The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-12
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this fpoint Education, not strikes, is
the need of the hour"
Mrs. MARY A. L1vERMoRE recently
preached two successive Sundays at the
Univer list church, Washington.
HIN WESLEY used to say: "Pass
smoo thly over the perverseness of those
you have to do with, and go forward"
HUMANITY is more than mere civiliza-
ton. Humanity does not consis in polite
ness and graceful forms alone, but in the
just treatment of all as in like conditions
we would wish to be treated.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL was sixty-nine
years of age February %, Washington's
birthday. In recent letter he says: 81
had the misfortune to be born on the
22d, and thus to be brought into compe-
tition once year with the most august
figure in our history"
JUDGE TULIY, among the many other
good things that he is constantly doing,
has instituted a most commendable re-
form in his court. Henceforth the curious
and prurient attendance of women upon
his divorce trials is prohib tied, and only
necessary witnesses are admitted.
The people of Japan are greatly inter-
ested in the education and elevation OF
women. In 1887 there were one hundred
and twenty-eight new schools and socie-
ties for girls and women established in
that country. These are in addition to
the public schools which have long exist
ed.
On one occasion at a dinner at the
Bishop of Chester's, Hannah Moore
urged DR.. johnson to take little wine.
He replied, 81 can't drink little, child,
and therefore I never touch it. Absti-
hence is as easy to me as temperance
would be di fficult." The difference be-
tween Dr. johnson and many others is
that he was wise man and knew his own
weakness.
Count LEO ToLsToI, the famous Rus
sian literateur, has organized and placed
himself at the head of temperance asso-
citation at Mockar, called the Society of
the Temperate. The members are
pledged, not to drink Intoxicating liquors
OF any sort, nor to sell or offer them to
any one, but to labor to convince others,
especially children, of the dangers of in
temperance.
The National Baptist says: "Woman
has attained position in this country
far in advance of that of other lands; and
yet she is still woman, and not made
masculine in thought, or speech or action.
At least, SO it seems to us, we may fairly
conclude from carefully following the
discussions of the International Council
of Women of 1885,"
The Methodist Recorder, speaking of
Spiritualism, says, 1--WE have no doubt,
whether the thing is true or false, that it
is the work Of the devil" On which re-
spends the Register: "We have often
heard the devil spoken of as the father of
lies, but not as the father of truth; and to
have this eminence attributed to him by
a religious journal is compliment to his
authority that we did not expect"
Col. ELLIOT F. SHEPARD, the new pro-
prietor of the New York Mail and Ea-
press, prints at the head of the editorial
page, daily, verse of Scripture, giving as
his reason that "men who are necessarily
much absorbed in business should be re-
minded of the words of the heavenly Faith
er." He is undaunted by sneers, and says:
ut is God they ridicule, not me; and de-
clares that he shall continue the practice
as long as he owns the paper.
OF Matthew Arnold the Christian
Union says that she has done good SER
vice in leading thousands of English read
ers unfamiliar with German scholarship
to better analysis OF the Bible and to
clearer apprehension OF its essential hu-
manity, il not Of its ethical teaching; but
of it as book OF spiritual unwilling he
knew nothing. He who will read first
Arnold and then Maurice will find in
their combined Interpretation compre-
hensive view which he will not adequate
ly get from either alone"
The Eram iner (Baptist) remarks: "If
we would see the cause of Christ prosper,
let us who are his followers place the en-
phasis right In our daily lives we may
initiate his gentlenees and self-eacrifice
in our teaching we may make prominent
the love and mercy of God. We need
not be sentimental, or morally weak
kneed to do this. When the duty is laid
upon us we may speak bravely against
we need in any case make
no compromise with evil. True Chris
tianity wins, it does not repel."
A JAPANESE scholar, Ichitaro Fukuza-
wa, has an article in the Christian Reg
;Ster, christianity or Reformed Bud
1hism," in which he expresses himself, in
Universalist accents not less than Uni
7ersalist sentiments, touching the doc
rine of salvation by fear. SIT is a shame,
more shameful than words can express
% the JspRnese-yea, to any people or to
my individuality be thus crushed and
degraded to such abject depths of fear by