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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-10

neighbors. Have failed a good deal
since the cold weather set in, and as my sight
is impaired, only perceive the line on which
1 write.
Many thanks for your kind letter. l am
glad to hear of your good health and prosper
ity. have not forgotten you and your la
bors in Peru.
enclose with this Qetter) program of the
proceedings at my centennial" Sept, 81, 1885.
For more than thirty years / have been a
member of the Fire Lands and Historical So.
ciety." At society meeting held in Norwalk,
July, 1886, committee was appointed to visit
me and obtain leave to hold the next meeting
with me, Sept. 81. l referred the Committee
to my daughter Harriet, and her husband, L.
l.. Thayer. Leave being granted, friends
made preparations for the meeting Three
hundred chairs were brought from Norwalk
and platform five feet wide was built the
whole length of the house. for the speakers
and thousand people were in attendance
CThe centarian was one of the speakers ]. R.
j. My eldest daughter came from Nebraska
twelve relatives from Michigan, and the aged
from the surrounding towns
have had a large corresp ondence with 81
neon lde of Claremont, N. H.; A. Fl. Danforth
of Chicago; and DR.. Danforth, of Barnard, Vt
Mr.. lde learned that 1 was from Windsor, Vt.
and asked me questions about trans.
actions there in 1910. and especially about
my singular celebration of the 4th of July in
Windsor, and about the newspapers of the
early day. Some of the letters were publish
ed. j. r. j. Alden Spooner's Vermont Journd
was the first paper published in Vermont
Oliver Ferris published the Republican, an6
Josiah Dunhan the VdShipgtonidn, Fedora
paper.
have long letters from ]. W. Norcross, OF
Boston, Mass; Olin P. Fay, of Michigan, my
mothers relations. B. Kellogg, of Green Bay
Wisconsin, is collecting records of the Kel.
loggs.
AS am dependent, must wait till some OF
the family go to Norwalk to have a photo.
graph printed, and will enclose these scratch
es when getit. g.. . With kind wishes tC
yourself, 1 am, fraternally yours,
MARTIN KELLOGG.
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The Holy Father-we mean him of
Rome-still vigorously insists on his
quarrel and that of his predecessor in re-
gard to temporal supremacy. March 2
was his birthday, and he improved the
occasion to utter the usual lament about
the attitude of the italian government,
and made an animated speech in which
he declared that his position was Sun
bearable." He also asserted that if the
Italian government did not prohibit the
jubilee fetes, it was in his own interests
that it acted, and not from any feeling
OF respect for the Holy See. The Gath
olic world must be aware of the situation.
No arrangement with the government
was possible until the independence of
the papacy was restored. Leo XIII. will
have to wait some time before the pro-
posed arrangement" goes into effect.
He will die as he now elects to live, the
Prisoner Of the Vatican"
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altogether the thought of spirit as dis
tinct from material organization. His
modesty is seen in the above letters.
While they are sufficiently expressive
of his individual opinions, they are not
at all dogmatic and treat questions of
religion in a respectful, if decided
manner. He did not find it possible to
advance with certainty beyond the posi-
ton which he assumed, and as his GER
tainty in other matters depended upon
the result of his investigation, deal
ing with facts and phenomena as he
found them disclosed in the constitu-
ton of nature-he could not reach
definite conclusions. He was phil
Osopher who chose work in life thai
led him along pathways remote from
the spirit, recognizing nothing but that
which was material. He had, Of course,
no choice but to plant himself on the
results of his material Investigations.
1t would lie interesting to know how
Darwin regarded man, as man may be
surveyed apart from his bodily organi-
ation,- being of faith, hope, love, as
piration-but these things did not come
within his elected province. We have
seen nothing which sheds light on these
points coming from him. We do not
find many of Darwin's followers &C.
cupying exactly his own attitude, and
there are many believers in Darwinian-
ism who do not accept Darwin's own
statements as to design and purpose in
nature. AS Mr.. Bethany remarks /:
1.-THE mechanical theorist, may main
tain that every event takes place with
out purpose, while the believer in
design may no less consistently main
tain that the more ordinary and uniform
we find the succession of events, the
more reason is there for believing that
the higher intelligence is regulating
them. 1t is certainly impossible to
show that the whole system of evolu-
ton does not exist for a purpose. The
ranks of the evolutionists, and even of
the Darwinians, as fact, embrace be-
levers in the most diverse systems of
philosophy, including many of those
who accept Christ's teachings as au-
thoritive of divine revelation. May not
this diversity among Darwinians itself
teach hope? The belief that every
generation is step in progress to a
higher and fuller life contains within
it the promise of glorious evolution
which is no longer the faint hope but a
reasoned faith"
Such is the conclusion to which
many minds of the highest order are
now tending. 1t was Mr.. Darwin's
mission to furnish the facts of the
material universe, on which evolution
as philosophy is reared but there
are many who cannot rest content with
the conclusions which apparently salts
fed Darwin himself.
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ANOTHER RECENT PEORIA BENZ
ia ction is what is to be known as the
EDNA Home, "a gift from Mr.. and
Mrs. E. S. Easton, also members of
our Peoria church, as memorial of
their daughter, who died a few years
ago. The edna Home" is to be a
large and commodious structure, three
stories in height. The upper stories
are divided into sleeping apartments;
the lower floor will contain parlors,
reading room, library, etc., and in its
uses is to stand for young women, as
the Young Mems Christian Association
stands for young men. The Peoria
public is emphatic in expressions of ap-
probation of Mr. and Mrs. Easton's
munifcent gift. Let these benef &C.
tions be recorded
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PERSONAL.

