The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-16

these the shrine whereat we may wor-
ship and be filled and inspired continu-
ally. Here is a Fame that adolatrous
footsteps cannot enter. Here is worship
enough. for the affections, for the
thought, for the life. Nay, in the deeper
draughts the soul here drinks of God,
the more shall it be refreshed, the more
shall it aspire and thirst ever after for
the higher, the deeper, and purer. Such
religion, this, and no other, will trans
form society and redeem the world"
Observe how nicely he says that
which we should neglect to sugar coat,
and thereby, like Horace Greeley, offend
somebody whose ideal, personal God is
as sacred to him as Juggernaut or Josh
or Vishun is to their enthusiastic devo
tees! We think we excel as political
missionary, but put US in the theologi-
cal field and our truth needs hOmeo-
pathic attenuation to make the people
who need it worst willing to partake of
it.
Mr.. Mills is a warm friend of Ralph
Waldo Emerson, and one of his greatest
eulogizers. He seems to belong to the
school of transcendentalists of which
Margaret Fuller Emerson, Greeley, and
others, were the supposed founders,
though he seems to rely upon Confu-
cius and Pythagorus and Jesus for his
weightier references. He does not, like
Professor Underwood, ignore the hereaf
ter, though he very ingeniOusly at
tempts it, promising that if man will
capable, and rise to the highest physi-
cal, temporal, and mental plane which
it is possible to reach, the Infinite One
will take charge of the life beyond,
which He does not need mans aid in
preparing as habitation for souls.
The lecture on Max Muller we did not
hear, but the third, on Emerson, was
quite interesting, though not equal to
the first. We wish he would come to
: Oregon. There are many churches
. which would not be afraid to open their
doors to him, and parlor lectures could
be gotten up for him anywhere. He is
+ styled Rev., though of what denomina-
tion we did not learn. If our readers
= are as much interested in this recital as
, we were in the lectures, they will thank
q us for giving so much space to a scien-
n tfic theme. Anything like common
sense in religion, or anything like proc
o that we are not all pagans, comes to u!
. like rain to deserts. Not that we decry
= churches or would do away with them
We would open the doors for investiga
q tion and proof of everything taugh
r therein, however, feeling so much abid
ing faith in the Infinite that we shoult
10 not fear the final result, even thougl
,r the waves of thought should rise s.
i high, under the pressure of awakene
= experiment, that old landmarks woul
Il need to be transplanted to infnitel
" higher planes.
There! We've preached a sermon, i
= spite of ourself and two apologies.
Here we are at Laramie, one of tn
- - most beautiful, prosperous, and CROWN
- towns of the Union Pacific Railroad.
=, Good, jolly DR.. Hayford, of the Sent
, net, aud his rosy wife and three happ
babies are entertaining US royalty. Th
-, doctor is postmaster now, and has hi
= hands full of business, though not E
10 full but that he can find time to entt
of heart and soul into the movement fC
ds Woman Suffrage in the new State
" Colorado.
- The ladies of Wyoming enjoy IL
~ right of suffrage and exercise it, evel
:" woman in Laramie voting at the la
- election, and only three abstaining
-, Cheyenne, they having refused to go
the polls for fear men were such mo-
= sters they'd demolish them.
We take train tonight for Ogde
. whence we shall again report progreS
A. J. D.
"e P. S.-Mrs. Hayford says the ladi
n were determined to win the Territol
no from the Democrats this year and su
Sc ceed with their own votes. Let Repu
e'' licans make note of this fact in Orego
" Laramie City, February %, 1877.