The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-21
Schemes of Church Union.


union. They will fail. 1t is not easy to
blend organized institutions; it is much
easier to blend men. Let us have less
talk about church union. and more
about Christian union. We cannot
take two full-grown. well-rooted apple
trees, and make them into one; hut we
can easily mingle the fruit of beth.
Greetings After Worship.
The Mldland.)
Christian greetings after public wor-
ship will do thousand times more good
than all the postludes that are ever
played A loud, roaring or grumbling
organ after the benediction is a rank
nuisance. 1t binders the fellowship of
the saints. and prevents Christians ask.
ing strangers to come again.
The Institutional Church,
New Unity.)
The name and the thing at present
seem little out of the regular order.
The time is coming when a church that
is not institutional, viz. church that
does not try to embody it's theories and
to practice its piety, will have hard work
to show cause for being. The institu-
tional church is but return to cathe-
dral efficiency of the earlier DAYS of
Christianity when the cathedral stood
for the helping agencies of life.
Natures Revelation
| (Zion's Herald.)
This is Gods world, for He made it,
and still lives in and governs it. Nature
is Gods earlier and greater revelation of
his existence and purposes. Though a
| little hard to read as we advance beyond
the pictures the volume was complete
in the first edition. There has never
been found any need of revision. The
work was absolutely complete in the
hour of creation. No new dispensation
has intervened; no re-putting of the case
| has been demanded. The whole was in
at the fret. Men had only to interpret.
Non-BibricaI Terms.
(The Observer.)
! The truth is that all such terms as
foreign" "home," and Getty" missions
are non Biblical. though not contra Bib
lical, and must be considered as geo.
| graphical terms which exist simply for
| convenience. And in some cases these
| different zones of work intersect or over
lap. Heathendom has come to our
shores, while converts to Christianity in
| Asia or among the isles of the Pacific
| are now sustaining in some instances
| their own "home," or even "city" mis-
| sions.
Fresh Pulpit Work Needed.
| Northwestern Christian Advocate.)
| 1t is important to "get out of the ruts"
in preaching, as in doing some other
thi ngs. The interest and respect of
hearers do not depend solely upon say
ing new things. Impressiveness. origin
| nality, attractiveness, and pulpit sue
! cess often come through the new routes
along which speaker reaches some very
ancient conclusions. The substance of
the gospel is forever old, just as mathe-
matte al and all fundamental truths are.
The New Salvation ARMY,
Cine independently
Mr. and Mrs. Ballington Booth have
declared their intention to lead a new
organization. The name of the move
ment has not yet been decided upon, but
evidently it is to have the prominent
features OF the Salvation Army. We do
not see the necessity of second Saliva
|
these excellent people who are capable
of doing such signal service for the Mas.
ter might have found field in connec-
ton with some existing organization.
Salvation Army Methods.
(Chrlstian Work.
Why do not the denominations utilize
the methods of the Salvation Army in
reaching the poor? They needn't have
so much tambourine il they do not wish.
but the military method of the Saliva
tionists having proved SO effectual in
reaching the poor, there would seem to
be no good reason why the Presbyter-
ians, Baptists, Methodists and Luther
ans should not resort to means by which
so much good has been accomplished.
But they do not, and no sign has been
made of any attempt at adopting Saliva
ton Army methods.
Religious Pessimism.
| New York Observer
Religious pessimism is the deadliest
blight that can fall on the spirit of any
man who calls himself by the name of
Christian shifting his activity into
spiritual barrenness. and pushing the
ardors of enthusiasm out of his life. Its
fruit is the cynicism which mars the
beauty and blessedness of religion. We
should beware of its insidious leaven.
We should leave fault-fnding to the
enemy, and Danish doubt and despair by
the expulsive power of the passion of an
optimism founded on the promises of
God.
| The Defeat in Iowa.
| (Standard.)
By vote of the Iowa House of Repre-.
sentatives defeating the re submission