The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-08-17
Wayside Notes.

On the Great st. Bernard the monks
are building new and larger hospice, as
travel over the Aosta Martigny pass is
increasing even in winter.
Dean Allen, aged "a, of st. David's
cathedral, England, is in vigorous health,
superintends all the business of the ca
thedral and conducts the daily service.
Sir Robert Ball, astronomer, settles
on the project of waving a signal flag to
the supposed inhabitants of Mars by
saying that the flag would have to be as
large as Ireland and the pole 500 miles
long.
Says the Independent: "a ten per
cent income tax imposed by the French
Government on religious congregations
cannot be other than oppressive. 1t were
better, if it is desired to suppress them,
to do SO frankly"
There is to be Parliament of Re-
ligions on the Chicago model in connec.
ton with the great Paris Exhibition,
which is to mark the year 1900. The
Roman Catholics are considering the
question whether or not they shall be
represented.
"A Baltimore traveller in England
tried in vain to find the house in Chel-
sea formerly occupied by George Eliot.
He discovered the neighborhood all
right, but nobody knew anything about
her, nor had the policeman on the beat
ever heard of Carlyle or Leigh Hunt or
Rossetti, who long lived there.
of the Very Reverend Andrew
Boyd-otherwise A. K. H. B. and the
author of "Recreations of a Country
Parson"-it is said that he is more re
markable than anything he has done
The distinguished preacher of st. An.
drew's is now seventy years old and ap.
parently in his prime of strength. He
has delightful humor, as quaint as it is
quiet; he is extremely precise, his order
illness being pronounced almost eccen-
trio; he has a gift of epigram and re-
tort which many defeated antagonists in
church strategy have had to acknow-
ledge; and his sympathy and kindness
are of most winning quality.
Converts to Christianity" says Mr.,
DENLY, "are numerous. There are sup
posed to be 10000 Protestant converts in
China, and at least SOC, 900 Catholic con-
verts There are many native Christian
churches. The converts seem to.be as
devout as people of any otherrace. AS
far as my knowledge extends, can and
do say that the missionaries in China
are self-sacrificing; that their lives are
pure; they are the leaders in all charita-
BILE work, giving largely themselves, and
personally disbursing the funds with
which they are intrusted; that they do
make converts, and such converts are
mentally benefited by conversion"
st. Bartholomew the Great is the
oldest church in London. There is a
curious legend concerning its founda-
ton. When Rabere, the kings minstrel,
was journeying to Rome in 1120 in expi-
alton of his sins, he dreamed that he
was carried by great monster to the
brink OF the bottomless pit st. Bar
tholomew came and rescued him, and
commanded him to build church. On
his return home Rabere carried out the
command, and Bartholomew the Great
is the result. The church was completed
in 1888. Among the registers in the
vestry is an entry of the baptism of Ho-
gath, the painter.
The Outlook's correspondent says Of
the address by President Rogers of
Northwestern University, at the Pan
American Congress of Religion and
Education: DR.. Rogers set forth in able
terms his views regarding Christian edu-
cation. With the precision that is the
product of his legal training, with the
erudition that marks all his literary
work, and with all the force of a person.
atty that dominates all who come be.
meath its influence, he lifted his audi
ence step by step, until the rounds of
applause at the close of his address bore
testimony to the fact that they had
come to his mountain of vision"
President Day. of Syracuse Univer
sity declares that though Methodism is
great numerically. great in church prop
erty, great in wealth and social influence,
yet it has not one great university be-
tween the two seas, not one that ranks
in endowment and equipment with Har-
ward, Yale, Columbia, and Chicago.
Every other prominent denomination
has at least one, and some of them two
and three great universities. These
great colleges. he says, are doing their
work with incomes from three to eight
and ten millions, while the largest col
leges of Methodism are in nearly every
instance working with receipts from a
quarter of one million or less. Three
only have an active capital of over one
million.
Among the many great schemes for
a great attraction for the 1900 Paris ex-
position is monument that shall be
sort of synthesis of the religious history
OF the last 800 years and a cross 300