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Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-01-18
ODD FELLOWS, LODGES.

GAIT LAKE LODGE NO. 2. 1. o. O. F.
~ Meets every Friday, at 7:30 p. m, in Odd
Fellows Hall, Union Block Odd Fellows in
good standing are invited to attend
]. NJ. DARLING, Secretary. ~
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-01-18
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs.

N-0~0~0~00o-0O~~~---0-N<
.CALANTHE LODGE NO. 5, K. OF P.-REG.
~ 9ou ular conventions every Monday. at Castle
Visiting knights madewelcome
]. +. TAYLOR. C. C.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-01-18

PIDGELY LODGE NO. 9, 10. O. F.-MEETs
IL every Wednesday,. at 7:3O p. m, in odd Eel.
lows Hall, Union Block. Visiting brothers
made welcome P. M. DENNY N 4;
w. M. CLARK, Secretary
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-01-18

/ NIFTY ENCAMPMENT No. 2, l. O.O.F-
each month at 7:30 p. m, in Odd Fellows Hail
Union Block. All Patriarchs in good standing
are invited to attend. PHIL KLIpPLE, C. =.
W. B. GABY, Scribe
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-20
THE FATE OF THE HEATHEN.
BY Rev. e. L. REXFORD, ID. d.
Detroit, Mich.)

Rev. DIR. Rexford, at the Church of
Our Father, in Detroit, took as the sub
ject of recent Sunday evenings ser
mon, 1.-The Congregational Position
with Reference to the Destiny of the
Heather World" suggested by the re-
cent decision of the board of foreign
missions directors at Des Moines. "That
decision" said DIR. Rexford, twas a
declaration on their part that there is
no probation beyond death for those
who die ignorant Of Christine oppor-
tunity to lean of Christ beyond the
grave, even though the heather have
died for generations in absolute ignor-
ance of Christ"
He took his text Acts xvii, 26 % ::
'God hath made of our blood all ma
lions to dwell on all the face of the
EARTH" and spoke substantially as fol-
lows:
l trust, he said, that you are all gath
cred here in generous mood this even
ing, as that would seem the only mood
which loyal human being can indulge
when his thoughts pertain to that Prov
idence which protects and shields all
human beings-the God who is in all
and through all and over all, We DO
not come this evening to the shrine of
Wesley, or Calvin, or Luther, but to the
altar of the Infinite One, who has Gre
ated all souls with one undivided i'm
pulse of love. . Leigh Hunt once said
that if an angel from heaven should
tell him to believe in endless torment,
he would not do it, for he said, 81 would
far sooner think the angel a delusion
than believe that God is mOnstrous."
Precisely so l would say, if the Des
Moines council should tell me that the
Bible teaches this fate of the hea hen
world, l would not do it, for would far
sooner think the Bible were the cum
ningly devised fable of Romish monks
in council assembled than believe that
God could devise and execute so ealami-
tous a scheme as that of creating an
infinite prison house of flame and then
deliberately creating innumerable null
titudes of sensitive beings to plunge
into the eternal abyss. If l were a
missionary and were obliged to tell
a man beside the graves of his fathers
such a story, should want to come
home. l should feel that | had insult.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-20
QUEER HUMANITY.

Every American who has Travelled
abroad knows that English men and
women of established position are habit
ually brusque to strangers, interiors or
equals, while in private houses they are
sometimes capable of a cool impertinence
which astonishes an American. A dis.
tinguished American lady of fortune and
position, who for years had made every
properly accredited English man and
woman welcome to her beautiful home
and cultivated circle, passed three months
at well-known English watercure with
her invalid husband. In the house we're
several English people of rank, friends and
relatives of whom she had entertained in
this country. Not one of them recognized
her existence in any way, not even by a
good morning" on the stairs OF bow in
the gardens, their position being that they
did not go to "cure" to make acquaint-
anees.
'In three monthe," said the lady, "the
creaking of my own boots was the only
cheerful sound heard, and | was cured
of belief in the courtesy of the English
peerage. "-Harpers Bazaar.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-20
THE MONKS OF IOW

