The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-01-19
CURRENT PRESS NOTES.


The practical distinction between ma
tive and foreign is in the national spirit.
customs and modes of thinking. The
people of every nation have their pecu-
liar characteristics, which. are the de.
velopment of their ancestors, and the
result OF the teachings of centuries
Journal and Messenger.
The missionary spirit is not feature,
nor an incident, nor phase of religious
truth. but rather it's life; and the lack
OF that spirit does not indicate simply
decline but dissolution; that as blood is
the vitality of the animal body. SO the
missionary spirit" is the essential sub
stance OF Christian truth and Christia
endeavor.-[Christian Leader.
SOME persons assert that pastors ar
compllmented too much and their ser.
mons praised too highly, but we take it
Tor granted that the laymen who send
us reports, or the local papers whose
items we copy, tell the truth. Yet is
there pastor, however humble of whose
pulpit efforts and pastoral work some
thing good cannot be said?-[ Western
Christian Advocdte,
NATIONS are no more alike than indi-
vlduals; and while we borrow the best
from others it does not always fit US. Ma
tlons are more likely to take the worse
than the best characteristics of foreign
ers. A nation should be the natural
development from it's founders; il for
eigners come they should be absorbed
and conform to the national life
Journal and Messenger.
1T is wise to think of each wear as II
comes and goes, not as short feverish
breath but as long momentous season
filled with the toll that is gradually rails.
ing the walls of the great cathedral of
humanity, the imperishable walls of soul,
the temple of character, the altar of vir-
tue whose official is the high priest, Con-
science, whose ritual is duty, whose
prayer is service. whose song is love and
service its sacrifice--[ Unity.
If football were not condemned al.
ready, by its startling statistics OF
bruises, broken bones. and deaths, it
ought to come under the ban of the
polite, because of the long, center-sepa.
rated hair of the latter-day college stu
dent, for which they say football is re-
sponsible. Sampson, in all the glory Of
his pre- -Delilah prowese, was not arrayed
like one of these hairy devotees of the
alleged manly sport" u Cumberland
Presbyterian.
IHE vaguest ideas as to Armenia pre-
vail in this country. Strictly speaking.
as DIR. Cyrus Hamlin points out. there ia
no Armenia. in the sense of a territory
where the majority of the inhabitants
are Armenians. There are some Armen-
ian villages, but there is not space ten
miles sqnare, in all ancient Armenia.
where the Armenians are not power
less minority. They have left the land
OF ancient Armenia, and are scattered
over all the empire.-[Bostom Watch.
man.
COLONEL W.. G. p. BREcKINR1pGE, of
kentucky. whose proper role is to sit in
repentant sackcloth and ashes in strict
seclusion, has been trying to force him.
self upon public attention as lecturer.
We are glad to learn that the attempt
has proved dismal failure. Though he
is brilliant speaker, and under ordin-
ary circumstances would command an
audience anywhere, few now care to hear
him, and his lectures have not paid ex-
penses. This is healthful sign.-[Ea.
dmiRer
Mr.. GLADSTONE recently lifted his
voice in protest, in the name of God
and humanity. against Turkish atroc-
lty. Whereupon some OF his political
opponents remark that his language is
incerdiary and likely to produce war,
and that he has lived ten years too long.
Enjoying age and honors. secure in the
esteem of thousands. surrounded by
comforts and congenial companions, the
great Commoner need care little for such
ebullitions OF envy Christian Herald.
MELcHIT. the name of the Eastern
Christians recently reunited to the Ro-
man Catholic Church, means royalist.
1t dates from the fifth century, when the
Emperor Marcian ordered the DEGREES of
the Council of Chalcedon TO be observed:
the Christians who obeyed we're nick
named Melchites or royalists. They fol.
lowed first the Liturgy of ST. James.
then that of Constantinople. In l724
the church divided into two sections.
one joining the Greek Orthodox Church.
the other remaining in union with Rome.
Since the invasion of the Mussulmans
the services have been conducted in
Arabic. The priests can be married.
Church Standard
In quoting the saying, "All roads lead
to Rome" in his Convocation Address on
Wednesday evening of last week. Preai.
dent Low added, ut is just as true that
all roads lead from Rome" He was
speaking of those reflex influences which
make the great centers of country like
our Own, and the country itself, mutual.