The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-29
Interesting Notes.
Topics of the Day Discussed.
Lord Salisbury's Speech.
Hartford Post.)

Lord Salisbury will find difficulty in
persuading the Christian world to be.
lieve that England has no moral duty to
right existing wrongs in Turkey.
Church Gambling in Various Forms.
(Cnristian Standard.)
Churches and societies that allow any
forms of drawings, "grab- bags," fish
ponds" etc., to go on in the name of
religion are just as culpable as the sa-
looms and poolrooms which harbor games
OF chance for profit; and if preachers
and congregations do not discountenance
such, the arm of the law should intervene
in the interest of righteousness and
good order.
Court of Arbitration.
(The Outlook)
1t is not an extravaganza to say that
the successful establishment and main.
tenance of permanent Court of Arbi-
tration on the part of the English speak.
ing peoples of the world would mark the
beginning of new epoch in the history
of the human race, and all men ought to
crave an active part in 30 great histori.
cal event. The first step is to get a
widespread expression of public opinion
and desire; the Chicago call provides
for that first step.
The Arbitration Movement
(Christian Register.)
No time could be more appropriate
than the present to urge this important
question upon the attention of the
American people. Let not such meet
ings be confined to Washington's Birth
day. That ought to be simply the be-
ginning of a movement that should not
stop until an arbitration treaty is con.
cluded between England and America
and between America and the other
great powers.
True Conversion.
(Zons Herald.)
Conversion is nothing more nor less
than the enforcement of divine love in
the human heart When the love of God
becomes regnant or dominant inthe soul
OF man, then, and not till then, has that
soul undergone the great change which
we call regeneration, or the new birth.
He no longer presents his members unto
sin as instruments of righteousness, but
he presents himself unto God as alive
from the dead, and his members as in
struments of righteousness.
What Others Think ofUs.
(The Advance.)
No others estimate of us, whether
fattering or critical, is entirely just. A
most Improbable occupation is it, seek
ing to find out what others think of us.
They cannot know the best there is in
US. They are sure to misjudge the worst.
For they see in us reflection of them.
selves. They naturally attribute to
others the motives that influence them
selves. The one who knows no evil in
his own heart, is always slow to recog-
nize it in others. He will try, at least,
to find some good motive for an action
to which an evilminded man will be
sure to assign an evil motive.
Assimilating Power of the Gospel.
Boston Transcript
1t seems to have been in the past the
policy of American missionaries to Amer
icanize converts to Christianity. What
ever OF literature or morality the Orien-
tails may possess, it is most unwise for
the Christian missionary to attempt to
destroy. He may we'll assimilate to his
own faith all that is good in the Chinese,
the Japanese, the Hindoo religion. The
assimilating power of the gospel as now
presented by some of our missionaries,
and the effort to show the OrientaIs that
the Christian religion does not destroy,
but accepts, all that is good in their his.
tory and literature, will prove a valuable
aid in opening the East to modern
thought and civilizations comfort and
convenience.
The Trend of Hindu Thought.
Church at Home and Abroad.)
Competent observers of the trend of
Hindu thought have no hesitancy in de-
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rection as the higher thought of the
English-speaking world-toward Christ.
His divinity is now openly acknowledged
by orthodox Hindu journals, one Of
which went recently to the extent of as
sorting that the Chaitanya and Jesus
Christ had been the only two full Incar-
nations, while even Krishna was to be
considered but partial incarnation.
Many Bengal pundits are coming to see
that in Christ, and Christ only, are all
worthy ideals realized. The movement
toward Christ may come slowly, but
come it will; every missionary is daily
seeing evidences of it.
Rome's Pretentious Dogma.
(The Interlor.)
This pretentious dogma of an infalli-
BILE church. leads to strange and perni-
cious consequences. History records how
in the past the papacy has sought to
dominate the policy of emperors and
kings. 1t has assumed that it possesses
divine authority not only over the spirit.
ual realm. but the temporal affairs of
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