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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-21

THE New York Observer observes
"We are extremely hopeful in regard to
spiritual, practical, and ultimately even
organic union among all believing Chris
tians. Weheartily welcome every slight
est indication that the believers of diff
ferent names are becoming one in heart
and speech and work" But, in the
meantime, this promised millennium
seems good ways distant. At no time
for many years, have the Presbyterians
and the Congregationalists, for example,
been more widely separated on doctrinal
points and general policies of admins
tration than at present. Until that lit
tie controversy in regard to missionary
theology, and the New Departure at
Andover, is settled tremendously, prac-
tical union, to say nothing of organic
union, seems a good ways off, in fact,
a possibility not yet in sight"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-21

Quoted with eminent ability on both
sides. The counsel for the defense have
made valiant fight to save their unwor-
thy clients. The only hope of the an
archists is the application of the exact
letter of the law whose spirit they have
outraged and whose dignity and majes-
ty they have assailed. If they are not
convicted, it will be because the law
itself throws its safeguards around
them and makes them out not technic-
ally guilty of the murders for which
they were indicted. OF their moral
guilt there can be no possible question.
Speculation as to the result is useless,
now that we are so near to the end. If
the verdict of the jury acquits these
blood dyed criminals, the anarchists all
over the world will go into spasms of
rejoicing and be fully prepared for more
diabolical doings hereafter. Itremains
TIC be seen whether the alleged Ameri-
can doctrine of free speech has not linn.
itations which insure society against
the consequences following from its
appropriation by these destructive and
vindictive enemies of social order and
human progress.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-21

IT is reported that thirteen of the
missionaries of the American Board,
now in India, cleave to the doctrines of
the new ADdover theology-in other
words, are unwilling to affirm "the
hopeless perdition of those who go into
eternity unreconciled to God, from the
unevangelized portion of our race"
And the point is made, if applicants
for enlistment in the work of foreign
missions are denied positions in the
missionary service on account of Their
sympathy with these views, should not
the others be called home? 1t would
seem to an outsider that the point is
well taken. 1t will not do for the
American Board to make fish of one
class of its missionary servants and flesh
of another. Consistency requires a
policy which will be in harmony both
at home and abroad.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-21

WE also print this week the program
of the Indiana Convention, at Blutfton,
beginning Thursday, September 2, and
continuing over the following Sunday.
DIR. Demarest will attend this Conven-
ton. Sunday-school, missionary and
educational interests have important
places on the program. The order of
proceedings is mapped out with regu-
larity, every hour assigned to special
business. No doubt Indiana Univers-
alists will be out in force at Bluffton,
and profitable meeting enjoyed.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-21

gospel. Methodism, it appears, is not
80 hard hearted as to condemn the
heather world for non-belief in the
Saviour of which they have not heard.
Where the heather have not had the
gospel they are saved by special ex-
tension of divine mercy; but the gospel
once offered to them and rejected or
made of no avail, and the case is
changed. In this contingency there is
no possible way devised by Methodists
to secure their salvation. In view of
this serious aspect of the case it would
seem the part of Christian wisdom to
allow the heather to remain in their
first estate, and not send them gospel
which involves risk to each individual
and which may be the means of their
eternal damnation. =" Possibly . Bishop
Foster had this contingency in view
when he remarked that possibly as
many of them will be saved without
the gospel as with it,
The excellent bishop, however, is
quite clear on another point = the
diabolical idea that God will condemn
the heather to eternal torment for be-
ing exactly what they are as the result
of their circumstances and condition
and expresses himself in strong words
on this question. We give his forcible
and indignant language, which shows
not only that the intellect of the bishop
recognizes the enormity of the old ideas
on this subject, but also that his heart
is too humane to accept any such con-
clusion in regard to the Almighty
eff" says he, "the awful thought
could once take possession of my mind
that the whole heather world must, of
necessity, be lost forever, simply be-
cause they are heather, 1 would not
send them gospel which reveals such
a God. That grim thought alone
would shut out all hope for the world
and make eternity itself dungeon, no
difference who might be saved. For
how could any rational creature enjoy
even heaven with God whose gov
eminent could permit such a stain of
shame and dishonor, of cruelty and in
justice? 1t is dreadful enough to be
compelled to accept the thought that
an immortal can, by his own free guilt,
work out destiny of changeless evil.
Convince men that there is a God at
the head of the universe, who, without
fault Of theirs or any chance of escape,
will damn the dead, the living, and the
yet-to-live millions of heathenism, and
you make it forever impossible that he
should be worshiped by any but devils,
and by them only because he becomes
their chief, and at the same time turn
earth into a gigantic terror, whose
CHASTITY horrors will admit of no relief"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-21

