The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-02-09
CURRENT PRESS NOTES.

against lynch law becomes. ly its ST.
lence, tacit abettor of lawless violence
and murder.-[Camberland Presbyfe-
ridn.
JUST how much the Armenians care
for religion and education. and what sac.
rifices they are ready to make to secure
these, may be seen from the fact that
the Armenian Protestants in Turkey
raised $4,000 last year for tie support
of their churches and schools. And this
is the people the Turks are trying to
stamp out Christian Register.
THE Brooklyn strike will live in the
history of labor troubles as one more in.
stance wherein an excellent cause was
lost through the stupidity of the men
who controlled the same, 1t will be a
great day for organized labor when the
rank and file composing it awake to the
realization that resorts to violence are
certain to blight the prospects of every
strike uprising. = Pittsburg Dispatch.
AMERICANS cannot better serve their
country or exhibit the highest order of
patriotism than by helping maintain in
violate that kind of foreign policy which
makes US pre- eminently the peacemaker
among the nations of the world. We
shall be thousandfold more glorious to
have led the world to peace, than to
have conquered and possessed the whole
IF hxv JIa =. r
DR.. PARKHURsT is not born fighter"
he was simply born honest, and with
conscience for doing the thing that
ought to be done, and for doing it in the
| time of it. He has never run before he
was sent; and when the time came for
anything, he knew where to find him.
self. If he has become leader among
men, it is becs use he had been obedient
to higher vision and leading than his
| own The AdUdnce.
Our civilization, Western civilization
| please, is not complete without import
ing Safeguarding, mobbing and rioting
from the civilized centers of the West,
which commodities abound in the mar
kets. What would be the case if the
Japanese we're to import the kicking.
| swearing. moobing and rioting from. say
England, and to adopt them here as ef-
fectively as our navy employed the war
ship?-t Yorodsu Choho, Tokyo.
Nor for moment has the rapal hier-
orohx hon q 4
supreme authority. while with its last
Vatican Council and its authoritative
and moDstrous decree of papal infal-
ibility, the door to Christian union
was finally and forever shut. bolted
and barred. go that from thereafter
Christian union became an impossi-
bility. Any search after it to-day is as
idle as hunting the wind or chasing a
rainbow.-[C Christian Work.
ONE great drawback to making liv.
ing by woman who is compelled
through necessity to 60 out to work is
the competition she is forced to meet
with in the case of the daughters of WELL
to do-people, who simply go out to make
money to dress on or to spend. In case
of strike for higher wages or against
reduction, these girls, who have parents
| to support them and homes to go to, are
the very ones who will accept and stay
in, simply because they do not depend
upon their wages for board or rent
journal Of the Knights of Labor.
The New York Presbytery has adopted
resolutions indorsipg DIR. Parkhursts
work in the cause of municipal reform.
Similar resolutions failed of passage a
month ago, but the Presbytery has
atoned for its error. 1t is more import
ant that it should put itself on record for
Dr. Parkhurst than that DR.. Parkhurst
should have its Endorsement. In this
case the man is greater than the organ
ization and the latter can raise itself to
the level of the former only by approx
ing the course which he has pursued
lBrooklyn Eagle.
DIR. PARKHURsT has only to look back
ward little at the political reforms
which have passed into history to see
that nearly all great improvements in
| government, whether national or local,
have been effected through the efforts
OF men who were among the practical
politicians of their times. DIR. Park
hurst cited Savonarola. That great
preacher was indeed filled with enthusi-
asm for civic reform, and made a tre-
mendcus stir in Florence. but the buds
of promise were early nipped by killing
frost, and no practical results followed.
Il Inter Ocean.
The seminaries of the Northern Pres
byterian Church are not giving favorable
responses to their Assembly's plan of
surrendering their charters and putting
themselves directly under the control Of
the General Assembly. A General As
sembly is not a permanent body, it
never is composed of the same material,
it never sits long enough to deliberate
any grave question thoroughly. and it
would be hazardous experiment for
such body to administer the affairs Of
permanent institutions like theological