The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-04-27

ner and Carl SchurZ who knocked the
life out Of that project. Since then we
have heard scarce shrek from any
surviving fillibusterer. Now again we are
treated to new and rather more fren-
zied appeal to our old national infrmity.
And it is Senator Frye Of Maine and
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, who
lift up their voices in the absolute and
absurd demand for the seizure of our
neighbor's goods. Charles Summers
telling recital of the incident of Naboth's
vineyard should be served on his sena-
torial successor.
The season of the summer school
draweth nigh and the circulars and pros
pectuses thereof fall around like stray
leaves from the book of fate. Great
preparations have been made in the
Leland Stanford Jr. University in Cali
fornia, in the Chicago University, in the
University Of Minnesota, and in how
many more we have not time to count.
Here are courses in every subject one
could wish to know more about, from
Bacteriology to Sanskrit. Specialists are
prepared to give you in course Of ten,
twelve or twenty lessons or lectures the
cream of their knowledge. The time is
short to be sure and the days are like to
be hot and the city will have other at
fractions for the rural professor or par
son or pedagogue; but he may get some
thing of each and go back little better
fitted in mind if little less recruited in
body. The Summer school is an insti-
tuition. Through it the knowledge of one
becomes the possession of many.
1t is not an impregnable position
they occupy who profess no concern as
to the truth or falsity of the wonderful
works alleged in the Gospels to have
been wrought by Jesus. but who make
a stand for the truth of the "chief mira
cle." his resurrection. For if one iscon-
strained to give up the other wonders in
the history of Jesus he will have no solid
ground to make his stand upon in de-
Tending the truth of the last of the
series. Conversely, if the others are
credible, this becomes probable. II
Jesus were the unique person the his
tories report, an exceptional event like
his rising from the dead is priori more
likely than in the case of other persons.
II. however, he was not such person
as his biographers describe. but man
with common knowledge and powers, in
vested with supernatural gifts by the
fancy or credulity Of his followers, there
is no more reason to think he was raised
from the dead than to think it of any
other wise and good man. Logical con-
sistency is with those who repudiate all
alike.
The incident of another "free
church" giving up its struggle against
economics and going back to pew letting.
evokes the usual discussion of the best
plan of raising the necessary funds to
carry on churches. We have had our
own say from time to time these many
years.as some similar incident has driven
home the conviction that free church"
is delusion even if it be not a snare.
Religion should be free to all, exclaims
the neophyte. Yes, and it is. The ques-
ton is, whether any one, not pauper.
has right to rents and furnishings and
music and instruction by trained teach
ers, and pastoral service. without cost.
The answer is, he has not. Then either
he must pay for them or the State or
some other person must pay for them
for him. Since we have not in this
country any way to compel him to pay
for them, churches must adopt some
practical method of raising the neces-
sary revenues. The letting of pews is
open to some objections, but it is SO
much more equitable and reliable than
any other method yet discovered that
the great majority of churches adhere to
it, and are justified in doing so.
I'VE should perhaps prefer to say, in
loyalty to our habits of spiritual thought
and expression, that man will be per-
feet where the godhood within him is
fully formed and sovereign; when all
the features of the divine image which
constitute him an heir of heaven, scion
of eternity, child of the Father, are
brought out. balanced and frightened,
so that he becomes according to his
scale and calibre, regnant member of
the universal hierarchy. of which God
is at once the norm and the everlasting
unapproachable head. The lines which
that development must take we find in
Jesus, so that to our Christian type of
thinking, perfection or salvation is sim
ply to become like Christ. DIR. Nash
il "The Saviour of the World"
The Independent remarks with par.
donable pride, that of the four greatest
names of their generation in American
science-Agassiz. Henry, Gray, Dana
three were not only men of faith but of
active Christian discipleship. The re-
turn Of DR.. Romanes to faith and the
church recalls the assertion of Haeckel
in 1892. that "at least nine-tenths of the
men of science now living" are, like him
self, materialists--be believe like the Sad