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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-07-28
PUTTING EVANGELISTS.

The puffery of "evangelists" is 30
uniform in style and in points that if
they do not carry them on blocked GEL
luloid all ready to be showed into a
newspaper form-as the advertisers do
it would pay them to invest in that
way. The Chicago Ne,cs and Inter-
Ocean seem to have each had cast of
the anne block-the same picture of
the celebrated evangelist and the same
old chestnut about there being ..'no ex-
element among his converts, no
claptrap, no devices, only the plain
preaching Of the Gospel. ''His dis
course was mainly composed of anec-
dotes"-says the celluloid block. What
is such advertising as this, but clap
trap? We have had attempts at getting
such puffery into our paper so often
that we know it when we see it. In
one case the variety and ingenuity of
the devices for securing puff in our
columns became matter of curious
study. "What will we try next?" be-
came the question after each detection.
Inferior.
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Southwell Minister" Much Of the
glass was foreign.
In 1903 we come upon the name of
an English glass painter which is pre-
served in the history of Exeter Cathed-
raj, where for 40 feet of painted
glass, and other such work, "Walter
the Glazier" was paid various sums. A
few years after "Walter of Exeter, .
the name of Robert of York is pre-
served, as having been paid in 1888 at
the rate of twelve pence per foot for
MS painted glass" He painted the
great west window of York Cathedral.
Another name occurs in the records of
Exeter Cathedral, that of Robert Lyen
A. ID. 1891. Men of his craft were
held in high estimation in former times,
being relieved from imposts under the
Emperors Constantine, Theodosius,
and Valentinian; and at Venice the
master GLACIERS of Murano were honor
ed with high social privileges, admit
ting them to intermarriage with the
Venitian mobility, and to the rank of
mobiles. The destruction of painted
glass was in no country greater than in
Italy, where this branch of art was
little appreciated. Indeed, with walls
adorned with mosaics and frescoes,
there is more need of pure sunlight
than variously colored lights shining
through glass windows. There was a
school of art in Florence, at the con-
vent outside the Porta a Pinti, where
monks established themselves in 1888,
and where, until the siege of 1929,
when it was entirely ruined, they en-
ployed themselves in the practice of
various arts, and eminently in
glass painting. "Their prior prepared
with his own hands the ultramarine
for Pietro Perugino for the frescoes
which he painted on the walls of the
convent; and for Michel Angelo, upon
his undertaking the frescoes of the
vaulting Of the Sistine Chapel in the
Vatican" Before the end of the
fourteenth century this art had attain
ed to eminence in northern and central
Italy, but it rarely penetrated the
south. Instances are given of glass
painters of Siena and Pisa, among
whom two, "about the year 1850, filed
with their painted glass, the arcade on
the two sides of the Campo Santo, for
the preservation of the frescoes there
from the action of the sea breezes-B.
de Scarperia and Leonardo, a Floren-
tine. Edinburgh Reuiep.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-07-28
STAINED-GLASS WINDOWS.

The early windows were marked by
simplicity in design and brilliancy of
color. In the thirteenth century an i'm
provement in design took place, the
architect apparently supplying the
figures, if we may judge from "the
works of Wilars de Honecort, who has
left among his drawings scores of
studies of figures, draperies and pro-
portion" In those days there was less
subdivision of the arts than now, and
80 "the glass painter often embraced
in his work the whole art of his profess
sion, from the first preparation of the
glass to the painting of the finished
window, as in the case of the Alsatian
glass painter, Jean de Kirkheim, who
executed great works in StIasburg
Cathedral (about A. D. l34O), where he
is described as Vibrator factor vitorum,
glsssetor, Pictor." In England much
destruction of works of art and of re-
cords took place. Occasionally, how
ever, they were ingeniously preserved,
as, for instance, the records of New
stead Abbey, (which lay for centuries
unsupported in the brass ball of its
lectern, now standing in the choir of
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-07-28
HEALTHY Discomfort.

