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

full follower of Jesus. He had no truer or
more warmly attached friend than Mary
Magdalene. She, with other women,
went with him in his last visit to Jeruss-
lem before his death; and we learn from
John that she "stood by the CROSS" and
witnessed his last agony. She was pres
emit when his body was taken down from
the CROSS, and "beheld where he was
laid" She was among the women who
drought sweet Spices" that they might,
after the Sabbath was past, embalm his
body. She, with three women, visited
the sepulcher on the morning of the RES
direction, and not finding the body of
Jesus there, she ran back to Jerusalem
to tell Peter and John. Returning thith-
or herself, she was the first to see her
risen Lord, and to communicate the facts
to his disciples.
A WRITER in the Northeastern Chris
tan Advocate says: "Dr. Pasteur said
that he should be glad to see in Amer
lea Pasteur institute for the cure of
hydrophobia, that patients need not be
obliged to make the long journey to
France to get cured. Then, turning to
our party, he added: This can only
be successfully carried out when the
stupid prejudice against vivisection,
which 1 am told so largely prevails in
America, shall be overcome" In a
more earnest tone he continued DO
use your influence to stop this silly and
sentimental crusade. Without vivisec-
ton the world would be deprived of
half the benefits of science. 1 can
understand any school of scientific
thought, but fail to grasp how people
who eat killed meat can be anti-vivi-
sectionists. And then, again, who shall
say that man is obliged to sacrifice the
good of his kind because of the possible
pain to an infnitesimal portion of a
lower race?'"
BOB BURDETTE has said many wise
and some beautiful things, but none
wiser or truer than this which we clip
from an exchange:
Speaking Of the old Puritan Sabbath,
as it was observed in his younger daye,
Oliver Wendell Holmes says: Il have
never got over the saddening effects of
this early discipline; indeed, have hard
ly recovered from it to this day. II the
stern old Puritan Sabbath, with its sub
DUNG, saddening effects, wrought out
such joyous natures as Beecher's, and
gave to the world such beautiful blend
ing of tenderness and strength, laughter
and tears, heaIt-deep pathos and sunny
humor as Oliver Wendell Holmes, let US
have another century of Puritan Sabbath.
Up to date the Sunday of the beer-gar-
den has failed to bring forth Holmes or
a Beecher. 1t has evolved a Johann
Most and an August Spies, but somehow
that sort of product doesn't seem to be
up to the old Puritan mark. II it is up
to the mark Of to-day, then heaven save
the mark. When you run up the bunt-
ing, remember that it was the steady go
ing old Puritan Sabbath that Matched
the Fourth of July. The day we cele-
brate,' dearly beloved, wasn't born in
Chicago beer dive on a Sunday afternoon;
not by a jug full"
Nor one of us yet knows how to pray
ALI we have done rs yet has only been
pottering and guessing and experiment.
ing. A boy gets hold of his fathers saw
and hammer and tries to make something
but it is poor affair that he makes. The
father comes and takes the same saw
and hammer and builds the house or the
ship. In the childhood Of our Christian
faith we make but poor work with these
weapons of prayer, but when we come to
the stature of men in Christ Jesus, then
under these implements, the temple of
God will rise and the worlds redemp-
ton will be launched. God cares not for
the length of our prayers, or the number
Of our prayers, or the beauty of our
prayers or the place of our prayers; but
it is the faith in them that tells. Believ-
ing prayer scars higher than the lark
ever sang; plunges deeper than diving
bell ever sank, darts quicker than light
ming ever flashed. Though we have used
only the back of this weapon instead
of the edge, what marvels have been
wrought! II saved we are all the cap
tives of some earnest prayer. Would God
that in desire for the rescue of souls, we
might in prayer lay hold of the resources
of the Lord Omnipotent.-Rev. De Witt