Mrs. E. M. Bruce is to spend a month
lecturing in the West-in New York
Illinois and Iowa.
Rev. A. Kelsey has removed from Sa'
vannah, Ga, to Griffin, Ga, where his
friends can address him hereafter.
Hon. FL. B. Medcalt is in Florida-sc.
companied by his daughter, who will re.
main a short period for her health.
President Capen, of Tufts College, will
be with the church in Washington two
Sundays and he may make tour further
South.
Rev. DR.. j. w. Hanson has been a Wis
itor in Boston the past two weeks. He
will return in season to go South and
conduct the discussion with Mr.. Hall, at
Henderson, Tenn, the present month.
Rev. DR.. Tuttle, pastor of the Church
of the Redeemer, Minneapolis, commenc-
ed his pastorate in July, 1866, SO that he
has served in that Office, nearly twenty
two years. A long, faithful, useful and
able ministry.
Married-Feb. %, 1888. at Woodstock,
o., by Rev. J. W. Henley, Rev. John R.
Carpenter, pastor of the Universalist
church of Delphos, Kan, and Miss Mary
G. Morecraft, of Woodstock. Oongratu-
lations.
The late Mrs. Fanny A. Miner Booth,
of South Boston, Mass, left special re-
quest that thirteen volumes of the ia.
dies Repository that she had carefully
saved, be sent to the Scottish Mission.
Her wish has been carefully complied
with.
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against the individual in the struggle for
life. II the variation is a good one, it
tends to persist, because every point OF
advantage similarly tells in the individ-
uars favor in that ceaseless and viewless
battle. 1t was this addition to the evo-
lutionary concept, fortified by Darwin's
powerful advocacy of the general princi-
pie of descent with modification, that won
over the whole world to the 'Darwinian
theory Before Darwin, many men OF
science were evolutionists; after Darwin,
all men of science became SO at once,
and the rest of the world is rapidly pre-
pairing to follow their leadership"
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THE UNIvERsAL1sT: SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1885,

the General Convention. AS previously
stated the plan adopted is for an an
nual subscription for five years to test
the experiment, and to see whether the
results will justify our church in per-
manently engaging in the work. The
appeal is made to those who have faith
in the success of the missionary work
in foreign lands under the auspices of
our church. 1t may take some consid-
cradle time to secure the full amount
Of the proposed subscription. We make
no doubt, however, that the money will
be placed at the disposal of the Con-
vention, and the foreign work duly in
augurated.
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DR.. SAWYER's LETTERS.