WE print this week the program pre-
pared for the eighteenth annual session
OF the Kansas State Convention of Uni
versalists, to be held at Seneca, Ottawa
county. three days, beginning Septem-
Der 10, 1886. DIR. G.. l.. Demarest, Sec
rotary of the General Convention, will
be present and is on the program for
two sermons on Sunday, the 18th. The
Western Conventions understand how
to utilize the General Secretary when
he is present at the meetings.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-21

THE UNIvERsALIsT has received very
indignant letter from Rev. e. M. Clark,
Sedalia, Mo-, touching the remarks re-
Gently made in this column regarding
laboring men and the saloons, based on
the Atlantic article of Mr.. George Fred
erick Parsons. Mr.. Clark belongs to the
knights of Labor, and he jumps to the
conclusion that the article of Mr. Parsons
and the comments of The UNIvERsALIsT
were directed at that organization. Mr..
Clark writes:
shall not charge Mr.. Parsons with lying
but certainly do think his statements are a
gross insult to myself and to any other hon.
est toiler. 1 take particular exceptions to
his assertion that 'when labor is most dis
turbed, when the demand for advanced
wages is loudest, when strikes are most fire.
quent, when hunger and misery are most rife
in the homes of the poor, the saloons flourish
STILL" which is intended to convey the inn
preston that those representing "organized
labor" are nothing better than saloon loaf
ers and take advantage of such times to ply
their trade"
Mr.. Clark also remarks that to stack
on the words of Sam Jones, the ordained
BLACKBOARD" in regard to the fellows who
cry for bread for wives and children when
they are filled with beer, is "adding in
suit to injury" that to affirm this of 'la-
boring men as class is diabolical," etc.
Mr. Clark scatters his indignation too
profusely; in fact, without proper discrim-
ination. There was no attempt in the
article from which we quoted, or in the
remarks which followed, to stigmatize
'laboring men as class" or to cast any
reproach upon organized labor" or the
Knights of Labor in particular. 1t is
wholly gratuitous on our correspondents
part to assume that the extract we en-
dorsed ''was intended to convey" the
impression" which he ventilates above.
The statement of Mr.. Parsons relates to
a matter of fact which no one can ques-
ton successfully. In times of labor dis
turbance, when strikes are in progress,
the saloons in all our large cities flourish
abundantly, doing thriving business on
the patronage mainly of the wage work
ers. To assert this is not to say that all
laboring men are patrons of the saloon
or to cast any reproaeh on "organized
labor" or convey the impression that
"Knights of Labor" are saloon loafers."
Here in Chicago during the recent labor
troubles the saloons we're made the head
quarters of the strikers; and while the
agitation of the eight hour question was
going on their business prospered, while
general business was at a standstill. 1t
is true beyond all question that the ga.
looms thrive during such periods, and it
is also true that were the patronage of
working men, the day laborers of the
country, withdrawn from such places,
of the saloons would soon
close up. Mr.. Clark, with all his indig-
nation, cannot successfully deny this fact.
1t is a sad commentary on the present !
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-21