There is discomfort which par
alyzes and destroys, discomfort with
ones conditions and circumstances
which makes one restless, bitter and
inefficient. This is alwaysa moral dis
ease to be avoided as any other con-
tagion is avoided, and to be cured as
any other disease is cured But there
is another kind of discomfort which is
a spur to excellence and an inspiration
to Observation-Disclosures with one's
self. No man ought to bs contented
with himself, to be satisfied with the
work he has done and the place he has
secured. 1t is the prevalence of self
content in these matters that gives us
so many average men and women, so
many commonplace persons who mis-
take their prejudices for their convic-
tions and their ignorance for their
knowledge; men and women who de-
sire no other authority for statement
than that they believe it, and who see
no truth in the world which does not
belong to them. This kind of self
sufficiency breeds egotism, narrowness,
and ends in absolute arrest of develop
ment. No man can grow who is salts
fed with himself. The open minded
man is never free from the feeling that
he has not done as much as he ought,
and that his future must redeem by its
increased usefulness and activity a
past in which he has failed to do the
best and the most for himself and
others. 1t would be found, if one
could look into the hearts of the men
and women whose course through life
is steady progression upward, that
divine discomfort is forever present in
aspiring hearts. Those who rise are
those who are never satisfied with
themselves, but who are always find
ing defects, faults, and failures to
humble them and to make them more
8 renuous in that which lies before. 1t
is a great mistake to be always telling
persons and nations that they have at
tanned great things, and that they have
made some approach to perfection.
The kind of criticism Mr.. Arnold gave
us is a great deal truer, is great deal
more helpful, than the adulation and
undiscriminating commentator which
some other travellers have given us.
Recognition of work done is spur and
a help, but there ought always to go
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-07-28
UNCOVERING THE SPHINX.

The last occasion ON which the great
Sphinx was cleared down to the level
on which the paws rest was in honor of
the opening of the Suez canal in 1868.
The ever drifting sands had, however,
reburied it almost to the throat when
Prof. Maspero, during his last year of
Office at Boulak, began again the work
of disinterment. This work has now
been going on somewhat intermittent
ly for more than twelve months, and is
at the present time in active progress
under the direction of Prof. Maspero's
successor, M. Grebaut. A tramway
has been laid down from the Sphinx to
the edge Of the pyramid plateau, pass
ing close under the west face of the
granite building, popularity though in
correctly called the Temple of the
Sphinx. Along the tramway light
trucks convey the sand to the point at
which their contents are discharged,
the trucks being loaded by Arabs of
both sexes and all ages, who carry the
sand upon their heads in large, fiat
baskets, ascending and descending all
day long from the excavations below to
the tramway above, and vice versa.
The means look curiously inadequate,
but the results are astonishing. AL
ready the entire forepart of the great
stone monster is laid bare, and already
the huge chest, the paws, the space
between the paws. the altar in front of
them, and the platform upon which
they rest are once more open to the
light of day. Nor is this all. Between
the Sphinx and the edge of the pyramid
plateau a vast space has also been
cleared, thus bringing to view a fine
flight of steps some forty feet in
width. These steps, which are de-
scribed by Pliny, were uncovered by
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-07-28
THE OLD THEOLOGY STILL TAUGHT.