Abou: twelve miles from Dubuque, Ia,
upon blackened, desolate prairie, there
is lonely monastery of the most solemn
OF the old Roman sects. Every morning
at o'clock the monks arise. This we
may not look upon as so great hard
ship when we are told that their only bed
is hard plank. Then they pray for
seven hours in wooden stalls that are so
constructed that they will not permit of
their reclining, but which compel them
either to stand or kneel the entire time.
Their prayers completed, their next duty
is for each TO go into the yard and dig a
part of his own grave, and when they
have it once completed, they fill it up
again and repeat the operation indefinite
" throughout their lives. They are not
permitted to speak to each other except by
special dispensatioD, which is very rare
ly given except at the close of each meal,
when each says to the other, Memento
n1ort-remember that you are 60 die.
Their food is of the very poorest. So
they go on year after year until they die,
when they are placed in graves dug by
their own hands. No headstone with
their name marks their last resting place.
Only the name they have adopted when
entering the monastery is placed above
them. All else is omitted Rev. j. B.
Thomas.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-20

conditions react upon mental conditions
and some day man is to read with sur
prise that once there was upon earth a
state of warfare between divisions called
nations, that Europe once continually
taught nine millions of men how best to
butcher their fellows, and called this vile
work profession. The coming man will
marvel that intemperance prevailed in
these barbarous days, that there we're
paupers and criminals without number,
and even in Britain the many we're kept
down by the few, that the soil there was
held and used by class, and that a mill
ion sterling was taken from the public
revenues every year by one family and
spent in vulgar ostentation or riotous
dissipation, a family which was an insult
to every other family in the land, since it
involved the born inferiority of all others.
He Is to read OF all this as we row read
OF the armOred keel-boat and the horse
locomotive, and thank his stars he was
not born as we. have been before the
dawn of civilization. Gas one mans
meat is another mans poison" go one
ages civilization is the next ages bar
barism. We shall all be barbarians to
our Observation-Disclosures.
We have not travelled far yet, with all
our progress upon the upward path, but
we still go marching or. That which Is
is better than that which has been. 1t is
the mission OF Democracy to lead in this
triumphant march and improve, step by
step, the conditions under which the
masses live; to ring out the Old, and ring
in the New; and in this great work che
Republic rightly leads the van.-AndreaU
Carnegie IN "Iriumphont Democracy."
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-20
THE BLESSED NINETEENTH
CENTURY.

If there is anything calculated to make
man thankful for the blessings which he
enjoys in this last quarter of the nine
teenth century, it is the study of the con-
ditions of life under which our ancestors
lived. Not that we can form even an
estimate Of them. Discomforts which
would make life uncomfortable to us we're
unnoticed by them, and probably they
suffered in many ways at which we can
not even guess. II the record of their
miserable mode of life were complete, the
picture would without doubt be even
more repulsive than it il.
Auguste Comte has gravey propounded
a religion of humanity which he says is
worshipful because of it's victories over
nature and over the discomforts by which
the life OF primitive man was surrounded.
There have been religions founded on
less worthy grounds than these. Man
has indeed played very wonderful part
in the world and nothing can be more
marvellous than the way in which he has
subjugated the forces of nature, and
yoked them to his chariot and his boat.
But let us be modest, for as sure as fate
those of the next generation, looking
back upon this our present life, are to
contrast their happier condition with
ours, and pity us as We have ventured to
pity our forefathers. The march Of hu-
mainly is upward and onward for count
less ages 70 come. Improved physical
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-20
DANIEL WEBSTER.

Rufus Choate, speaking of Daniel Web
ster, said he never heard him make a
great speech, whatever we're the topic or
the time, that did not leave the impression
that he loved nothing, desired nothing, SO
much as the good and glory of America;
that he knew no North and no South; that
he did not seem to summon around him
the whole brotherhood Of States and men
and hold them to his heart. This
gave freshness and energy to all his
speeches; this set the tune to the univer-
sal harmony. Even his studies revealed
this passion. He knew American history
by heart as statesman, not as an anti
quarry, should know it. The plain, noble
men, the high aims and hard fortunes of
the colonial time, the agony and the glory
of the Revolutionary War, and of the age
of the Constitution, were all familiar to
him, but chiefly he loved to mark how
the spirit of national life was evolving
itself all the while; how the colonies
grew to regard one another as children of
the same mother, and therefore fraternal-
ly; how the common danger, the common
expressions Of the anti Revolutionary and
Revolutionary period served to fuse them
into one; how the Constitution made them
formally one, and how the grand and sweet
and imperial sentiment of united ma
tiopal life came at last TO penetrate and
warm that whole vast and various mass
and move it as a soul.-Ben: Perley
Poore.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-20

