The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-15

income CLOSE TO Lne expenses. Iue same
rule applies as in the case of the small
merchant, manufacturer, publisher or
railway. Harvard may not be broken
down by deficiency of $4,000 at the
close of the fiscal year. But small
college would better not have defic
iency Of $4,000. Small craft must keep
near shore.
Trinity Church, New York. cele-
brated last week it's two-hundredth an
nivereary. The most noticeable feature
of the ceremonies was the decorations.
These probably included some features
which are to remain permanently, much
to the improvement OF the appearance
of the interior. which has always had
barren and chilly aspect. Trinity is
very rich and can afford to adorn itself
in jewels and costly apparel, as often as
once in two centuries. The money ex-
pended in the enrichment Of the vener-
able sanctury for this celebration is
more than the entire cost Of many beau
tiful churches. Wealth and waste, as
we'll as religion, are comparative.
Everybody except Senator Morgan
is in doubt about the actual condition of
affairs in Cuba. So far as can be gath
cred from the confusing and contradic-
tory dispatches, emanating sometimes
from Spanish, and sometimes from Cuban
sources, the Spaniards hold the coast
towns. the great plantations and the
lowlands. The Cubans are mostly in the
mountain districts, whence they sally
forth in irregular bands to infiict what
damage they can on the enemy and his
possessions. A system Of tribute has
been enforced by Gen. Weyler from
which Spanish officials derive consider
able comfort, and which, it it said, makes
them easy as to the progress of the war.
Not much headway appears to have
been made either in putting down the
rebellion or Throwing off the yoke" of
Spanish rule. Pacification, which is the
end proposed by Spain, is certainly
long way off.
DIR. j. M. Wilton has clearly
reasoned and finely phrased paper on
"Fallacies Concerning Prayer" in the
May Forum. 1t would be even more
valuable, we think, if he separated in
his thought the transcendence of God
from his immanence in nature. 1t is the
transcendent God who is free. spirit
ual person, hearing and answering
prayer and communing with his chill
dren. The immanent God is in his visi
BILE and physical world, not personally.
but in that way of manifestation which
we recognize as invariable order. To
pray to God with the thought that he
is in matter or force personally, is to
miss him, as we should miss Milton if
we addressed him in Paradise Lost, or
Spencer, if we attempted to talk with
him in Social States. Much of the talk
about the "immanent God" is Grass
materialism. God is not eaten or burned
or manufacturers; nor does he grow or
decay. If there is much that we do not
know we need not be absurd.
"A compendious article filling seven
ty-five pages in the American Journal of
Theology. discusses the present status of
the inquiry concerning the genuineness
of the Pauline epistles. 1t is from the
pen of Bernhard Weiss. of Berlin. and is
Of. that masterful and authoritative char.
acter which the works of only here and
there a scholar possesses. He ranges over
the thirteen epistles attributed to the
apostle, touching the crucial critical
points with the familiarity of long and
minute acquaintance. and dealing with
the new question raised with that fulr ess
of knowledge which inspires confidence
in his conclusions. He agrees with Godet
in supporting the Essential genuine
ness" of the thirteen, though often on
grounds wholly different from those of
other apologists. The ease with which
this mastery survey is evidently made
is accounted for in some measure
by the fact that DR.. Weiss has just
gone over the same ground in his new
commentary and introduction to the
New Testament.
CANTON THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL.