The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-10-17
All Things to all Men.
THE AdVance.l

All Things to all Men.
(The Advance.)
Among other lessons to be learned in
this campaign. are the lessons of enthu-
siasm. personal work and methods.
Why not be as enthusiastic for Christ
as for Mckinley or Bryan? Why not be
as free to make personal efforts for our
church as for our party? Why not use
as many methods to reach sinners as are
used to reach voters? Let us be all
things to all men, so that by all means
we may save some.
The Papal Delegate.
Baltimore Sum-
There is special interest in learning,
from the Voce della Verita, that, not.
withstanding the high office to which
he has been destined by the Holy
Father, he will continue besides in his
career of prior general of the Augustin-
ian order, leaving a representative in
Rome during his stay in America. The
same organ OF Vatican opinion adds
that he is a friar of great learning, of
holy life, and is endowed with extraor-
binary prudence.
Factors of Prosperity.
(Examiner.)
1t has frequently been stated that
commercial prosperity depends quite as
much on confidence as on currency. In
other words, the value OF any given cur
rency in circulation is, in large measure
determined by the confidence which the
people using the currency, and thoss
with whom they do business, repose in
it. Both taken together, L. e., the cur
rency and the confidence, or as one may
say, the credit, compose the circulating
medium Of nation.
Prison Reformers.
(Standard.)
Sentiment plays very small part in
the plans of prison reformers. They get
1t knocked out of them at the very
start. They have learned to distrust
men, but to trust man; that is, while
they unavoidably become suspicious of
the individual men with whom they
deal, they retain, by some blessed mira
Gle, an abiding faith in the possibilities
OF manhood even in the most hardened
wretch. For, while in their public pre-
sentation of the cause they emphasize
the economic aspect of the parole law,
in saving public money, anybody can see
shining through their speech deep and
burning love for saving men. The high
est motive, the Christian motive, ami
mates most of those who have been
eminent iu this work; all of them show
the spirit of Christ in at least this re-
spect, the love for men.
w. c. P. Breckenridge, of Kentucky.
(Woman's Journal)
The nomination of the notorious
Breckenridge of Kentucky. as the repre-
sentative of the united gold standard
Democrats and Republicans of his dis
trict. ought to convince the most preju-
diced remonstrants of the need that
women should be able to represent
themselves. When, with great effort
and the utmost difficulty, the women of
his district persuaded his constituents
to defeat him, our opponents said that
the women's success showed that wo-
man suffrage was needless. But now,
when, from motives of political expe-
diency, common decency is disregarded
by his triumphant nomination. it is evil
dent that "to be weak is to be misera-
ble." The resurrecti on of this notorious
male factor ought to double the mem.
bership of the woman suffrage associa-
tions of his district and his State.
The Pope on Anglican Orders
(The independently
What the effect of this declaration
will be in England and America is diff
cult to forecast. There may be from
among the extreme Ritualists seces-
sion TO Rome, somewhat like that of
the time of Newman and Manning. But
they are not likely to carry congrega-
tions with them They may be notable
men, of the type of Lord Halifax and
Archdeacon Denison, but comparatively
few in number. On the other side, this
decision will arouse a new feeling of re-
sentiment against the claims of Rome.
The great Broad church party, and
equally the Low church party, which
is not defunct, will be strengthened in
their indifference to the whole conter-
ton on which high churchism rests, and
toward the exaggeration of whose i'm
portance its party has been unfortu.
nately leading the church. We are