The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-07-03
Edited 4ntes and SIerus.

6plrltuall6t, Is DEAD.
The camp-meeting fever in Iowa is
more vigorous this summer than ever.
-Talmage has preached thirty years
and has lost but one day, and that
through sickness, twenty-four years ago.
Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, DUR
ing the last year, has officiated in 100
different places, scattered all the way
from Montana to Florida.
Georgia is likely to be known as the
Mother of Evangelists. Rev. j. Fl. Mum
day is her last product in this line, and
he is said to be doing great work at
Columbia, Tenn.
DIR. Samuel X. Lothrop, for fifty-four
years pastor of the Brattle Street Uni
tartan Church, died in Boston, on Satur-
day, June 10. For thirty years he was
member of the school committee.
The Journal of Education thinks
we have learned more during the last
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labor and capital, and the limitations of
liberty, than during an entire twenty-five
years before. It yet remains to be seen
whether what we have learned is to have
a practical application.
The remains of the Catholic theo-
Logan, Orestes A. Brownson, who died in
Detroit April II, 1876, were removed a
fortnight ago, to Notre Dame College,
South Bend, Ind. The body was found to
be in e fair state OF preservation. It was
placed in a metallic case and inclosed in
red oak box. The remains were de-
posted in the vaults beneath the altar of
Brownson Chapel with impressive cere-
monies.
1t is announced that President A. l..
Chaplin, Of Beloit (Wisconsin) College,
has handed in his resignation, to take
effect at the close of the present collegi-
ate year. DR.. Chaplin has been connect
ed with Beloit College since it's organiza-
ton and has been president nearly all
the time since 1847. 1t is largely due to
his untiring energy and personal influence
that the college has taken its high rank
among educational institutions.
DIR. Thomas preached his farewell
sermon prior to his visit to Europe at the
Peoples Church, McVicker's Theater, on
Sunday, June 20. The discourse was on
"Work and Play" and embodied some
practical suggestions on how to work
without impairing the health and short
ening life. people" said the preacher,
"could work and think, and it was not
very hard to pray too much. 1t was from
slow growth that the hard and knit fibre
came. The slow in early years were
often ahead in the race at forty OF fifty.
We should study the productive value Of
rest, and not regard it as a mere negative
quality from which nothing was derived.
Time was the great desideratum with
people beyond the fifties and sixties. In
mental and spiritual development time
and rest were the great producers"
Truth 0,ondon) says: A queer
scene was witnessed in the neighborhood
OF the City road last week, in the shape
of "a revival of the ancient Rogation
Procession The bell of st. Clements
Church was rung at the untimely hour
of $50 A. NJ, and, after short service,
the clergy and choir, headed by
cross-bearer, 'proceshed' through the
parish, singing hymns and invoking bless
ings ON the parish. should think that
the parish invoked anything but bless
ings upon the procession. Let those who
find spiritual comfort in these medieval
tomfooleries enjoy them to their hearts
content by all means, but in the right
place and season. Ringing church bells
and singing hymns about the streets in
the very early morning is form OF piety
wholly inconsistent with modern civiliza-
tion."
This is the way the silver -tongued
Tom Fitch speaks about the hereafter:
"There is surely another life than that
on earth. Those who have gone before
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more living in the flesh than the radiant
children of the stars. We need no priest
to tell us this, nor scoffer to deny it, for
there is ever before each of us the testi-
mony of his own soul. We give our
dead not to the grave and the gloom, but
the hope of the dawn that dwells beyond
the sunset. The intellect, with its en-
dowments of knowledge and its attribute
of power, goes indeed from its feshy
house, goes out with the tide. But the
tide which GIBBS here flows elsewhere, and
even SO the spirit. its garnered riches OF
earth life in its arms with it's personality
beautiied, but not absorbed by the new
light, sails out of this earthly night into
the radiant morning of another light"
Rev. J. 81. Amies, Of the Universalist
church, Reading, Pa, received sixty-nine
persons into mela bership on Sunday, June
13-sixty-four by the right hand of fell
lowship and five by name. This is the
largest number taken into any Univers-
alist church at one time in the United
States during the past year. Before adj
ministering baptism and the right hand OF