The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-01
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY L.
EDITORIAL.

THE annual circular
The State Con- of the Executive Com
ventlon quotas mittee of the Illinois
Universaliet Convention, with the quotas
of the parish for missionary and church
extension work, is reproduced in our
columns this week. Only by prompt
compliance with the request of the COM
mittee can the work of the State be car
ried on smoothly and successfully. 1t
is the duty of ministers to call the at
tention.of their churches to this annual
offering sand it is the duty of the
churches,to see that provision is made
for prompt, cheerful and generous re-
sponse Let all our pastors and churches
be represented in this good work.
800
THE quie ct little
Fountain Park, o. neighborhood of
Fountain Park, o., is quite excited over
the false reports of its iniquity spread
throughout the country by the Rev.
Tecumseh Stafford of the Methodist
church. DIR. Henley pays his respects
this week and makes some differences
not at all complimentary to the Method
list revivalist. He states the exact facts
all the same and numbers them for con-
venient reference. The healing proper
ties.of Fountain Park water are not at
all damaged by the Methodist revival
and DIR. Henley will continue to do bust
ness at the old stand.
500
How to realize and
Loyalty to Christ achieve Oh ristian
unity and at the same time preserve the
full measure of Christian liberty, is we'll
outlined in these words of DR.. Lyman
Abbott in the Outlook. We commend
them to all who desire to help in estab-
fishing firm and consistent foundation
for the necessary union of all Christians
in the work of the divine kingdom in the
name of the one Master Of all: when
every man who is trying to do Christ's
work in Christ's spirit recognizes broth
or in every other man who is trying to do
the same work in the same spirit. we shall
have both unity and liberty; and not be-
fore. We shall be one only when we
are one in Christ Jesus-not in our def
nitions of him; not in our interpreta-
tions of him; not in the symbols OF our
love and loyalty; not in the way in
which we organize to do his workout
in him: that is, in our love and loyalty
to him. Not in our loyalty to another's
understanding Of him. but in our loyalty
to our own understanding of him.
When the church has built on this
foundation, it has been one; when it has
departed from this foundation, it has
been divided; when it returns to this, 1t
will be reunited again"
500
THERE we're as many
The Haskell Bill as one hundred ser
IN oho' mons delivered in the
churces of Cincinnati on Sunday against
saloons of Ohio, and country generally.
The objective point Of this widespread
clerical effort is the Haskell bill now
under consideration by the Ohio legisla-
ture. The Dow law which is in opera
ton at present is regarded by the Tenn
perance people as too elastic altogether
for good service. The license under this
bill is $500 in cities, less in villages and
the country. License is easily obtained.
The saloons are controlled by State
law-that is, as to the hours of business.
The Haskell bill provides for local option
by wards and precincts and gives town
ships and municipal authorities the
power to regulate the business. Pro.
hibitionists think that if the Haskell
law is passed it will reduce the number
of dram shops two-thirde, and as a saloon
man recently said: at is l!liable to be-
come a law" We think the prospect is
favorable for the adoption of the Has.
kell bill. The anti-saloon league is we'll
represented at Columbus in efforts to
this end.
NEARLY quarter of
Heart and Con century ago an An,
science in Theology dover professor eaid:
"If our theology had been created by
men less intensely married to their folios
and more conversant with the human
tiles of life. better read in the love of
the human heart. it would have been
more exactly true" This was one of
the early tributes of the New England
theologians to the integrity of the be-
nevolent instinct and came from the side
of the house that had hitherto voted the
heart corrupt and false light. 1t was