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behalf of positive Christian faith.
Indeed, his position is just that of our
own best men, and his influence in the
United Kingdom is great and salutary.
In one word, / have found the position
and work of the prevalent portion of the
Unitarian body in England as nearly
like our own in America as we could
well ask or desire, and l am sure that
what was a revelation and delight to
me. will be source of joy to those at
home.
The work in Glasgow is moving along
moderately well, and in due time hope
to report favorable progress.
Win my correspondents notice my
change of address to II Rupert Street
J. w. HANSON.
GLASGOW June Z, 1856.
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Mr.. RUsKIN writes thus to the editor
of the Pail Mall Gazette concerning the
Bible: 81 see in your columns, as in other
literary journals, more and more buzzing
and fussing about what NJ. Rensn has
found the Bible to be, or Mr.. Huxley not
to be, or the bishops that it might be, or
the school board that 1t mustn't be, etc.
etc, etc. Let me tell your readers who
care to know, in the fewest possible
words, what it is. 1t is the grandest
group of writings existent in the ration.
al world, put into the grandest lam
guage of the rational world in the
first strength of the Christian faith
by an entirely wise and kind saint,
st. jerome; translated afterward with
beauty and felicity into every language
of the Christian world; and the guide
since so translated, of all the acts and
arts Of that world which have been noble
fortunate and happy. And by consulta-
ton of it honestly on any serious business
you may always learn-a long while be
fore your parliament finds out-what Won
should do in such business, and be di-
rected, perhaps, besides to work more
seriously than you had thought Of"
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A CATHOLIC SUPERSTITION.
BY J. ALONZO FISHER, NJ. A.
Johns Hopkins University

The doctrine of the real presence of
the body of Christ in the communion,
is based upon the literal Interpretation
of the words of institution 'This is
my body" Metaphor has been mis-
taken for definition. Then, as now, the
Orientals were imaginative in thought
and metaphorical in speech. No litera-
ture is more poetical than the Hebrew
Scriptures and the Greek Apocalypse.
1t is only by stupid, prosaic misinter-
probation of our Saviour's words that
they can be made to bolster up the Ro-
man Catholic doctrine of the mass.
The figure is the same as when one
says of a portrait, "This is my brother. F"
The obvious meaning is, 6 This repre-
sents my brother"
What if the gross, absurd and repul-
sive notion of the real presence were
shown to be true? Would we then be
in possession of a treasurer Would the
actual body and blood of Jesus have
any power to bless us ? No; it is not
his body, but his truth and the inspira-
ton of his life that we need. Said the
devout Scottish Bishop Ewing: =" We
should not expect to arrive at the Sc
cret of Hamlet by eating bit of Shake
speare's body and so, though we ate
ever SO much of the material bones and
flesh of the Founder of the Eucharist,
we should not arrive one whit nearer to
the mind which was in Christ Jesus" "
The student of Christian history wit
nesses strange phenomenon in the
transformation of simple commemo-
rative supper into magical and mys-
tical absurdity the spectacle of mill
ions of able and learned men constituting
so literally an Oriental metaphor as to
transfer it into the regions of the gro
tesque and preposterous. Eating was
the common Oriental symbol of receiv
ing intellectual and moral instruction
and sustenance as when, for example,
in the Book of Ecclesiasticus, wisdom is
represented as saying: ''They that eat
me shall still hunger for more; they that
drink me shall still thirst for more.''
Do not suppose that this is foreign to our
modes of expression. The words tact"
and taste, in English, furnish parallel
instances. Primarily used with refer
ence to the physical senses of touch
(tactus) and taste (from the same Latin
raot), these words are commonly applied
to the most refined and spiritual acts
of the intellect Entirely un-historical
is Herbert Spencer's theory that the
symbolic idea Of eating and drinking is
derived from the cannibalistic practice
of feeding upon the flesh of hostile
chiefs, in order thus to acquire their
courage. The 6gurative use OF the
terms eating and drinking originated,
not among the cannibals Of Africa,
but among the gentler nations of the
Orient.
We are to feed on Christ, not in the
sober, prosaic Latin sense of the West
ern church, but in the fgurative, Ori-
entail sense of deriving from him, as
our Shepherd and Instructor, spiritual
strength, not physically but by faith;
not superstitiously, but as an act of
communion with fellow Christians, and
in loving remembrance of Him who
died to save US from our sins.
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faith of Universalists in this chapter,
by saying that they need no other light
to read it by than the gospel light you
held up to it when you said that in
your opinion the whole chapter had ref
erence only to the present life.
Very truly yours, A LAYMAN.
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THERE are 700 religious and denomin-
ational newspapers published in the
United States, and nearly one-third of
them are printed in New York, Philadel-
phia, Boston, and Chicago. New York is
far ahead in this respect, but Chicago
leads Boston.
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The Christian Union, which has
been opposed to the policy which has
urged making prayers at Harvard Col.
lege optional, is now in favor of it.
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Gbe 9nlbersallst,
ARELICIOUS AND FAMILY WEEKLY.
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PUBLISHERS.
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Newspaper Notes.

