The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-03-13
Exchange Notes.
Topics of the Day Discussed.
The Late Administration.
Central Presl,yterian.l

Inc Ldte Aum1nfstratlOn
Central Presbyterian
With Mr. Cleveland resting under the
classic shades of Princeton, Mr. Olney
talking international law at Harvard. Mr..
Wilson presiding in the congeniai halls of
Washington and Lee, and Mr.. Hole Smith
experimenting his fine Sabbath school in
Atlanta we shall hope to hear of all the
members of the present administration
that they are as well employed, and find
as pleasant homes
DIR John Henry Barrows.
Independently
He is an absolutely uncompromising
believer in Christianity, affirming his
conviction that the best that heathenism
can give is weak beside Christianity. but
that the way to prove this is to recognize
first whatever of good the false faith has.
DIR. Barrows has furnished an excellent
illustration of a liberality which abates
not jot of personal conviction while
showing courtesy to differing opinions.
The Name ''Christian."
(Zion's Herald.)
Where the banner inscribed with this
potent and honored name trails in the
dust, be it ours to lift it high towards
the sky and carry it without sense of
shame or shrinking through the storm by
which faith today is assailed and threat
ened, and Christian life is troubled and
perplexed. Originally given as a mark of
infamy, we should make it a synonym of
all the virtues, and re-vindicate the old
time claim that ''the Christian is the
highest style of man.
The Sunday Session of Senate
(JourDal & Msssenger.)
A Sunday session of the Senate was
certainly disgrace to the Senators and
to the United States Such "a session may
De justifiable in time of war, or under some
Great emergency, but the very day when
his Congress would end has oeen known
from its beginning, and there can be no
excuse for Sunday session in order to do
what ought to have been done before. Bet
ter have permitted the appropriation bills
to fail and be passed by. the special session
of the next Congress-
Greece and the Powers
northwestern Advocate
The famed Powers are not thriving
in public opinion since their order to
Greece to retire from Crete under threats
of force. Thousands are sneering that the
guns which have been silent for two years
while Turks were slaughtering. 20, 600 or
10000 Armenian Christians were prompt
to open fire upon Christian Greek and
Cretan enemies of the same Turk The
common people, in England, France and
Germany are losing patience with their
governments, as they are richly entitled
to do
Moody and the Churches.
New Yor< Intelligeucer.)
He (Mr. Moody is almost combining him
self to addresses to members of the
church. Many can remember that few
years ago church members so occupied the
buildings in which he preached as to al
most exclude non -church members. He
then besought members of churches to
stay away from his meetings to make room
for non professors. Now his chief desire
is to speak to and plead with church mem
bers. He is right. The church needs
instruction today that will call it back to
the truths which in the past have led men
to repentance toward God and faith in our
Lord Jesus Christ.
Pastoral Visitation.
(Presbyterlan)
A pastor recently called upon family
in his congregation, several of whose menu
bers had been ailing, but were GONZALES
cling. He saw that it was no time for pro-
fessional instruction and prayer but, in a
FREE friendly and helpful intercourse, he
sought to lift the tired ones out of de-
pressment, and to take cheerful view of
the situation. A few days after he heard,
through another, how much his visit was
appreciated and how much good it did.
1t is these friendly, sympathetic and
CHEEKY visitations that bind pastor and
people more strongly and tenderly togeth-
er, and accomplish the happiest results.
Western Unemployed Ministers.
New York Observer.)
The times call.for serious thought on the
part of those who are fortunate enough
to have a pastorate of any kind. Church,
es are not increasing as rapidly as unem-
ployed ministers. Every brother knows
that if he leaves his pastorate today,
score of hands will reach out for it tomor-
row. If the crisis now upon the Board of
Home Missions is not soon relieved our
Eastern brethren will ere long have hun
dreds of bright, cultured, hardy, self-re-
liant young ministers among them in keen
competition for their pastorates. / have
long since learned that the Eastern church,
es greatly admire the breezy, wideawake
force of preacher with Western ex-
perience.
A Non-Sectarian Lent.
(ChIistian Wo k.l
Let Christians, then, of whatever de-
nomination, unite with their fellow Chris
tians in observing this period whose right
improvement will bring profit to every
devout soul. In time, perhaps, the Len
ten season will grow in the favor of all
the churches as the blessed Christmas and
Easter-tide have grown. Indeed, Lent is
grow, ing in favor, as its observance is in