The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-09-14

women, often young girls. This is ex-
actly the policy to make the Convention
Insignificant. Send up your men; send
up your strong men. Not less women,
but more men.
1T has been said 80 many times, by
so many travellers, that there is little or
no intemperance in France, that we are
scarcely prepared for DR.. Max Nordau's
testimony, derived from long hospital
practice in Paris. He asserts that al
coholism is common and prevalent dis
ease in France. The habit of drinking
alcoholic beverages, particularly wine,
is cultivated from infancy and results
in widespread condition of alcoholized
blood. Contrary to what we usually
hear, DIR. Nordau says that intemperance
is much more prevalent in France than
in England. One sees fewer tipsy per.
sons in France; but the mass Of the pop
ulation is continuously under stimulus.
The effects. as detailed by the author
of Degeneration" are such as to re-
move the last refuge of defense for wine
drinking.
The Churchman thinks DIR. Light
foot's opinion that the early bishops
were simply chairmen or presidents Of
councils in which all the members had
equal authority and dignity is clumsy
and perfectly gratuitous." OF course
the Churchman is committed to the
perfectly gratuitous" opinion that the
early bishops or presbyters were like
the modern Episcopal bishop. Natural
ly Bishop Lightfoot's view. and Dean
Stanley's view, and DIR. Hatch's view,
and we may add the view Of every schol-
ar Of reputation who has ever examined
the subject. is not agreeable to this organ
of modern and wholly different ecclesi-
asticism. Yet the Churchman thinks
the apostolic succession may have safely
come down through such council of
presbyters as Lightfoot describes. So it
could; and SO coming down has reached
every Congregational and Presbyterial
ministry equally with everyC Catholic and
Episcopal ministry.
The little book of DR.. David Nelson
Beach, Of Cambridge, on 1.-THE Newer
Religious Thinking" is so catholic and
hospitable that one regrets the author
could not go u little further. On sub.
ject of perennial vitality in our own day,
DR.. Beach holds this language: For my
self, while this pursuit-the study Of
eschatology = is outside the range of
my own special studies, frankly confess
that ] am unable to resist the hope that
Gods love will yet find all souls; nor the
hope that here and hereafter. lin ccp-
mon with all who love him may be used
as "a means for his love to find all souls"
This is "the larger hope" in its first ex'
preston, and it reflects without doubt
not only the personal attitude of many
thousands of so-called orthodox Chris
tians. but the courage which they have
at length acquired to speak their mind
on the subject.
DIR. Beach makes haste, how
ever. to put in the qualification with
which the recent literature of New
Orthodoxy has made us 80 tiresomely
familiar. He adds, But neither can l
resist the impression that it may be pos
sible for soul always to Withstand
Gods love. cannot, consequently, be
a Universalist in doctrine. At the same
time my hope for the future of every
spirit that God ever created is as infinite
as God is infinite" The congruity of
these statements is not conspicuous. A
hope as infinite as God is infinite should
not leave any margin for the fear init
mated in the previous sentence. We
cannot repress regret that this pursuit
is outside the range Of" DR.. Beach's
Especial studies" If it were inside that
range he would not be long in detecting
either the vanity of his hope or the in
consequential character of his fears.