-Gray-haieed Professor Whitney, the
famous lipguist, who has just given up
teaching at Yale because of i'll health
has been these many years, says the
Times gossiper, one Of the most attract
i've figures at the New Haven College
Sociable, mild,mannered, a great lover
of pleasant anecdote, and always exhibit
ing the polish of his great scholarship, he
has been popular, not only in the college
circles, but in town life as well, and this
means good deal in New Haven, where
pretty tight lines are drawn between the
town and the gown.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-20

tinue to regret painfully what entered
into Gods great plan, and only waited
its explanation upon our coming into
that world Of light, where we are ito
see as we are seen, and know as we are
known" Even our experience of sin
will not continue as such hereafter;
that is, an'experience Of sin; but will
be an eternal experience of sins blotted
out, or evil overcome Of good. Was it
not some experiences like this; God put
ting up and putting down of Jews and
Gentiles, that made the Apostle cry out,
"Oh, the depth Of the riches both of the
wisdom and Knowledge of God, how
unsearcliable are his judgments, and his
ways past finding out. F. For
of Him and through Him, and to Him,
ore ~ fbings, TO whom be glory for
ever, amen. . A painful regret to last
fVsk syOtld make punishment eter-
Yorkgd might think that the
world sAbuld have been made without
any evilin it. But we do not know how
the word should have been made. We
know osdy how it is made. There is
no proof however we may conjecture,
that Wbrld like our own, in which
there is & mixture Of good and evil, is
not bettef adapted to answer the great
ends of our being, than another in
which there should, be perfect free
dom from all suffering. For aught
that we know to the contrary, this
very apparent evil of which we COM
plain this sin and sickness and sor
row and death is just as necessary to
the great plan and designed for as wise
and good ends, as anything we call
good.
Our severe moral discipline, which it
is so difficult to accept and submit to,
may be the greatest AID best thing of
all for us. If the word God means
good, then evil and everything must
mean good with Him. There is, and
can be, nothing wholly evil under the
divine government, nothing but has
some element of good in it. We are
being exercised here for our hereafter
advantage, and even all our mere try
ing affections are for the purpose of
working out for US far more exceed
ing and eternal weight of glory.
1t was SO that the fathers reasoned,
and there was q loving and abiding
trustfulness with them that all that
befell the human race, in every act
of apparent evil, when contemplated
rightly and allowed to take in the innum-
cradle lapse of ages, was the most perfect
wisdom, order and love. If this world
is not the best possible world as means
and a method; if life, and everything
in it, is not the best that could be I'M
der all the circumstances, and for the
purposes to which it is ordained; then
there is no infinitely good God that
, shapes our ends and shapes everything;
and if there isn't any good God, then
there isn't any God at all.
Only in this way did the fathers set
tie the great problem of evil. 1t was
SO that they thought and taught; and
they found nothing to complain of
in the divife providence; nothing to
occasion their pining and murmuring in
discomfort; but everything to admire
and love in the divine administration,
and in the beauty and glory of the
divine character. They could see that
they had nothing to do but to be recon-
ciled, and that "their proper bliss,' as
Pope says, depended on what they
blamed"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-20
The W1riuersalist Contributors gage.
REV. MES SLAD E /.
Whitewater, Wis.
THE FAITH OF THE FATHERS

the the
philosophy Reribuon"
the of he Heather"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-20

DR.. James Wakley, late editor of the
London Lancet, was willing that it should
be emphasized that he was not of the
class of scientists which rejects or is in
different to matters of religion. He made
special request that any notice of his life
should contain his confession of faith in
Christ. Feeling" he said, "my deep
responsibility to God for the position in
which, in his providence, he has placed
me, desire to testify to the comfort de-
rived during my sickness from a lively
faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and that
l die in the sure hope of glorious res.
direction"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-20

