The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-10-03
Exchange Notes.
Topics of the Day Discussed.

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Record of the American Armenians.
(The independently
1t is noble record that the Armen-
ians of this country have to show-S80,-
600 and more sent through the Ameri-
can Board alone to their suffering
friends in Turkey. They are neither
numerous nor wealthy. most of them
poor. They have done what they could.
Surely Americans should stand by them.
City VS.. Country Life.
northwestern
Many must move from the country to
the cities for the cities good, but thou.
sands now in the cities would have been
happier and better off had they remained
in the country. Young people should
seriously consider the question before
they decide to leave their country homes
and life.
Another Poor Richard" Wanted
Journal & Messenger.)
II Benjamin Franklin were alive it is
doubtful if there would be any way in
which he could serve his country so we'll
as by writing another Poor Richards
Almanac" intoxicating the virtues of in
dustry and economy, and those practical
precepts of life by which only the mass
Of the people can be prosperous in any
age.
Not Yet Sufficiently Advanced.
(Unity.)
1t is reported that at the Paris exposi-
ton in 1900 there will be section de-.
voted to tangible history of Christianity
beginning with the temple scenes of
Jerusalem and coming down to present
time. A beginning of this kind was
made at the exposition in Chicago, but
the exhibit was not complimentary to
either the subject or the exhibitors. A
scientific spirit is not yet sufficiently de-
veloped among representatives of re-
ligion to appreciate the value of scienti-
fic methods, either OF study or of teach
ing.
IntOIerable Imprudence.
NEW York Observer.)
The so-called new" that is worthy Of
utilization is simply the result of more
determined drive at the eternal verities,
and OF closer touch with the same
spiritualities that swayed an Abel or
that called to an Abram. There is no
impudence 80 intolerable as that of the
"zeitgeist" that assumes that it's own
petty discoveries of a few additional
nuggets of golden truth have rendered
valueless at a stroke the bulky ores
which already have been smelted up in
to the coin OF Christendom, or that yet
lie unmined in the mountainous mass.
The American Episcopal Church,
(Churehman.)
1t is impossible to refer to the propos
ais of the Church of England Reform
Association without remarking that
what in the Mother Church are looked
upon as needed reforms in her own ad-
ministration are the standing regula.
tions Of the Church in America. The
power of the laity, the right Of self-gov-
eminent. the patronage of the congrega-
ton, are all features of the Amer lean
system, and nave had, we cannot doubt,
no small influence in that wonderful ex-
tension of the Church on this continent
which has marked the last half of the
present century.
Laymen at Funerals.
(Christian Work.
A correspondent Of the Advance
makes the suggestion that at funerals.
instead Of calling upon minister who is
unacquainted with the character of the
deceased for conventional address, it
may be we'll for the minister to read ap-
propriate passages of the Scriptures,
and for a personal friend of the departed
to deliver the eulogy. In the majority
of instances there is, perhaps, no one 30
we'll qualified, by virtue of personal and
intimate acquaintance, to speak con.
corning the deceased as his pastor, but
there is nothing in the turial customs
of Protestant churches to prevent a
layman from taking part in such SER
vices.
Politics and Politicians.
(Christian Herad)
The average politicians use of the
term politics" can hardly be said to in
clude the idea of the preservation and
improvement of morals. He is trick
ster and not politician in the ethical
sense, who uses money for the corrup-
ton of conventions. the purchase of the
electorate and the bribing of legislative
bodies. The opportunities of such men
might be restricted were more men of
integrity chosen to positions of public
trust and did the voter respect more
fully the sanctity of the franchise, for
the proper exercise of which one may be
said to be responsible to God as we'll as
man. The corruptionist is an excres-
cence in American politics, cancer on
the body politician enemy of the most
dangerous stamp. and herein is the need
for more religion in public life-that
such men may be relegated to that lower
stratum OF human society to which they
of right belong.
A Prehistoric City.
(ZiOn's Herald)