The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-11-10

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*** DIR EDWARD EVERETT HALE says
it is remarkable that the five great Am
erican poets-Longfellow Whittier, Bry-
ant, Lowell and Holmes-were all Uni
taiians. The reason given by DIR. Hale
which many will think non eequiter
is that "a poet must be prophet and a
prophet must be Unitarian" Others
criticise the classification on the ground
| that Whittier was Friend, but this
does not prove that DR.. Hale was wrong,
for many of the Hicksite Friends are
Unitarian in their views of Christ But
after all, is not the saying of DR.. Hale a
trife out of the way? Have all the
prophets been Unitarians?
~ ONE of the most interesting events
in the history of the State University,
at Urbana, will be the Inauguration of the
new President, DR.. Andrew S. Draper,
and the dedication of the handsome en-
cheering building, on Thursday, No
vember Is. Governor Altgeld will pre-
side at the services, and addresses will
be made by DIR. Charles Kendall Adams,
President of the University OF Wiscon-
sin, DIR. Andrew S. Draper, Hon. G. G.
Medley, of Chicago, and other prominent
men. The new building cost 100000,
and is the most complete and best
equipped engineering building in this
country. 1t shows the progressive strides
the University of Illinois is making in
the educational world.
~ The Secretary of the London
Selborne Society makes an earnest ap-
peal in behalf of the birds. noting with
regret the prevalence of feathered trim
mings in millinery as being even greater
than last year, and referring again to the
danger of determination of the pretty
creatures, and to the cruelty caused,
even where the birds are not destroyed.
He adds; CAS- the plumage is always
brightest and best at the breeding sea-
son, it is then that the birds are chiefly
killed, without any thought of the poor
nestlings left to die lingering death of
cold and starvation, or of the many
wounded birds which escape and hide
away, suffering unknown tortures, till
death brings it's release. And such cru
elites are enacted solely that a woman
may wear a mutilated bird or aigrette on
her bonnet. 1t is almost impossible to
believe that any woman who is aware Of
the barbarities Of feathered trimmings
would ever wear them, and notwith-
standing the publicity given to the SUBJ
ject in the past, the committee of this
society are compelled to think that many
who offend do so through ignorance"
~ AN English clergyman who be-
lieves in Eternal Hope and breaches the
evangelization of souls in Hades re-
marks: at is but reasonable to suppose
that there are senses, media. and meth
DDS of interchange peculiar to each phase
OF development through which the soul
may pass. He who presented the gift of
tongues would so speak that every man
might hear the wonderful works of God
in his native dialect. Professor Drum
mond says that the unspiritual man is
he who lives in the circumscribed envi-
ronment of this present world This
witness is true; to speak to such is hope
less. 1t is evident that good deal of
rank materialism exists in the church,
when on the one hand five men out of
every six are declaring that spiritual
metamorphosis can be accomplished by
a mechanical rite; and on the other, five
men out of every six are ready to affirm
that soul cannot be evangelical in
Hades by the Saviour himself. Our
faith is rather with that fair writer, who
observed that the human heart is made
by 30 delicate, 80 cunning hand, that it
needs less than breath to put it out of
tune. and an invisible touch, known only
to its own consciousness, may set all it's
silvery bells to ringing out joyous
chime"
~ DR.. EMIL YOUNG, professor of
physiology at the University of Geneva,
is in great distress concerning the future
of what do you suppose, dear reader?
Why of all the world-of our legs! The
savant suggests in an essay in Semaine
Litteraire, says the Westminster Gaz-
cite, that in the course of one thousand
years the human race may have lost the
necessity of the use of legs, and retain
those members of the body solely as or
namental survivals. Men refuse more
and more to walk, though walking is
the wholesomest of physical exercises.
Steam, electricity, the rope railways,
tricycles, and bicycles have changed the
whole aspect of Swiss touring, as he
says, in his own generation. Every
body seems anxious to get everywhere
any way except by the use of his legs"
In another generation, he supposes, our
travelling balloons will hang outside our
windows, or our electrical coaches stand
outside our doors. They will be pro-
duced so cheaply that every man will
have his own chariot. Hence our legs
will become superhuous, then they will
be crippled, and shrunk to hideously
small dimensions. until at last they will
finally disappear. Our arms, on the
contrary, will correspondingly strengthen