Attendance upon religious services
by the students at Harvard University
will not henceforth be compulsory.
The Supreme Court of Rhode Island
has rendered the opinion that the clause
of the liquor law combining Sunday sales
to pharmacists on physicians prescrip
ton is constitutional.
Cardinal Gibbons is in Washington
attending to matters connected with the
building of the National Catholic Univer
sity. He says the outlook in this connec-
ton is meeting the expectations of the
most sanguine.
Rev. G.. @. Haddock, who was shot
down in the streets of Sioux City, Ia,
recently prosecuted the most sensational
ecclesiastical trial ever held in Wiscon-
sin. Several years ago he made formal
charges against Rev. J. w. Carhart, and
had him expelled from the church. Rev.
Mr.. Haddock was formerly pastor of the
Oshkosh Wis., Methodist Episcopal
church.
The Forum is introducing new writ
ers to the world through essays on their
special work. 1t is quite astonishing
and refreshing to read lively article by
a man who never wrote a magazine arti-
Gle before and probably never will again.
but whose enthusiasm on his own hobby
makes his pen sparkle like genius. It
must take the conceit out of the profess
sional writer to see these occasionaIs
show such experiences.
3 The series of religious articles by
representative diyines in the North Amer
lean ReUielc, is continued by an article in
the August numbere entitled, "Why amIa
Catholic?" by Father Brandt, of the Soci-
ETY. of Jesus, president of the leading jess
nit college in America. Father Brand was
selected by Father Fulton, the head of the
Order in America, as the ablest theologian
to answer this question for non-O Catholic
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-21

Rev. DIR. Randolph S. Foster is one
of the Methodist bishops and man of
strong, logical intellect, undoubtedly
the profoundest thinker and the strong
est reasoner on the board of bishops of
that church. In personal appearance,
voice, manner and general intellectual
endowment, he strongly resembles the
late Rev. DR.. Williamson. If Bishop
Foster were Universalist he would
preach now precisely as DR.. William
son preached in his prime, selecting his
text for the principle involved, and
working it out from beginning to end
with the same comprehensive grasp of
the subject and allowing nothing to
turn aside his attention from the sue
cessive logical unfoldings of the argu-
ment; every word clear as crystal and
every sentence the one which should
properly follow the other. In this
peculiar pulpit style and general meth
cd of ratiocination, Bishop Foster is as
near to DR.. Williamson as one man can
come to another. When we add pc
culiarities of general appearance, voice,
and even mannerisms when speaking,
the resemblance between these two
great preachers-the one Universalist
and the other a Methodist = becomes
very striking, and on more than one
occasion it has been verified by the
closest and most faithful personal rec
objections of those who knew DR.. Will
hanson.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-21
SATURDAY, AUGUST 81, 1886.
THE Iowa Convention meets at Cedar

THE Iowa Convention meets at Cedar
Rapids, September 22-25, and the SER
vices will continue over Sunday. The
program and rates on railroads will be
forwarded as soon as arranged. Rev.
Charles Conklin, of Chicago, and the
editor of THE UNIvERsALIsT will at
tend this Convention. The central To-
cality, the interest felt in the parish
that will entertain the Convention, and
the activity of the State pastors, all
combined, give promise Of large and
influential gathering.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-21

IT is remarkable how promptly new
convert to Episcopacy at once assumes
extreme ground and becomes more
s'churchly" than even the church itself.
Wehave an example in the case of Rev.
Thomas E. Green, who only few
months ago in this city, changed front,
and from somewhat sensational Pres
byterian preacher, became an Episcopal
rector. Mr.. Green now announces his
intention of opening parochial school
in connection with his parish, las a
substitute as far as possible for the
public schools" He is Of opinion that
as ''sure as the secular tendency in the
public schools prevails atheism and in
fidelity will flourish in the land, leav-
ing their inevitable fruit of Commun-
ism and Anarchy" This is precisely
the Roman Catholic position, and Mr..
Green having adopted this policy, is
clearly in the line of approximation to
other doctrines and policies of the
Roman church. From Episcopacy to
Roman Catholicism is not as wide a
step as the one this rector has recently
taken; and it would not be bit sur
prising if he should prove equal to the
second move when he gets further adj
yanced.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-21
PERSONAL.
EASTERN.

