The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-02-18
NOTES AND GLEANINGS.

NOioAOho VI thO AAOly lO-uAY
they may be read in $50 Of the 5000
oDgues that are spoken.
THE Presby terisn Church is now en-
deavoring to raise 100000 as a fund
from which its honorabIy retired minis
tiers shall receive pensions.
The Jetoish Messenger we'll says: keep
your conduct abreast of your conscience,
and very soon your conscience will be
illumined by the radiance OF Gcd."
The Religious Herald states that 49,
600 of the $1,000 new members added to
the New York Baptist churches in the
past eight years came from the Sunday
schools.
The Evangelical Union" which has
been established in Germany for the
purpose of resisting the encroachments
of the Romish church, already numbers
1000 clerical and 5000 lay members.
THE Good Shepherd Leqtfet wisely says
that the church that can only provide
for its own ease and luxury of worship
had better close its doors at once; it has
forgotten the very soul of Christianity.
The new Congregational Manual OF
Great Britain shows that there are 1888
Congregational churches in England and
Wales, with 1,625,6O0 sittings. There
are also al churches in Scotland and
Ireland.
The new English rector of New York
city, the Rev. E. W. Warren, of the
Church OF the Holy Trinity, is inducing
the young ladies Of his parish not to make
or receive calls, nor to ride for pleasure
on Sunday.
CHARLES l.. CoLBY, president of the
Wisconsin Central Railroad, recently adj
dressed the Congregational Club of New
York. He told the club that in his own
city, Milwaukee, the people on the best
streets had taken away their fences, and
marked the borders of their lawns by
flowers only; it was time for the churches
to do the same"
In the saying, "He'll never set the
Thames on fire." the river is commonly
supposed to be meant. The original
proverb referred to tense, miller's
sieve with wooden rim which slid back
and forth in a wooden Frame An ener-
getic man sometimes set the tense on fire
by friction-a lszy man, never.
The Messenger asks q question full OF
significance: While the church of Christ
has been gathe ring in not more than
three million of converts from the hea-
then world, the natural increase of that
world has been twenty millione. Must
not tremendous advance be made some
where along our lines OF work?"
THE Vos de Merico, the leading Gath
Ole paper of Mexico, having published
criticism of Bishop Sanchez, OF Tamau-
ipas, for saying, in a pastoral letter, that
the alteration of the Virgin of Guada-
loupe is not obligatory, and that the belief
in the apparition is only local, the bishop
has responded by letter matchmaking
the Catholic organ.
The Rev. John r. Paxton, the eminent
New York divine, places on record the
assertion that ga fanatic loose in any
community is q worse pest than loose
mad dog or an epidemic OF typhus fever.
The mad dog can be speedily killed, the
fever can be auarrantined, but who can
quarantine fanatic who is possessed
with the idea that all the world is wrong
and he was born to set it right"
THE NatioN thinks " it may be safely
said that the matter of subscription to
creed is thing TO which the great mass
Of clergymen do not give many minutes
of thought in year. To most of them
the whole affair is res ddJudicato. They
signed the creed so many years ago, at
ordination or installation, and since then
they have not bottle red their heads about
it. Ii you talk to them about church
extension, about mis- sions, about the re-
lation of laboring men to the churches,
but, il you once begin on the ques-
ton of subscription, it strikes them like
a particularly dry bit Of ancient history"
Rev. @. e. ST.. JOHN says in the Chris
tiGn Register: "The Unitarian church at
present is experimenting with boomer
ang, using with great swkwardness a
weapon not suited to it's warfare. refer
to Unity Clubs. We are trying by indi-
rection to whsedle people into religion.
As a church, we shall never be any thing
but unsk illful in this method of work.
1t is not the mission of the church IS
such to teach people to read. Our claim
to hearing in the world rests, not upon
our knowledge of Browning or the dra-
matte art, but upon our power to utter
spiritual truth with authority
The Times has been authorized to invite
free suggestions from the multitude as Il
the bes tpublic use that could be made
gift of $4,000. The authority comes
from gentleman of large fortune and
large philanthropy, and it is his sincere
desire to receive intelligent suggestions
to guide him in applying that sum in any
line of public charity or benefcence to
produce the best results to society. The
money is ready, and will be given as soon
aa IL shall ha nada CLEAR how IL can ha