The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-06-08

recent times, the weather is the only at
moephere that has been troublesome.
We look for an interesting series of re-
ports in our next issue, when Ohio will
J have the right of way for it's Convention
Week
THE North and West
Universalism and Presbyte re.
Cheerful Fatalism. marks. "JIniversal
ism is fatalism. 1t says that man can
not be lost because God loves him. 1t
denies free will" To this the organ of
the Cumberland Presbyterians. who deny
the postulates of the elder Calvinism,
responds: "But Calvinism as taught in
the third chapter of the Westminster
Confession says that some cannot but
DE lost, because God for his own glory
decreed from all eternity to damn them.
This, too, denies free will, and is fatal
asu of gloomier and more repugn an
KIDD than the Universalist variety" We
are almost willing to let the matter rest
with this statement, simply adding that
when the organ of the two points of
the compass referred to above, asserts
that Universalism denies free WILL" it
proclaims its ignorance ct Universalism.
Universalism denies only the kind of
@free will" which dethrones the Almigh-
ty and makes man the master of the
situation for time and eternity. Its
<'fatalism" comes in asserting that man
rs doomed to be saved" in accordance
with that divine law which controls des-
tiny and results in final obedience and
salvation. 1t is evident that our North
and West contemporary prefers the ia
talism that damns men eternally, and
that issued the dread decree before man
was born, to the more cheerful view of
destiny which finds no escape in all this
universe from the law and love Of God.
In press dispatch
One Sided Chris from London II was
tian Unity reported that the
Archbishop of Canterbury. primate of
the Church of England, addressed a per-
sonal letter to his arch. diocese. asking
the members of his communion to offer
prayers on Whit-Sunday for unity. The
Archbishop says: when we consider the
terrible separation of the past, when we
nov see so many communions-P resby-
Aerian, Nonconformist. and Roman Cath
,olic-- at home and abroad in America,
we are moved to desire to seek Christian
unity" This kind of verbiage needs
puncturing whenever it appears from
this particular source. 1t is we'll known
that the Archbishop of Canterbury de-
sires only the unity which signifies SUBJ
mission to the establishment. Neither
an this country nor in England are the
Episcopalians DESTROYS for any unity
sother than that which involves the &C.
ceptauce OF their communion as the
church par excellence. Their claim is
substantially that of Leo XIII. He de.
ssites unity and pleads for it in behalf OF
ahe Roman Catholic world, but it is the
submission to Rome that is signified.
The Episcopal communion. when it
Qrates of unity. needs to be reminded
s0t its own preposterous claim to be
4he one true church of Christ on earth.
En view of this claim. always persistent
Ay and oftentimes Extensively made, such
declarations as that of the primate of the
Engtish church, is verbiage Of the most
@seGseless order, with no true or heart
sfeit conviction at its base. 1t is form
sot false preten Sc which should be repro
Coated whenever it appears.