The secular papers announce that the Web
ster, Mass, parish has invited Rev. o. F.
Stafford, of Cambridge, to become their pas
tor.
Inc venerable Ebenezer Francis, father of
the Rev. Eben Francis, died at his residence
In Cambridge, at the ripe age of 95 years. 9
months and 20 days, on Saturday last. Mr..
FRANCIS had been Universalist fully seventy
five years.
Messrs. Henry B. Metcalf and Olney Ar
mold, of the Pawtucket parish, will entertain
the Universalist Club of Boston at Anna
womscutt, their summer home on Narragan-
sett Bay, on the 10Th inst.
Rev. james Shrigley preached on a recent
Sunday in CRANKY, Conn.,, where he was set
tied fifty years ago. There was an excellent
congregation and very hearty welcome to
the venerable pastor; but only two or three
now remain who used to sit under his preach
ing half century ago.
Clinton, N. Y, paper contains a notice
OF the death of the widow of Rev. s. P. Lam
ders; lady OF refinement and culture, whose
family have done much for the cause of edu-
cation among Universalists. Mrs. Landers
emily Barker) died June IA. For more
than thirty years she has resided at Clinton
among her kindred.
Professor Charles E. Fay, of Tufts Col
lege, last week made the ascent of Mount
Adams, in the White Mountain range, with
his wife and two children, seven and eight
years old Mount Adams is 5776 feet high,
the path to the summit is four and one-fifth
miles long, and the day was very warm. But
the ascent was made in five hours and the
descent in three, without great WEAKNESS,
even for the little ones.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-21

HISS. IO cnOOS6 III IOT any Obner reason |
is not to choose it at all-is, in fact, to
commit sin in the very act of renounc-
ing sin. Only as the motive of personal
safety gives place to the motive of vol
untary preference of goodness, is it pos
sible for a sinner to be saved. All else
is delusion and snare.
Applying the second test, it may at
first view appear that the evidence is
overwhelmingly with the Orthodox the
DRY. The Catholic church, all the great
Protestant churches, nearly the entire
Christian host, in fact, are witnesses to
the practical efficiency of the theory,
that the chief business of religion is
recovery and rescue, and the principal
motive personal safety; for that is the
fulcrum over which they have all pried.
On the other hand, the Universalists,
and those who hold with them on the
subject of the philosophy of salvation,
are neither numerous nor conspicuously
successful.
But the estimate is superficial 1. A
distinction is undoubtedly made in heav-
en- and should be on earth between those
whose names are written in church
books and those who are really saved.
The saved are the righteous; that is,
those who serve God because they like
to. 2. 1t is capable Of clear demonstra-
ton, as already shown, that such per-
sons have not become so by the motive
of personal safety. 8. The success of
this method must not be too much
trumpeted until the deductions have
been made. But fraction of mankind
in any age has been reached. But a
fraction of this fraction has been truly
saved. The failure of the method is
many times more colossal than its sue
cess.
We do not mean to depreciate the
vast and benefcent work wrought by
all these churches. But the good they
have done has been in spite of their
philosophy of salvation, not on account
OF it. Besides, the theory has never
been consistently adhered to. Wise
and good men in all these churches,
and through all the ages, have risen
higher and sounded deeper. The best
thought and life in the Orthodox
churches has never been Orthodox.
1t is often objected to the Universal
isl theory that it's motive-force is not
effective. We feel certain that the
thing had in mind by those who make
the objection is not our philosophy but
some caricature of it. We say to the
sinner: sYou are child of God, made
for goodness, as the eye for seeing.
Your destiny is to be saved; that is, to
use your powers, voluntarily and habit
ually, to promote the things that are
true and pure and lovely and of good
report. You can do the opposite; but
only at such a cost of peace and joy as
will surely convince you of the truth
we tell you. Now, God, your Father,
is so interested in your welfare and so
unalterable in his purpose to have you
attain the end for which he made you,
that, over and beyond making your
moral nature and the moral constitu-
ton of the world conduce to that end,
he has sent his Son, and instituted his
kingdom and appointed his ministry
and set his Providence, to make effect
ual his good purpose. We, then, are
ambassadors for Christ; as though God
were exhorting you by us, in behalf of
Christ we entreat you, be reconciled to
God" Ina.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-21

