The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-07-24
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Where Communication y is Hard.

through q discourse, My brethering
and friends, it is hard for us to commu-
nicate to others the things whereof we
are not ourselves sufficiently possessed"
We think we have seen other kinds of min
listers who were laboring under the same
difficulty. Others whom we have seen
have something to give and give all they
have, putting it into half dozen sermons.
Others again speak what they know but
do not prodigally give away all they
possess. They are good for ever so many
runs without an exhaustion of steam
Interior.
A Good Example.
A Christian gentleman wishing to hear
certain clergyman (now departed, full
OF faith, full of good works, full of years,
full of honors) went into the gallery of
his church, where were many vacant
pews. He took one Of them, but had
hardly sat down when his eyes were
greeted with placard: strangers are
requested not to take this Slip" In the
same house an elderly woman walked
nearly the length of the aisle-there were
plenty Of vacant sittings-turned, and
was walking back, no one offering her a
seat. The clergyman left his pulpit,
came down, gave her bis arm, and led her
to slip. q want to say right here, God
bless him! Can't !, and be good Protest.
antO How many like things and Of like
import might be metioned. But these
are the more readily mentioned, as that
house is now free-Christian Union.
Platform Etiquette.
No man should ever consent to address
an audience, when he is expected to be
followed by other speakers, who does not
know how to sit down when his time
is out. If he has not this knowledge, it
is the manifest duty of the presiding
officer to indicate, in some quiet and gen.
tlemanly way, that it is time for him to
stop, that another speaker may have the
opportunity of doing what he has agreed
to do.-The ETan,i9ser.
An Illinois Sermon Factory.
The cheap sermon factory OF Bloom
ington, H., goes on placing temptation
in the hands OF ministers to use other
mems dscourses instead Of their own IN
preaching. Some sad cases of exposure,
growing out OF the use Of this mans ma
terials, have lately occurred There are
some youNg men we know whom we
could expose and ruin, and w0ald do 30
if we had net privssely written them aad
warned them We are now waiting for
the warning 10 take effect. Sermon
thieves in the end are exposed. We
could give the name Of a man who would
have besn called back TO church fer the
second time if the fact that much OF his,
matter during this, first term was stolen
had not come to- be generally known
among ths official members Christian
Advocate, Nesc Yos11.
The Poet wAsstierl Z. P. whipr sss
Scarcely inferior 10 Macaulay in brillj
mmee of dictien and graphic portraiture, !.
he was freer from prejudice and passion.
and more loysE to the truth OF fact and
history He was thoroughly honest
man. He wr5te withs Oonssience always
at his elbow, and new srIsacrifced1 his real
convictions for the sake of spigTsm and
ansithesie. He instiDctivefy took the
righa side of the questions that came be-
fore him for decision even when 30, do
ing he ranked himself'R tho unpopular
H&had themanlieet hasred Of
hypocrisy antasmeanness, but if A6s ham
guage had at times- the severity Of iEsst-
ice, it was pswer mseciless. He set
down nsught m maliae."- Boston yssa-
script.
Wdhhng a. Minister
DIR. Lyman BeecheF wrotseconssrning
the village OF East Hampton, Long ISL
and: "The Ssst minister ca this parish
was Rev. Mr. James, the terms of his
support vera forty-fNe pounds annually,
land rate free> grairsto be firsttgreund at
the mill every Monday, andpne-fSupbh Of
the whales ssrandedion thu beach. This
lis the only case Lover knew, of b minis
ter being paid in, whales At bhis day
ID would nss he much of an addition 10 q
minister's mcomes but in. those. ID nlght
be. AS lsse as the year 1700a it is said
shat VIC aAan riding from East Hampton
TO Binglsampton, saw thirteen whales
along thu shore between the two phsaes."
Canals oa.the FsansttHnsrs.
The belief of an italian astronOmer,
that certain gridiron-like appearances
observed by him on the planet Mars are
canals, is not shared. by a, French sstron-
omer who has lately considered the sub,
ject. The Kfenchnan can net believe,
that there are civil, engineers in Mars
80 saperior. to M. de Lssseps as to be
able to construct canals B. Thousand misss
long and fifty iailes vide, which is the
ssae, according 10 the best estimates, of
the appearances undes discussion. He is
satisfied that, 20, far from being canals,
they aFe strips of forest planted by
methoaical people who have been visited
by temp ests and overwhelming inunda-
tons as consequence of permitting
theG planet to become denuded Of it's
natural woods.
WHAT UNlyERSALlSM IS NOT AND
WHAT 1T is.