The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-19

is In search or facts merely Will be led
far astray by Mr.. Whites collection. He
has aimed to get and to give facts. There
is, however, way of handling facts so
as to convey by them an impression
quite the reverse of truth. DIR. White is
not to be charged with any such inten-
ton or performance. But he has not
wholly escaped the peril of the advocate
whose strong desire to prove his side
makes him either Indifferent or unfair
to the other side. The whole truth has
not been told by Mr.. White. 1t must be
told in companion work which should
bear some such title as this: The His
tory of the Alliances and Friendships of
Theology and Science.
Major McKinley's remarks to the
delegations that visit him at his home in
Canton, O., have been thoughtful and
jddicious; but they scarcely maintain
their original level. 1t is impossible for
man to speak two or three times day to
crowds of his fellow citizens and con-
tinue to say things worth repeating.
Besides, it is becoming burden and an
imposition, this pouring of tides of ador-
ing pilgrims upon the presidential can
didate. What right have his friends to
kill him? If he is elected he will need
all his strength and resources. He
should either retire into some fastness
or content himself with the merest for
malities of presentation. To prepare
speeches at the rate demanded of him
thus far will not only leave him nothing
to say but nothing to say it with.
Long and quite familiar acquaint-
ance with the late DIR. Lucius r. Paige
warrants the judgment that he was one
of the best types of man, citizen, official,
student, Christian. Capable of indigna-
ton he certainly was. and infexible in
| maintaining his convictions. Yet the
most marked trait of the man in all his
relations was absence of passion and
| prejudice. He seemed serene in the ut.
most fervor of feeling. His habit of
mind was repose in the facts. OF
spirit rest in God. He had entire trust
| in realities. He would search dill
| gently. but always patiently, it might be
years, for the facts, and Herewith he
was content. He was an ideal historian.
| His care, his candor, his habit of under
| statement. his thoroughness, inspired the
| readers confidence from the outset. He
had many treasures in his library. but
more in his orderly and unbiased mem
ory.
To the denomination DR.. Paige was
known chiefly as the author of the ''Se
lections" and of the Commentary. The
| former was one of the most effective con-
troversial strokes ever made all the
more so that it avoided controversy. OF
the latter it must be said, that though a
monumental work. of great research,
| discriminating. fair, and full of the infor
nation trusted in at the time by all the
expositors, it has beenrendered obsolete
in many parts in common with contem-
poraneous works on the Scriptures, by
the vast new knowledge and the modify
ing conceptions to which that knowledge
has given rise. The incorporation of DR..
Whittemore's treatise on the book of
Revelations with his commentary tended
especially to put DR.. Paige's work out of
sympathy with present Scriptural con
ceptions and methods. But it was a
useful pioneer work. and is still the best
source Of. Universalist exposition of diff
cult texts available. Like all of DIR.
Paiges volumes the Commentary bears
everywhere the stamp of candid,
painstaking, devout and settled mind.