The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-09-14
SATURDAY, SEPT. IA.
EDITORIAL.
DIR. NASH ACCEPTS.

Word reaches The UNIvERsALIsT. as
the forms for the present week are made
up. that DR.. Nash accepts the call, re-
Gently rendered, to the presidency of
Lombard University. His resignation
at Brooklyn was presented on Sunday.
but the society cannot act upon it until
next Monday evening. A practical un-
derstanding has, however, been reached
and DR.. Nash will accept the responsible
trust. The time at which the President
elect will assume his duties at the Uni
versity is as yet undecided, but no doubt
an early date will be chosen. We
simply announce the acceptance OF the
call this week, and in our next, further
reference may be expected. We con-
graduate DIR. Nash, the University and
the Universalists of the West on the
decision finally reached. May the new
President of Lombard dwell long and
happily in this Western land.
500
The official notice of
The Next General the Meriden session
oonventlon' of the General Con.
vention appears this week on the eighth
page. The Financial Secretary's appeal
in behalf of the finances of the Conven
ton is also printed. Let it be carefully
considered and promptly answered from
the standpoint of personal and denomin-
ational duty.
This particular num-
This Particular her Of THE UN1vER.
NUMBER sALIsr is very largely
devoted to Indiana Convention matters.
1t is made up as special issue for that
State and an extra edition is printed for
circulation. The official reports here
with printed may not have any special
attraction for readers outside of the
State, but they are valuable to Indiana
Universalists who desire to see the an
nual facts and figures testifying to the
steady progress Of the Convention work.
In addition to the report of the Muncie
meetings and the reports of the officers
we give two papers read at the Conven-
ton. The Y. P. Q. U. is also fully re-
ported. We trust the issue as now pre-
sented will be acceptable to all friends
of our church in Indiana.
500
THAT socialism dis
Socialism in Fiction guised as fiction is
immensely popular in the United States
was shown beyond question by the won
derful sale Of Bellamy's Looking Back
ward" and that it is equally popular in
England is shown in the fact that "Mer-
RE England" an exposition of socialism
by Robert Blatchford, an English journ-
alist. has reached sale OF a million
copies. The book has been reprinted in
this country by the Humboldt Publish
ing Company, and will probably reach
second million here. The book is in the
form of letters to an English operative.
and the simplicity Of the style, possibly,
has quite as much to do with its i'm
mense popularity as the socialistic ideas
it champions.
800
THERE are many evil
Good Times at Hand dences that good
times are not only coming but that they
are really at hand. Not the good times,
perhaps of former years, of high prices
for all kinds of labor, and correspond
ingly high prices for all the necessaries
OF life, but good times that give every
man willing and able to work chance
for employment at fair wages, while the
necessaries of life such as clothing and
food are remarkably cheap. After all,
good times, like almost everything else
in this world. are relative. Assuming,
however, the condition Of the average
man as test, there is reason to believe
that the cost of living has been proper
tionally reduced with his wages during
the last two or three years, perhaps the
balance lying on his side, as compared
with what are generally regarded as
more prosperous years. The great diff
Guilty is that many people do not stop to
consider that the purchasing power of
their money is the true test OF their d.
nancial condition, and are inclined to
grumble at the times, merely because in
in the actual number of dollars they do
not handle as much money as they did
in the flush times preceding the panic
of '93. The rise in prices in manufact
ured and agricultural products is also
an encouraging sign. while the diminu-
ton Of Indebtedness, as shown by Brad
street. is an indication that the people
generally are learning the first great les
son Of economy,-that Of debt paying.