The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-09-18

keeping up in his own personality the
best English traditions, illustrated in
the names OF John Bright, John Stuart
Mill. Richard Golden and Gladstone.
We suppose that Senator Hoar would
nominate Mr.. Bryce for chair in the
school OF international politics which he
has lately suggested should be estab-
lished for the education OF our legislators
and statesmen. 1t is certain that Mr..
Bryce's paper on Protection" read
before the British Association for the
Advancement of Science at Toronto,
the other day, would be instructive
reading for American legislators.
DR.. Lyman Abbott reproduces, with
new illustrations and happy emphasis,
an idea often presented in the course of
the discussion of which the Bible has
been the subject The practical and
final test of the value of the Bible is in
its answer to the demand of the human
spirit. The spirit calls. the Bible
answers. The Bible calls, the spirit
answers. There is co response here not
witnessed in the same degree anywhere
else. Deep cslleth unto deep. 1t is
somewhat so in relation to all the liter
ature of the world that holds it's place
in the regard of mankind. But the
popularity of the response which the
Bible makes to the cry of the human
spirit, is in this, that it goes directly to
] the spot, satisfies the deepest need. and
supplies food and refreshmept for the
moral and spiritual hunger of the
world. So long as this is true the Bible
| remains the worlds Book.
DIR. Josiah Strong, whose little books
on great subjects, with large figures and
large inferences from them, has made
his opinion on a matter Of population a
| thing to be reckoned with, supplies the
statistical reasons for thinking that our
native rural population has fallen off
lamentably in the last thirty years from
the good New England custom OF going
to church. The growing paganism of
the farming population in the whole
eastern portion OF the United States, as
measured by the absence from places
of worship and indifference to religious
usages. is one of the perplexing pro-
blems of the time. 1t is the explanation
to a considerable degree of the decay of
country churches of which we have all
been obliged to take note. Who now
will tell us what is the explanation of
this lapse into paganism.
The great corporations, the omni-
| potent trusts, and those who control
| great properties. employ the best legal
patent to defend them when they are
assailed and to steer them at all times
safely through the intricacies of their
often mysterious ways. The advantage
which they thus secure before the courts
and with the public. as contrasted with
the helplessness of small concerns and
poor operators. constitutes in itself a
great encouragement of equity. 1t is a
| nearly uniform fact that those who are
able to pay the requisite price for i'm
munity from legal interference, get it..
This is standing grievance and grow
ing one. Its shadow darkens half the
land. Wendell Philips lifted up his
voice in warning that it was coming and
that it portended evil for the land. But
in ta 6o.y hut lor nc
mans hand; now it is mighty and
apparently impenetrable cloud.
CANTON THEoIoGICAL SCHOOL