MONDAY was the forty-ninth day of
the anarchist trial in this city and the
sixth day of the arguments of the at
torneys. The probability is that by
Thursday or Friday the case will be
given to the jury, and possibly a YER
dict will be reached before the end of
the week. The trial has been con-
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-21

The Moral Educational Society, of
Chicago, publish valuable series of
''Leahets" for gratuitous circulation, a
package of which has been received by
The UNIvERsALIsT. 1t is the aim of this
society to work for the abolition of vice,
the elevation of social relations and in
dividual purity, physically and morally.
Moral education covers vast range of hui
man growth and social elations,-inyolv-
ing the ethical and religious nature and
development. The societies now organ
lied in Chicago and other cities, while not
excluding any subject calculated to devel-
OPP moral ideas, and correct unhealthful
or evil tendencies, in any department of
life, are specially designed to promote an
education beginning in the nursery, which
will serve to prepare for all the relations
of life and Danish many of the evils aris-
ing from ignorance and the loose rein
given to the passions. Among those in
terested in the society are Drs Swing and
Thomas, Rabbi E. G. Hirsch and Bishop
Fallows. 1t is one of those organizations
which should be encouraged not only by
sentiment but by gifts and the wide cir
culation of its publications. Mrs. Mary
Dye, 373 Washington Boulevard, is the
Secretary.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-21

And now comes DR.. Balch with some
more anecdotes of Father Ballou. which
we print this week. BY the way, that ex-
cellent story, by "One who knew Him"
of Ballou and Beecher has been so fire..
quently told that it must be included in
what the boys call "chestnuts." And now
DIR. Balch affirms that he heard Mr.. Bal
lou say twice when asked about that
story that he never spoke with Dr. Beecher
in his lifel Like Abraham Lincoln, Hosea
Ballou has had many sayings attributed
to him Of which he was wholly innocent.
But good story will often live in tradi-
ton notwithstanding frequent denials.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-21

81 tell you" said rabid free think
er, "the idea that there is a God never
comes into my head" "Ah, precisely like
my dog, but he doesn't go around howl
ing about it'd Bits.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-21

j. S. CANTWELL, D. D., Editor.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-21

Thus runneth letter recently re-
eeived from town in Georgia: 81 hap.
pened to pick up one of your papers yes
terday in the Methodist church, but it
was torn in two and could only read
half of it. From what could see of it,
1 like it better than any denominational
paper 1 have seen. Please send me a few
copies" If more copies Of THE UNI
vERsALIsT could be circulated in Meth
odist churches it would be for the advan-
tage of all concerned. We hope to get a
subscriber and of course make a convert
out Of this chance discovery of THE UNI
vERsALIsT in Methodist church.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1886-02-18
L'EMEUTE A LONDRES.

Les Anglais So sont longtemps
vant6s que le socialisme ma point
atteint les classes laborieuses, cal.
mes ct fegmatiques de leur pays,
ct que les manoeuyres des agita-
teurs sont impuissantes, meme q
Londres, qui esi une nation de plus
de quatre millions danes plutot
qu'une vile. Mais les scenes d'hier
prouvent que le socialisme nest
pas un mythe en- Angleterre, ct
quill a DIES agences organisees aus
81 bien que de tendances DANCE
reuses...
"L'6meute DIES rues de Londres
a une grave Specification; ellie prou-
We que les temps sont durs, que le
travail est rare, ct que les salaries
sont tres has. Une enquete minu-
tieuse. dams les QUARTERS ouvriers
r6vele un 6tat tres alarmant de la
misere industrielle, ellie r6vele que
de 40 a go p. c. DIES ouvriers de la
metropole. sont sans Outrage; ct
que l'impot DIES pauvres est epuis6
par suite de demandes de secours
sans precedent"