I was interested to learn how our
evangelical" brethren treated the Sun
day-school lessons for May 6 and 10
in the international series. On con-
sulting several Of their approved jour
mails and lesson sheets I find that they
teach in the most literal way, the old
doctrines of a day of general judgment,
endless punishment and vicarious
atonement. Whatever hesitation may
appear in the pulpit, there seems to be
none when it comes to the instruction
of children. The Sunday School World
is published by the American Sunday
school Union. The comments on the
lesson for May 6, are by Rev. DIR. Nc
Arthur Of New York. He says, "This
description of the final judgment is
graphic and sublime, - the last judg-
ment of the whole world" 1--WE see
that the devil will be first cast into
hell, then they who are his. Men who
faithfully serve him here must dwell
with him forever hereafter. Bad men
must go to perdition. God-we say it
reverently-can not keep bad men out
of hell. Everlasting suggests
both the severity and the duration of
the punishment. No word in
the expressive Greek language is so ex.
pressive of endless duration as this.
Had Christ wished to teach the endless
ness of the punishment of the wicked,
this is the very word he would have
used. , We do not say that there
is in perdition material fire, but we do
say that such language, better than any
other language which could be employ
ed, expresses the true idea of the suf-
fering there experienced. To re-
fuse Christ now is to incur the most
terrible consequences at the judgment
and forever in eternity"
The "Westminster Teacher Presby-
terian) says, IF the blessed life of the
righteous is to be endless, the punish
ment Of the wicked is to be the same.
= = The doom of the wicked and the
blessedness of the righteous will be
alike eternal"
The pilgrim Teacher" (Congrega-
tionalist) comments thus: 1.-The two
awards are the exact opposites of each
other. If the one is never ending then
the other must be so. The words
point to judgment which is final and
irreversible. Endless joy and endless
misery are here set over one against
the other. Whether one shall stand
among the blessed or the cursed de-
ponds upon the choices now made"
The Sunday School Journal" Meth
odistl of which the Rev. DR.. Vincent
is editor, amplifies its comments with
evident zsst. In the discourse from
which the lesson is taken he says:
Christ sled his hearers across the I'M
known centuries of time bet ween his
two comings, the first and the last; and
he drew aside the veil that shrouds the
purposes of God. We see the sudden
glory flashing in the sky of the earth
ere the final darkness shall fall. The
throne of the king is appraised, sur
rounded by all the angelic host. Upon
the seat of judgment sits the son, bear
ing even in his glory the tokens of his
incarnation and his brotherhood to
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-07-28

