The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-05
Quotation n,YColumn.
photographic Facts and Opinions.
JOHN RANDoLPH,s WORDS.

JOHN RANDOLPH's WORDS.
1t was the quaint John Randolph. the
famous statesman of early days. who
said: when l try to make myself an
intidel. l fancy feel the hand of my
mother on my head and her voice sound
ing in my ear as she taught me to say,
Our Father, who art in heaven
THE wATCHwoRD "DO.o
DIR. Shinn says the watchword of Uni.
versalists, should be, "do!" That it is a
shame for one to claim to be Univer-
salist. and yet, do nothing in behalf of
Universalism. We think so, too. says the
Herald. We suppose all churches have
some drones that could be eliminated
with profit.
TIE BLIND HYMN WRITER
Miss Fanny Crosby. the hymn writer,
is more than seventy years of age.
Though she has been blind almost from
birth. she is always happy and cheerful.
For thirtY-two years she has been in the
employ of firm in New York. Among
the hymns which she has written are
"Safe in the Arms of Jesus" and Res.
cue the Perishing."
DR.. CHALMERS STUDENTS.
In the life of DR.. McCosh, the great
President of Princeton College. special
mention is made of his indebtedness to
DIR. Chalmers. He says: Chalmers sent
forth the great body of his students
bent. when they became ministers, not
merely on preaching the whole Gospel,
but specially on visiting among the nom
church-goers during the week."
ACCUMULATION IN THIS CENTURY.
Gladstone is reported to have recent.
ly stated that England has accumu-
lated more money during the last ninety
years than in all the previous centuries
since the time of Julius Caesar" Prob
ably other countries have amassed for
tunes at something of the same ratio.
A writer in the Altruistic Interchange.
commenting on the above, says, "that
in this country during the last forty
years more money has been given by
men while living, to their own towns,
than in all our previous history" This
may, or may not. be creditable. The
question is, have they given in proper
tion to their accumulation? There
must be magnificent increase of altru-
ism in the civilized world, unless there
is to come pathetic collapse from over
triumphant egoism.
SAD DEATH OF THE PRAYER MEETING
"The following obituary notice." says
Mid Continent, Twill be read with tear
full and at the same time, we trust, with
profitable interest: Died = in Laod.
icea, the prayer meeting, aged three
years and one month. The health of
this little meeting was poor most of last
year, during which its life was often de-
SPARED of. A few anxious friends kept
it alive, and at times it would so revive
as to encourage them. Discouragement
at last prevailed, and the meeting died
from neglect. Over forty Christians
were living within quarter of mile,
and not one was there. Had two been
there it's life might have been saved, for
where two or three are gathered together
in my name.' etc. Two. thirds of the
forty might have been there had they
been so disposed; but they were not, and
the prayer meeting died."
PROTEsTANTIsM AND WOMEN.
A book entitled woman under Mon.
asticism," by Lima Eckenstein, has re-
Gently been published. In the preface
tho author says that "in losing the pos
sibility of religious profession at the
beginning of the sixteenth century, wo.
men lost the last chance that remained
to them of an activity outside the family
circle. The subiugation of women to a
round of domestic duties become more
complete when nunneries we're dissolved.
and marriage for generations afterward
was women's only recognized vocation"
The monk became citizen and found a
career in political life. if he did not be-
come preacher. The nun was shut up
to the family. 1t is in causal relation
with this abolition Of the monastic sys-
tenn by Professionalism, that the emanci-
patton of women began in Protestant
countries and in them alone has gone to
any length. A widened field for woman's
activities is the inevitable substitute for
the ascetic ideal.-T'he Church.
rs THIS wRONGP"
There is food for thought in the fol-
lowing paragraph from sermon by the
late Bishop Phillips Brooks: Every
now and then a conscience among the
men and women who live easy thought.
less lives is stirred, and some one looks
up anxiously. holding up some of the
pretty idleness in which such people
spend their days and nights, and says:
is this wrong? Is it wicked to do this?'
And when they get this answer, No,
certainly not wicked then they go back
and give their whole lives up to doing
their innocent little piece of uselessness
again. All! the question is not whether
that is wicked, or whether God will pun
ish you for doing that. The question is