The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-01-19
Wayside Notes.

~ BISHOP j. P. NEWMAN denies
story published in Baptist paper that
he baptised Gen. Grant when the latter
was Unconscious. He says the General
was in full possession of all his faculties
when the rite was administered.
TX DR.. TALMAGE is said to receive
$500 for lecture and sometimes 81 900.
He makes more money out of his lect
ures than any other man on the plat
form. Col. Ingersoll's price is $500,
while DIR. McGlynn, Joseph Cook, and
others of the same rank OF lecturers,
command from 500 to $3.50.
~ A STATEMENT was lately made
that the revised version of the Bible was
drug on the market" 1t is pleasing
to know that Mr.. Henry Provide, in
Oxford University Press, says that while
bearing no comparison to the sale OF the
authorized version" yet the demand
for the revised version is steadily increas-
ing.
*** The First Congregational church
of Terre Haute, Ind, which celebrated
it's Goth anniversary the other day. is the
oldest Congregational church in In
diana. Henry Ward Beecher used to
say that he first discovered his pulpit
power there. He conducted a revival in
~ ~, 1910 ,uhila ha uoc noctor in Tn.
dianarolie. The Rev. DIR. Lyman Alb
bolt was it's pastor for six years and the
Rev. DIR. Leonard Bacon also served as
its pastor
*** THE Rev. Lydia Sexton, who died
in Seattle. Wash, few days ago at the
age of 50 years, was born in Sussex
County, New Jersey, and preached for
fifty years. She was cousin of Bishop
Matthew Simpson, and her grandfather
was Marquis Anthony Cozat. famous in
the early history of the colonies. He
owned grant of land which included
the whole Mississippi Valley from the
Gulf to the source of the river. He alb
andoned it because he said it would cost
more to keep than it would come to.
~ DR.. PERIN's Every Day Church"
contains this paragraph; IF person
ality be such factor in the world,
what of it in the church? Is it not
the supreme factor? Christ is the in
carnated personality of God. Chris
tianity, true Christianity, is the iucar.
mated Christ. The church is the dis
penser of this personality. For himself
Jesus claimed nothing, and yet he
claimed everything. Il can of mine own
self do nothing" II and my Father are
one" He regarded himself as the chan
mel through which flowed the life cur
rents from the Fountain of Life, the
mouth piece through which God spoke
to man, the hand by which divine health
and life touched diseased humanity"
~ Was it jew after all who dis
covered America for Columbus? A book
translated from the MS. Of DIR. Kayser-
ling has been published in New York,
entitled Christopher Columbus and the
Participation of the Jews in the Spanish
and Portuguese Discoveries. II sets
forth the service Of the Jews in the
fifteenth century discovery. and hints
that America was first sighted by Jew
ish sailor whom Columbus cheated of
10000 maravedis and a silk waistcoat.
Since the days of Caleb and Joshua,
Israel has been more concerned in turn
ing to account countries already dis
covered than in finding out new ones.
- MISS FRANCES Power CoBBE ian
Irishwoman by BIRTH tells in her auto
biography how she was educated at a
school in England in 1886, where she
cost her parents $1,000 in two years