The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-16
Exchange Notes.
topics of the Day Discussed.
POSSIBLE Hard Times Lesson.
New Uni W.

Possible Hard Times Lesson
New Uni w.
welcome the hard times that lenptben
the lines of our life. We sbould no Glad
OF The bad year that makes for a good de-
cade, OF the broken bank that will teach
US how to make a solvent nation Lot our
young men and young women beware of
Ona' quick success that will discount their
olo age. Heaven save them from the
eoou 1lmes from eighteen to thirty that
VIII make miserable men and women of
Them from fifty to seventy!
The Aggressive Pulpit.
(Advance.J
The aggressive pulpit will be sensitive
70 the weak spots in church work. and IL
VIII be inventive in supplying means to
estapllsh things that remain. which
were ready to die" 1t is like campaign
Oh GRANTS, whose genius consisted in
heheing right along and putting heart into
'ne weak places by the power of the gen.
eraI movement. One of the reasons of
snort pastorates is the failure to keen the
entire body in exercise by aggressive
movement, for the point of inactivity is
pOlhG VI ulSCOQU0nG.
consolidation of the Churches
Gin epenient.)
Inc numerous divisions inevitably sue-
gest vast energy and vast means expended
wastefully. Little dying churches sus-
Galneo by UNCONVENTIONAL pride separate
UNCONVENTIONAL missions where they are
not needed, rival and costly denomina-
uonal organizations imply woeful lack
Vi economy. Common sense points to
consolidation, and the Christian con-
science ought to insist upon it. Let the
cause OF Christian union be taken up with
new energy and new zeal as the great
problem before the churches in the clos
Ing years OF the nineteenth century.
wanted, National Righteousness,
(rhe PresbYterian.)
What is wanted, then, first of all, is
national righteousness. Righteous laws
must be administered by righteous men.
Inc Whole drift of social and political
lie must make for righteousness What
they are calling in England somewhat
scornfully at times, ''the Nonconformist
conscience must operate with more
force the world over. A quickened con-
science, which will discern wrong readily
and withstand it everywhere, whether in
Armenia, Madagascar, or South Africa.
and which will cry aloud for righteous
dealings with men as men, and never be
satisfied without it,-this is better than
much fine gold, ,or than diamonds from
the mines, or great revenues Simple
applied to all the conditions
of society and in all the relations of life,
that will bring peace and quietness and
assurance forever.
The ROmish Hierarchy.
Herald & Presbyter)
The Romish hierarchy has many meth
DDS of work and many varying influences
by which to touch and impress different
classes. 1t uses religious influences to
win those who are susceptible to such mo-
tives. 1t poses as the great dispenser of
charity, and levies on the whole commu-
nifty to support its institutions and leave
an overplussin its treasury. 1t carries on
schools so asssto make an impression on
those who may be reached through this
It.masses its forces and
promises political preferment to those
who will work for its advantage. 1t
makes itself attractive to as many as pos
sible, and repels none by reason of opposi-
ton to their iniquities, nursing the great
army of liquor dealers as mother cher
ishes her well-beloved child. And yet
this most worldly organization claims
with unabashed effrontry, to be the ORR
ginal and only church of Jesus Christ.