The Pennington Chronicle reprinted from this
paper Prof. Bateman's letter from the home of
Webster but failed to give credit to the Republican
journal.
The first page of some weeklies is like neglect
ed garden but the first page of the Richmond Bee
blossoms like the rose with fresh and original mat
ter, Last weeks issue was specially good
Mr.. Hal L. Marsh, recently editor of the Dexter,
Me, Gazette young man of much PROMISE died
ofeonsumption at Ripley, Me, April 2ls, at the age
of twenty-five years. Mr.. Marsh was a brilliant
paragrapher, and one of the brightest young jour
nalistS in Maine.
For assaulting Charles ID. Clark editor of the
Bath Independent, Hiram A Huse and Edward z.
Donnell We're trial Thursday afternoon before
Judge Millay in the Municipal Court Bath. Huse
was fined s. with costs and Donnell 50 with costs
Served them right
Running an administration daily in Boston does
not appear to he profitable business The Post
which claims to be the only paper of that sort in
Boston, has just discharged eighteen editors and
reporters, and the Herald says has been running
behind 8 900 a week.
o. NJ. Moore has sold his interest in the Water.
vile Sentinel to Judge o.. Hall of Rockland and
the paper will be published by o. t. Hall Co.
Mr. II. N. Lord, for several years with the Rock
land CourierGazettc, will be editor. Mr. Moore
will remain as editor until the first of May.
OF Mr., o. NJ. Moorc's retirement from the Water.
Vile sentinel the Fairfield Journal says ''Unfor-
tunately Mr., Moores independence was not appre-
Grated by some Of the citizens, who prefer hypoc-
ri<y in temperance politics and religion. Like
SON t,t,., Mi it,,, 4
pressed himself plainly when he had anything to
The Republican journal., 1886-04-29

Messrs. Hunt Il Walker will soon begin work
on their mammoth dry house which is to be
$50 feet in length, 33 feet wide and ~ stories
high. We are informed thar it will take 100 thous.
anu feet of lumber for the building and so thousand
more feet for the drying boards What is meant
by dry house in this business is building where
for that purpose after they come from the hands
of the glosscrs. This building has to be so con.
structcd that it may be open at the sides in good
weather and closed up in wet or stormy weather
and in order that they may dry the most skins in
the least possible time, the building is constructed
very long and very narrow. AS comparatively '
few people i'll Waldo county have any conception
of the business that has been and is being done at
the tannery at this village | propose to give the
readers OF the Journal in Il few weeks full and
complete history of the business done here for the
past 30 wears. f. l., Mitchell is making extensive
repairs on his buildings. Mr. Elias skmorc is
also making repairs and alterations in his house.
+. II, Brad-ueet Post G.. A. II. and the Ladies
Relief Corps connected with it are doing a good
work this spring by relieving the families of all
soldiers and sailors who are in distress within
limits, and sometimes we 90 outside. Our object
is to seek out the worthy poor who had rather
sttrve than call for assiStance....We learn that
the Baptist society of this village have engaged
Mr. Geo. sheldon of Poor's Mills Belfast to preach
here Tor the next year Mr.. sheldon is a Young
man of marked ability and WE have me- doubt but
that his services will he highly appreciated -.
Mcssrs Palmer& Baker are doing quite business
in buying and slaughtcring oxen for the Belfast
market...The first trout Of the season in this
vicinity caught bv that disciple of Isaac
Walton, +. l.. Mitchell, who took out 30 of the
spotted beauties on April 18th. There was
ball at han St George on the evening of April
Both. Music by AIudgctt Bros. of Belfast.
The Republican journal., 1886-04-29
The Oldest Vessel Ahoat,