Sir William Gull tells the following
delicious story of simple unreasoninR
faith in quacks: An elderly man con-
suited him about stomach complaints, but
there was formidable obstacle to diagno-
sis in the patient being horn deaf. "What
do you have for dinner?' roared Sir Will
lam into his right ear. "Ob, nor was the
reply, "plenty of that-two miles regular
ly after breakfast, and two more before
dinner" "How long do you lie abed Of
a morning?" "Well, doctor, shall be
sixty-nine this day three weeks" With
out further parley the doctor gave him
some simple prescription, the form and
manuscript of which he seemed much to
admire for little; and then, Offering his
fee, he retired. But at the door he turn
ed round, and, in the loud rafting tones
OF one long very deaf called out, Doctor,
can you cure deafness?' Sir William
bowed, shook his head and made his lips
express ''No." 81 thought sol You have
been very kind to me. Therefore make
you welcome to this prescription" which
he pulled from his pocket, adding, at
cured me-"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-20

Among the old papers in the
County Clerks Office in Freehold, N. J.,
is the death sentence of a negro
named Caesar. 1t reads: therefore the
court doth judge that thou, the said Caesar,
shall return to the place from whence
thou earnest, and from thence to the
place of execution, when thy right hand
shall be cut off and burned before thine
eyes. Then thou shalt be hanged up by
the neck till thou art dead, dead, dead, then
thy body shall be cut down and burned
to ashes in a fire, and so the Lord have
mercy on thy soul, Cesar"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-20

One of the banners displayed at Mr..
Gladstone's reception in Edinburgh on
the occasion of his last visit to the Scottish
metropolis, bore the following couplet:
Great is thy power and great thy fame;
Far kennd and noted is thy name.'
The motto had been silly furnished by
a tory, and it had been hanging up all
day before it was found that it was
couplet from Burns address to the
De'ilr'
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-20

The body Of Anna Cromwell, daugh
ter of Richard Cromwell and grand
daughter of the famous protector, lies
buried in an almost unrecognizable grave
in the disused battle-ground of st.
George the Martyr, Holborn, which is
presently to be converted into a park.
She was "the only Cromwell born to the
purple"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-20

That was the letter of good and wise
woman, which Nine. Modjeska wrote
young Mrs. Blaine upon her marriage:
II shall miss you, of course, but it is far
better for you that you are not going on
the stage after all. Our life is not all
strewn with roses, and the existence of a
young and beautiful girl in our profess
sion is sometimes very sad, believe me.
When you are old you will have a circle
of devoted friends around you which will
make your life sweet and easy. An &C
tress is appreciated only at the time of
her glory; when she has given to the
world all that was best in her she is like
an empty bottle-no one cares for her
any more"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-20

-Ey-President Hopkins is over
eighty years of age, and hale and hearty.
Lately he was asked how he thought
he had most aided his attaining such
ripe years; and the sum of his reply was
that he had never lived by rule" but
had eaten what be liked, gone to bed or
got up at his own time, and paid no
attention to formal regimen of physical
care.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-20
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

The Rev. W. Barnes, the author of
many idyls of rural life in Dor
set, England, lately died at his rectory.
He was known not only as a poet but as
an eminent philologist. In his later
years he went about the country side a
beloved and quaint figure in long cassock-
like coat, knee breeches, black silk stock
ings and buckle shoes.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-20

"A peculiar estate is that OF the late
Thomas FL. Blythe, San Francisco mills
ionaire, who was noted FOR his luck, bis
parsimony and his lack of kindred. He
died intestate and since his death more
than threescore putative relatives have
appeared, including three widows. One
of the schemes which Blythe left unfin-
ished was a colony to be established on a
grant of 100000 acres at the mouth Of
the Colorado River in Sonora. He Sc
cured this grant for a nominal sum on
condition that ne settled fifty families on
it within five years. There are already
forty families on the grant, and as the
time expires next January. the Public
Administrator is endeavoring to get the
ten families needed to perfect the title.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-20

-"My colossal statue" said M. Bar
tholdi recently, sis, L think, the first exam
pie of the use of repousse copper mounted
on iron trusses, and is the best known ex-
ample of this kind of work. As to the num-
Der OF colossal statutes in existence, the
one of Vergin at Puy measures fifty
one feet. The next notable giant is the
national statue, Bavaria, which is about
fifty feet in height. OF the great statues
of antiquity, the Olympian Jove, which
was forty feet, and Minerva in the Par
thenon, thirty-seven feet, may be men,
toned. never attempted to calculate
the total cost of the statue of Liberty,
and have never had it's material value in
mind. 1 gave all my work for nothing"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-12
.MERCURYS MELANGE
Odd Bits Of Gossip From an Observers
Pen.
INDUSTRIAL AND TRADE MATTERS
The Chief Subjects Brought Forward For
Discussion.
An INTERESTING BUDGET OF NEWS.

