The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-23
UNIvERsALIsT PROFESSION OF BATH.
ADOPTED 1903
SATURDAY. JANUARY %.
EDITORIAL.

-, The stirring words OF
Japan hAiSolon DIR. Adams anent the
once ASaln' Japan Mission, repro
duced on our first page, ought to awaken
thought and inspire new exertion in
behalf of that great interest. He sends
the truth home in pungent style to the
delinquent and Indifferent in our ranks
who, by their failure to respond to the
call of the Church are inviting disaster
to the enterprise which has been thus
far so successfully administered. 1t is
not yet too late to avoid the disaster
which will assuredly result if the condi-
lions are not changed. We say with
DR.. Adams, LET no backward step be
taken" Another rally for the Japan
Mission all along the line will give new
courage to our officials and prevent seri-
GUS embarrassment. The emergency is
pressing and demands the attention OF
all our pastors who value the good name
of the Universalist Church.
ENGLAND reJoIces
The Arbltratlon with the better class
Treaty. of citizens in America
over the successful result of the diplo-
macy which has negotiated the arbitra-
ton treaty between the two countries.
Indeed, it is said, that England has only
one voice on this question. We have
hot
was more ripe for arbitration than even
popular opinion in this country. Twelve
months ago when war was threatened on
account of the Venezuelan affair the
modern lingo spirit was more rife in this
country than in England. Now the re-
joicing in England over the peaceful
settlement of that business and the ar
bitration treaty is more decided even
than with us. The treaty will soon be
before the Senate for ratification. 1t is
to be hoped that no factious opposition
will be made against its ratification. Mr..
Ford, of the New York Tribune, writes
from London as follows:
"The treaty has commanded the at
tention of the Continental press to an
unusual degree, and is described at once
in Vienna. Rome and Paris as a fresh
landmark in the progress of civilization.
Perhaps the highest tribute paid is an
unconscious one from the German press,
which complains that 30 notable an ex-
ample of the utility of arbitration in
Anglo American relations, will encour-
age unduly the peace party in the Fa-
therland. The American Senators who
persist in obstructing or defeating this
treaty will be, according to this view.
useful allies of German militarism and
remorseless enemies of humane and pa
cific civilization. The responsibility for
rejecting an arbitration convention
which has produced profound impress.
sion on the circle of European armed
camps will be serious indeed. The
United States Government, after increas-
ing greatly its diplomatic prestige ny
compelling the settlement of the Vene-
zuelan question, now has GROWING
opportunity for setting an example
which will exert potent moral influence
throughout Europe"
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We have had from
The Plague in time to time during
India. the last few months
kilograms from India asserting the
presence in that famine-s tricken coun-
try of a direful disease, which has been
within the last two months identified as
the bubonic fever, or Inflammation of the
groin. This disease was formerly known
as the plague, or Stroke of God" This
plague is now ravaging the west coast
of India, and the dispatches of Sunday
describe its appalling severity in Bonn
bay. In another column we give Mr..
Julian RaIph's cable letter describing
the fearful condition Of that great ORR
entail city under its ravages. 1t has
been asserted that this and other &C
counts which have come to this country
are exaggerated. and that the conditions
are not as terrible as represented. But
enough is definitely known to warrant
the conclusion that the densely popu
lated cities of that part Of India are in
the presence of veritable plague, even
that terrible visitation which in former
years and in other centuries has wrought
such terrible work among European and
Oriental populations.
The Boston Transcript in an article
on the Bombay Plague says: "As to the
cause and development of this bubonic
fever the doctors disagree; some incline
to the theory that the fever arises from
bacillus which rapidly propagates in the
groin others cay thatit is owing to some
atmospheric contagion which arises from
insanitsry conditions and attacks the