The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-03-06
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Decent Journalism.
(Examiner.)
If respectable people will buy only the
respectable newspapers, the 'mercenary
sheets" will soon find it to their profit to
reform. The Daily Sewer, The Mud Sling
er and The Scandal Monger could not exist
without the patronage of the Christian
reader and advertiser.
Daily Eucharists.
diving Church)
The Roman authorities having made the
charge that there are no daily Eucharists
in the Church of England, some inquiry
has been instituted. The Tourists
Church Guide' gives list of some $40 such
celebrations, and it is probable that the
list is not exhaustive. The Countess of
Cavan writes to say that "within drive
of her home in Herts there are four
churches which have daily mass and
one where it is celebrated three times a
week
Evolution Authoritatively Defined.
(Observer.)
Evolution is kind of vague, ON
nibus term which may mean almost any
thing. If any one of our mystifed read
ers, however, desires philosophical light
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Herbert Spencer's luminous definition:
Evolution is an Indignation and concomi-
tant dissipation of motion; during which
the matter passes from an indefinite, in
coherent homogeneity to a definite, CO.
herent heterogeneity, and during which
the retained motion undergoes parallel
transformation.
Help the Struggling.
Catholic Citizen.)
A very little help has often rescued a
struggling brother who must otherwise
have gone down to rise no more-and thou
sands do go down, while those who might
safely lend them a helping hand look on
indifferently. To lend helping hand to
any man who throws up his own Lands
and manifests no disposition to save him
self from sinking is useless; but the imam
overheard on the voyage of life, who buff
fets the pillows of fate valiantly, has
righteous claim to the sympathy and sup
port of his more fortunate brethren.
The Gospel of Cleanliness.
(Chli,tian Wo,k.l
1t is humiliating fact that in respect
to such necessities of higher civilization
as baths and public comfort stations, in
addition to other improved features of
municipal life, we are woefully behind
many of the cities of Scotland, England
and Continental Europe. We have learned
through DR.. Albert Shaw some of the
things which Glasgow, Birmingham, Paris
and Berlin can teach us in the manage
ment of streets and parks, and the con-
troll and utilization of public franchises
and to this we may now add the fund of
knowledge which this report furnishes
concerning facilities for promoting clean
illness and public comfort.
The Great Dynamic.
(rhe Interor.)
The greatest dynamic in the world S
love. 1t is love which drives the plough
and stands at the throttle of the engine
and sits at the merchants desk. 1t is for
love cots and palaces are builded and
cities reared and states maintained. The
Gospel should do more than the law ever
did, said st. Paul, because of it's bring
ing in "a better hope II allied duty and
love, righteousness and affection. 1t pre-
sented God not as high and lifted up but
as humble and helpful in our necessities.
This has made Christianity a conquering
power take it away and Christianity
would be found waning power. Chris
tianity proved its superiority to Judaism
not because of it's improved morality, for
they are essentially the same, but because
the Gospel presents God in more lovable
way. Take away Christ as the express
image of God and Christianity would sink
to the level of Judaism again.
Social Regeneration.
christian Register.)
There is a call for social regenel alton,
and many prophets are preaching it. 1t is
not a new note for our time. There has
never been an age in which prophets and
seers did not reach some higher level and
get some broader view of life and society
than those of their fellows. 1t is the note
of Isaiah and jeremiah of Plato and
Jesus, of every age since and of every
land. The need of social regeneration is
not that this age is any more corrupt than
any that has preceded to it, but, rather,
that, having advanced so far, we must go
still further. Social regeneration is but
another name for social development. The
future state of society, whatever it may
be, is to be evolved from that which now
is. Ovid and the writer of Genesis put
their golden age in the past, and there are
still those who would have us take SOM
ersault into Hypothetical state of prime
val perfection. But the clear-eyed prop
hets of our time look, rather, for growth
and consummation than for progress by
retrogression.
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