The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-08-15
UNIvERsALIsT PROFESSION OF FAITH.
ADOPTED 1903.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10.
EDITORIAL.

NOtkOk tNks
GERMANY will cele-
Inc 4ootl ami brate the 40Oth ami
Versary Vi MIL versary of Philip Mel
ancthon. onotbon,s birth in
February of next year, and at Bretter,
his birthplace, costly memorial hall is
to be erected, which besides standing as
a memorial to the great reformer will
serve as museum in which will be pre-
served the various relics and autograph
letters, manuscripts, ETC., not only of
Melancthon but of many other of Ger
manys great sons whose heroism in the
sixteenth century made possible the re-
ligious freedom and liberation of the
nineteenth. The house in which 1.-The
little Greek Philip" as Luther called
him, was born has long since fallen into
decay and tAe occasion of next Febru-
airy will be suitable one at which to re-
vive the memory of one of Germany's
greatest sons and establish memorial
of his service for the instruction and in
SEPARATION of coming ages.
NOS
QUEEN VICTORIA, con-
Vuee4 slcVofiaS corning whose sup
helSn' posed intention of alb
dicating we made reference last week,
will probably not fulfill the predictions
of the newspaper correspondents but
round out and complete her wonderful
reign only by her death. England and
the world, indeed, would be loath to
lose such gracious influence and inspir-
alton as the Queens life. has been, and
her friends and we'll wishers all over the
world will unite in the hope that her
reign may be prolonged to the end of
the century it has made illustrious in
the annals of England's history. And
when her epitaph is finally to be written,
none better can be traced on marble or
bronze than her own great Laureate's
lines:
"She wrought her people lasting good;
Her court was pure, her life serene;
God gave her peace; her land reposed;
A thousand claims to reverence cl, Sed
In her as Mother, Wife and Queen"
NOS
The Interior, the
Preventing Sacred Presbyterian journal
bndowments' of this city, recog-
nizes source of trouble for endowed
institutions of religious order in the
action of those who find it easier to
capture munitions of war than to create
them"-in other words, those who seek
to appropriate endowments which do
not belong to them and were never in
tended by their founders to serve an
alien purpose. "Congregatio nalism" re-
marks the Interior. sis very pretty
theory of church independence. but the
trouble is when we come to apply it to
the care of properties given by the ia
theirs. 1t is very simple and very true
that people who build churches and
colleges should be able to dispose of said
churches and said colleges by simple
majority vote. But the trouble is that
one generation builds the edifice and the
next controls it, for what purposes? The
men who founded Harvard College were
not Unitarians; the men who built An
dover did not hold the present creed of
Andover, and before the American Board
had fairly completed the University of
japan, the Doshisha. it had been capt
ured by the agnostics. 1t is mournful
history and rather discouraging to the
benevolent. We believe that our friends
will be obliged to modify their theory to
conform to their necessities, and to pro-
vide in some way that the wishes of
donors shall be adequately protected"
500
MANY years ago a
London ranoIaAa noted exhibition in
OF hell Cincinnati was known
as the Internal Regions" 1t was a
rude, but sufficiently horrible presen
tation of the torments OF the damned
as revealed in pagan mythology, with
pictorial suggestions of the more mod
err, but still essentially pagan ideas of
future punishm emit entertained by the
current orthodoxy. London Society now
brings the intelligence that colossal
panoramic picture of "Hell" is ap-
preaching completion in that city. 1t
is the work of some Hungarian and
Italian painters, whose combined forces
executed the elaborate tableau. This
particular view of "Hell" promises to
be as graphic an illustration of the
sulphuric regions of the damned as
the imagination Of those concerned in
the awful conception will ALLOW. "Of
course" as London Society shrewdly
remarks, lit will be only fantastic imag-
ination and the spectators will be left as
completely in the dark as heretofore re-
lative to the actual scenic attributes and
life and society in the regions Of perpet-
ual torment" King Humbert is to be
invited to attend the opening OF the pan