The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-14
NOTES AND GLEANINGS

the Indian has an almshouse to go to, so
long will he be pauper."
Rev. MARK Guy PEARsE says that in
London there are 100000 people out
side of all religious provision.
The Adventists of Battle Greek, Mich,
fully persuaded that the day Of doom is
close at hand, are discarding jewelry and
making other preparations.
REV. HUGH 0. PENTEcosT says he is no
longer in sympathy with Christianity. He
ought to sue his surname for separate
maintenance.-Boston Transcript.
Col. ROBERT G.. INGERsoIL never wears
gloves and regards them as q superiority.
Perhaps for this reason the orthodox peo-
pie handle the Colonel without gloves.
"BY asserting the eternal principles of
things, and the necessity of conforming
to them," says Herbert Spencer, "man
proves himself to be essentially relig-
ious."
FRANCIS MURPHY says that there are
places where all of Gods truth should
not be told" And one of the places is
public meeting where confessions are
made.
III. RIDER HAeGARD places on record the
opinion that next to the Bible Shakes
peare's works and those of Cervantes and
John Bunyan are the best for young
man just entering upon active life.
The ruthless spirit of the age has in
vaded the Old South Church, Boston
whose spire will soon be crowned with a
cluster of electric lights. This would be
regarded as sscrilege by the old timers.
CANON LIDDoN, the great preacher of
the Church OF England, is SO rampsntly
High Church, and has come so near to
Iridentive doctrine as to have earned
from Punch the designation OF "Popery
with the Lid On"
THEODORE PARKER, when uttering the
Lords prayer, used to say, Forgive us
our trespasses as we should forgive those
who trespass against us!" He also prayed
"Lead us from temptation" instead OF
"Lead us not into temptation"
The Spirit of Missions says that the
Chinese governor of the large island Of
Formosa in starting college has chosen
a missionary to inaugurate and organize
the institution. Such step would have
been regarded as miracle one genera
ton ago.
THOSE who read the Bible but little
never learn how to read it, and never get
the depth and real power of its words. 1t
takes a great deal of reading Of that book
to become thorough expert in reading
it. 1t is largely sealed book to those
who treat it with carelessness and neg
lect.
The first Protestant sermon preached
west of the Mississippi was preached by
Samuel J. Mills, the father of the Amer
lean Board. Desiring to get out of this
''pinhole," as he called it, he went abroad
He had before said: +" L cannot suffer my
influence to be limited by Atlantic, Mis-
sissippi, great lakes, or gulf"
The "Star of Bethlehem" idea is still
prevalent in spite of the repeated explain
ations that the bright morning star is
Venus, and that the so called Star of
Bethlehem, the bright temporary star
observed in the Constellation Oassiopeia
in 1872, has not reappeRred, though it
has been expected by some astronomers.
PERHAPS we shall some day fling those
Greek creeds and unscriptural Trinitari-
an phrases to the moles and to the bats,
and come back to the simple language Of
the apostolic revelation. 1t will be day
of hope and of faith for the Jewish and
Mohammedan worlds, who may believe
in the New Testament, but the Athana-
sian creed never.-ReU. Edacard White.
The browning feature of the pope's
jubilee was the celebration Of pontifical
high mass on New Years day in st.
Peters church. 1t is reported to have
been a most magnificent spectacle, which
was witnessed by many thousands of the
adherents of the Catholic faith. Special
masses were celebrated in honor of the
jubilee in all of the Catholic churches
throughout Europe and in this country.
A NEW YORK paper recently secured an
expression of opinion in regard to Chris
tian unity from several prominent per-
sonages, Joseph Cook among them. He
thinks that "many signs indicate that
the churches are growing toward relig-
ious unity, and there is prophecy that
they will ultimately become one organic
confederation" Robert Collyer thinks
that "among the various denomir atoms
there was never so much liberation, so
much iberality of feeling and thought,
or such an earnest desire to unite in de-
Tense of public and private morals" "In
matters affecting the sanctity OF the
home" says DIR. Houghton," the advance
ment Of temperance, the preservation of
public and private morals, the advocacy
of personal purity-in these and other
matters, believe, Roman Catholics as
well as ourselves, are working in COM
mon."
DR.. ADAM MILLER, says in Western
Christian Advocate: IT the Darwinian