The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-05-09
Exchange Notes.
Topics OF the Day Discussed.
Significant Selection.
(Standard.)


New York Sunday Papers,
(Springfeld Republican,
Two New York Sunday papers, the
World and the Journal, hot rivals now
in price and quality, are printing week
after week pages that reek with the rec.
ords of crime and the doings of crimi.
nails. They are carrying suggestion and
pestilence into uncounted homes, and
we respectfully suggest that reputable
papers in Boston and New England re-
frain from entering the field of that com
petition. 1t is an unworthy effort and
an outrage on the public.
Personalities Necessary Sometimes.
(The New Unity.)
Personalities are always to be re-
GREETED, Names should be used with
caution, but if the pure public sentiment
requires plain talk and direct attack
upon the boodlers in the council, the war
must be carried into Africa and equally
plain talk concerning those who with
Doodle buy the council. II these heavy
diners are innocent they must have re.
joiced in the plain speech of these alder
men. If any of them are involved they
deserved the medicine administered and
it may do them good.
The Crime of Luxury.
(Churchman)
This is a poor time to begin talking
about the "crime Of luxury" There is
no such crime. The sin of indifference
to the need of ones neighbor is quite an
other thing, and every man who com
mits that sin must answer for it; and so
must every man who commits the sin OF
consciously judging his neighbo This
rich neighbor as we'll as his poor one.
Three-fourths of the current talk about
1.-THE iniquity of wealth" and "the crime
OF luxury" is born of envy, hatred, malice
and all uncharitabeness.
Stealing Sermons.
(Journal and Messenger
There are undoubtedly few men who
can read another mans sermon with the
same effect they could preach it if their
own. They are men of whom the Chris
tian world should beware. The fiat dis
honesty of such course is their suffi.
Gent condemnation. And yet there are
no doubt men whose moral natures are
30 blunted that they see nothing wrong
in such course. We know of nothing
more likely to produce this effect than
the excessive use of the flood of homile-
tic literature now poured out on the
country.
The Economical Man.
(Eyangel)
The economical man, brethren, do you
know him? The man who, when hard
times come, cuts off his contribution to
the church and stops the religious paper,
even il it is dollar year. He must
economize. He couldn't think of buying
less neckties, clothes or hats. He must
economize, and he cuts God off. God
has never done anything for him! He
never sent any one to bear the burdens
OF life! And then, besides, he will never
know about it! He will never have to
meet him face to face and give an &C.
count of selfish life.
A Pointer for the Institutional Church.
Central Baptist.)
In Sweden there is in every we'll fur
nished home what is called the "crying
room" When the children proceed to
enliven the home with screams and
yells, they are quickly hustled away
into this secluded corner. the door is
closed, and the regular affairs of the
home go smoothly on undisturbed by
this little side show. 1t occurs to us to
say that the institutional church, which
provides room for every conceivable
industry. might find a pointer here for
the accommodation of professional
grumblere and fault finders.
English Politicians and Agnostieism.
Church Standard)
In his introduction to the Peoples
Bible" quite recently published, Mr..
Gladstone notices that in the British
Islands politicians are less Influenced
than any other class by the negative or
agnostic spirit of the day. He thinks
that those who are "habitually CONVEX
SAINT with human motive, conduct, and
concerns are very much less borne down
by skepticism than specialists of various
kinds. and those whose pursuits have
associated them with the literature of
fancy and with abstract speculation, or
with the study, history, and framework
OF inanimate nature"
The South African Situation.
Tire Advance)
The situation in South Africa is very
peculiar. DR.. Jameson attempted to in
wade neighboring state and is now in
London undergoing lapguid and feeble
trial on one side and being lionized on
the other side. The Matabeles have imi-
tated his example and massed force
against Buluwayo. In London it is
thought that the danger is great. but the
Chartered Company says it is not. The
friends of the Beers charge that-tbe up.
rising in Mata beland was instigated by
the Chartered Company and British
agents and that its purpose is to avenge
the defeat OF DR.. Jameson. The other
aida charpes that il WAS stirred uD bV