The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-09-04
yet the cloak of respectability concealed
his rags.

Association in Milwaukee, college
Entrance Requirements" evoked most
animated discussion. A committee had
been appointed to investigate the ques-
tion and their report formulated what
may be called the Western idea-that
young man or woman who has passed
given time in the successful presenta-
tion of the studies of a secondary school.
should be admitted to any college with
out the ordeal of traditional entrance
examination. No matter what has been
studied, so long as it has produced the
requisite intellectual development. it
should be accepted. This is somewhat
revolutionary; but it is reasonable. The
ridicule poured on entrance examina-
tion in the discussion as a device for
driving young men and women away
from the opportunities of deeper re-
search and higher culture. is not wholly
unmerited. Entrance examinations
when necessary, should be used to find
out what student knows and where to
place him, rather than as barrier to
admission.
1t is somewhat noticeable coinci.
dence that Prof. John Hardy Ropes of
Harvard, an authority on the subject of
the agrapha, or the sayings Of Jesus not
recorded in the gospels, should have
published paper on the character and
value of these sayings in the American
Journal of Theology, simultaneously
with the appearance of the leaf of new
sayings discovered in Egypt by Grenfell
and Hunt. Whether the new sayings
will cause Mr.. Ropes to revive the judg-
ment with which he concludes an ex-
animation and companion of the agrapha
hitherto known, is an interesting ques-
tion. Mr.. Ropes is impressed with two
facts in relation to them. Il That but
trihing intrinsic interest attaches to
them. (2) That there are so few of
them. The evangelists seem to have
gathered nearly all the treasures pre-
served by contemporaries from the lips
OF him who spake as never man spake.
They did their work SO we'll that only
stray bits here and there, and these of
little value, were left to the cleaners"
Ii it be true, as copjectured by Prof.
Bacon. that many of the words of Jesus
are embedded in the New Testament
epistles it would not alter this judg-
mept.
-Ex-Gov. Flower gives as many and
as forcible reasons for thinking non-
practicable, as any one has ever put
into formal expression. He speaks from
conviction evidently. The sum of it is,
that the number of persons who could
be brought to unite in the support of
non-partisan government, is, "under ex-
isting conditions" too small to be rep
resentative of the public; that the ele-
ments will be discordant; that the COM
promises and promises they will have to
make to get support involve the worst
features of partisanship; and that hu-
man experience is against the plan.
There is great force in this view it must
be conceded. Yet the evils of partisan
municipal rule can never be cured by
larger and longer doses of the same
drug. Something must be done; and
the only alternative is non partisan
municipal administration. The number
of persons who believe in it is greater
than Gov. Flower supposes,-a witness
the signers to the call for the candidacy
of Seth Low in New York at this mo-
ment.
In recent Independent DIR. Serene
E. Bishop of Honolulu gives utterance
to what we may take to be the view of
the American element in the population
as to the annexation of Hawaii to the
United States. He represents the
measure as demanded by every con-
sideration of interest and sound policy,
as we'll for the native Hawaiians as for
the de fdcto government. His statement.
of the case amounts to cry of distress, In
the August Forum Senator Stephen M
White of California discusses the ques-
on from the point of view of history
and equity. He shows that the present
government is clear instance of usur-
patton. that on the question of annexa-
tion the native population have not been
consulted and are not to be consulted,
and that however advantageous it may
be for Hawaii the possession of that
distant island will be the beginning of
troubles for the United States. Anyone
inclined to listen TO DR.. Bishops appeal
should also hear Senator Whites plea
for justice and prudence.
Some subtractions must always be
made from the sums reported as raised"
from popular assembly by the method
OF appeal. The higher the excitement
runs the larger the per cent of shrink
age. Is it not surprising to learn, that
of the s101 900 pledged last year for mis-.
sions. at the camp meeting Of the Chris
tian Alliance. not one-half has yet be.
come available. Most of ii is believed
to be "good;" but pledges which could
be collected would be better. Some
times this is the only method OF raising
money that is at the moment practicable;
and vast aumR have baAn sacured and