
your son or daughter to read? Please be-
stow it. The women OF Scott City are
pre-empting their one year old town for
this cause, and by great sacrifices have
built a good house in a central location
for this purpose, but have no means to
supply the necessary reading matter. An
unabridged dictionary, an encyclopedia,
second hand books, Sunday-school liter
allure, hymn books, Testaments, maya
zines, agricultural pspers,-in short, any
good reading matter, will be thankfully
received. Address, Mary L. Parsons,
Scott City, Kan.