The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-05-02

the unlV6rSo,-GOQ' all IN allE mus
Persian and Pagan dualism, as
corruption of Christianity, is dying.
Let it die j. G.
The Benton Harbor News, comment
ing on Rev. Mr.. Sahlin's sermon noticed
elsewhere, remarks: after all said
against the Universalist faith by other
denominations no one however orthodox
could but have thoroughly enjoyed the
common sense sermon of Rev. George A.
Sahlin in Benton Harbor. last evening.
He believes in punishment for sin and
that che that dceth wrong shall receive
for the wrong which he hath DONE" He
doesn't believe that murderer Holmes
will find admittance to the peace and
Joy of heaven even if he says he repents
and is baptized just before he is swung
into eternity. The reason that the diff
ferent churches and creeds are suspic-
ious of each other is that they do not
understand each other. They are not as
far apart as they imagine" The Uni.
versalist position is not yet understood
by myriads Of our fellow Christians.
When it is understood, as this editor in
Inmates, people will be surprised at it's
sweet reasonableness" and wonder at
the misunderstanding of the past.
500
REV. Mr.. Lee OF Newark, who ex-
posed Rev. DR.. Morgan's plagiarism, has
been seriously criticised by some clergy
men because he did not go privately to
DR.. Morgan and demonstrate with him
instead of publishing his faults to the
world in the newspapers. He has ans.
wered his critics effectively, however.
No one Of them, he Gays, has come to me
privately to tell me that l have done
a wrong. On the contrary, they have
rushed into print with their denuncia-
tiuns. thereby committing the very of.
fenee they charge against me- But now
the deadly parallel" is turned on Mr..
Lee himself. 1t is discovered that he
cribbed portions of his class poem on
graduating from Yale in 1871 from for
gotten poet. The case is made very
plain and the tables are turned on the
Newark minister. "Set a plagiarist to
catch plagiarist.v Mr.. Lee knows how
it is himself by this time.
sos
-Ephraim Howe, who died on April
in New York City, eighty four years old.
left most of his property for charitable
objects. By his will he left $4,000 to
Tufts College for the erection of new
building near the present ones, to be
known as Howe Memorial Building. Mr.
Howe also gives to the Chaplin Home
for the aged and infirm, 5000; st. Law
renee University, of Canton, n. Y,
$1,000 to form a scholarship, and
to Clinton Liberal institute at Fort
Plain. the sum of $4,000 to form the
"Howe Fund" the income Of which is to
be used for the general purposes of the
institute. These are all Universalist in
situations. Mr.. Howe was one of those
Universalists who in life loved his church
and in death remembered it. Too many
wealthy Universaists die and make no
sign.
500
Rev. DIR. G. L. Perrin, Of Boston, has
declined an invitation to the presidency
of Buchtel College. In explanation he
prints the following card;
after the unexpected publicity that
has been given to my invitation to the
presidency of Buchtel College, l feel
that ought perhaps to make word of
explanation. The invitation, though
not in official form, was very urgent and
appealed to me much more strongly
than most of my Eastern friends will
easily understand.
al declined the invitation for the sim
pie but sufficient reason that it seemed
to me to be my duty to stand by the
Everyday Church and carry it forward
to permanent success. II. therefore,
there has been any doubt in the mind OF
any one as to my own belief in the per-
manent success Of the movement, or my
own attitude toward it, this ought to be
the final and conclusive answer.
GEO. L. Perrin"
BOSTON, April 20, 1896.