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Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-07-14

TO MAKE the worlds future better than its past
scatter grains of noble thought from which will
spring deeds of heroism study the great eternal
truths that belong to nature preach gospel of
light and God to those who grope in darkness;
unlock the gates of heaven-born hope to the lost
and abandoned of the world convert the world to
philosophy Of love that shall bring deverance
the hour of divine daybreak for all the earth
This, and more, is the work for woman wherever
she is capable of performing the task. 70 her
door lies charge for the human race, as surely as
that which has been placed on the shoulders of
man, and why shall she not not be held to account
if she neglects the duty? Why should not she dis
charge her whole debt to the race she is half in
strumental in producing? God has bestowed upon
woman the greater love for her species, then why
not allow her the opportunity of working out that
problem of love?
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-07-14

LINCOLN, N, NJ, June, 1888.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-04-28
CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIALISM.

When socialism assumes the form of
anarchy there can be no relation be-
tween it and Christianity but one of
''irrepressible conflict" Christianity
favors liberty; but liberty is not license.
Liberty is obedience to just law; the
highest liberty is submission to God,
and conformity to his will as revealed
in his word. Anarchy is un-American,
unmanly, and ungodly. 1t is plant
of foreign production, a Satanic exotic
which can never become fully rooted in
American soil. When socialism be-
comes anarchy it is fit only for destruc-
ton. When men come to America
with red flag in one hand and dyna-
mite bomb in the other, they must be
quarantined for their natural lives. An
examination of the lives of the Anarch-
lists recently hanged, shows that they
never had any Christian training. Had
they been educated in it's doctrines,
they would never have made, certainly
would never have hurled, the fatal
bomb. They learned to think of Chris
tianity as their enemy; they, in turn,
became its enemies. These facts are
worthy of careful consideration by all
Christians and all other good citizens.
We cannot afford to neglect the
| Christian training of any of our people:
we must do our part toward training
all the nations of the earth, especially
those whose representatives are likely
to come to us. Atheism is anarchistic.
Sow infdelity and you reap anarchism,
impurity, death. Every atheist is at
heart an anarchist. Anarchism is the
flower and fruit of atheism. No con-
sistent intidel is, or can be a good citi'
zen.-Rev. DR.. r. s. McArthotr, IN Neot
Princeton RevieaD.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-04-28
1eru Publications.
PARKER's PEOPLES BIBLE.

"Parker's Peoples Bible:" Sam. viii. to
Kings xiii, New York, Trunk & Wagnalls) is
another volume of the great work of DR..
Parker, of London, who is attempting to
preach through the Bible in course, drawing
such moral and spiritual lessons as the gen.
ius of such man can suggest. He finds the
historical books full of moral instruction for
men of these times. While he unsparingly
condemns the short comings of David and
other ancient worthless, he is able to do so
without condemning the religion of which
they were bright and shining lights, and
which, to considerable extent, was revealed
through them. He does not deny their inspi-
ration because they did not always live ND to
their high privilege.
DR.. Parker speaks of the fine points of d.
vld's character. He never first began a war.
His fine friendship for Jonathan; his magnan-
unity toward King Saul when his life lay in
his hand; his appreciation of the good points
OF Saul as shown in the lament composed at
his death; his friendship shown to the suryiv-
ing descendants of Saul; his hatred of mean
and unmagnanimous acts; his own deep re-
magnify the darker sides of character? To
insist upon the evil in mems lives? Consid-
erlng his times, his despotic power, imper-
feet enlightenment, may not David have been
better man than some who condemn him
most severely? The real goodness of men is
to be judged in the light of temperament,
opportunities, knowledge and temptations.
This volume like the others is interspersed
with Annotated Passages, and general Notes
and "Handfuls of Purpose" in which DR..
Parker seems to have collected general
points of superabundant sermon material
which he had notbeen. able to get into the reg
ular discourses. The book is worth reading,
especially to the young preacher, that he may
see DIR. Parker's method of finding sermon
matter where many others would look for il
in vain
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-04-28
BLACK LETTER BOOKS.

