The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-30
SATURDAY, NOV. 30.
EDITORIAL.

WE can hardly credit
fraylng lor the statement, and
Col. Ingersoll vetit is currently and
industriously reported in the secular
papers, that arrangements are being
made by the Christian Endeavor Society
to observe day of prayer for the con-
version of Colonel Robert Ingersoll. 1t
is said that 300 organic atoms of that
order have come into the plan The gen
eral good sense which has characterized
the Christian Endeavor movement leads
us to doubt the strange statement that
Colonel Ingersoll is to be complimented
and advertised in this way. This whole
sale appeal to Heaven would not, we are
convinced, be honored from on high
were it put into execution. Ingersoll is
only one of the myriads whom God will
make willing in the day of His power
and not until then.
800
OUR Muncie, Ind.
Locating He'll pastor. Rev. J. F.
himself to the work of locating hell-not
a difficult task if the Scriptures are al.
lowed to lead the way. He discussed
the four words which are rendered "hell"
n the Bible, dwelling particularly on
sheol and gehennd. Sheol was shown
as the grave, the under world, the state
of the dead in general without regard to
their character and the place to which
all men go alike at death; while Gehe
ma was the valley located south of Jeru-
salem, literally, dumping ground for
the filth of Jerusalem. The dead bodies
of animals were consumed therein. and
many criminals we're burned alive in
early days. This was the place where
the worm dieth not, ETC., etc. I'm every
case hell was located in this world and
was of temporal duration" The sermon
was regarded as quite novelty in Nun
Gle, aud attracted large congregation.
1t is not bad idea for sermon to com
municate information on Biblical topics,
and that it should prove novelty in
Muncie or elsewhere is not to our credit.
We need more instruction from the pull
pit on Biblical doctrines. Let us have
more of it.
AN interesting occa-
Lombard corner sion at Galesburp is
stone Laying noticed in our col
umns this week-the laying of the cor
ner stone of the projected Ladies Hall,
or Cottage, at Lombard University. This
building has been needed for many
years, and has been projected since 1889,
when the Alumni begun the present
movement We trust that it will now
rapidly rise in beauty and grace and
thus fulfill the long-felt want. Mrs
Prof. Grubb in her address on Friday
last, at the exercises of the laying of
the corner stone, said, with great per-
tinency to the occasion and with histor-
ical accuracy: Zone of the most striking
facts in the history of Lombard is that
even when other institutions stood with
closed doors. she dared to open hers to
women, and invite them to stand side
by side with their brothers in the class
room. The history of co-education
proves that woman was worthy of this
trust. One hundred and thirteen young
women have been graduated by LON
bard University, and they have demon
strated that the same discipline, the
same culture that makes man truer,
noblar and greater, will also make
women truer, nobler, greater; that the
higher education does not destroy, but
increases the grace and the sweetness,
the delicacy and the virtues of the real
womanly IDEAL"
500
THERE are not want.
oi iin0an' ing evidences in these
Aehu0hoy' last days that the
Unitarians are gradually moving along
higher lines to the exclusion of the mega.
tive position which many of those called
by that name have occupied in the
past quarter of century, thus giving
rise to the impression that the religious
and devotional heritage of the older Uni
tarianism was destined to pass away
amid the incursions of the secular spirit
that has SO largely controlled the de-
nomination. especially in the West, in
recent years. The Boston Transcript
hopefully notes tendency which is sig.
nificant of returning reason in the fol-
lowing words:
perhaps the most significant ten
dency which appeared during the Uni
tartan Conference at Washington was
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