The letters of DIR. Sawyer to Henry G.
Bowen, OF the Independent, noticed last
week, is now ready in leahet form. The
title is The Damnation of the Heather
and the American Board" 1t is a sharp
and telling piece of work and shows that
DR.. Sawyer. at eighty-two, is as vigorous
and searching a writer as the Orchard
Street Sawyer of forty years ago. The
leahet will do excellent service wherever
distributed. Price, less than 100 copies,
IL cts. each. 100 and over, II cts. Post
paid in each case.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-10
SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1888.

THE ISSUE of the CHRISTIAN LEAD.
Err for the present week will be a
Massachusetts Missionary and Conven-
ton paper. THE UNIvERsALIsT set
the example in the case of Ohio some
weeks ago; but for all we shouldn't
wonder bit if the LEADER had good
Start in this matter, nevertheless, and
Notwithstanding.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-10

"A Rio JANE1Ro correspondent of the
New York Herald writes, under date of
Feb. 8, as follows: " The absorbing ques-
ton of the day continues to be that Of
slavery, and it is current that the minis
try have decided upon introducing early
in the next legislative session-that is in
Maya bill to abolish slavery through
out Brazil" This is the step Brazil
needs to take to secure brilliant future
for that wonderfully rich and productive
country.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-10

-REv. DIR. FULToN's anti-catholic cru
SADIE, very vulgar, not to say obscene
enterprise, is practically a failure SO far
as Chicago is concerned, And it is to the
credit of Chicago that such is the case.
The Methodists who closed their down.
town church against him last week and
refused to permit any more lecture ad-
vertisements of his sensational book, are
entitled to the thanks of the community.
Their conduct in the matter is very wide
ly approved.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-10

Prom Boston to Yanktou, Dakota, is
"a far cry" but Rev. DR.. Duryes, of the
former town, has accepted an invitation to
deliver the commencement Grafton at
Yankton College, in June, and later con-
duct three weeks summer school of
theology in that city. If DIR. Duryes will
give an exegesis of his views on "Proba-
ton he does not believe either in a
" fret" or second" variety of the article
we might be inclined to send reporter
to attend the school and secure his valu-
able opinions for The UNIvERsALIsT.
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STANFORD MITCHELL AT NoRWALK.

DIR. Crane writes that our friends in
Norwalk are to have series of meetings
with Stanford Mitchell as the singer, be-
ginning March 20, and continuing until
the 18th. No doubt many OF our Uni
versalists in the surrounding region will
embrace this opportunity to hear the
singer and enjoy the preaching.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-10
MR.. STRAUSS BOOK.

Notice the high compliment which ex-
President Hill pays to Mr.. Straub's new
work, Prophecy and Prophets" 1t is
contained in an item on the fifth page.
This work is constantly for sale at the
Western Branch. Price $1.0O.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-10

IT is rumored that DR.. Patton in &C
cepting the presidency of Princeton init
mated to the Trustees that he would do
no begging for the college. DR.. Pat
ton draws the line at a very tender point
in the college business. But perhaps he
proposes to put all his energies in this
line into commencement speeches. Some
OF the best begging by college presi-
dents is done in this sly way.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-10

In view of the article elsewhere on
Darwin's religious opinions, the follow
ing from the CornhiH Magazine will be
read with interest; "Oharles Darwin
added to the primitive evolutionary idea
the special notion OF natural selec-
ton. That is to say, he pointed out that
while plants and animals vary perpetual
ly and very indefinitely, all the varieties
so produced are not equally adapted to
the circumstances of the species. II the
variation is bad one, it tends to die out,
because every point of disadvantage tells
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-10

