The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-03-16
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Our esteemed contemporary, Unity,
cites as an example of "illiberal liberal
ism," the action of the Committee OF
Fellowship of the Illinois Universslist
Convention in suspending from fellow
ship a minister who had become the
travelling agent and organizer of the new
sect of which Unity is the organ. From
our contemporaries not wholly disinter-
ested point of view the action appears,
no doubt, "illiberal." But is it altogeth-
er ethical, not to say fraternal. for the
new religious Federation to employ a
propagandist whose value to the move
ment consists chiefly in the fact that he
holds the Universalist fellowship?
Granted that as such he has access to
Universalists an influence with them
which he would not have in his charac
ter as the Evangelist of the Liberal
Congress; is that justification for such
procedure? We are not pronouncing
judgment on the action of the Fellow
ship Committee; we are suggesting the
judgment that might be pronounced on
the action of the Liberal Congress.
The IndepeD dent spreads before its
readers some twenty-five papers. from
representative Southern men mostly,
descriptive of the present condition and
resources of the South. The exposition
reaches to the schools, journalism, liter
ature. churches and social life of the
vast section described. 1t is an instruc
tive and hopeful as we'll as an interest
ing story they tell. The South is doing
well, very well. She is suffering less
from the business depression than any
other section of the country; and had
her oranges been spared she might not
have known the meaning Of hard times.
Among many pleasant facts recited by
the Independents writers, one stands
out conspicuously. Corn and bacon
and potatoes are this year shipped from
the South to the North west, and many
car loads have been given to the suf-
ferers in Nebraska and Western Kansas.
That is the way that sectionalism be
comes nationalized.
There is food for reflection in the
fact stated by Rev. DR.. Lyon, colored
clergyman of New York. He says that
a colored man begins in New York City
as messenger and ends, after no mat
ter how many years Of service, as mes,
senger. Whereas in the South colored
men frequently become merchants,
bankers and business men. as we'll as
farmers.
DIR. Dickinson, editor of the Religi
Gus Herald, of Richmond Va, says. that
"the best possible feeling exists between
the great masses of both colors in the
South" There are few bad black
men and few bad white men, who, in
the South as in the North, Disgrace
their section along with themselves.
Texas has statute which prevents
homesteads from being mortgaged. and
companion statute making it impossible
for town or city to vote subsidy to
any railroad or other corporation. In
consequence of these laws only five per
cent of the farm values are under mort
gage.
1t is common testimony of those
who are making the best bid possible
for immigrants from other sections, that
in the Southern states. "the professions
are overcrowded." In several instances
it is made apparent that medicine and
law are intended. Whether the minis
try and teaching are included we are
left to conjecture. But we suspect they
are not meant.