The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-15
Exchange Notes.
Gleaniugs of Editorial Opinion.
Happy United States,
advance.

Happy United States
(Advance.J
Happy is the United Statesl While
Turkey and Greece are fighting with a
savageness of temper which makes war
seem doubly barbaric, the people of the
United States have dedicated monument
to their greatest soldier, general who
commanded the largest and most effective
army of modern times but who did not
draw the sword in anger who declared
on more than one occasion that he did not
love war, and whose words, "Let us have
Peace" will be remembered as long as his
monument stands
Catholic Chapel at West Point
christian Herald.)
secretary of War Alger has decided that
Roman Catholics may build a chanel on
the government grounds at West Point.
Mr. Alger says that any other denomina-
ton may do likewise Ground has already
been broken by the Catholics. This case
mas long been under discussion and manv
protests have been filed against giving the
coveted permission to Catholics AS the
matter now stands the military school at
west Point is likely to be surrounded nv
cordon OF sectarian chapels, and Mr. Al
ger Will doubtless receive sharp criticism.
The Convict Editor.
(Interior)
Joseph r. Dunlop is in the penitentiarv
i1ad ne committed murder he would
nave been more likely to escape the pen
atty of his crimes. His offenses were in
sldlous They struck at every family, at
every parents hopes, for the future of his
children-and thus he became to be re-
garded as an Ishmaelite, an outlaw, des-
perado of the most dangerous character.
Ihough the delay was long, though the
amplest time, nearly two years, was al
lowed him to break through the meshes if
ne could, he failed; and yet, no man was
more resourceful, persistent, and in his
way powerful The result is most valu-
uaole v1ndication of laws which needed
striking example to show that the whole
people are determinedly behind them.
Federation of the Young Peoples Unions.
Golden Rule. Boston,
I'VE do not by any means agree with
the assumption that a closer union on
Christian Endeavor lines is impossibls.
We have too much faith in our Lord, who
prayed that all may be one Half loaf.
however, is much better than no bread,
and Christian Endeavors will always be
glad of any step toward a genuine work.
ing fellowship of the followers of the one
Saviour. The Independent suggests an
no1 a.
leading officers of all young peoples or
CARNATIONS, and an occasional congress of
these societies. Good But the real
problem lies in the local unions Are the
young folks to be kept apart there9 And
II you federate all the young peoples So
c1etles of town, what will you have but
Christian Endeavor Union? And isn't
that about as good name as Young Peo-
pies federations
The Duel in Europe
christian Register.)
1t is curious to see all Europe looking on
at this new duel between the STRIPPING and
the giant, remembering that the David of
today, is really it's champion, and the
Goliath its hardest and most dangerous
be given why this small nation is left to
wage the combat alone; but it seems i'm
possible to believe otherwise than that, at
heart, all nations of the West desire her
success This world will be much bet
ter place to live in when the rule of the
Sultan is ended. The Mohammedan power,
for example, is the last refuge of the in
stitution of slavery; and travellers tell us
that, while it remains unbroken, it is i'm
possible to stop -raiding in Africa.
Presumptuous the small Grecian kingdom
may be; but it is a kind of presumption
which most of us would like to see crown
ed with undying fame.
The Date of New Testament Documents.
(Watchman, Boston,
Thousands of Christian believers. who.
like ourselves, do not believe that the
New Testament could have been evolved
from intellectual tendencies or myth-mak-
ing propensities in five times a hundred
years. nevertheless have felt that, if it
could be proved that "a gap of a century
interyenes between the events and the
writings, the New Testament lacks first
hand authority which it is in vain to at
tempt to import to it, tout de force, by a
high theory of inspiration. From this
point of view, it is a matter of intense
satisfaction when we find that a scientific
critic, like Harnack, whose competency is
thoroughly admitted by the most revolu-
tionary theorists, and who has no preiu
dices in favor of the traditional view.
gives it as his deliberate conviction that
the evidence does not allow us to separate
the New Testament writings from the
apostolic age.
Not THE Apotheosis of Grant"
New YORK Observer.)
The pageant of April 9th was not, as
one daily put it, in the extravagant rhe-
tcric of the day, the ''apotheosis of
Grant" We have our heroes, but we
may not approve of hero worship. But
there is hope for the future of nation
that treasures the memory of past hero
isms of any sort. History is sage teacher
well worth going to school to. And there
has been too much good history already
enacted upon this continent to permit
Americans to neglect their past. Reminis-
cence must feed patriotism, and the value
of pathetic pageantry, such as that re-
Gently exhibited at Riverside, is discover
ed when mortal men, brief and uncertain
as is their hold upon life, resolve to be
heroes while they live, and alike in peace
or war, in prosperity or adversely, make
their own the poets prayer:
Teach us Alright to number