THE "Kirmess," which was SO sue
cessful last year, will be repeated April
Is, 10 and 20, at the Exposition building,
under the same management, which
means that Mrs. Gen. M. r. M. Wallace
will be in command of the forces, winning
another splendid victory for sweet char
ity's sake"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-10

LOCAL OPTION is making remarkable
Roadway in Michigan. OF the thirty-two
counties that have thus far voted on the
question, twenty-nine have decided for
and three against prohibition. In the
Ohio legislature bill providing for local
option by townships has been adopted,
and only awaits the signature of the pre-
siding officer of the Senate to make it q
law.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-10

Mr.. LowELL's forthcoming volume
of verse, "Heartsesse and Rue" will con-
tain these predatory lines:
"Along the roadside where we pass bloom few
Gay plants of heartsea5e, more of saddening
rue;
So life is mingled; so should poems be
That speak conscious word to you and me-"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-10

CHICAGO is at last aroused in regard
to the necessity of helping the cyclone
sufferers at Mount Vernon and the money
comes rolling in.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-10

TIE EDITOR is assisted by an able corps of
SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS, with correspond
ents in the several States. See eighth page
for Special Business Notices.
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Sc All articles intended far the UNIvERsALIsT
should be addressed Editor Of THE UNIvERs-
AIIsT, Chicago, ILL.,"
Sc CORRESPONDENTS from the churches is
solicited and always welcome.
So TERMS: $3.50 per year. postage paid.
Sample copies to any address free on applica'
sion.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-10
Gbe Wn1bersalist.

J. S. CANTWELL, D. D., Editor.
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IT will please our Edgar Leavitt,
who writes this week very tenaciously in
favor of criminals being made to suffer
the actual burdens of penitentiary ex-
istence,-not to mention several millions
of iother right minded people-to learn
that e. l.. Harper, of the Cincinnati FL
deity Bank, is to be debarred of his PEN
itentiary privileges at Columbus. 1t has
been eontended that as Harper was a
United States prisoner he could not be
employed in a mental position, and had
been engaged in an easy position in the
office of the Secretary of the prison. The
opinion of the Attorney General is to the
effect that Federal prisoners can be
worked on any piece price contract,
whether their sentence reads without
hard labor or not. The result of this is
that Mr.. Harper will be given work on
something more laborious than book
keeping, and he will be made to don the
regular prison garb and lose the luxuri-
ant mustache which was once the pride
of Cincinnati.
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ii

We believe that holiness and true happiness
are inseparably connected and that believers
ought to be careful to maintain order. and
practice good works; for these things are gnoo
and profitable unto men
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-10

We believe that there is one God, whose
nature is Love, revealed in one Lord Jesus
Christ, by one Holy Spirit of Grace, who will
finally restore the whole family of mankind to
holiness and happiness
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-10

THE keynote of Mr.. e. d. Walker 8
book on Rs,incarnation is that of
Plato's philosophy. "Soul is older than
body" he says. "Souls are continually
born over again from Hades into this
life" The author further unfolds his
philosophy in the following extract:
Granting the permanence of the human
spirit amid every change, the doctrine of re-
birth is the only one yielding metaphysical
explanation of the phenomena of life. 1t is
already accepted in the physical plane as ev-
olution, and holds firm ethical value in ap-
plying the law of Justice to human experience.
In confirmation of it there stands the strong
est weight of evidence, argumentary, en-
pirical, and historic. 1t untangles the knot
ty problem of life simply and grandly. 1t
meets the severest requirements of enlight
ened reason, and is in deepest harmony with
the spirit of Christianity.
1t will strike the ordinary reader as a
matter of entire Indifference whether Mr..
Walkers theory is true or not. If we
are simply reborn into this life, we have
no knowledge of what precedes it; and if
we are to be again re-incarnated here
after after the same idea, we are not likely
to know any more about the matter than
we know now about the existent
state. 1t is poor solution of this life,
orthe question OF Immortality, that claims
that we are to live as part of the corpor-
ate life OF the universe without personal
and conscious identity. Deprive the hu-
man race Of this, and Immortality Becomes
of very little consequence one way or the
other.
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UNlVERsALlsT PROFESSION OF FAITH
ADOPTED 1908.

We believe that the Holy Scriptures of the Old
and New Testaments contain a revelation of the
character of God, and of the duty, interest and
final destination of mankind.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-10
FIELD AGENTS:

REV. j. W. MCMAsTER. S. S. WILLIAMS.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-10

NOhWALk, o., Jan. .. 1888.
Dear Brother johnson Your kind letter of
Jan. 23d was received the 25th, and in reply
will first say that it is with much hesitation
that attempt to write. tits true that receive
many letters andmake replies. use no glass
es, as 1 can find none that help me. have
failed great deal the past year, and it is four
years since have been to Norwalk, or to my
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28
RRIDESMAIDS

One of the notable features of fashion
this year will be the gradual disappear
ance of bridesmaids from weddings
Nothing can be prettier in theory al
ways and occasionally, in reality, than a
group of Whitehead maidens attending
their friend to the altar and Illuminating
the scene with their decorative presence.
But, under existing arrangements,
bridesmaids are very expensive luxu-
~. The bridegroom has not only to
give them each daintily costly present,
but he is expected to furnish them with
bouquets as well.
There has, of late, been a tendency to-
ward very tiny bridesmaids, whose ten
der age would naturally reduce the ex-
pense of the presents in proportion to
their years. But even these are disap-
pearing in favor of so-called pages, who
know so little of pages duties that
they alternately tread on the brides
train and trot after it, but who do not
expect either jewelry or. Or.bouquets. The
fact is that bridesmaids have, so to speak,
raised their terms to such an exalted
height, that human nature, in the shape
of exasperated bridegrooms, has begun
to ask if they cannot be suppressed.
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BAY STATE NIUGWUMPS.

Springfield Republican Massachusetts,.
From conversation with some OF the
most influential of them it seems likely
that they will not have any organization
this year. Should Blaine be the Repub-
lican nominee, they will take the field
again as they did in 1884, but should
any other candidate be nominated it is
quite probable that they will not hold
any meetings and not open any head
quarters. They will be likely to leave
every man free to follow his inclinations.
Some of their leaders are not in cOndi-
ton to take part this year. George Fred
Williams is in Europe sick and not able
to enter the contest. George V. Lever
EFT is counsel for the Bell Telephone
Company, and so under business restric-
tiOns which are likely to keep him out
of the field. Winslow Warren will &c
to Europe in three or four weeks, and
will not return until October.
These will make a marked difference
in the mugwump leadership. 1t pret-
ty certain that most of them personally
will support Cleveland. Some of them
who are particularly strenuous on the
subject of civil service reform will vote
for Gresham, probably, if he is nominal
ed, but the larger part of them, while
not satisfied with the course of the Pres
ident, think that he has done enough to
show that the need of the reform is not
more power in the executive, but more
Legislation to extend the system. They
say that the President has stood up Won
derfully well when the power of the
pressure upon him is considered, and
that one of their own men would not
not have done any better in such case
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28
ORDER.

The habit of order is much more far
reaching than is generally supposed. 1t
governs all arrangements, those of time as
well as of place; it influences thought as
well as action, character as well as con-
duct. 1t is the constant preventer of
waste in every direction. No disorderly
person can ever be truly economical.
He may work hard and spend little, but
economy demands the best results that
can be obtained from any given source,
and these can come only through order
ly and systematic arrangements.
The man who has acquired orderly
habits will so manage his time that it
shall be fruitful. He will neither idly
procrastinate nor hirriedly scramble
through his work. He will neither put
off to-day's duty until tomorrow nor
force to-morrow's into to-day. He will
provide for leisure as well as for action,
for recreation as well as for labor. He
will respect the time of others as well as
his own, neither breaking engagements
nor forcing people to spend time with
him against their will.