The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-06

mitted by any tactics OF delay IN the
Senate, has touched tender spot. Sew
eral senators, while complying with the
request of their constituents to present
petitions praying that the treaty be
ratified, took the occasion to resent
somewhat crustily the interference"
and "meddling" by clergymen and COL
lege professors, with the regular order
OF the Senate's proceedings" Senator
Hoar thought it was "a great mistake"
and would "ipiure the cause" This out
burst on the part of the senators who
are inclined to hang up the treaty. re-
calls wildly the similar display of sena-
torial dignity when petitions for the
abolition of slavery came in to disturb
"the regular order of the Senate's pro-
ceedings."
DIR. E. E. Hale conducts 'Good
News department, recently instituted,
in the Christian Register. 1t is wheel
within a wheel, being an independent
area of religious journalism within the
larger area of the Register. Or it might
be called an oasis, but for the implica-
tion that the rest of the paper is a desert;
dan more unfortunate or less appro-
pirate figure could not be chosen. The
whole of the Register is goodly land,
always fresh and fertile but never ver-
dant. DIR. Hale's department is of
piece with the entire paper but has an
interest and motif peculiar to himself.
He puts himself and his vigorous ideas
and his manifold plans for the public
good by this means into stimulating re-
lation with the Unitarian churches and
people.
in conspicuous disregard of Sunday
observance the men we delight to honor
take the lead. There is not noted poll
tician or worker, as far as heard from,
nor a prominent boss in any State who
pretends to pay the smallest regard to
observance of Sunday. On the contrary,
it is his busy day. He sees people on
that day. holds the determining confer
ences. prepares his decrees and makes
ready for the work OF the week. His
bad example is freely copied by smaller
men in the same line all over the land.
Imagine the influence for sound morals
and high ideals of life. not to mention
religion. which must emapate from law
makers and officials, so ostentatiously
indifferent to the chief interest of man
kind.
The New York Times Saturday Re-
view of Books and Art is departure in
journalism which counts one against
the steady down grade of the Sunday
paper. That seems to be going from
bad to worse. This is sign of intelli-
gence and recognition Of class of
readers who had supposed themselves
forgotten.
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell is pur-
suing the vivacious F. Hopkinson Smith
with something that resembles Spanish
fly. He assumes monopoly of informa-
tion as to Turkey and the Armenians.
Miss Blackwell convicts him of numer-
GUS elf-contradictions. of dependence
for his facts on the missionaries whom
he maligns. and of many other unethical
and inartistic lapses.
The book reviewer of the Register
uses the appearance of the Life of DR..
Miner to draw some parallels and con-
trasts between the Universalist Miner
and the Unitarian Bellows. He con-
cludes with an expression of regret that
the biography Of DR.. Bellows has not yet
there for biography of ten times the
interest of this. il properly handled"
Aw!
"A young pastor, graduated from the
Canton Seminary a little more than
year ago, has managed to repay one hun
dred dollars Of his Scholarship Loan out
Of very modest salary received from
small rural parish. We Withhold his
name lest President-elect Mckinley steal
him away from his people to make him
Secretary of the Treasury.
One of the journals of civilization is
Jasper @. Douthit's "Our Best Words
published at small cost but at great sac
rifice in Shelbyville. Illinois. 1t is
parish paper. local paper, religious
paper. temperance paper, in all which
services the editor contriyes to be as in
flexible for righteousness as John the
Baptist without ever losing the spirit of
Him whose sandals John declared him
self not worthy to unloose.
Dean Farrar bears emphatic testi-
mony to TennYson's Universalism. He
asserts from his present knowledge that
Tennyson was not satisfied with the
general and indefinite expression of the
larger hope contained in "Mercy and
Judgment" He held a salvation of all
that included each. That. says the
Dean, was the meaning of the familiar
line:
''That not one life shall be destroyed
Or cast as rubbish TO the void
When God hath made the pile complete" "
CANTON THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL
"Ian McLaren's" Yale Lectures.
canada Presbyterian.l
Whatever NAV be thought of Ian McIar-