An interesting discussion took place between
a number of Down East sea captains who con-
gregatcd in il Philadelphia tug-hoat office one
evening recently. The subject was the oldest
American merchant vessel anoat. Captain
Kelley, one of the oldest of the number, said
that the oldest merchant vessel now atloat
under the American flag was built in 1915
Captain Hughes, in whose office the discussion
took place, Il retired mariner, said that he no
ticcd few days ago the arrival at New Bed
ford, Massachusetts, of the American bark
Rousseau, Captain Wicks, from st. Helena, af-
ter Il passage of tifty-seven days with a cargo
of 300 barrels of sperm oil, $50 barrels of
whale oil and 100 barrels of bones. '.This YES
sell" continued Captain Hughes, ''was built in
this city in 1901. She is Il doublc-decked YES
sci of 303 tons register, which in those days
was considered an enormous craft. She was
built for the Stephen Girard line of packet
ships and ran on that line out of this port fol
years. The Rousseau is now classed as well as
the ordinary vessels of ten years old and is tax
en- much care of on account of her great age.
She is owned by S. Osborne, Jr., of New Bed
ford.'
In looking over the old records of shipping
the oldest merchant vessel atloat was found to
be the bark True Love, of London, 296 tons
register This vessel was built in PhiIadelphi;
i'll 1864, making her now 122 years old. She is
owned by John S. Ward, of London, large
owner of vessel property. The True Love i
vet in active service.
The Republican journal., 1886-04-29
A Wedding Anniversary.

J. L. BLETIIEN AND WIFE RENEW THEIR
PLEDGES ON THE LIFE PLAN.
April II, 1866, just 20 years ago Yesterday, j.
l.. Blethcn led to the altar his blushing BRIDE
and April y, 1866, being the twentieth ami
versary of the auspicious occasion, their neigh
hors and friends of the Women's Relief Corps,
NO. &, of which corps Mrs. Bethen is worthy
chaplain, and comrades of the Grand Army, to
which organization Mr. Blethcn belongs, de
cided to give this worthy couple genuine sur
prise. Accordingly by 8 O'Clock last evening
the house was well filed with joyous and
happy throng. Mrs. Blethen had been invited
out to neighbor's, and Mr.. Blethen had gone
TO his regular weekly post meeting, in entire
ignorance of what was transpiring. On their
return about "a friends were waiting to give
them y right royal welcome, Hearty eon-
gratuations were extended, after which Col
Jack Thomas presented TO the shy groom and
bride complete china tea set and other gifts,
which were contributed by their friends. The
impromptu speech (Which the speaker had been
practicing for the past 10 days. was delivered In
d bold fearless manner, and was the one grand
effort of his life.
Deacon w. d. Fielder performed the marri-
age ceremony as only an old veteran knows
how, and concluded by kissing the bride,
much to the annoyance of Mrs. Feidler, who
said she never saw that done before. Mr..
Blethen being called on for reply, said he
was not the speaker of the house, but his wife
was, to which assertion she replied that she
was not the speaker but the spdnker. Refresh
ments were served in abundance, after which
all joined in singing, ''Should Old Acquaintance
be Forgot" The gathering broke up at a late
hour, all wishing the host and hostess long
life and a happy one. IErie, Pa, Evening
The Republican journal., 1886-04-29
Western WhirlWinds.

