The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-08-14

Some years ago w. III. Brown, chief
engineer OF the Pennsylvania Railroad,
was introduced to a clergyman as the
greatest bridge builder in the country.
"Can you build bridge to eternity ?"
asked the clergyman. Eyes, if you can
furnish the abutments," was the prompt
reply.
The late DR.. Dale once expressed
his opinion that modern preachers had
not said nearly enough about future
blessedness. He, did not think that one
sermon in fifty during the present CEN
fury bad been about glory. honour and
Immortality. We venture to prophesy
that in the church of the coming time
there will be a great change in this
respect; it will hear much more about
future blessedness, and much less about
future woe.
"A Catholic paper of Quebec re-
Gently published a pamphlet upholding
the doctrine of the supremacy of the
state in state affairs, and denying the
right of the church to dictate to electors
how they shall vote upon such ques-
ton as the restoration of the separate
schools in Manitoba. The authorities
of the church at once forbade all Cath.
olics either to subscribe for, read. circu-
late, or otherwise encourage this paper
under pain of being deprived of the
benefits of the church" This is the
form of priestcraft we all protest
against; tyranny over the political con-
science.
We are often confronted by our the.
illogical opponents, says the Unitarian
Christian Life. with the words of Christ:
Il and my Father are one." We copy
fcom leafet of DR.. Parker's City Tenn
PIE notices the following" The work Of
specification must go on until the saint
can say, Il and my father are one.
That is the sublime end of Christianity.
1t is not to multiply theological techni-
calities; it is not to build one church
spire higher than another; 1t is not to
furnish griudstone on which pugna-
cious bigots may whet their little
swords; it is to gather up shattered
and overthrow humanity, to reburnish
the living stones on which the fire of
an enemy has left traces of fury, to re-
build the fallen empire of manhood. un-
til it shall be beautiful and holy as
palace built for God"
Henry Provide Oxford University
Press) has recently published, at price
which places it within the reach of every
one Us cents) a pamphlet fragment of
the sayings of Jesus recently discovered
in Egypt, reproductions OF the Greek
text, translation of each legion. and
some useful notes by the fortunate dis
coverers of the papyrus.
All the logia commence with the
words, Jesus saith" 1t is believed by
many that they are the teachings of our
Lord as popularity reported in Egypt in
tho SOOOh0 oAo bhlto WhtSh
some early Christian of those times com.
mitted to writing, either for his own
edification or that of his CO religionists.
No doubt there were many such col
lections made in those days, and as the
Egypt exploration fund proposes to es-
tablish special department for the in
vestigation of Greco-Roman sites, we
hope that further treasures such as
Messrs. Grenfell and Hunt have this
year secured for England may be forth.
coming in this popular style. The edi
tors of the little book are to be con-
graduated upon the extreme prompti-
tude with which they have place / it be
fore the public, and upon the manner in
which the publisher has done his share
OF the work, the fac SMILES of the papy
rus being especially good.