The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-02-02
Wayside Notes.

~ HERE is something for youI
men in general and for young ministers
in particular from the late Henry Ward
Beecher: "Take the lowest seat ard
work your way up. Let man be called
up always Do your work wherever you
are. and do it faithfully and SO content
eddy that they will want you still higher.
Be drawn up. Do not force yourself up"
* GENERAL Booth was asked re-
Gently how the Lords Supper was OBJ.
served by the Salvation Army. He re-
piled, I'VE do not observe the Lords
Supper in the form; we observe it in
the spirit He was asked whether there
was anything to prevent member of
the Army retaining his membership in
church. The reply was, Eyes: it is
against our rules for a person to be
member of the Church and member of
the Army at the same time"
* THE now famous DIR. Parkhurst
remarks,-"I feel that | do not deserve
tenth of the kind things that are said
about me, and judge from what Broth
er D. said in his church yesterday
that he feels about that good deal as |
do" The vein of quiet humor which
crops out in the good doctors reference
to his Brother D indicates phase
of his character which will be pleasant
surprise to thousands who have thought
of him only as a stern CRUSADER"
~ DIR. AUSTIN WADDELL, the great
Buddhist scholar, who has been work
ing in Nepaul and Thibet in order to
carry on his studies. purchased Lama
list temple with all its fittings. He then
persuaded the priests who went with the
temple to explain each detail of the rit-
ual and its meaning, and so possessed
himself of invaluable oriental lore. The
priests were obliging enough to convince
themselves that he was Buddhist REIN
carnation, so they hindered him in moth
ing.
~ Our readers will be glad to see
that we have second Pacific Ocean let
ter from Rev. Edgar Leavitt this week.
Bro. Leavitt was in some doubt about
the propriety of asking The UNIVERSAL
IsT to print any extended account of his
voyage to Japan. The doubt will vanish
when he sees his second communication
in print. Our readers were glad to fol-
low him in the interesting account of his
journey, and will also be pleased to hear
from him occasionally, now that he has
entered upon the foreign work.
~ THE beautiful and familiar hymn
"In the Cross of Christ / Glory" was
written by Sir John Bowring, a Unitar-
ian Universalist. A writer in an ortho-
dox paper shows some signs of the right
use to make OF the death of Christ on
the cross, in rem arks on this hymn: IF
then, we sing this hymn with great glad
ness, we do not rejoice in the instrument
of torture, nor in the cruel death there
on. nor in the terrors which our Lord
suffered but because in these extreme
sufferings, from which his sensitive and
innocent soul revolted. he showed us the
quality of his love for sinful creatures,
and how to obey and to make sacrifice.
and even to die. For we know by his
example that through him we die that
we may enter upon eternal life."
~ ARCHBISHOP RYAN. the Roman
Catholic prelate of Philadelphia, in a
recent address said: II do lot believe
that any enlightened members of
any Protestant denomination maintain
that the members of other denomina-
tions or the members of the Catholic
church shall be excluded from salvation
simply because they belong to such Or
CARNATIONS. am quite certain that the
Catholic church does not exclude Jews,
Gentiles, and Professionals from saliva
ton. She leaves such judgment TO AL
mighty God. who alone knows each in
dividual soul, and can alone judge of its
merits or dement's. This is but one of
the many misunderstanding of Catho.
lie doctrine. What we ant, above all
things. is a more thorough knowledge of
one another and of our real principles;
and this reproach Of our Indifference as
a cause of agnosticism must lose much
Of it's force"