The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-28
NOTES AND GLEANINGS.

of the soul as the animating, separable,
surviving entity, the vehicle of individual
personal existence"
"THERE u.s." says Montsigne, 9" know
not what natural sweetness in hearing q
mans self commended, but we are great
deal too fond of it."
The cornerstone of the new Starr
King Memorial church in San Francisco
is the same that was laid in the founda-
ton OF the old church by King himself.
CONGREGATIONAL Union statistics show
$500 churches in England and Wales, as
compared with 4, 400 last year. The min
listers number nearly 1000. In Scotland
the denomin alton has 100 churches.
ABOUT 1910 a Polish officer lecturing
in Indiana on the Wars of Napoleon l..
often used the word "hussar." His hear
ers corrupted the word into Hoosier"
term which soon became distinctive of
Indianians.
FREDERICK F. THOMPSON, an alumnus
of Williams College, has agreed to give
$4,000 toward the 100000 fund for
erecting memorial building at Williams
in honor of DR.. Mark Hopkins, il the re-
naming $4,000 is raised.
"WHEN all is said and DONE" remarks
Christian Life, the true test of minis
ter's success lies, not in the crowds whom
he temporarily attracts to the house OF
prayer, but in the numbers whom he per-
manently attaches thereto"
DIR. PAXTON says of poor ministers:
"What can poor minister do? He can't
steal, being minister; he can't beg, and
you can't hire him as clerk because you
can't swear at him. God ought to take
poor ministers to heaven
DIR. BUCKLEY, editor of the Christian
Advocate, has an important article in his
series in the February Century. He
writes this time of "Astrology, Divination
and Condolences" and shows the con-
nection of these matters with the general
argument he is carrying on in relation to
Mind Cure, Spiritualism, etc.
The six Powers bordering on the North
Sea have come to an international agree
and men on board fishing vessels; that
they be forbidden to buy spirits; that
exchange of goods by them for spirits be
equally forbidden, and that vessels ped
ding supplies to fishing vessels should
not be allowed to sell liquors.
AS an instance of inquiry amongst the
educated classes in India, it is stated that
in Calcutta, a well-known Brahmin re-
Gently called on DR.. Baumann, who, in
the course of conversation, asked him
whether he had ever read our Bible The
man looked at him and then slowly re-
piled, 81 have read the New Testament
eighty three times, and the Old Testament
twenty-seven."
SAYS a careful writer inthe Independ-
emit: In every important country on the
face of the globe where Protestant mis-
sions are at work are also to be found Ro-
man Catholic missions with much larger
force OF European men and women at
their command and treasury that seems
to be inexhaustible. In the long future,
when the science of missions comes to
be written, we shall find that orr enemies
have thing or two to teach us. After
making a wide margin for all the exag-
gerated account of Roman Catholic mis-
sions we must surely be able to see that
the Papacy is to-day as never before win
ming the millions over to its system"
The Turks being prohibitionists by
order of the Koran, have commenced a
little war upon the saloons kept by the
Christians of Constantmople. Such es-
Establishments, when confined to the Chris
tian quarter, are not objected to by the
Turkish authorities, but, having opened
them within $50 feet of their churches or
mosques, they were ordered closed and
the police are giving effect to the decree.
Such thing is too much for diplomats,
so the foreign consuls held a meeting, re-
solved that unanimous protest should
be entered against SO outrageous pro-
ceeding on the part of the "unspeakable"
Turk, and be delivered by their respect
i've embassies to the Porte on the same
day.
THE cases pending against the Had
dock conspirators were recently dismissed
on the motion of the State. There were
pending one indictment for murder and
one Tor conspiracy against ten defend
ants, John Arensdorf, Fred Munchrath,
Jr., Paul Leader, Harry Sherman, Sylves-
ter Ganda, Albert Koschnitzki, 81. Fl.
Leavitt, George Treiber, Louis Plath,
and Henry Peters. or these Arensdorf has
been once acquitted of murder. Kosch-
nitzki and Leavitt secured immunity by
testifying for the State. Fred Munchrath,
Jr., has been sentenced to four years
imprisonment for the murder, and Trei-
Der, Plath, and Peters are fugitives. The
dismissal of the indictments will not at
feet Munchrsth, or the last three named.
The State based its action on the mex
pediency of attempting to convict the
accessories of the principal after the re-
fusal of the jury to convict Arensdorf.
"THE Universalists of the West Side"