Those who witnessed the storm in st. Cloud,
Mimi, says that few minutes after p. NJ the
skies became overcast with dark cloud and Il
great black mass rose over the hills southwest
Of the city, and came with great velocity to-
ward the western outskirts, in Il direct line for
the Manitoba freight wards. The clouds hung
low and rolled over and over like smoke over
battlefield, and were accompanied by loud
roaring and cracking sound. The cloud was
funnel shaped and the point dragged along the
ground. People had hardly time TO flee to their
cellar, and seek other places of refuge before
the Whirlwind was on them and the air WAS
filled with flying boards, shingles, brick and
other debris, that We're Strewn over the coun-
try and piled in heaps. The cloud came from
the southwest and moved in Il northwesterly
direction until ii reached the river, where its
course was diverted. and it followed the river
bank until it reached sauk Rapids, where it
turned to the left, passing directly through the
centre Of the town. The utmost excitement
prevailed. Women and children fled from their
houses and rushed aimleSsy about in the midst
of the dark cloud of dust and an avalanche of
boards and bricks.
The portion of 1t. Cloud struck In the cyclone
was the southwestern, the portion occupied by
the laboring class of people, Il majority of them
beng foreigners employed on The railroads.
Their dwellings were light-built houses. They
were like cocblo--hcll> in the whirlWihd. The
earth was ploughed up in the track Of the
cyclone and the path over which ii passed to
width Of nearly 4 quarter Of mile looks as
though it had been upbeayed by i volcanic
eruption.
\ sauk Rapids despatch says: \ cyclone
struck th, city soon after O'Clock yesterday
afternoon, and in just six minutes the best part
Of the town was in ruins. Not single busi-
ness house is left >andin" on the main street
and many residences are demolished. The
wind came from the southwest and swept
e. I,f fbl "a If X.
The storm cloud was as black as night, with
bright. clear sky on either side. The Court
House is heap of ruins and several OF the
county officers were killed The Union School
house, the Presbyterian and congregational
churches. the po>t-otiice, flour mill and large
machine shop We're all converted into kinding
wood inIr>> time than it takes to tell it. " hat
was the centre of the town is now covered
with all sort of debris, TIMBER doors, pieces
of furniture, etc. Only the City Hotel remains
intact. The Northern Pacific Depot was literal
ly blown away, and a large uumbcr OF freight
cars overturned upon the tracks
The Republican journal., 1886-04-29
food Templar Notes.

Ehnwood Lodge, l. O. of q. T. held umccting on
Nmday, Apr Ii, in memoIi;m of John e. Cough.
The meeting was addressed by Rev. George Shel-
don Of Lib 'rty, and Rev. o. E. Blake of South
Montvllc.
The newly elected Grand Council of the Grand
Lodge of Good Tcmplar- is composed of VI. j. Dow
of Brooks, j. H. Hamilton of Nattdwamkcag, Mrs
+, f. Knight of Decring, Geo. +. Brackett Of Bel
fast and j. {. Pease of Corinna.
our Lincolnyiic correspondent writes: Arrange
ments are being made by Central Lodge to enter
tain Waldo District Lodge which Will he held here
in May \ basket plcnic dinner will be served and
general good time Is expected Waldu County
has some very smart temperance workers, and they
are cannhe nf hnllIImr iMtnrt tsting mcetings.
The Republican journal., 1886-04-29

