The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-02-25
NOTES AND GLEANINGS.

ANO LS (AlTG u
Rev. WASHINGTON GLADDEN. is report
ed to have said that "a man converted in
church is worth three converted in q
rink"
The human race is divided into two
classes-those who go ahead and do
something, and those who sit still and in
quire, "Why wasn't it done the other
way?"
The very name of cannibal suggests
something repulsive, yet it primarily
signifed brave or valiant man. 1t is
derived from the name by which the Car
ibbees called themselves.
THE Springfield Union gives this as
stanza from an old New England
hymn:
NY soul is like rusty lock-
Oh, oil it with thy gracel
Oh. rub it, rub it, rub it, Lord,
Until see thy face.
ALTHOUGH DIR. MoCosH, has retired
from the presidency of Princeton College
and Dr.lPatton takes his place, he still
remains at the head of the school OF phil
osophy, at a salary of $4,000. The ex-
president is seventy seven years of age.
A JEWISH rabbi, of Baltimore, thinks
the Presidents gift of the Federal Con
stitution to the pope was "like presenting
thief with copy of the Decalogue with
the Eighth Commandment underlined"
This proves that the Jew can be as illib-
eral and sarcastic as the Gentle.
The Providence Journal thinks that
the day for congressional oratory is gone.
Legislation is now matter of routine,
largely determined by committee work.
There is but little more occasion for a
congressman to make "set' speech than
for one of the partners in business house
to haraugue his associates when they
meet for conference.
The London Christian World SAYS:
I'VE are informed that Rev. G. A. Soule,
whose article entitled IF Calvinism be
true, What them? was referred to in last
weeks Notes. is the lady minister of
st. Paul's Universalist church at Glss-
gov. Mrs. SOule is a missionary of the
Woman's Centenary Association of the
Universaliat Church of the United States
of America. II was she who in 1879.
founded the church to which she now
ministers. Mrs Soule has been regular
l.. = Fr,ll J.
prefix Reverend but she avoids it's use
except when off ially necessary. She
regularly occupies the pulpit; and if her
utterances are alwsy as distinct and for
chile as in the article in which She ruth
l4ssly exposed the contradiction Of Cal
vmism, her congregation are TO be con-
graduated on possessing much better
minister than hundred of churches which
do not enjoy the privilege Of listening to
lady preacher"
A Boston correspondent sends the
Epoch the following: "One slang term
orlves out another, just as one speciee of
animal will often destroy or abolish an
inferior vaviety. From this point of
view, it is matter for general cougratu-
latiou that the word smart in its new
Eoglish arceptatiou, seems destined to
take the place Of swell The latter Is a
word so hideoue, irrational and vulgar,
that it's use has always been deplored by
lovers Of good English. Smart however
eroteeque in it's new application, is at
least a sound term t. begin with, a rec G.
uIzei adjective m good and regular stand
ing. The word in its latest sense origiuat-
ed, | believe, N the smart set IN London
during the last season There, and was inn
ported by returning Auglomauiaes early
tn the fail ~ 1887 II is already secure
Is established IN New York, and IS not
unknown IN r, ston. To attend all the
smart parties to know the smart people
and belong to the smart set, is the latest
expression of an old and uever-dying am
bitiOn"