The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-07-04
Exchange Notes.
Topics of the Day Discussed.


Some think much of apostolic success
slon," but whether they have it or not is
OF no consequence unless they have
apostolic salvation as described in Acts
xiii. 26, 49, 80. and Titus ii. lila.
Higher Critics Necessarily Heretics.
(The Truth)
The word hereto is transferred
Greek word, hdiretikos, which comes
from a verb meaning Ito choose" A
hereto, therefore, is one who, instead of
holding to all the truth of God in his
word. acts by partially and chooses for
himself. Hence the higher critics are
heretice, as the best that can be said of
them.
Spiritual Aeronauts Needed
Cumberland Presbyterian.)
1t is one of the fundamental laws of
nature that after certain altitude
above the earth is attained the higher
one ascends the more difficult it becomes
to breathe. Does not the spiritual anal
ogy to this explain why so very few
CHRISTIANS ever rise above the clouds of
life? Let US have more spiritual aero
nauts.
Corporate Union With Rome.
New York Observer.)
The declaration of the archbishop of
Canterbury year ago to the effect that
corporate union with Rome is impossi.
BILE SO long as the latter retains her dis
tinctive erroneous doctrines, and ad-
vances her present unprimitive and un-
scrlptural Claims unquestionably re-
hects the conviction of the great body of
the Anglican church today. The same
may be said of the great majority of the
Episcopalians of this country, the for
midable obstacle to reunion being, as it
must continue to be, difference of be-
lief.
We Need Each Other.
tHarpers Bazar)
There is 10 every healthy human heart
need which is older even than original
sin, and which was provided for by the
Creator when he declared that it was
not good that man should live alone.
We need each other, and hermits and
solltarles of every kind are, as they
should be, always in the smallest posi-
BILE ratio to the population; and while
the sacredness of each individuality
should be carefully respected living ex-
clusively in and for ones self is alike
unnatural and paralyzing to the finer in
stincts
Cremation Recommended
(rhe church,
1t is time that the church should set
its approval upon cremation and en-.
courage more distinctly than it has yet
done this method of disposing of mans
mortal remains. The argument for it
from the side of the practical as relates
to the order of our community life and
to the safety of the living is too familiar
to need urging. In large centers of
population the appeal comes with great
force. But on the side of Christian
thought what the church surely believes
it should also teach, that the faith of the
ages in the resurrection Of the dead is in
no wise impaired by this practice.
commandments"
tThe New Unity)
The air is full of congratulations to
"sweet girl graduates" and happy boy
orators. Every community in these days
feels spring-like touch of hope and
freshness coming from the school room.
Thousands of homes are rejuvenated and
in high way reclaimed. that is, claimed
again to the service of the ideal by the
achievements of the school room. Thou
sands of people find their lives recon-
mitted to sweet and heroic things by
the persuasive words that fall from the
inexperienced lips of youth. There is
something very inspiring in the thought
of the preparation years fading into the
executive years, as the fragrant hours of
the early morning give way to the ex-
acting vigor OF the working hours.
The Sacred Time.
(The Advanced
1t was Mr. Josh Billings who informed
us that we shall not have an honest
horse race until we have an honest hui
man race. The antithesis suggests the
truth that we shall not have sacred
time, neither anything sacred, unless we
have people in whose spirits the senti-
ment of sacredness is we'll rooted. On
this we need seriously to reflect; the
sabbatarian lest he be giving to himself
and to others some shallow and uncon-
vincing reason for Sunday observance.
and the anti sabbatarian lest he over
look the fact that in his Sunday revel
be is defiling the sanctuary of his own
soul. The constant relation of outside
to inside we need ever and attentively
to consider. for we are all of us too much
like hayward children, walking in the
ways of our impulses and the sight of
our eyes. and failing to note that this
sort of childhood and youth is vanity.
MIR. Gladstone's Letter.
(Christian Work.
1t is unquestionable that Mr.. Glad
stone has sorely tried the patience of his
friends among the English Nonconfor-