The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-04-04
WAYSDE NOTES.
city,
The Church and Clergy.


"A Tacoma, Wash, man opens his
oatmeal mill every morning with prayer.
All OF his employees are church mem
bers and none of them are excused dur
ing the few minutes Of prayer before the
work of the day begins.
The Rev. Dr. Benjamin W. Bacon,
pastor of the Congregational Church of
Oswego, N. r., has been appointed in
structor in the New Testament in the
Yale Divinity School. He is son of DR..
Leonard w. Bacon, of Norwich, Conn,
and has already made name for him
self as student Of the Bible.
The following is from pepper pub
lished in Rome: 1.-THE Pope is greatly i'm.
pressed with the progress made by Pro-
testantism. which in Rome especially is
constantly establishing institutions and
churches which attract large part of
the Catholic dissidents; consequently
ne has decided to form Catholic Asso-
citation from among the relig5ou orders
to combat the Professionals"
Rev. DR.. William s. Rainsford of
st. Georges Church, New York. is quite
the pastor of his people, and as his la.
bors are confined to the poorer regions
he is in complete touch with the labor
ing world. His latest idea is that the
church should stand by organized labor
and recognize that thorough and com
prehensive organization among all
branches of wage -earners is needed.
Cardinal Manning once said to an
intimate friend: ITO write my life ade
quately ] should want at least three
biographers- AN Oxford man for the
first period. priest FOR dogmas and
councils and diocesan business Though
l doubt if the same one could do the
Roman part and the Westminster part)
and for the political and social questions
OF my latter days third, in yebas vitoe
pa,blicde dpprime versatus.''
In speaking of the we'll known Pres
byterian missionary, the Rev. DIR. Shell
don Jackson. who has just given $4,000
to the University of Utah. the New York
Evangelist says; when a prominent
person in Wall street was asked to give
help to Observation-Disclosures on new
territory he was told that jackson had
it in hand, and Immediately doubled his
gift. That man was the judgment
OF this keen observer of men and mis-.
sions. stands for so much in my esteem
and confidence that l will give him
double and ask no questions"
We remember. says Christian Life,
an old Methodist telling us of prayer
meeting with singular result. One
good brother prayed.that 1.-The whole
town may be converted" and there was
a loud Amen He lifted his voice and
pleaded for "she conversion OF our whole
island" and the amen" rose a tone
higher. Then he ventured prayer for
1.-The whole world" and there was a
laundering Amen He went a stage
beyond the world, said our informant,
and prayed, as Origen would have. that
shell and all its inmates may be
changed for the better" There was a
dead silence, and that dear brothers
prayer spoiled the remainder of the
meeting that night.
The Rev. George Anthony Denison,
Archdeacon of Taunton, England, is
dead. He was once the center of noted
controversy. In 1853 as a result of a
charge of preaching unsound doctrines,
brought against him by DR.. Spencer. BIZ
shop of Bath and Wells, DIR. Denison,
who was then examining chaplain to the
bishop. resigned the chaplaincy and
preached in the cathedral at Wells three
sermons on THE Real Presence" which
he published as his defense. Later,
proceedings were taken against the arch
deacon on account of matter contained
in these sermons and in 1856 he was
sentenced to deprivation of all his pre-
ferments. This sentence, however. was
set aside upon appeal to the court of
arches on point of law. 1t has been
often remarked that these noted church
men live to an advanced age. Arch
deacon Denison was 81.