The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-12-04
Union Thanksgiving Services


Church, this city, consequently no services
took place at the Universalist Church.
Rev. E. X. Young, ID. D., of the First M. e.
Church, preached an excellent and appro
pirate sermon for the occasion.
Akron Ministers Meeting.
Rev. O. Ellwood Nash and Rev. Prof.
W. d. Shipmsn, professor Of Greek Ian
guage and literature in Buchtel College,
are both members Of the above organiza-
ton. At the meeting two weeks ago the
former, by request, opened the discussion
on Probation" which was the theme
under consideration; and on the follow
ing Sunday evening he preached SER
mon to his congregation on the same SUBJ
ject This week Prof. Shipman is to open
the discussion on "The Nature of Pun
ishment," including treatment Of that
phase commonly called "future punish
ment." The Akron Ministers Meeting
has been conducted in highly Christian
manner, and although debates or dis
putes are not tolerated, each one is en-
titled to respectable presentation of his
view OF each subject under consideration.
= The Ladies' Circle of our Akron
church are arranging the preliminaries
for church fair, to be held on the 9Th, 9th
and ION of December. Dinners will be
given each day and musical and literary
entertainment at night. The winters
campaign is fairly begun, and the ladies
are showing their usual activity in all
that goes to make successful church
and parish.
Prof. Van Laer, who has charge of
the Buchtel College Art School, has gone
East to secure an assistant. from Little
Falls, N. H. Her name is Miss Stella
Stickuey, and the marriage took place
last Wednesday.
Prof. E.W. Claypole gave highly in
teresting account of his visit to the Penn
sylvania oil wells and gas regions, before
the Scientific Club Of Buchtel College, on
last Friday evening.
Regular Pastorates."
Our industrious and ever faithful Br.
Henley thinks your Akron correspondent
did not place the pastoral relation in
very satisfactory light. Well, as to that,
we must not be expected to make bricks
without straw" But we were attempt
ing to state only the number of ministers
who give all their time to one church,
and we know of no two words which bet
ter express it than Irregular pastorates."
Had we been speaking of the ministers
who have charge of pastoral circuits, we
certainly should have mentioned several
others besides the five named. A minis
ter who has charge of pastoral circuit
may have a more exacting field Of labor
than the one who has charge OF regular
pastorate, especially if he has the neces-
sary pastoral care of his churches and
organizes them into active working
bodies. We should be glad if some one
would inform us of the number Of pas
toral circuits in Ohio. By this we do
not mean mere preaching points where
little or no pastoral work is done; nor
where the preaching points are widely
separated; but we mean those circuits
where two or more adjacent churches
work tremendously together in the en-
ployment of one minister who devotes
himself, more or less industriously, to the
pastoral care OF his people, administering
the consultations Of the Gospel, helping
to plan the various church and Sunday
school enterprises and organizing the
various forces into auxiliary bodies, thus
promoting, in all proper ways, the up
building of the churches. In this con-
nection we desire to commend the sug-
gestion of I. B. g." in last weeks issue
Of this paper, in regard to Universalist
ministers helping each other and holding
special meetings. 1t will prove bene-
fetal in many ways.
College Expenses.
The discussion called out by Mr..
Leverett Saltenstall, at the recent COM
mencement dinner at Harvard College,
on personal expenditure among college
students, will, we trust, do much good.
College life is, in many cases, becoming
too complex for the poorer class of young
men and young women. Not because
they can not get through college with
comparatively small expense, but because
the influences tend to make the poorer
classes feel i'll at ease in the midst of
those who have the best of everything,
join all the societies, frequent the the
ater, and dress in a style impossible to
the poorer classes. Hence they go to
some school of lower grade or remain at
home and never get college education.
We believe church schools should make
special effort to bring college education
within the reach of large numbers of the
poorer classes, and ought to nip in the
bud this tendency of the older Eastern
colleges to extravaganza. A college does
not require a heavy expenditure of
money by the student; but rather than
be compelled to emphasize his poverty,
the student will be likely to go where his
position will not be regarded as excep-
tional. The question is, How can this
tendency be prevented
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