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

IL IL 5dlu tQaL Dlcycllng Is SLOWLY out
surely running the book trade. So much
time is spent upon the wheel that there
is no time to read. and consequently
fewer books are bought by both individ-
uals and Libraries.
Answers to Prayers.
1.-The Ctnqueror-Sal Army)
We would get more answers to our
prayers than we do. if we would confine
our requests to those things which we
really want. Many man prays for a
baptism from above, who would run if
he saw it coming; and not few of those
who plead SO eloquently that their lips
may be touched with coal from off the
altar, would faint dead away if they saw
an angel go for the tongs.
Colleges and Education.
(The Midand.)
Going through colleges, seminaries
and universities or even taking extra
courses in Germany or Scotland will not
make one great scholar or good
preacher. Sometimes very weak men
have special opportunities for study,
and sometimes those with limited op-
portunities become great and learned
men. A college or university may be
great advantage to one, but it alone
will not make him great scholar or a
useful man.
The Real Question at Issue.
(The Congregaionalst)
The real question which divides the
Christian world is not doctrinal but &C.
clesiastical. 1t is the question whether
there exists clerical caste holding ex-
elusive powers transmitted from the be.
ginning, without which there may be
catholic baptism but no fellowship with
the apostles and prophets and with
Christ himself, or whether Christ is still
king in his church and all the people
sharers in the priestly office.
The New York Liquor Law.
(The Standard.)
The Raines liquor law in New York
in these columns it was very apt to
prove. weak antagonist of the saloon
power. Although the number of saloons
has been cut down somewhat the num-
Der Of "hotels" in which liquor is sold to
guests" has increased to remarkable
degree. The worst feature of all is the
fact that now the saloons are paying in
to the State treasury something like &c.
100000 per year; the addition of such an
enorm GUS amount to the revenues of
the State will make it difficult. and
probably impossible. to pass any prohibit
tive legislation for years to come.
The Cretan Struggle,
(Zion's Herald.)
The struggle in Crete assumes a new
phase. The Christians of the island
have organized civil government and
declared in favor of annexation to
Greece. The short way for the Great
Powers was to approve, but they appear
to have been swayed by the Turks de-
lusive assurances of reform. In view of
these promises, the Powers recommend
submission to Turkish authority. Once
disarmed, the Christians will be in the
Sultan's power, and he can dispose of
them in quiet way. That the insur-
gents will not submit willingly to the
old rule, we may be sure. They know
how much Turkish promise is worth.
The Sunday-School supreme.
journal & Messenger.)
Say what we will of the doings of our
young peoples societies, great and grand
as are their meetings, the Christian
world has not tired Of the Sabbath
school, and there is no reason to believe
that anything else will arise to take its
place. While the young peoples organi-
cations may afford occasion and incen-
tive for the study of the Bible. and be
made profitable in that way, it is i'm
possible for them to do what ought to be
done, and what habit, as we'll as good
reason, has fixed as means of familiar
izing the young with the word of God,
unless they shall take the time now
given to the Sabbath-school, and in so
far cease to be what they are now. The
Sabbath, school has become so inter
woven with the thinking and the work
Of evangelical Christendom that moth
ing is likely to ever crowd it out of it's
place. And so long as Sabbath schools
engage the attention of Christian work
ers in their own churches, so long it is
probable there will be such gatherings
as that seen in Boston last week.