The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-11-24
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geful ole against him.
~ REV. DR.. T. DEWITT TALMAGE
has again resigned as pastor of the
Brooklyn Tabernacle Church, and this
time his resignation would appear to be
fnal and he will enter upon new field
OF labor early in the year. DR.. Talmage
resigned at the close of the twenty fifth
year of his pastorate, but was persuaded
to withdraw his resignation. Then the
Tabernacle was burned, and DIR. Tai
mage made tour around the world He
does not now care to undertake the Ia
Dor of building new church in theee
hard times.
*.* The famous Russian priest Ivan
of Cronstadt, has great repute through
out the Cars dominions for the cures
he performs. His house at certain hours
of the day is as crowded with sick and
broken hearted people as the Grotto of
Lourdes. His cures are supposed to be
the result of hypnotic suggestion. He
usually lays hands upon the patient and
rubs him with oil while repeating text
from the Bible. Singularly enough,
Ivan's wife does not share his zeal. She
is constantly haunted by fear that
that they will both end their days as
paupers.
~ The Rev. Everett S. Stackpole,
d. D., who has been himself Methodist
missionary, has published book en-
titled "Four and Half Years in the
italian Mission: A Criticism on Mission
airy Methods" He believes that the ap-
pointment of apostate Roman Catholic
priests as preachers of Methodism has
been grave mistake. 1--WE have" he
says, wasted from first to last 1876, 900 in
Naples. Wasted we say for our pres
emit church amounts to nothing, what
ever the reports may say, and there is no
cause for hope OF success in the near
future. To thus advertise Professionalism
in the largest city of the kingdom for
series of twenty years is disgrace to
Methodism and a positive injury to our
cause"
~ AT the end of paper in the Nine
tenth Century, discussing the recently
published account of the sojourn of
Christ in India-an account supposed
to be written by contemporary and to
have been discovered in a Buddhist
monastery-F. Max Muller quotes a let
ter received not long ago from an Eng
fish lady travelling in India: "Yester-
day." she writes. eve were at the great
Himis Monastery. the largest Buddhist
monastery up re-S00 Lamas. Did you
ever hear of Russian who could not
gain admittance to the monastery in any
way but at last broke his leg outside and
was taken in? His object was to copy
a Buddhist Life of Christ which is
there. He says he got it, and has pub
lished it since in French. There is not
a single word of truth in the whole story!
There has been no Russian there. No
one has been taken into the seminary
for the last fifty years with broken leg.
There is no Life of Christ there at all.
The monasteries, one and all, are the
most filthy places. The Lamas are the
dirtiest of very dirty race"
*** The Roman Catholic Church
with all its boosted unanimity on doc
trinal questions does not show a solid
front on the question of eternal punish
ment. For example: the late Cardinal
Newman, June A. 1872, wrote on the flu
ture of the impenitent: I'm answer to
your letter, feel obliged to say that
do not think our Lords atonement log
ically implies the eternity of future pun
ishment in the case of those who depart
this life unreconciled to him.
What eternity in itself. devolves posi-
lively, in it's idea, we have no notion
whatever. 1t is difficult to speak
on this subject, for the Church has said
little, and one has little guide beyond
ones own private judgment" But here
is very different view by Liguori,
as quoted by the Christian Life: Con
slider that the torments of hell will never
terminate. The damned suffer in every
way, and they suffer eternally. A hun
dred years of suffering will pass away,
hundred thousand and a thousand mil
lion of years and ages will go over, and
hell will still begin anew"