The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-09-01
SHORT PARAGRAPHS.

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Out of forty thousand Sioux Tn.
diane, there are tbirty-fve thousand still
in heathe nism. There are sixty-six tribes
on the western praries for whom nothing
Is yet done. There are forty thousand
Indians OF school age; but when every
school is packed to its utmost only
twenty thousand can be accommodated.
This includes government schools, Ro-
man Catholic schools, and all.
TO down to the verge of the sea
where men are building ships. What
havoc and waste and humiliation of proud
trees from the forest But this is no cetes-
trophe OF q misconceived plan, neither
an accident to a well-conceived plan.
There runs through it all purpose, an
idea to be realized in that perfect form
that woos the winds OF with the heart of
fire cleaves the dark sea. The world is
In the making; and it's ruins and disap-
pointments and defeats are not a relapse
from former glory, but part of that
process OF the suns" which is a method
OF Almighty wisdom and love. This
fronts us with God, our ideal is before us,
and destiny is glory to be won in the
future and not lost paradise to be re-
trIeved from the past.-Horatio Steb-
bins.
There Is no power of love SO hard
to get and keep as a kind voice. A kind
voice is deaf and dumb. 1t may be
rough In flesh and blood, yet do the work
OF a soft heart. and do it with soft touch.
But there is no one thing that love so
much needs as sweet voice to tell what
1t means and feels; and it is hard to get
and keep it in the right tone. One must
start In youth, and be on the watch night
and day, at work and at play, to get and
keep voice that shall speak at all times
the thoughts of kind heart. 1t is often
in youth that one gets voice or tone that
is sharp, and sticks to him through life,
and stirs up ill.will and griefs, and falls
like drop of gall on the sweet joys of
home. Watch it day by day as pearl
of great price, for it will be worth more
to you in days to come than the best
pearl hid in the sea. A kind voice is to
the heart what light is to the eye. 1t is a
light that sings as we'll as shines -Elihu
Burritt.
One of our French readers, Mdlle.
Jeanne Hilbert writes as follows il answer
to requ made last week: sit Is
but too true mat suicide is increasing
every year in France, and it is attribute
able to different causes. The fret one is
the increase of insanity. Statistics show
us that most suicides are committed by
the insane; and that insanity and sui
eide increase or decrease in the same
proportion everywhere, But, consider
ing its size and population, France is not
the country the most stfiicted in this way.
We find that Switzerland. and more es-
pecially Geneva, is where insanity is most
frequent, as we'll as suicide. Another
cause is the excitement and hustle in bust
ness. Formerly people did not mind
working forty or even fifty years so as to
be able to retire on a small income. But
now, everyone wants to be rich and make
large fortune in few years; and they
speculate and risk their savings OF many
years. When the crash comes, or if the
banker to whom they trusted their money
fail, they cannot bear to see all their hopes
blighted, and they commit suicide. The
number Of suicides SIS always greater
when trade is low, and the stock exchange
agitated. Christian Life.
The Roman Catholics insist on
having their own schools. They object
to having the mildest statement taught
respecting indulgences. What do they
teach their children with regard to the
religious character and condition of the
fifty millions of people among whom
these Catholics live, and Of whose nation
they form part? Read these quotations
from an official school book used daily
in parochial schools and bearing the sig
nature and sanction of Archbishop BaiIy:
Qaestion.-Have the Pedestrians any
faith?
Answer.-They never have.
Q.-Wby?
A.-There never lived such Christ as
they imagine and believe.
Cor what kind is he?
A.-Of such a kind as they can make
him liar with impunity, and make him
say what they please
Q.-Will such faith save Protest
ants2
A.-No man can say such an absurd
ity.
Q.-What will Christ say to them?
Al know you not, for you do not
know me.
Q-What follows?
A.-They die in their sins, and are
dead.