The brick pavement still holds its own
as an object of interest for the Councils OF
the cities scattered through our neighbor-
ing States. Yesterday DR.. S. F. Forbes,
Mayor of Toledo, dropped into the city, and
being introduced to Mayor Grub, DR..
Forbes said he had been commissioned to
come on here and make an examination OF
our streets. He said Toledo had about
twelve miles of new streets to put down
in the spring, and there was a very
general desire to use the brick blocks If
possible. Mayor Grub showed DR..
Forbes about the city, and the Toledo Off
cial left for home last night well satisfied
with what he mad seen. Samples of fire
brick and blocks will be shipped to Toledo
the coming week. Mayor Grubb has also
received letter from Louis n. Kramer,
Chairman of the Committee on Streets and
Highways, of the Scranton, Pa, Council,
in which the writer says they want to put
down the brick pavement, and asks that
the address of the manufacturer of the
blocks be forwarded TO him. Verify,
Wheeling has at last reputation for some
thing besides nails, glass and stogies.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-12
POINTS ON PEOPLE.
Movements of Citizens and the Coming and
Going of Strangers.

Going of Strangers.
DR.. McMaster and wife are in New
York
Mr.. C. f. Hntchison, of Fairmont, is at
the Mcclure.
Mrs. C. f. Irwin, of the Island, is visit
ing friends in Chicago.
Miss Bette Mcclure is home from visit
to friends in Baltimore.
Miss Jessie Little, of Baltimore, is visit
ing Mrs Arthur Little.
Rev. DR.. Scssler left yesterday for Park
ersburg, to attend funeral.
Mr.. Alex. Odbert, was visiting friends
at Beallsville, the past week.
Mr.. Charlie OFT is home from Omaha,
Neb., on visit to his parents.
Miss Louise Bell, of GAINESVILLE, is Wis
iting friends on the South Side
X. Lowery and A. Il. Riggs, of Wood
land, were in the city yesterday.
Miss Annie Clark is visiting her sister,
Mrs. T. A. Hammond, Steubenville.
Miss Ida Harden is in Kansas City,
where she will pass the holidays with
friends.
VIM. F. Brady, Of Lancaster, Pa, is
visiting A. T. Castor and wife, 1871 Mar
ket street.
Manager Cook, of the Western Union
telegraph office at Parkersburg, was in
town last evening.
Mr.. Kyle Stephens, of Mingo, who has
been visiting relatives ON the South Side,
has returned home.
Misses Lila Klieves and Carrie Steve ms,
of the South Side, have been visiting
friends in Grover, o.
Miss Lilly Smith, of Cincinnati, is the
guest of her sister, Mrs. RObt. NJ. Brown,
Of North Main street.
Miss Mamie Cavanaugh has returned
from pleasant visit to friends at Berkeley
Springs and Cumberland.
Mr.. Lawrence Hargrayes, who has been
visiting relatives in the city, has returned
to his home in Kansas City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Gibso IL, who have
been spending the past several months in
Colorado, have returned home.
Mr.. II. +. Hooper left yesterday for
New York to purchase second supply OF
holiday goods for J. b. Wilson.
Mr.. Tom. p. Howell will leave for Phil
adelphia tomorrow, on a business and
pleasure trip. He contemplates locating
there.
Capt. L. Il. DOvener came in from Fair
mont last night, where he is assisting the
prosecution in the trial of Cartwright, for
the murder of old man Baker. Capt.
Dovener says one of the jurors is sick,
which promises to make some delay, but
he thinks the case will be concluded in
another week.
The Rev. Richard L. Howell, late as
sistant rector of the church of the Epiph-
any, Philadelphia, has accepted a call to
the rectorship Of Grace Church at San
dusky Ohio. Grace Church is the third
most important parish in the diocese of
Ohio and controls and supports three flour
ishing chapels. Rev. HOwelPs many
friends in this city will be pleased to learn
of his success in the ministry. He is now
in the city visiting his parents.