The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-10-24
SATURDAY, OCTOBER "a.
EDITORIAL.

Mr.. DWIGHT MOODY
Regularity Accord saws that when in
ing to Moody Chicago recently he
was invited dozen times to speak on
silver platforms. They offered to fur
nish me with my sermons, so that all
l would have to do would be to rehash
'em a little. Some preachers are afraid
of doing anything that is not 'regu-
lar There is always regularity and
order where there is death. You go to
a graveyard and you find all the tombs
arranged in beautiful order. When
mans dead you can lay him out as you
please and he will stay just that way
regular and dead" Notwithstanding
this little remark on the beauties of
Regularity and its consequences, it
does not appear that Mr.. Moody was
irregular" enough to accept the over
lures made to him to enter the political
arena. He chose wisely in declining
proffers to turn his pulpit into politi
cal rostrum. 1t is another evidence of
his customary good sense.
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If it was the purpose
Speolal W Gne of our esteemed coz
Advance temporary. The Ad-
vance, to make any point in favor of
profound views" of an orthodox ma
ture in meeting the wants" of those
who, like Mr.. Edison Keith, are unable
to stand the nervous strain induced by
long continued physical suffering and
seek relief in self-destruction, our afore-
said contemporary has now an opportun-
ity to revise its opinions and contemplate
suicide in prominent orthodox person
age of its own particular communion.
We refer to the sad suicide Of Prof.
Blaisdell of Beloit College, deed more
inexplicable in its way than the case of
Mr.. Keith. Prof. Blaisdell was Con-
gregationalist who held what the AID.
vance calls profound views" of the
resurrection of the body" and other
related doctrines of orthodoxy which it
assumes meet the wants" of the thu
man case" and furnish the remedies"
against the tendency to shuttle off this
mortal coil ia the hour of awful discour
agement. How did profound views"
result in the case of its own Prof. Blaie-
dell? The Advance must see in this
case that its remarks suggested by Mr..
Keith's tragical death are decidedly
negatived by the result in the case of
Prof. Blaisdell, whose profound views"
did not shield him from the terrible
deed OF elf-destruction any more than
did the Universalist opinions of the
lamented Edison Keith.
THERE is no doubt
leaoe on Ine whatever that Ameri
nofiSon' ca and England are
getting closer together in the Venezuela
negotiations. The war cloud that doomed
up portentously in President Cleve-
lands famous message has now almost
disappeared from the horizon of both
countries. An official statement issued
III lOANlOu Oh A4Ohdoy OhAOONtSO hAO
following cheerful opinion: "There is,
happily better feeling manifested en-
both sides of the water, between the re-
spective peoples, and it frequently hap
pens that manifestations of this kind
help governments to an amicable con-
clusion which would otherwise be i'm
practicable" Regarding the current
rumor that the British Ambassador at
Washington is returning to this country
charged with a mission having for its
object the settlement of the dispute. the
same authority says: 1.-THE patent fact is
that he all along has had such mission;
he has returned to Washington with
certain instructions, and negotiations
will be reopened Immediately on his
arrival" In due course the proposals
of the British government will be con-
sidered by the President and Mr.. Olney
and communicated to the country in the
message of President Cleveland. 1t is
the sincere nope OF millions of the best
people on both sides of the Atlantic that
they will prove OF such a nature as to be
accepted by the American government
and permit this dangerous controversy
to be settled in az amicabe and honora-
BILE manner.
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DR.. JOHN WATSON,
Ian MaoLaren" the Presbyterian min
on Preaching lister Of Liverpool.
Eugl and, whose pen-nane OF elan Mac
Laren" has made him familiar to many
thousands OF people who have read his
stories, is a preacher of noted force and
eloquence, and stands high among the
great preachers of the old world. He is
now in this country, having come over to
deliver the Yale Lectures on preaching,