The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-08-01
SATURDAY, AUGUST 1.
EDITORIAL.

GOtlOl tdIs
Mr.. A. B. TINKER, oil
Inc fresloenoy the committee ap
Vi DucnIel' pointed to recommend
a President for BUCHTEL COLLEGE, has
recently stated that now that Prof. G.
M. knight has been made provisional
and temporary president of the institu'
ton, the committee would take plenty
of time to consider the question of the
presidency and secure the best possible
man for the position. 1t is wise not to
make haste in such an important mat
ter. The institution will not suffer while
under Prof. Knights care. and delibera-
ton on the part of the committee in rec
ommending president. will be the part
of wisdom. In due time Buchtel's new
president will come to the front, and
when he appears, he will be one in whom
the denomination can contide and who
will honor and fill the responsible posi-
ton.
THE English curate.
1ne hngllsn as he is known to
Citrate. roodars ~ Enol;sb fc
ton, is an unusually colorless and unin-
teresting person, but, il we may judge
by the following poster as given in Lon
don Truth, the poor curate OF the
Church of England is an eminently re-
spectacle and wholesome character as
compared with his parishioners, if the
following may be taken as specimen OF
the way in which the said parishioners
pay their curates salary: "a Tea Fete
and Gala in aid of the Llanstadwell Gu
rates Stipend Fund will be given in the
Sports Field on Wednesday, June 10,
1896. Aunt Sally! Shooting Galleries
Lawn Tennis Archery! Cocoanut SHES
&C."
The Cedar Park ums quite full re.
meetings. port of the Waterloo
Cedar Park meetings of the Iowa Uni
versalists held last week. The expert
ment of holding a series of summer
meetings at this resort, while resulting
in a pleasant reunion, was not in one re-
spect as successful as anticipated. The
attendance was not equal to the attrac-
tions of the occasion. There we're few
applicants for cottage and tent privi-
ieges. and that feature of the week was
a disappointment. The Universalist
constituency" of Iowa is evidently not
large enough to warrant the holding Of
a summer assembly. 1t is not likely
that the experiment will be repeated
another year-certainly not until times
improve and people have more money
to spend on summer pleasures.
800
"IowA celebrates her
The Iowa Uen' Sc m i-centenuial this
tennlai' year. 1t will not de-
tract from the grandeur of the event
because it was decided to hold the
celebration on the edge of the State,
as if too timid to venture too far
into the interior. II ever an orator
had a grand theme on which to vent
his eloquence, this opportunity will
afford it. He can go back to date
when Iowa had not more inhabitants
than are now contained in some OF the
populous counties, and trace it's in
crease until Iowans can now point to
2,059,06 at the last census, an increase
of 146,173 since 1890. or nearly eight per
cent. Then there are only z, 100 more
men than women, which is smaller
difference than western states have
been showing as general thing. Then
as to intelligence. there are only II, l02
persons over ten years of age in the en-
tire State who cannot read and write.
There are only 1869 children between
the ages of six and seventeen who are
not attending school. Is it any wonder
that the credit of Iowa stands at the
highest notch, and that the people are
as prosperous as those Of any State in the
union?"
500
UNDER this caption
Nota"io Dos' the Boston correspon-
tonian." dont ~ the Rantist
STANDARD" Of this city. pays splendid
tribute to the late DR.. Miner: Among
the notable men of Boston who. during
the last few years have gone to join the
great. silent majority none will be
missed more than Alonzo A. Miner, DID,,
the veteran Universalist preacher and
champion of prohibition. We knew him
well. In 1s4S, the year he came to Bos-
ton, we heard him preach many powerful
sermons, the argument and leading IL
Illustrations Of one Of which we still dis.
tinctly remember. During a passionate
of some forty-three years. he was the
most commanding figure-Chapin, per-
hsps. for part Of the time excepted
in his denomination. For thirty or
more years antagonism to liquor traffic