The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-08-15
Exchange Notes.
Topics of the Day Discussed.
The Tuskegee Industrial School.
(Rellgious HeTald.)


(colored). at the head of which is Booker
7. Washington, with IS teachers, last
year attended to the education of 1,18O
pupils. The earnings on the farm, in the
daries, and workshops were s45,2ss.
Gifts to the schools of various sorts ag-
gregated 100000, while the expenses. or
binary and extraordinary, with some
permanent improvements, amounted to
about 100000.
The Use of Other Peoples Consciences,
New York Obssrver.)
There are people who never use any
coDsciences but their own. They con.
stitute themselves the sole judges of
what is right for themselves, if not for
others. Duty to such does not come of
argument. but has all the vividness and
conclusiveness of clear intuition. And
the tendency of the times is rather to-
ward the emphasizing of the authority
of the single conscience. The trend is
to individualism in many directions.
England and Egypt.
New York Tribune)
France has no business in Egypt unless
she is prepared to advance the contention
that it lies on the road to Madagascar,
but if it comes to that, she has no busl-
ness in Madagascar. So long as any
foreign influence is to be dominant in
the land Of the Pharaohs, that of Eng
land is the least Objectionable, serving
all interests as we'll as they can be
served. so far as modern experience
throws any light on the subject.
The mmOnweaIth.
(The Outook)
In the Commonwealth every man IS
dependent upon his fellow men; every
vocation which contributes to the com
mon welfare is honorable; every life
which draws something from the com.
mon stock and adds nothing to it is dis.
honorable. Service is the true standard
of life. In series of independent arti-
cles, based on this general affirmation,
we purpose to apply this standard to
different professions, and consider what
is the true meaning of each measured by
its relation to the com mon welfare.
The Minister'S Reading of English.
(The Watchman.)
Every minister, whether he knows
how to read Hebrew and Greek or not.
should know how to read English. But
some of them do not, and what is more
they do not appear to be in fair way of
learning. During the last four or five
years we have heard number of differ
emit preachers in all parts of the country,
but surprisingly few of them read the
Scriptures with coed taste and effective.
ness. Many of them appear not to have
read over the passage before coming into
the pulpit. They have not fixed upon
the Interpretation they are to give the
word of God by cadence of the voice.
They forget that tone may distort the
meaning of revelation as effectively as an
erroneous exegesis.
The Gospel of Rest.
(Christan Work.
Next to improved sanitation in our
cities and large towns. it may be ques-
toned if to any other one cause the pro-
longed life of a generation from thirty
three years to forty, which is the aver
age duration today, is SO much due as
to the habit of recreation and to the
tendency to change of residence dur
ing the summer months, which charac-
terizes such vast multitudes throughout
the country. A noted physician-we
bslieve it is Lord Kelvin. then known as
Sir William Thomson has said that
were it possible to bottle up local at
mospheres and administer them to pa
tients in other localities, large percent
eye of lives which now succumb to dis
ease could be saved. We believe the
statement carries with it very preg-
nant truth.
The Paradise of the "New Woman"
(The Churchman.)
Australia is evidently destined to be
the Paradise of the NEW woman" The
women of Southern Australia have now
been granted the political franchise. At
the recent election $1,000 women exer-
cised the supreme right of citizenship.
and are said to have voted we'll and
wisely. The male voters amounted to
77,464. The women of the antipodes
seem to be in deadly earnest, and at
meeting of the Woman's Convention of
New Zealand the most revolutionary
motions we're carried With regard to
marriage. the women passed a resolution
which will make great part of poetic
literature of the past mere nonsense.
The sexes are to be equal. No man is
to call his wife his own She is to be
not his. but her own mistress. In the
words of these ladies, "The whole ex-
ploded doctrine of possession or cover
ture should be repealed"
The Doppers: A Curious Sect.
christian Regiser.)
The Doppers are religious sect with
whose particular form o. faith few peo-
pie are familiar. Their queer name
seems to have been derived from the
Anglo-Ssx IN "dopps," "to dive" and