The prayers of Chaplain Milburn at the
opening of the National House continue to
attract attention. One morning last week the
prayer was 50 acceptable to the total abstinence
members that they could not restrain their EN-
thusiasm and the Chaplain's "Amen" was
greeted with a ripple Of applause. The Speak
er apparently was nettled by this unprecedent-
ed demonstration, and he brought his gavel
down sharply to call the House to order. The
prayer was as follows:
oh, God, answer, we beseech Thee, the
supplications of millions of hearts ascending
to Thee for the speedy close of that greatest
evil of modern society-drunkenness. Linked
with almost every vice and crime in oatll-
some compact with gaming houses and brothels,
it burdens the criminal dockets of courts of
justice, throngs the poor-houses, mad-houses,
jails and gibbets, drives men to despair through
the snake-wreathed portals of delirium tre-
mems, unbars the posterns of life that they may
stink into the cowardly grave of suicide. Be
ginning most often i'm an aluring taste in the
jocund bond of good-feowship il becomes an
appetite and mastcr-passon which DESTROYS the
body, darkens the intellect, blinds the moral
sense, dea,lens the soul, drives God ont Of
mems spirit, and paralyzlng the will bintis
men and women hand and foot and casts them
into hell, leaving an entail of despair and
Wretchedness to their children.
The Republican journal., 1886-04-29
Directory of Agricultural Organizations in Maine.

MAINE STATE GRANGE, +. Of II. Hon. Fred X
Rolie, Master Gorham; f. A Alien, Secretary,
East Auburn.
MAINE STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: Hon.
Rufus Prince, President, South Turner; A. l..
Dennison, secretary, Portland.
MAINE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE: Nelson Ham,
President, Lewiston; L. A. Gilbert, Secretary,
North Greene.
EASTERN MAINE FAIR ASSOCIATION: Hon. J. p
Bass President, Bangor; Ezra J.. Stcarns, sec
retary, Bangor.
MAINE STATE JERSEY CATTLE ASSOCIATION
Hon, 4. A. Gilbert, President; \. II. Pike, Sccre
Ary, Winthrop,
MAINE STATE PoMoLoHcAL SOCIETY c. )
Pope, President Manchester samuel l.. Board.
man, secretary, Augusta.
MAINE BEE KEEPERS ASSOCIATION J. B. Ma
son, President Mechanic Falls; Isaac Iiutchins
Secretary, Wellington.
WESTERN MAINE BEE-kEEPERs ASSOCIATION
DR.. j. A. Morton, President, Bethel; +. ID. Wei
come, Secretary Poland.
MAINE MERINO SHEEP BREEDERS AssOCIA
TIoN Col. ;. W. Tinkham, President, Anson; Geo
+. Moore Secretary, North Anson.
MAINE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: Rev. c. NJ
Herring. President, Brunswick Mrs. NJ W Hinck
ley, Secretary, Bowdonham.
The Republican journal., 1886-04-29
~ ~ H. , 'f-N' ''N'.- N''A -
Local Agents for
rhe following are authoriz
BELFAST DIRECTORY.


