The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-07-07
NOTES..

HE Sunday School Times says "That
we must take people as we find them in
this world is Enthusiastically true; but that
we 1nust leave people as we found them
is to admit that our efforts in their be-
half have been utterly valueless. Taking
people as we find them and leaving them a
great deal better for our presence and
labor is the simple duty of us all"
PROF. FARADAY's biographer closes
the record of his life in these noble
words: His standard of duty was super
natural. 1t was not founded upon any
intuitive ideas of right and wrong, nor
was it fashioned upon any outward expe-
diences of time and place; but it was
formed entirely on what he held to be
the revelation of the will of God in the
written word, and throughout all his life
his faith led him to act up to the very let
ter of it.
UNITY says: In the election OF Miss Rice
as trustee of Antioch College and the nom
nation OF Mrs. NJ. B. Carse as a member of
the Cook County Board of Education we
note the significant signs of the times. 1t
is fitting that the college which was one
OF the first if not the first institution OF
high learning to introduce co-education
should be the first to place woman
upon its board of administration. Miss
Rice is an honored alumnus of the insti-
tuition, the head of one of the most sue
cessful schools for girls in Chicago, and
will do credit to the institution that in SO
honoring her has honored itself.
A RECENT reviewer of Tolstois books
links his name with those of Cardinal
Newman and Prof. Newman, and says:
"Widely as the three differ; remote as
are the conclusions at which they arrive,
they each disclose the tragedy of a great
personality fighting through doubts in
Vulnerable, through glooms impenetra-
BILE, to solution satisfactory to itself
OF the eternal trinity of questions; Why
am I? Whence am I? and Whittier do I
go?"
CERTAINLY, says Rev. William M. Ba-
ker, "the most terrible weapon wherewith
man is smitten has it's haft in the mans
own hand, for God himself hes no weap-
on SO like the creese of the Malay in its
poisoned edge as conscience: and it is
welded, not by God, but by man himself
and against himself. You never strike.
any other blow comparable to that you
strike yourself.
We learn from the last issue of the
LEADER that DIR. j. P. Newman, who was
made bishop in the Methodist church
at the late General Conference was at one
time candidate for the late DR.. E. Fl.
Chapin's pulpit, giving the people to I'M
derstand that his theological opinions
were nearly in accord with those of DR..
Chaplin. 1t looks as though either Bish-
op Newman or the Methodist Conference
is muddled theologically.
WHERE is MIR. Spurgeon, anyhow? asks
the Independent. 1t was supposed he
was in the Baptist Union again, but this
is the way he writes "As one outside
OF the Union, have no right to have
anything further to do with its creeds or
its declarations. 1 was not from the first
at all hopeful that anything could be
done, and therefore I retired. 1 wish L
had been let alone, for then L could have
gone on with my own work in peace.
Now, must in the kindliest feeling make
this my course. All has been done that
can be done, and yet without violence to
conscience we cannot unite; let usnot at
tempt it any more; but each one go his
own way in quiet, each striving honestly
for that which he believes to be the re,
vealed truth of God. could have wished
that instead of saving the Union, or even
purifying it, the more prominent thought
had been to conform everything to the
word of the Lord"
IT is pleasant, and in keeping with the
Christian spirit of the day, to find that
something good can be said even Of Mary
the Magdalene, as we find from the fol-
lowing editorial note in the New York
Independent. 1t has been sometimes sup
posed that she had previously been a
woman of abandoned character; yet
there is no evidence in the Gospel record
avan IN au0oaaf this idaa What the raa-
ord says is that she had been afflicted with
"evil spirits" and had been healed. She
became devoted and faith