The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-21

marck; and yet Bismarck went to Can
ossa. So the Church of England will go
to Rome, sooner or later The only way
to keep out of Rome is to get out and
keep out of the Church of England and it's
daughter on this side the sea.
Cost of the War Scare.
christian Register.)
The Boston Herald estimates that the
war scare of last December has cost the
American people, directly and indirectly,
two or three times over the capitalized
value of the entire republic of Venezuela.
If the final settlement is by peaceful arbi-
tration no money value can express the
value of such gain tc humanity and civil
ization
The Preacher and His Audience.
(Christian Advocate.)
A contemporary says: "When man
loves to preach he does not often lack an
audience This is incomplete. Edward
Everett said, Blessed is the man that
planteth a tree" Some one else having
seen trees planted where they came to
nothing, improved upon Everett by add
ing, ''where they will grow. ~ When a
man loves to preach he does not often lack
an audience, provided he is preaching
where there are many people, and also
when the people love to hear him preach.
University Women in England.
Boston Advertiser.)
Two thousand two hundred and Thirty
seven members of the Cambridge Univer-
versity senate in England have.signed a
document whose purport, stripped of all
verbiage, is that women may be permitted
to study at the university, provided they
pass entrance examinations as rigid as
those required of men, keep up during
their course of study as high standard
of scholarship as TIE men do, pay the
same fees that the men pay, and receive
none of the degrees, none of the honors,
and none of the privileges which are &C.
corded to men, in consequence of connec-
tion with the university.
Startling Reports From Rome.
New World-Catholic.)
The cable man has given us during the
past week even more than the usual num-
Der of startling reports from Rome. Ac
cording to him. Archbishop Ireland is to
be removed from the see of ST. Paul in
the near future and all the present pro-
fessors of the Catholic University are to
be dismissed by orders from Rome. 1t is
well that we have cable man gifted with
such brilliant powers of imagination and
invention. If it were not for him and
these brilliant canards of his, we should
be at loss for exciting news now that
the election is over. 1t will be interest
ing to see what he will be able to do for
us next week.
Without the knowledge of Christ.
(Christan Work.
If the heresy charge brought against
Bishop Vincent is that he held that man
could be saved without knowledge of
Christ, it is just as well to drop it. Abra
ham didn't know Christ, nor did Enoch
nor Elijah; and God is no respecter of
persons Further, the prayers and aims
of the centurion had assembled as memoir
ial before God before he met Peter or
probably knew of Christ. The attitude of
the soul which would enable one to ac-
cept Christ if presented to him is surely
sufficient. The ''outside saints are
numerous people, and they will sit down
with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the
Kingdom of Heaven when the children of
the kingdom are cast out.
New Experiment of Salvation Army.
Tine independently
The Salvation Army has decided to try
a new experiment in the San Ramon val
ley, Thirty or forty miles from San Fran
cisco, for retaining convicts on their re-
lease from prison. A ranch of some 300
acres has been.given them by Mr. George
S. Montgomery, and the plan is to make
place of refuge where the ex-convict can
remain for few months, until some prac-
tieal mode of farming can be learned, or a
situation be provided. 1t is expected that
life in this condition, intermediate be-
tween prison and the outer world, will do
much to reform the criminals who other
wise might all too easily be seduced again
by their former boon companions or the
saloons. Already a fund has been started
to supply suit of clothing and transpor
tation for all those who may secure good
positions. Commander oth-Tucker is
to start a similar farm near this city for
paupers as we'll as criminals. The land
has already been acquired.
Speaking With Authority.
(The Examiner.)
Shrewd observers have remarked that
large part of the attn activeness of the
Roman Church, lies in it's claim to infalli-
bility and authority. Men grow weary of
bearing the responsibility for their own
decisions and actions; they are impressed
and awed by spectacle of an official who
says to them, 81 belong to church which
has authority from heaven: implicitly
obey this church it speaks through me,
and you will not go astray; you will be
safe now and hereafter If the man is
convicted in his conscience of having
sinned, the church no less positively as
sures him of pardon and pronounces his
dissolution on his fulfilling the conditions
imposed by the representatives of God.
All this is attractive; we are apt to APP
praise people and institutions at the value
they set upon themselves. This is a large
part of the secret of certain class of ply
sicians; their confidence in themselves
is contagious. We put no reliance on him
who speaks with perhaps.
What are the Churches Thinking About?
(Congregationalist.)
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