The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-03-20
Exchange Notes.
Topics of the Day Discussed.
Hard on Chicago.

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Hard on Chicago.
Chicago mes-Herald.)
Washington, if he were here today with
his personal characteristics unchanged,
could not be elected to the city council
from any ward in Chicago.
Responsibilities of Defeat.
(The Advance.)
Defeat also has responsibilities: the re-
sponsibility of strengthening the things
that remain; of winning after-victories in
spite of reverses; and, when nothing else
can be done, to die in manly way, true
to the last. So died John the Baptist, and
Stephen, and other martyrs who burst
into heaven through great tribulations.
Concerning Belief
(The Watchman.)
A man has no right to bel what he
pleases. He should believe in accordance
with the weight of evidence Not to do
so is to enthrone prejudice above reason,
and yet you will find that some of those
who make the largest claims for the au-
thority of reason assert their right to
have their wishes dictate their conelu-
sions.
The Book of Jonah.
(The Mdland.)
The Book of Jonah was not given to
teach us as to the size of the whales
throat or belly, but to lead us into great
spiritual truths. Beneath the surface of
the story there are lessons deep and
grand for saint and sinner and for preach
er and people. We have no doubt as to
the historical character of the book, but
the facts as recorded are intended for our
spiritual instruction. 1t is a marvellous
book and deserves our close and reverent
study.
The Service of Conscience.
New Uni.yD
The soul grows young in the service of
conscience. 1t is blithe when it trusts
the promptings of the heart 1t is re-
newed when it invests all it's energies in
trying to obey the high exactions of
God. Now and then we catch glimpses
of this inner light in the faces which are
canopied with white locks-the force
within that grows more youthful with
the years. The channel narrows as it
deepens and the murmur of it's waters
grows more musical as it becomes less
turbulent
Religion and the Higher Education.
Cumberland Presby
The very nature of our religion leads to
higher education God fills the world.
The external world is his word 1.-THE
heavens declare the glory of God and
a devout astronomy enlarges spiritual Wis
ion. Consider the lilies'' almost sug-
gests the study of botany Christ is that
Word by whom the worlds were made,
and the study of creation is an act of wor-
ship. History unfolds his revelations and
his moral judgments. All sciences are
human efforts to read Gods thoughts
after him. Therefore Christianity, where
ever it goes, plants colleges and blossoms
into universities and publications.
DIR. Barrows in India.
(rhe Interior.)
Some very mean things were said about
DIR. Barrows by censorious press when
he accepted the engagement to lecture in
India. They will not correct them now
when the ultra Hindus and European ag-
nostics are denouncing him as narrow
and bigoted, because he as clearly as elo-
quently proclaimed the old Gospel with
out modifying or compromising a single
truth. DR.. Barrows is a Christian, be
lieves in the final conquest of the world
to Christ, and is not willing to share a
ray of the divine glory of his Redeemer
wit nf no oil
well intending they may have been.
Memorizing Scripture.
(rhe Standard)
The contemporary discussion of the
Sunday-school system has at least one
good result: 1t has startled us into appre-
hension of the fact that scarcely any of
the younger generation are acquainted
with the exact phraseology of even the
most familiar passages of Scripture 1t is
task that seems to be almost hopeless
even to teach a modern Sunday-school
two or three psalms to be used in opening
exercises. The attachments of our fathers
and mothers, who are said to have been
able in their youth to recite many chap
tiers from the psalms, prophets, Gospels
and epistles, seem to us already half
mythical, and would be doubted if it were
not for the survivors of the old regime,
who still retain in their memories long
passages learned half century ago.
Brigham Young's Statue.
(Christan Work.
The proposition to erect statue of
Brigham Young in the Hall of Statuary
at Washington ought not for moment to
be allowed. Surely there is some power
of control, some discrimination in the
matter. Happily we are safe from stat
ues of the multitudinous Mrs Youngs. 1t
would require a Milan Cathedral roof to
pinnacle them Seriously however,
statute of Brigham Young in the nations
Capitol would be an offense both against
the national feeling and the cause of NOR
ais; it would be nothing less than an out
rage. A bill has already been introduced
in view of the proposal for statue of
Brigham Young, prohibiting the erection
of an effigy in the nations Capitol with
out the consent of Congress. Congress
should pass some such bill, although the
consent of a joint committee of the two
Houses would probably serve the purpose
as we'll; if not better.
About Crete and Greece.
Independently
A. c. Evangelides writes; The condi-
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