The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-14
Fighting for Peace.
Canada Presbyterian

separate one from God. Christians
need not be looking out for right-angled
lapses from duty. Two lines of railroad
which leave the same depot in almost
parallel directions terminate. the one at
New York and the other at San Fran
cisco. Mind the little switch frogs with
their almost impsrceptible angles!
Working Women in Europe.
(The Advance.)
Reports made at the Woman's Con-
gress recently held in Berlin showed
that the working women of Europe gen.
orally suffer great hardships. But in
this respect Vienna has the worst re-
cord. The wages are "shockingly low.
aud the hours very long," Rents are so
high and the people SO poor that several
families sometimes are crowded into a
single apartment. During the tailors
strike in that city last spring it was
pnblishe that the wages of the tailors
we're as low as SIPS per week.
Christian Unity Amid Diversity.
(Cnrstan Register.)
We want diversity with the legitimate
divisions and contentious which it in
Wives. conducted, of course, not by
Doors, but gentlemen. The hundred
sects that divide Christendom may in
some instances have their mission of
evil; but in the average result they are
the salvation of the Christian cause.
Get hundred people together, in con
vention assembled everyone saying,
yes. yes to what every other person
says-no division, no friction of conflict
ing judgments. nor shock of honest
contention-why. such an estate would
make earth worse than pandemonium.
Malaria has its haunts in the unruffled
waters, Better the tempest that keeps
the waters sweet than the calm that
breeds pestilence.
The Need of a Jewish University
(Jewish Messenger
II is pity that the need of Jewish
university is not yet realized. Presi-
dent Patton's address at the Princeton
celebration proves how the average
American college, with clergyman as
head and under UNCONVENTIONAL auspi
ces. is essentially Christian, even if it
claims to be unsectarian. Our Catholic
brethren have the courage of their con-
victions, and erect an institution of gen.
eral learning, open to all, but under
Catholic supervision. We Hebrews are
satisfied not only to expose our young
men in their most impressionable years
to non-Jewish influences but fail to add
our contribution to the higher Ameri-
can education in concrete form. 1t is
spurious liberalism which is at the bot
tom of our reluctance in this matter.
Algebra VS.. Rainbow.
(The InteriOr)
The most tiresome books in a theo-
logical library are apt to be it's common
taries upon the Revelation OF st. John.
To US the most useless labor is that spent
upon the endeavor to identify its visions
with this or that event; for as we view
it. it is not panorama of an age but of
a world. 1t is not pre- Raphaelite
painting with every eyel ash distinct;
but aglorious Corot. bright with auroral
glories or Respondent with sunset hues,
showing only the outlines and figures
of men and women silhouetted against
Gods sky. We have never pretended to
know much about the Apocalypse. any
more than about flower. or cloud. or
a star. Some of our commentators
would reduce it to an algebra. We pre-.
fer to know it as rainbow.
The scheming of Russia.
journal & Messenger.)
The scheming of Russia becomes more
and more apparent. While the world
was relying on the Triple Alliance for
a measure of protection Russia laughed
in her sleeve, knowing that secret
treaty with Germany made the Triple
Alliance worthless. 1t is now announced
from Copenhagen. and generally believed,
that Russia has also treaty with Dem
mark by which the harbor, Notifications
and ship yard Of Copenhagen are to be
placed at the disposal of Russia in the
event of war, thus giving her command
of the Baltic Sea, and immensely
strengthening her position in war with
Germany. and even other nations. In
return. Denmark expects Russia to aid
her in gaining control of the Elbe prov
inces; and possibly, at the end of seri-
GUS war, to insist on the transfer to Den
mark of the great ship canal built by
Germany to connect the North and Bal
tic Seas. Add to this Russia's open
French alliance, and it will be seen how
she has played of one nation against
another to secure everything for her
self.