The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-01-04
Topics of the Day Discussed.
Speaking from Experience?
(R0stOu Harald
The Two Great Nations.
New York Tribune.)

New York Tribune.)
The two great nations of the world
which are foremost in all the arts of
peace and culture, and which are of all
most closely related to each other by
ties Of blood and mutual interests and
common aim, have not fallen 80 low that
there is no way of settling their disa-
greements but by reversion to savagery
and barbarism.
Christian Civilization and War.
(Tbe independently
We are too far advanced in Christian
civilization to think of war as the solu
ton of our difficulty. We have a diff
ficulty; but God has given us reason.
and have we cultivated reason during
all the centuries since we left the shades
OF barbarism to dethrone it now for an
appeal to the sword? Those who well
come war. talk like fools; those who
grow hilarious over the prospect of it
are merry with insanity.
Avenging the Exile.
(Akron Beacon.)
Two Jews, of Bagdad, have avenged
the exile by purchasing-Babylon. By
those waters where their fathers wept
under the willows hung with harps, on
the mounds that once were palaces with
the original roof gardens on top of them,
and somewhere near whatever may be
left of the den in which Daniel was not
eaten by the lions, these up tot date
children of Israel may sit down and
mediate on many things,
The Shocking Contrast.
(Examiner)
1t is most lamentable that the happy
Christmas season should be marred by
voices OF tumult and strife. The thought
OF war, abhorrent always, is peculiarly
so when thrust rudely forward at such
time as this. Yet perhaps the shock
ing contrast between what is and what
ought to be-between the dreadful pos
sibility of war and the blessedness of un-
broken peace-will help to make the
thought of war yet more abhorrent.
The Conscience of the World.
1.-THE New Unity.)
Not the Monroe Doctrine for Ameri
ca but the Monroe Doctrine" for the
world. If England, still keeping up the
old gressiveness, violates the law of
love which protects the weak and de.
tends the inefficient,i let the UNITED
States appeal be not to the arbitrament
of battle but to the conscience of the
world. Let it ask the nations of the
globe to join with it in asking England
to arbitrate mooted question. Justice
need never fear arbitration.
Another Year.
western Christian Advocate.)
When we are young the years do not
go away fast enough. c When older, we
do not uncomfortably note the passage
of time. When men grow into the
seventies and eighties the, duodecimal
units of the years seem to hasten unduly.
We once heard fellowtr traveller say that
he was astonished that he knows so
many young men who are only sixty"
The whole world of men and things is
relative. The entire roster of men and
women goes through~the world as if
their lives need never end.
Armenia and Europe.
(Interior)
No such slaughter of people has &C.
Cured since the conquests of Zinghis
Chan or of Attila as that now in progress
in Armenia. Three millions of Chris
tians, men women and little ones are to
bs butchered, and one-third of the work
is already done. Half million have
been killed, aud famine will kill another
half million if the butchery should
now cease. Europe is standing by to
see it done. Lord Salisbury potters and
pretends by asking to pass a war-ship
through the Dardanelles, as if that
would have anymore effect than the
change of the moon. The war ship
went through-and the butchery of
Christian women and children proceeds.
Problems of Germany.
(Siandard).
Nor is it altogether easy to appreci-
ate the ups and downs of anti socialistic
laws and edicts in Germany. Any one
who has seen the Social Democratic
in the reichstag, and has
read the programmes, is led to suspect
that the best policy of suppression would
be to allow time for the working of the
forces already apparent
within the party. But here again one
cannot be too certain. William ii. is no
fool, even if he sometimes acts foolshly.
Socialism in military monarchy, with
imperfect suffrage and traditional Sec
tional jealousies to complicate matters,
is very different from possible extern
sion of an already existing democracy.
THE MISSOURI VALLEY.