The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-19

Norwegians."
BOSTON University has women in it's
highest governing board.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is said to be at work
on another essay on Vaticanism.
The negroes Of Georgia paid taxes on
S9,OOO,0O0 worth of property last year,
against 100000 in 1879.
THERE are nineteen Sunday schools
connected with Newman Halls church in
London, having a membership of $500.
The revival firm of Moody and Sankey
seems to be permanently dissolved. Mr..
Sankey goes to England for revival work.
PASCAL says: "The serene, silent beauty
of holy life is the most powerful infu-
ence in the world next to the might of
God"
The sale of liquor has been prohibited
on the property owned by the Northern
Pacific r. r., by order of it's President
Robert Harris.
The English branch of the Irish Ma
tional League will not regard the papal
decree. Irishmen will take their religion
but not their politics from Rome.
THE Sunday is a green oasis; little
grassy meadow in the wilderness where,
after the week days journey, the pilgrim
halts for refreshment and repose."
In accounting for Boulanger's popu-
larity. French writer says that France
must have hero, AND she is now wor-
Shipping a stick with a military hat on it,"
MATTHEW ARNoLD's friends are already
moving to erect a memorial to him In
Westminster Abbey. Lord Rosebery,
Lord Coleridge and Robert Browning
head the movement.
AMONG recent deaths of well-known
persons may be mentioned Rev. Increase
N. Tarbox, ID. d., of Newton, Mass, the
distinguished historian of Congrega-
tioDalism; and DR., L. P. Hickok, the
noted metaphysician and ex-President
of Union College. The latter died at
Amherst, Mass, on recent Sunday,
after an illness of only few days.
ONE OF the most picturesque figures in
the Methodist General Conference is Shi-
Seh-Ong, presiding elder of the church
in China. Glad in an Oriental garb of
black elk, he sits near the middle of the
fifth row on the right and manifests deep
interest in the proceedings, although
they are in great part unintelligible to
him, for he does not understand English.
He is little man of forty, perhaps, and
wears a mustache that is slightly tinged
with gray. His conversion to Chris
tianity is said to have been brought
about by his own reasoning. He is a
very persuasive talker among his own
people, and the small beginnings he made
in mission work prospered until the
church in China became self supporting,
largely through his efforts.
The salient point of the preface of
Gen. Boulanger's recent book is his adj
vocacy of the right of the army to have
voice in the question of peace or war.
Large editions of this book have been
distributed in France during the last
week. A contemporary, giving this fact,
remarks: "This, of course, indicates the
hope of rising to power by means Of the
army-a danger which has threatened
every French republic. In war like
that of our own, when citizen soldiers
were temporarily at the front, it was a
most proper thing that they should have
a vote. But when a standing army, like
that which France maintains, comes to
have voice in peace or war, it means
that the general at their head expects to
use the army to determine the course of
the nation, and control events by it's dis
cipline and military power"
THE following note in the London
Christian Leader may be usefully pom
dered by those of our people who have
got the unhappy art of joining our Lord
with host of others-we quote Christian
Life:-"It seems to us to be entirely
consis tent for those who rank Jesus with
Socrst es, Confucius and Zoroaster, to take
up in their churches the study of Greek,
Chinese, and Indian philosophers. On
their theory it is irrational to limit Sun
day teaching to Hebrew and Christian
Scriptures. They may esteem Moses and
Jesus as, on the whole, the better instruc-
tors and inspirers; but they could scarcely
deem them SO eminent as to entitle
them to exclusive study and veneration.
The Socrates class, the Zoroaster class,
the Seneca class, should be no anomaly
in churches and Sunday-schools insti-
tuted on this idea. But it often excites
our wonder why people who take this
view should so uniformly slight the mod
ern seers and system makers. Jesus has
no claims on a man who thinks he was
very well for his time, but is now out
grown in many respects No more have