The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-11-20
Views of the Editors.
Exchange Notes.
ONE EFFECTIVE WAY.

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There is but one effective way to deaden
| calumny. Mere muzzling the calumnia
| tor will be useless, because he speaks
| and writes behind a mask Wait till the
carnival draws to the end, then the SIAN
derer will have to remove his false face
and show his true inwardness. Mean
while let the dance merrily go on =
The Jewish Messenger.
THE POLITICAL MACHINE.
That clear headed and patriotic civilian,
the Hon. Seth Low, lately declared that
when party organizations have become
political machines that respond absolutel
to the will of single man, the very
fabric of free government is in peril
This solemn truth is not put too strongly;
a people are no longer free people when
they voluntarily submit to the despotis
of political bosses. This species of des-
potism is not confined to one party; both
the great parties have suffered at differ
ent times and in different States, from
this monstrous self-inflicted evil-Evan-
gelist.
SPECIAL DANGER IN BIBLE STUDY.
The danger in the study of the Bible,
whether in seminary, Sunday or at
home, is that it will be studied wholly as
science and not as religion. We talk
of the relations of science to religion; we
need to remember that half, often much
more than half, of what we call our re-
ligion-its history, its geography, it's
theology events science. Tie teacher
fails who instructs in these things only,
no matter how well, and fails to reach
down below the intellect into the heart.
The committing to memory of all biblical
facts gives no religion. Religion has to
do with the purpose of love to God and
love to man. Independent
RIVALRY IN HOME MISSION WORK.
That there may have been some denomi-
national rivalry is doubtless true, and that
this has involved seeming waste of
money may be admitted, but it should be
remembered that denominational divisions
in Professionalism have sprung out of relig-
ious convictions, and honest doctrinal diff
ferences, and must be reckoned with as
fact. There may possibly come time in
the future when the various bodies of
Protestants will be united and will prose-
cute home mission work as a unit, and
when there will be needed only one gen.
eral missionary in district, but certainly
that time has not come yet; and it is
worse than vain to attribute any supposed
failure in missions to the continued exist
ence of the UNCONVENTIONAL spirit--Th
Waterman.
WASTED EFFORT.
An occasional preacher, after supplying
a pulpit in one of the outlying districts of
a large city, was greeted with express
ions of appreciation by a hearer, who re.
GREETED that the excellent effect of the
sermon could not be followed by personal
work on the field because there was no
pastor and consequently no systematic
work in progress. The incident is only
one of many which might be cited to show
that systematic and persistent work is
necessary to supplement preaching,
Where such work is not performed per-
centage of the occasional preaching is lost
so far as visible results are concerned
Occasional mission work cannot be ex-
pected to be as fruitful as effort steadily
applied, and this fact should profoundly
appeal to every contributor of means for
the prosecution of missionary endeavor as
an incentive to liberality. Christian
Herald
NOT QUITE EASY on THE ATHANAsIAN CREED.
We directed attention last week to the
fact that the ecclesiastical conscience is
not quite easy on the subject of the Athan-
asian creed, as evidenced by one of the
resolutions of the Lambeth conference
The resolution was to the effect that 1.-THE
Archbishop of Canterbury be requested to
take such steps as may be necessary for
the retranslation of the "Quicunque Vult''
But no fnesse of translation by any posi-
bility can alter the fact that in this creed
salvation is made to depend not upon a
following of the Master, but instead upon
unqualified assent to lengthy coneaten-
alton of involved metaphysics. An Eng
lish contemporary thinks that the bishops
would have more correctly expressed con-
temporary feeling if, instead of falling
back on the futility of new translation,
they had boldly repudiated the creed as,
both in its afflrmations and its anathemas,
entirely out of harmony with the Chris
tian consciousness of to-day. But this
was scarcely to be looked for now 1t will
come, but ater.-Christian Work