The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-09-15

If the pony rode his master,
If the buttercups ate the COWS;
If the cat had the dire disaster
To be worried Sir, by the mouse;
If mamma, Sir, sold the baby
To gypsy for half crown:
TIA gentleman, Sir, was lady,
The world would be upside down.
If any or all of those wonders
Should ever come about,
would not consider them blunders
For should be inside out"
Tile opening sermon at the Pan Pres
byterian Council was preached by the
Rev. DR.. Oswald Dykes, formerly pastor
Of the Regent Square church, but now
President OF the Presbyterian Theolog-
ical College. Queens Square, London.
DR.. Dykes preached on selection from
Matthew xiii. verses to 10 inclusive.
beginning: "But be not ye called Rabbi,
for one is your teacher and all We are
brethren" In regard to that much de-
sired oneness among Christians, resting
on something deeper than ecclesiastical
construction, OF which the Alliance itself
is symbol, DR.. Dykes said:
"The problem IL too difficult Cor eur
present means to solve it. Yet it must
be solved if the Chriet's ideal is to be
reached. And it may be; for the equality
OF Christian brethren is not independence
OF one another, like the false egalite of
Socialism. Rather it means the strictest
dependence of each upon the well-being
and the services of all the rest. There
fore, it wraps within it formative prin-
ciple which will yet Zone thinks) prove
strong enough to work some sort of out.
ward as we'll as inward unity through
love and the self-sacrifice and self-subor-
dination which love inspires. When each
man Is severally taught of the spirit, and
the Fathers love has filled each heart
and the will of Christ is the rule of all,
then will no brother seek to lord it over
the belief, the worship, or the obedience
OF another; but every man shall serve the
brotherhood, in voluntary self-surrender,
that the Lord alone may be exalted in
that day. Then shall the universal
church be one, in the only sense in which
Christ would have it so-as a united
brotherhood in love of the equal and the
free"
- Jesus Christ is the only one of the
many religious leaders whom the old Ro-
mans crucified. How is it that the king
dom of this dead Jew lives in millions of
hearts and is going on conquering? How
is it that wherever that name has come it
has changed society, and given heather
folk homes and manhood and freedom?
You can tell the character of people by
asking the question, "Have they heard
of Jesus Christi" Men do not ask for
proof that there is sun when they see
the world rejoicing in it's warmth and
heat When the names of wife and moth
or have meaning in Christian homes
they never had amongst heather men, do
need proof that he is more than any of
those others whom the old Romans hung
on the Cross? A missionary was travel
ing in the Grilee country in Africa. At
evening, in the dim twilight, he found in
his path what looked like a bundle of
rags. He stopped down and found it
was dying woman. She was an aged
woman. Startled to find her alone in the
desert, he knelt by her side, and, in the
language OF the country, called her
Mother" Mother, why are you here
alone?" She whispered, ITO die" But,
mother, l saw lions tracks all along the
hillside. They were here last night. They
will come again to night" She laid her
hand on her breast, where the skin was
drawn as parchment to the bone; 81 have
no flesh for lions to scent; twas my babes
whom nursed who left me here to die"
There was an aged woman in Christian
home; her son offered her his arm as if
she had been queen. She was seated
1t the head of the table, her palsied hand
could not raise the tea urn; servant
poured the tea. The young man said to
his guest, "My mother sat there when
vas boy, and for the world I would not
nave my mother think che is too old TO
preside in the home Of her son. Chris
ian Life.