The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-07-31
Edited 1ntes and 4e,us.

Leo Puuncdeiobs Dy HrOn1b1uOnlets.
Mr.. Beecher thinks the English peo-
pie are not accustomed to humor in the
pulpit. Well, they will get sample or
two when Henry Ward breaches.
The LiUing Church remarks that
"The cause of the workingman is in the
way of being seriously set back because
some OF its methods are SO exacting and
outrageous"
There are in the aggregate nearly
500 counties in the South in which. under
State local option laws, the people have
prohibited the traffic in intoxicating
drinks. And prohibitive measures are,
in general, effectively enforced.
The London correspondent of the
New York Tribune stigmatizes Rev. DR..
Parker as "a noisy preacher of equivoeal
reputation" There is no ground for the
slur In the latter part of the remark, no
matter what we may think of the former
part.
1t is said that there are settlements
OF Jews in nearly every country in the
world. In Africa they are found in con-
siderable numbers in the countries bor-
dering on the Mediterranean Sea. and
in Abyssinia the Falashas are freouentlv
called Jews.
-"W We can't do anything with the
French. They are either bigoted Roman
lists OF unapproachable infidels." This is
the frequent assertion of American mas
tors who have French neighbors. If is.
however, denied by a correspondent of
the Interior.
The Congregational Church Union in
session at Ottawe, Canada, favorably con-
sldered the recommendation that the
Congregational church in Canada sbould
seek union with that of the United
States, and the executive committee has
been instructed to prepare a report on
the matter.
The Episcopal Convention in In.
dianapolis adopted this resolution, "That
it is the sense of this convention that apy
clergyman seeking official position, and
making personal solicitation of votes
ought not to be elected, and that he is
guilty OF conduct unbecoming a clergy
man of the Church of Christ"
| "A correspondent writes that Miss
Alice Freeman, the president of Wellesley
is in herself glorious example of what
woman may become. Small and slight
and handsome, only twenty. eight years
OF age, she has mastered thoroughly seven
languages, all the sciences, and won the
right to stand beside any professor on
earth as president of college.
| AT Mt. Hermon, in the town of North
field, Dwight L. Moody opened, July 7, a
summer school for the study of the Bible
1t is attended by 225 college students
drawn from the Young Mems Asso-
Citations OF leading colleges in this coun-
try and Canada, many coming from the
South. Mr.. Moody will be in general
charge and have able assistants.
The Duke of Argyll has written a
letter to the London Times regarding
America and Ireland, in which he SAYS
that despite the existence of great nation
al sympathies profound ignorance pre-
walls, both in England and America. con-
corning each others Constitutions. The
Duke gives as an illustration his own
profound ignorance Of American institu-
tions at the time of the civil war.
Suicides by monarchs have been
rare in modern times. A quite recent
case was that of Abdul Aziz, sultan of
Turkey, who opened vein in his arm in
1876. In 1868, Theodore, emperor of
Abyssinia, is said to have shot himself.
In 1920 the king of Hayti escaped cap
ture by suicide. Charles VII, of France,
starved himself to death. The drowning
of King Ludwig adds the latest case to
the list.
In the room where Judge Davis died
was a calendar containing a sentiment
for each day, which he always read with
interest. For Saturday, June 26, the day
he died, it SO happened that the passage
was from the pen of his old friend, Pres
ident Lincoln, as follows: "God is the
only being who has time enough, but a
prudent man who knows how to seize &C.
casions can commonly make a shift to
find as much as he needs"
In the Andover ReUieao Rev. Henry
b. Metcalf gives Some Thoughts about
Capital and Labor" as the "plain words
of a business man." As to the subject of
arbitration, the writer thinks that as a
piece of fixed machinery, it can have lit
tie strength in the absence of either of
two elements: First, absolute disinterest-
edness, impartiality and spirit of thor
ough justice to both disputants on the
part of arbitrators; second, thorough
familiarity with the considerations in
volved."
Efficiency in the ministry" says the
New York Advocate (Methodist), "de-
ponds upon three things-piety, knowl-
edge, and physical and mental energy.
Take away either physical energy or
piety, and the minister is like an eagle
with one wing disabled; take away both,
and he is like an eagle with both pinions
broken; take away knowledge, and he is