The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-05-23
SATURDAY, MAY %.
EDITORIAL.

EOlIOCldl.
ILLINOIS bids fair to
Mrs. Bradley's New furnish large quota
oehoiao'ion' of names on philan-
thropy's roll of honor. We refer elss-
where to Mr.. behring's noble gift to the
Northwestern University. And this re-
minds US to mention that Mrs. Lydia
Bradley, of Peoria, of our own household
of faith, in addition to a hospital, a
home for aged women, the Bradley Me-
mortal Universalist Church, and park
of 145 acres, given by her to Peoria, not
long ago declared her intention of i'm
mediately erecting in that city Poly
technic Institute which with its endow-
ments will represent cost of 81, 100000
The laurels of Miltiades would not let
Themistocles sleep. May such examples
as those of Mrs. Bradley and Mr.. Deer
inc produce similar spirit of wakeful-
ness or emulation as to the proper uses
of wealth.
lHE M0buOUl5I 16u-
The Methodists In eral Conference hav-
oounoh' ing settled by COM
promise the woman question for the next
four years, have now entered upon the
most exciting period of its deliberations,
namely the election of two bishops. Up
to Monday eleven ballots have already
been taken without result other than to
show that the West is endeavoring to
elect western man while the East is de-
termined to secure both plums from the
quadrenniaf bush. The situation re-
minds one of the strife for power in po-
litical conventions. No shrewder or
sharper politicians will be in st. Louis
next month, nor in Chicago next July,
than may be found among these Metho-
dist ecclesiastics. The secretaries and
editors will be elected this week pro-
vided that the bishops are safely landed
in time for the conference to proceed in
regular order. The retirement of Bishops
Bowman and Foster, the aged senior
bishops, as "non-effective." was an unex-
pected action of the conference. Here
tofore, we believe, bishops in the Metho-
dist church had life tenure and were
permitted to die in the harness. Bishops
Morris and Simpson in the last quarter
of a century we're allowed to grow old
gracefully in the service of the church,
and were not disturbed. The action of
the conference in retiring these aged
servants will doubtless lead to much
criticism,
The recent National
The President and Conference ON Inter.
International national Arbitration
Arbitration. held .at WASHINGTON
appointed a committee to present to
President Cleveland memorial en-
bodying the resolutions adopted by the
Conference. The committee discharged
its duty on Thursday, May IA, and had
very pleasant and satisfactory interview
with the President. The occasion clio
tied another strong expression from Mr..
Cleveland in favor of arbitration. He
informed the committee = of which
Judge Edmunds of Vermont was chair
man that he was thoroughly and
strongly committed to the doctrine of
arbitration for the settlement of inter-
national disputes, and had so expressed
himself in his communications to Con-
gress prior to the Venezuelan troubles.
He said he had read the resolutions now
presented to him when they were adopt
ed by the Conference. and highly ap-
proved their moderation and wisdom
Mr.. Cleveland also said that he noted
with pleasure and surprise the high
character of the representatives from
more than forty States who had assem-
bIed of their own accord to give voice to
their convictions on the subject. He
promised to be ready, officially, to utilize
all proper occasions for the accomplish
ment of the purpose the Conference had
in view, which" he added, will have
to be done through an international
treaty"
500
THE Inter Ocean is
The Eleventh movad 70 dacloro the
Plague. cyclone "the eleventh
plague" and remarks: Egypt had its ten
plaques; the cyclone is the eleventh of
the great forces Of devastation. 1t still
remains an awful mystery. Whittier it
goeth and whence it cometh no man
knows. Meteorological science is so far
advanced as to enable its most skilled
professors to predict with an approach
to certainty the coming of rain or snow,
and even of tempest; but the cyclone is
more than a tempest. and no man yet
has been able to give such timely warn
ing of its approach as to enable those
who dwell in it's path to flee from the
coming wrath"
The last few days have been unusually