The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-04-06

put the Episcopal church in line with
the other denominations against this
new attempt to break down good order
by bad law. The Catholic church ap-
pears to be divided on the subject. But
SO far as any authorized public express
sion Of the Catholic clergy has been
made it is on the right side. 1t seems
incredible that the Legislature could
persist in an effort so repugnant to the
moral sense of the community. The
pretext that the opening of saloons for
portion of Sunday is in the interest of
better observance of the day, shows
what an inveterate wag the devil has
become.
Lady Aberdeen gives in the Ladies'
Home Journal some account of an in
genious experiment made by the master
and mistress of Haddo House, to provide
entertainment and instruction, and at
the same time satisfy social demand,
and children kept in and about their es-
tablishment. From it the masters and
mistresses of less expensive establish
ments may derive a hint. The Aber :.
deems have organized club, made up
Of the principal family and all the de
pendent families and persons. 1t is a
social, literary, musical and, in a modest
way, dramatic organization. 1t furn-
ishes an outlet for desires and energies
that often prove dangerous 1t creates
a common human interest of a health
full and improving kind. 1t interests
the employer in the employed and the
employed in the employers. And Lady
Aberdeen testifes that it promotes good
feeling. contentment and satisfaction all
around.
With what complacency some of us
alas, how few!-can read the tale that
science has to tell of the perils of smok
ing? Formerly, the smoker was eau
toned against the deadly effects of
nicotine. Now he is informed that an
other foe of his peace has been discov
cred. 1t is pyridin. (which is three or
four times more poisonous than nicotin." !"
And to the real adorer of tobacco the
unkindest cut of all is, the information
that this miscreant comes out of the
pipe" The evil effects OF tobacco,
whether one uses the cigar. cigarette or
pipe, are freely confessed by that out
spoken modern mischief finder, science
"Gieat caution should be observed" she
remarks. sin order to prevent injury to
the nerves, the heart and even to the
tongue
1t is fortunate circumstance for all
well-intentioned public servants, that
there is day after today. Though his
tory is making in the present, its verdicts
are recorded in after time. This is the
strong consolation of all those who try
to ssrve their day and generation faith
fully. They are likely to be misunder-
stood, misrepresented, misiudged by
their contemporaries, and scarcely less
by their colleagues than by their oppon-
ents. No matter. Their cause is secure
il their souls are juet. The calmer
judgment of a succeeding day will right
the balance. Washington, Jefferson,
Quincy, Adams jackson, Van Buren, of
the earlier era; Lincoln, Grant, Hayes of
the later, felt the the tooth of ingrati
tude and calumny. History has not
supported any unjust judgment against
them. Few men are more cordially alb
used in influential circles at home than
Gladstone. 1t was the same with John
Bright. In both cases the contempora-
ry American estimate anticipated the
subsequent verdict in England.
We always read with interest, often
with lively sympathy, what is published
in our exchanges under the general head
of "Revivals." The professional revival
ist is not seldom person whose methods
and manners we cannot approve; more
often than otherwise he excites aversion.
Yet he is probably an instrument of
good. He induces men and women who
are religiously Indifferent or whose lives
are evil, to commit themselves to reli-
gion. The motives may not be high and
the religion may not be Of the truest and
purest type. Many of them may not
persist, and all of them may need to
change the present basis of their devo-
ton. But the total effect of revival
work in the various churches is benefi-
cient. 1t conduces to decency. order,
improved character. 1t is witness to
the power of religion and to its value.
BY whatever means the sum of virtue
and good purpose and heavenly hope is
increased among men. we thereat re-
joice.
There are in the Episcopal church
the regular high caste churchmen, and
the regular no-caste churchmen. who
are but a shade better than outcasts.
One of the latter. the Rev. Charles Fer
CURSOR, of Cohasset, has told the public
his insubordinate mind about the Bis
hops Pastoral. The no-casts and the
out casts appear much elated over the
vigorous and categorical repudiation by