The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-01-12
CURRENT PRESS NOTES.

IHE long face is mask from the
devils store.-[Galveston Nescs.
ANARCHIST MowBRAY advocates the
determination of Religion and State"
Ii be undertakes to do the exterminat-
Ing 1t will react upon him with great
severity Chicago Tribune.
If. Catholics and Irctestants only
knew one another more intimately, there
would be nc. room for mutual mistrust.
much less for hate among men of good
will.-[Cdtholic Telegraph.
PEACE is impossible with the contin-
ued presence of such fever spot as the
turkish Empire. 1t must be cured. In
ternal remedies will be tried first. II
they fail there will be resort to the knife.
Ii the Sultan persists in his course it is
not only probable but measurably GER
tain that the days of Ottoman rule are
numbered.-[Nea1 York Times.
IHE football game between Chicago
and Stanford Universities degenerated
into free fight between the students.
lfithis is what the American university
has come Ito, great many American
parents will prefer that their sons shall
go without university education. Men
can be barbarians and fight without the
expense OF university training g.-[Keo-
kuk Gate city.
WE must learn to measure the finan-
clal success of life, not by accumulation,
but by distribution; not by the money
which man has, but by the use to
which he puts it. ITO be rich and useless
is disgraceful. and the richer the useless
man is the more he is disgraced. We
must recognize that men, not things, are
the end of life and that no material sue
cess can justify process which deteri-
oates character.-[Ihe Outlook.
Cold marble is too perishable and in
significant to longer serve for monu-
mental uses. The only fitting monument
OF the noble is something that will house
an idea, foster souls and develop love.
The richest men can hardly preserve
their names on earth with costly monu-
ments and extensive estates. But the
world will not permit the name of him
who POUNDS library, causes park to be
or man-helping church to thrive, to,
pass from the minds of men, Unity.
IT is welcome news for humanity thas
China has concluded to sue for peace.
AS the struggle has grown hotter, the
crust OF civilization has begun to melt in
spots and barbarism to make its appear
ance on the part of the Japanese The
Chinese have never made pretence of
anything else; but Japan started in with
the assurance that it was civilized ma
tion and would do its killing as kindly
and politely as possible; and, indeed,
this was kept up wonderfully we'll until
the old blood. .thirstiness broke out at
Port Arthur. The world will be happier
when this stops. = Boston Common
acealth.
RELIGIOUS newspapers are spurred by
their competition to broader outlook,
a larger charity. and to greater enter
prise. They will hold and enlarge their
influence only by meeting the greater
wants OF their constituents. But those
which have steadfast confidence in the
religious aspirations and faith of Christ
tian readers are finding encouraging re-
sponse to their efforts Religious journ-
alism requires greater abilities and
greater toll than ever before The Con
gregatiOnalist.
The evils which flow from the use of
Intoxicating drinks are spreading where
ever the hand of civilized man can reach.
The sel6shness which members of Chris.
tian nations allow thems elves to show,
in commercial transactions of this kind
is glaring and inexcusable. Callousness
to suffering and to the ruin of soul and
body is strikingly illustrated in the fact,
just stated authoritatively, that among
"the spoils recently captured from an
African chief we're 1000 cases of Rot
terdam gin."-[ Presbyterian Observer.
THE one great thing which God and
men call the minister to do is to preach.
/ "ANA SChHuOAih6 anu pOWOis tAC
Gospel of Jesus Christ. If he came to
the pew, hungry and expectant and the
ministers did not present the truth of
Christ SO that it made him think, SO that
it convicted and subdued him and sent
him forth better man as a servant OF
his divine Master, then his minister had
failed in his one supreme duty. He had
not spent the days and nights in getting
ready for the puIpit-in thinking Gods
thoughts after Him; he had come to his
pulpit without any suitable message,
and as hearer he would not forgive him
his neglect. nor did he think God would.
i Zion's Herald.
WHILE the ministerial character may
be as genuine and pious as it ever was,
the attitude manners, etiquette, habits,
and professional standards Of the minis
try are not what they used to be 200
years ago. or even fifty years ago An
old-fashioned, sleek sickness and pro-
| fessional nasality, once not uncommon,
] hava baap That