The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-28
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER %.
EDITORIAL.

EDITORIAL.
In our remarks IN
rev. d. Inomas' this column last week
regarding DIR. Thomas and his associate
pastor, we were not careful enough 10
our statement and perhaps created
wrong impression. The appointment
of Mr.. Vrooman as associate pastor does
not in any sense mean that DR.. Thomas
is to retire from the pulpit or passionate
of the Peoples Church. He expects to
remain in charge while so arranging
the work or dividing the time that he
can be away during the trying months
of late winter and early spring. This
will make it possible for him to travel
and preach through the Southern
States. He expects to continue in this
city as usual until some time in Janu-
airy.
The ease and facility
Slgnlhg Ine with which creeds are
Artlcies' accepted nowadays
when there is no we'll defined conviction
back of them and deciding their accep-
tance. is well illustrated in the story
told in Archdeacon Hare's recently pub
lished autobiography. 1t is said OF Prin'
cipal Jowett, the famous master OF Bal
liol College, Oxford, that his quaint
brevity of speech was never more re-
markable than when the Council, met,
a solemn conclave, summoned the "little
hereto" as he used to be called, into its
awful presence. Then, being asked,
"Now, Mr.. Jowett. answer the the truth;
can YOU sign the Thirty nine Articles?"
he dumbfounded them with, IF you've
a little ink!' The creed is ofteniimes
signed in modern life in about this spirit
of indifference to all the moral questions
involved.
The New York Trib-
The Fatherhood une, while recogniz-
and Brotherhood ing that Fatherhooo
of God and the Brotherhood OF Man
has become very familiar as the subject
OF pulpit and platform talk, is moved to
say that none the less it is thought
that lies at the base of every religion
that has struck its roots deep down IL
the human heart, and no other thought
today is 80 domiI ant among the forces
that are making civilization over again.
Again it remarks with emphasis: at
this teaching) marks the point of di-
vergence from the old religious and So
cial system, whose Fundamental thought
was, God made man; therefore, he has
a right to damn him. Not So say the
men who speak for new Interpretation
of the old dogmas, Rather let US say.
God made man. therefore he will bless
him." When the Tribune calls this
doctrine of the Divine Fatherhooo and
human brotherhood "a sort Of platform
hack" it possibly overlooks the fact
that it is the central teaching of the
Christian religion and deserves more
respectful reference when abiding to
its necessary statement and re-statement
as point of Christian doctrine.
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THE important and
A Foreign Mission cheering announce.
Iuno' ment made in DR.
Riggs communication last week. of the
establishment of a Foreign Mission
Fund, under the auspices of the Gen
eral Convention, may have been over
looked by some of our readers. This
lie something for which we may be
thankful as a church this Thanks.
giving week. The sum of $1,000 is as
cured as a permanent fund for the ia
pan Mission. The gift comes from
devoted brother who has the interest OF
our Foreign Work at heart and has di
rected that this sum be invested and the
annual income used in behalf of the mis-
sion. This is the beginning of Fund
which, as Secretary Rugg says. will
grow, and by means >of which we shall
have a constant source of income for
our Mission Work in distant lands"
Heretofore there has been no japan
Fund, strictly speaking. The Mission
has been sustained by donations from
it's friends and the money used from
year to year. Such an enterprise as the
Japan Mission needs source of perma-
nent income TO relieve it from embar-
rassment arising from changes incident
to an annual subscription. Now that the
fund has been established. we may
hope that it will attract the attention of
those who desire to maintain our work
/ Japan and are able to contribute to
permanent investment in its behalf.
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The conc fusion of a treaty and terms
peace between Italy and King Meme
elk, Of Abyssinia marks an important
era in the history of Northern Africa.
Since the days when the Carthsginians
contended with Rome for the mastery
of the world and the Egyptians were