Article June 21, 1900 Issue

Religious Items

with contributions from Hugh Macmillan, Cornelius Woelfkin

The (Episcopalian) Church Standard says: "In Europe there is a great 'Nobel Prize' amounting to more than $50,000, to be given to the person who during the last three years shall be adjudged to have done the most toward the preservation of peace among nations. Art has entered the lists in the person of the Russian battle painter Verestschagin. He now makes a journey to Christiana, where he opens an exhibition of his pictures. He enters the competition on the ground that he has depicted the horrors of war in so truthful and realistic a fashion as to make many converts to the doctrines of peace."

Through the search of Representative Lacy of Iowa, what is known as the "Jefferson Bible" has been brought to light. This little volume was compiled by Thomas Jefferson, and it contains the moral doctrines of Jesus, the portions of the Scripture of a supernatural nature being omitted. So thoroughly did Jefferson go into this work that when it was completed the moral doctrines of the Saviour were posted in a blank book in parallel columns, being in the Greek, Latin, French, and English languages. This interesting book is now in an iron safe at the National Museum.

The Universalist Leader says: "Even the commonplace ideas of the present are in advance of many of the highest ideals which prevailed before the Christian era. The Golden Rule is finding, from year to year, a much larger place in the conduct of men. It is this that has largely brought about the reformations that have given liberty to slaves, elevated the social position of women, and made men recognize the manliness of pity, the beauty of humility, the dignity of labor, and the sanctity of marriage."

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