VOL. I. MAY, 1888 No. 5 A Record and Review of Current Reform JOSEPH COOK, EDITOR MISS FRANCES E. WILLARD. REV. G. F. PENTECOST, D. D. TEMPERANCE LABOR REFORM EDUCATION SUPPRESSION OF VICE MISSIONS CHURCH WORK ASSOCIATE Editors WITH THE COÖPERATION OF EMINENT SPECIALISTS IN REFORM, Scripture Readings in the Schools of Ontario. Courts of Conciliation in Iowa. - Sunday Newspapers. - Constitutional Prohi- YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 PUBLISHERS' NOTICE. THE publishers of OUR DAY will be happy to receive from specialists in reform, whether at home or abroad, carefully verified official or otherwise thoroughly guaranteed information as to any portion of the field to which this periodical in any of its departments gives attention. The magazine is intended to cover the whole range of strategic facts and of expert opinion in relation to leading reforms, and this in both the discovery and the discussion of news. The Rev. Dr. JOSEPH PARKER of London, whose recent visit to the United States will be fresh in the memories of thousands of Americans, contributes to this number of OUR DAY an article on The Use and Abuse of Creeds, to which, with the accompanying annotations expressing dissent from many of his positions, attention will be called by the importance and high current interest of the topic. This number contains Mr. Cook's timely address on Free Speech on Public Grounds, together with the very able report of the Committee of the Boston Evangelical Alliance on Boston Common under Gag-Law, and an Editorial Note on the Hearings granted by the Municipal Government of Boston to petitioners for the repeal of the obnoxious ordinance under which preachers have been recently fined and imprisoned. As a record of expert opinion on Reform, OUR DAY publishes in full the incisive and powerful lecture lately delivered in London by Sir WILLIAM WILSON HUNTER on The Religions of India. 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In the plan of OUR DAY it will be noticed : That specialists in reform own the periodical; That it is, therefore, independent of partisan, denominational, or political control; That specialists in various reforms are the editors of the different departments; That these various specialists are agreed with each other in general principles; That they support distinctively evangelical views, and a theology at once vital and progressive, but have no merely denominational aims; That they intend to give the periodical a cosmopolitan range, equal to its opportunity; That it addresses itself especially to teachers, preachers, editors, politicians, students, anthors, reformers, and in general to the educated classes; That the periodical will have a close connection with both Platform and Pulpit, and will represent a combination of the Independent Platform with the Independent Press; That one of its chief aims is to unite Evangelical Christianity with Practical Reform, to the advantage of both; and That it intends to champion the cause of the people, and yet to be a Record and Review, not so much of public opinion as of expert opinion, in the chief fields of Criticism and Progress. 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He is so broad-minded and so fair-minded, that I believe he can really look all around a subject, and that means that he can do justice to capital and labor both. He is, as I suppose, one of the greatest specialists on labor reform living. He has spent years in study in different continental countries, as well as in a careful investigation of the subject in our own country, which now presents so vast and intricate a field to the student of strikes and lock-outs. Concerning Professor L. T. Townsend of Boston University, it would be superfluous to make any commentary in this presence. You know he is a light of Methodism, and I, being a Methodist sister, could not command in this impromptu manner the superlatives that ought to set him forth in his department of education. [Applause.] Anthony Comstock is that Great-heart of New York city who has so many years stood bravely and valiantly, and fought the beasts at Ephesus. Surely all women will honor such an editor, taking as his department here, as he takes it in life, the suppression of vice. Rev. Dr. George F. Pentecost has the department of church work. If any man ever made a success of church work, and can show us how it should be done, because he has done it well, can put before us his own sword and tell how fields are won, it is George F. Pentecost. Besides the labor of these whom I have mentioned the new journal will have the coöperation of eminent specialists of reform, both at home and abroad. The way of Light is the way of the Cross, and the way of the Cross is the way of Light; that is the motto, as you would know it would be, of OUR DAY. I read it all through. I take a great many papers, about 150 in a week I receive, and this is the only magazine I read all through; because it brings forward these experts and specialists. If we wanted an opinion concerning electricity, we would say "Let us ask Edison;" if we wanted an opinion concerning music, we should turn to Theodore Thomas or some Boston expert; if we wanted an opinion concerning civil service reform, we should ask shall I say President Cleveland? [Loud laughter.] I leave that for you to determine. [Laughter.] But Joseph Cook, with rare selective power, has chosen out these experts, who have given brain just as clear, heart just as true, industry just as devoted, opportunities just as extensive to their specialties as Edison, or Thomas, or any other of the worthies that might be catalogued in your patient and kindly hearing. And yet, like this broad-bowed lecturer, OUR DAY shines for all. [Loud applause.] - Miss FRANCES E. WILLARD, in reply to a question at Tremont Temple, March 12, on Reform Journalism. |