The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-12

the unreligious. The theory is, that an
atmosphere must be created favorable to
the action Of the Holy Spirit. A worldly,
selfish, sensual church is not the soil
out of which springs "an effectual work
of grace"
Joshua lowering. the candidate Of
the Prohibition party for President, does
not expect to be elected, but he is on the
stump and at his own expense is con-
tributing to the Campaign of educa-
tion." Such Of his deliverances as have
fallen under our eye have been Sound"
not only on the money question but on
all the others he has discussed. Mr..
lowering is fine sample of the sort Of
American citizen all Americans should
delight to honor. He is clean, indepen
dent intelligent and conscientious. He
represents particular idea. the prohi-
bition by statute of the manufacture
and sale of alcoholic drinks; but he has
other ideas in plenty and happy art in
their expression.
Mr.. Grant Allen makes a vigorous
and conclusive defense of "the novel
with purpose" He shows that the
,hool who have for some thirty years
bsen telling us that no work of real art
is ever produced with moral purpose,
have the facts of literary history and the
tendency Of fiction in their own time
against them. Voltaire, Goethe, Scott,
Hawthorne, Leasing, not less than Dick
ems and Reade and Mrs. Ward and Mrs.
Stowe, wrote with purpose. They were
not always preaching sermon but they
often were, and no reader of either Of
them can fail to find the motif of their
work. Mr.. Allen ought to have added
that the immoral purpose apparent in
the writings OF Dumas and Zola and not
few Of their imitators, equally proves
the truth of his contention-that the
novel with purpose is prevalent type.
Lii Hung Chang went with his CO.'S
tune and his retinue to visit and inspect
West Point Ten thousand people were
on the grounds, the cadets were drawn
up in reception array, the river was
crowded with feet OF excursion boats,
but the cautious celestial looked forth
and saw the rain descending and he
would not leave his snug quarters in the
Dolphin. Imagine an American in
al he x,lo Of
resenting his country among foreigners
and given the honors of an imperial
guest, who would not go out to meet the
throng on account of rain! A sharper
contrast between the orient and the oc-
cident could not be invented. That one
incident interprets thousand years of
Chinese history.
Anyone who has the opportunity to
glance at the newspapers from widely
separated points. as Boston and San
Francisco, New York and Denver, Chi
cago and Charleston, will be struck with
the fact that local events make up large
ly the world for each. There are now
30 many important commercial, social
and political centers in this country that
events OF magnitude and absorbing in
t,rest are occurring in all of them. These
constitute his world and his country for
the local reporter and editor. How diff
ficult it is for those subjected to this
sort of tutelage. year in and year out, to
hear much beyond the "shrieks OF To-
cality," or take really national view,
must be apparent. What we should
anticipate by logical induction is forced
upon our attention by the lessons of
daily experience.