Caviglia in 1917, but have been entire
ly lost to sight for nearly seventy
years. A second flight of steps and
the remains Of two Roman buildings
were also found by Caviglia, and will
again be brought to light if M. Grebaut
continues to work in this direction.
To the right of the Sphinx-that is
to say, in the direction Of the granite
temple to the southward-a further
excavation is in progress, the result of
which will probably confirm the sur
misses of those who believe the Sphinx
to stand in the midst of huge, artifi-
cial amphitheater hewn out of the solid
rock. This gigantic work would of
course be contemporaneous with the
Sphinx itself, which Marietta attribut-
ed to the mythic ages before the advent
of Mena, the first king of the first
dynasty, and which Maspero considers
to be, if not actually prehistoric, at all
events the oldest monument in Egypt.
From the level of the area below the
great flight of steps (which lead down,
and not up to the Sphinx one now
measures the whole height of the huge,
human-headed monster, whose battered
countenance stands out against the
cloudless sky 100 feet above. The
space between the paws is thirty five
feet long and ten wide. This space
was anciently converted into a small
sanctuary, lined with votive tablets,
only one of which-the famous stella of
Thothmes IV.-yet remains in stu.
This stella records how the king, when
upon one of his hunting expeditions,
lay down to rest in the shadow Of the
Sphinx. He there fell asleep and
dreamed dream in which the vener-
able image conjured him to clear away
sand in which it was nearly buried.
Then the prince awoke and made
silence in his heart" and vowed to do
that which the god had commanded.
The paws Of the Sphinx, as they now
appear, are restoration Of Roman
date, being cased in comparatively
small slabs, and to some extent hollow
underneath. The breast of the Sphinx
has likewise been faced with slabs, ap-
parently in Roman times; and these
slabs have again been repaired by cut
ting away the weathered surface and
inserting fresh facing. Like the legs
of the Colossi Of the Plain and those
of the great statues at Aboo Simbel,
the paws of the Sphinx are covered
with the Greek scrawls of early travel
ers; but these Grafi-ti are mostly of a
late period, and SO slightly scratched
that few are legible throughout. Such
as they are, however, Prof. Maspero
has, it is understood, devoted himself
to the ungrateful and difficult task of
translating them.-London Times.
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man. The trumpet Of the archangel
sounds, and at once the countless mil
lions of earth's inhabitants appear at
the bar, some rising from their graves,
some arrested in their life, for both the
quick and the dead are summoned. At
signal the multitudes are cleft asun-
der, each parting to his own, the saint
ed souls on the right, the wicked on
the left of the judge. When the
sentence has been pronounced, the
glorified are welcomed home to ever
lasting joy, and the condemned are cut
down to everlasting woe.'
Referring to the phrase everlasting
fire. it is said, "Fire is named as a
metaphor figure of the penalty which
is to the soul what fire is to the body"
In the notes for the younger
scholars the little ones are taught that
children will be there with others be-
fore the great judgment seat to receive
their sentence, either "come' or
depart"
With equal distinctness, in the lesson
for May 10, the doctrine of the vicar
1ous atonement is taught. In the
| Sunday School World is this "illustra-
tion'' of how Christ bore our sins: "a
little girl had been naughty, and her
mother was about to punish her when
her older brother said, Mother, if you
will whip me instead of my sister can
she go free?' Yes, my son, but i
must punish you just as hard as
would her, He held out his hand and
the little switch fell hard and sharp
upon it." We are not surprised that
the little girl looked on wonderingly
and was ready to give her brother her
beautiful doll, but what an utter con-
fusion we have here of the simplest
notions of justice, and in what a light
does the mother appear who was will
ing to punish an innocent child and let
the guilty one 60 freel
My purpose in calling ate ntion to
the above facts is not to find fault with
our evangelical friends for teaching
those doctrines to their children. If
they believe them to be true they ought
to teach them not only in the Sunday
school but also from their pulpits. My
purpose rather is to ask whether we
are as diligent as we ought to be in
the matter of careful doctrinal in
struction in our Sunday schools. Many
are saying that these old errors of a
day of general judgment after death,
endless punishment, and vicarious
atonement have passed away and are
no longer believed or taught. But the
above extracts from current evangeli-
cal Sunday-school publications show
conclusively that whatever may be said
of the pulpit, the young are still dill
| gently instructed in their Sunday
schools, where perhaps the most last
ing impressions are made, in the tenets
of the old theology. In view of this
our duty would seem to be not only
plain but Imperative J. @. Sno,o,
IN Gospel Banner.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-07-28

TBE Summit County Beacon, pub
lished at Akron, o., says: "Buchtel Col
lege has seen many days of rejoicing at
the favor which it has found in the
hearts and the purss-looseninR hands of
its friends. June 81 was another of
these good days for the college which
Akron is always proud to claim, and
which an annually growing number of
Akronians are glad to call their alma
mater. The $4,000 contributed by rep
resentatiye citizens for the partial equip
ment OF library at the college is time
ly gift, and one that bears emphatic tes-
timony to Akron's interest in the insti-
tuition that has already brought plentiful
honor upon Akron.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-07-28

--Lovers Of Whittier's poetry will re-
call the fine poem, Freedom in Brazil"
with which twenty years ago he greeted
the initial steps In the abolition Of slav-
cry, which has just been consummated in
that empire. The Emperor, Dom Pedro, to
whom an eloquent apostrophe is made in
the poem, visited Boston short time
afterwsrd, and at once sought the bash
full poet, whom he sstonished by kissing
on both cheeks. He had long been an
admirer OF Whittier's poems, and there
was no man in New England whom he
80 desired to meet. When the news came
the other day of the final act of enamel
patton, which the Emperors daughter
has by her influence carried triumphant
ly through the Brazilian Parliament, Mr..
Whittier sent the following cable dis
patch to his royal friend, who is yet crit
icaily i'll in Italy.
AdEsBURY, May, 26.
To Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, Mil
an: With thanks to God who has blessed
your generous efforts, 1 congrat ulate
you on the peaceful abolition of slavery in
Brazil. JOHN G. WHITTIER.
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with commendation, both to persons
and to peoples, clear setting forth of
the better things still to be done.
1.-THE love of doing and the scorn of
done" is the only safe feeling Chris
tan Union.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-07-28

