The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-30


entire conglomeration of negative, radi-
cal and demolishing literature in books,
essays, magazines and encyclopaedia ar
ticles and treatises, pathological, arch@o.
logical, comparative. dissective, con-
structive and corrective-and personified
as Higher Criticism God knows what
these gentlemen understand under this
personifcation. we do not; nor will any
reader or autodidact be able to say with
any degree of certainty which portion of
that vast literature is recommended to
his consideration, or whether he must
take all so labeled. which would confuse
and bewilder."
-. Modern science is now able to do
things which would have seemed moth
ing less than miraculous fifty or even
twenty-five years ago. By the Roentgen
rays needle that has been in hand
for years was accurately located, and La
Nature records an experiment by which
needle was extracted from woman's
hand where it had been embedded two
months. 1t was extracted merely by ap-
plying an electro. magnet about two
hours at a time. After nine sittings the
needle came out and attached itself to
the magnet, the whole operation having
been performed without pain and with
out loss of blood.
..."In Jerusalem" says the New York
Tribune" 1.-THE Turk appears as the peace
maker between warning Christians Of the
Greek and Roman rite, militant against
each other on account OF Christmas
ceremonies, which certainly ought to &C.
company spirit of harmony and con-
cord. The Mussulman has not appeared
to 30 much advantage in long time,
nor the Christian to greater disadvant-
age. Ii the Christians cannot keep the
peace in the presence of Christ's sepul
chre, his teachings have not had prop
er effect upon them. But they are par
ticularly prone to rows in that most
sacred locality of Christendom, the duty
OF their discipline devolving upon the
unspeakable adjacent Turk. circum-
stance humiliating to members of all
branches of the faith everywhere. 1t
would have promoted the tranquility Of
Jerusalem, while ieopardizing that of
Florence, if Lorenzo de Medici had
carried out his plan of transferring the
Holy Sepulchre to the latter city and
making it the feature of his family mau-
soleum.'
Mr.. G. F. Borden, of Knoxville,
Tenn. writes to Onward in reference to
his missionary work in that vicinity and
the need of the cid literature which has
proved grandly useful in the past. He
says; "One Universalist in the North, to
whom l wrote requesting certain books,
replied that the books were out of date
and musty in argument. No! Paige,
Williamson, Thomas and Ely Discussion,
and others written good while ago, are
just the things yet. They contain pure
blooded Universalism. Strangers to our
faith do not want to begin at the higher
criticism; they want fundamentals; we
cannot afford to knock out all the props
of orthodoxy at the start. And when L
can go to-day to revival services and see
the orthodox hell painted in the very
words of Jonathan Edwards's Sinners
in the hands of an angry Cod or in the
product of the luxuriant fertility of i'm.
agination of the evangelist. viewed by
means of partialistic spectrum analysis,
think the old books have not outlived
their usefulness, and load heavy bar
bette gun with one of those old books"