n. 5'l5l' nv, standard time.
Boats leave for Boston every Monday, Wcdnes
I4t Thursday and saturday at 30 y. M, local
time. ~. on arrival from Bangor
Boats leave for Bangor and intermediate land
tug- every Tuesday, " etiMc-daN. Friday and sat
steamer Florence makes four round trips per
week between Belfast. Caetuc, IelesboIo and
f;rooksyine. SeeHIv
steamer Nh, Field makes three trips per week
between Roo siAnl aud Bangor, touching at inter
1ntjiare Gtudjngs. ,he Mn leave Belfast, lIara
d.5. r,.r,Irrj9e ntHt dal f"T Rorkiand See ;nlv
STAGES.
Belfast to Freedom, lG miles, through MORRILL,
ANON amt ftHi hh"N' .I!uE- leaves l'ellasl ~ IL
at 40 y. m.
Belfast 10 'ahg"f ~ mics lhinu4i' tile 70" IlS VI
oedrstrt, stockton, Prospect ftanhi"rt' Ill''I-
port, Ianpden and Bangor, pM!y except sun
dal- Leave Belfast every Gay Al Il: m. te'uih
my ctNe Bangor daIl! ut Il M, arriving III l'ei-
Ia. il -5o T. m IL, ,,. t, .t ..
h%ItaSt to Ausustl' Az l4es, iht"ugn Inc % "M rs
OF belmont, HeafSih9ht, Llp'ItIt MohtNlIitf ltl-
mu. lima, 80 Nas-lboro and Augusta Daily eA
r'pt 9uhlaS. leave i'eiIasi every "'A III " p h'
ARRIVING at beltast at il il III.
Belfast to North ogarsport 10 miles, via swat
Nitlt' IdllA Leaves pciI''Nl ~ . r. III ht' Nl''-'
ARRIVES ih lrliaSt al II m
Belfast to li9ckland, 30 miles through ihe towns
oi N"fhp"li' l'lHNollNHl ahuClI am "a" hiIAP'
i'AIl} tNctW NunIays' A'llNe al heiIa7t Ill l. III
LtaNr Btlaot III p H.
Belfast to Centre LinrolnyilIc, T. miles, twice
WSch- Leave holias' M"h'laNs anu lhulH'ElSs itt
3,5Q 5 p m. LraNt centre same Gays arriving IL
Btilast al --'o p. m.
Belfast to NearSHort, miles, twice daily except
Nda4s. Leave l'tlast a. y d. ~ 'llI' 90 !, III
or 9n arrival o1 me ie'tast iIlln. ltite
m a. m ,,'i,,t '''.,, ,yiti ,h, ,, trin
s,,,sr,,.s
BELlGIpts The following Is the programme FOR
sunday s,tNlces in [ne Inherent shlifrnes
The Republican journal., 1886-04-29

The Brooklyn Magazine for April contains
series of letters on early marriages. written by
well-knOwn women. Most of the writers agree
that the question of the time to marry must
depend upon circumstances and individual
development; few of them believe in late
marriages, Mrs. Lucy Stone, for example
declaring that to her the most suitable age
seems from twenty-five to thirty years. This
number of the magazine begins the regular
publication of the sermons of Mr.. Beecher and
Mr.. Talmage.
The Republican journal., 1886-04-29

The Dominion Government was sustained by
Parliament in its management of the Northwest
rebellion, the vote of censure being lost by a
decisive majority.
The Republican journal., 1886-04-29

Citizen Train-we mean George Francis, of
cour>e.-s booming Tacoma, W. +. In an ad-
dress to the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce he
locates the future Shipyards and coming Smelt-
ing works at Tacoma. and declares that that
place discounts Portland, Oregon, as the tea
port of the continent. When prose fails to fill
the bill Citizen Train drops into poetry. We
submit a sample
Then Push Cascade Railway to sea
And Commerce give to Liberty.
From Halifax to Puget Sound (applauSe)
-Four days will Tourists bring around!
Ten days from there will reach Japan
And Six Days soon will London Span!
London to China in Twenty Days
Through our Continental Highways!
Tacoma will have the Shortest Route
And Biggest Tourist Trade to Boot!
From Orient to Occident
And Occident through Orient
Ratebaugh Ledgers Continent! (applause)
The Tacoma Ledger, which publishes this
address as a supplement- contains other con-
tributions from Train and is booming the place
for all it is worth. 1t says among other things:
"Tacoma is acknowledged to be the liveliest as
well as most promising town in the north-
west"
The Republican journal., 1886-04-29
The New Workers. Living Coffin,

''Gath" says the average New Yorker OF a
can get his breakfast and wrestlcs all day with
half-dollar. He is like Jacob and the angel
in this performance. Toward night he gener-
ally manages to trip the half-doar and throw
it. and swear that he will not let it 90 until it
gives him the blessing of the day. Then he
takes his coupe, or one which he hires every
day. or takes the elevated railroad, and goes up
to his lonely den in one of these gloomy browne
stone streets. There he has got some SAC, 900
twenty feet front by nnety-tive feet deep. 1t
is his living coffin, and he sits up in it that
evening playing at one or another kind of in
telIigent iack-straws.