Elder T. W. Evans, the great
Shaker, in celebrating his eightieth birth
day, says that he will live ten years more,
and will in that time see his theories re-
alized-to wit: State ownership of land,
the holding of public office by cslibatss
alone, equal suffrage, and the ownership
and education of children by the State.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-07-28

king Oscar, of Sweden, recently
called on the pope, and instead of kiss
ing his land, as is the custom, kissed him
soundly on both cheeks to the surprise
OF the courtiers. It was the greatest
shock the traditions of the Vatican had
received since Gen. Grant shook hands
with Plus TX d, and said, "How do you do,
sir?"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-07-28

The splendid monument to Maria
Theresa, lately dedicated at Vienna, is
by far the finest and most costly work of
the kind in the empire. The illustrious
empress is represented in sitting post
ure, her right arm extended and her left
hand grasping the scepter. At the four
corners are equestrian figures of her four
great generals, Daun, Landop, Traun
and Khevenhueller. The inscriptions
are simple; on the front, "Maria There
sa," and on the back, Erected by Fran
els Joseph l., 1885,"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-07-28
NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.

According to his own statement
George M. Pullman makes it his rule to
pay woman mans wages if she can do
mans work. He has many women
In his employ and thinks highly of them.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-07-28

Mrs. Emily Crawford, the eminent
Paris journalist, is described by the
Star, of London, as an Irish woman i.
VINO remembers as child being carried
about on OConnell's shoulders. She has
strong handsome face, blue eyes, full of
merrlment and expression, heavy black
lashes and very abundant white hair,
which she wears with extreme simplicity.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-07-28

Oscar IL, King of Sweden and
Norway, is described as having an INTEL
lectual, thoughtful countenance, with
eyes that are almost pensive in their ex-
preston. Like his brother he is an ac-
complished litterateur, and has translat-
ed Goethe's "Faust" into Swedish, pub
lished book of travels and several vol.
umes OF poems, and is the author of
monograph on Charles XII. considered
as King, Warrior and Man"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-07-28

--Archdeacon Farrar has presented
to Mr.. George W. Childs the manuscript
OF the sermon which he preached at st.
Margaret's, Westminster-she church of
the House of Commons-on the occasion
OF the unwilling of the Milton window
presented by Me-. Childs. The sermon
which was splendid euiogy OF Miiton's
character and life, was especially note
worthy as coming from clergyman of
the church to which Milton was strongly
opposed.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-07-28

But the commander insisted and him.
self headed the little expedition. They
went over the desolate fields of ice the
first day, and no results. They follow
ed on during the second day, and no
results, till at the last hour and in the
moments of despair, they thought they
discovered the slight futter of rag on
mound of snow. Courage revived.
They made haste. DR.. Kane himself
was the first to press his way into the
frozen habitation of his lost and per-
ishing men. And what sight! The
lost men were not all dead, but so near
ly so that only one could speak. And
with the tears running down his face
he said: "We knew you would GOMEZ
We knew you would comet" The ties
of a warm fraternity and humanity
had bound these men together. Each
would seek the lost while life remained.
And is not this the heavenly spirit
the angelic spirit-the Christ spirit
the heavenly Fathers spirit? All
blessed beings above, will seek and
save the lost till they are restored to
their fellowship forever.
Now, therefore, as the senior mem
Der of the little band of our clergy in
northern Iowa, can give this waiting
congregation any wiser counsel than to
emphasize the doctrine of fellowship in
the conduct of your religious affairs2
Win not the principles of unity which
are so wise in the affairs of the ever
lasting Father; and so wise in the