Types, which on the Continent of Eu-
rope are most generally known as Goth
ic, are generally named in this coun-
try black letter, and sometimes old Eng
lish. Books printed before the year 1900
are usually in this character and are
styled blsck-letter books. The classic
taste Of Italy could not long tolerate the
rough points Of the black-lett charac-
ters, and they were gradually modified
until they assumed the shape to which the
name Of Roman letters has since been
given. The first books printed with these
new types were two editions Of Pliny's
Natural History, at Venice, in the years
1869 and 1472. An attempt was made,
at the beginning of the sixteenth century,
to supersede the Roman letters by the
Aldine, or Venetian, or, what are now
known as Italic characters. They never
came into general use, however, and are
now employed for special purposes only,
while the Roman types spread, in short
time, from Venice all over the printing
world. Books printed in black letter are
much sought after by antiquarians and
bibliomaniacs, who are, for this reason
sometimes called "black-letter devotees."
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-04-28
PRACTICAL PREACHING.

Preaching, practical or doctrinsl, never.
we believe, was more an interest in the
community than it is at this persent time.
1t is true many churches are much de-
serted, but many also are we'll filed.
And the interest felt in the sermon is not
to be judged only by the number of at
PENDANTS, but still more by the attention
paid to the preacher. And what can be
numbers of sermons in cities and rural
communities on Sunday and Monday
mornings, except that there are readers
to enjoy them? Besides, the style of
preaching has, in the last hundred years,
greatly changed-from the abstruse, dry,
doctrinal discussion, from subjects and
sermons that were as we'll adapted to the
congregation of hearers thousand years
ago, to the consideration of points of a
present and living interest. We venture
to think that no class of men in the COM
munity are more alive to what is going
on in political life, in trade, in society,
and home than preachers are, for the
most part, at this present time. They do
not, it is true, engage always in what is
called practical preaching. Some may be
said seldom or never to engage in it. They
are men who live very much by them
selves, their connection with society be-
ing mostly in the parlors Of their people,
with visit on days of public election at
the polls. But as they work at no trade,
produce no article of manufacture, have
nothing to sell, and buy little besides
once or twice week from the butcher,
and now and then a suit of clothes or
long coveted book, they know little of the
emulations Of trade, and the various prin-
ciples, good and evil, practiced at the
counter and on change. II the minister
could only be two men instead of one,
the faithful student of books and the
careful thinker and visitant at homes for
one side, and man of business relations
for the other, he might do much better in
the way of sermonizing. If he could only
come from behind the counter of the
bank, where he had been exercising his
shrewdness as a director, president, or
a teller, or from the lawyer'saoffice, from
hearing mems qusrrels and measuring
their eagerness, or from speculations
where fortunes are gained and lost in a
day, then he would preach, unless he be-
came thoroughly corrupted in way as a
man of business to pierce the conscience,
to rouse the thoughtless, and as man of
thought to inspire and console. People
often need general principles. The Ser
mon on the Mount was full of them.
They can better apply the general princi-
pie to themselves than the preacher can.
The preacher might move the affection
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-04-28

of gre t interest to students of antiquarian
history as we'll as to general readers, who en-
JOY breezy descriptions of Western life. Alden
of New York, is the publisher of the forth
coming volume.
Under the title of "Philosophia Ulti ma,r
Prof. Charles w. Shields has prepared vol
ume one, (Scribners) of new edition of his
"Final Philosophy" The work has been
largely rewritten in accordance with the re
suits of the latest philosophical investiga-
tions, and in this new form will, without
doubt, attract as wide attention as did the
book upon which it is based.
sSociety in Rome Under the asars" is
about tobe issued by the Scribners, of New
York. 1t is said to present the best picture
ever given of the state of society, religious
beliefs. morality, government, literature and
the daily life, habits and amusements of all
classes of people under the first Caesars.
"What is the Bible?" is the title of Prof.
DR.. George T. Ladd's new book just issued
in New York. The work is thoroughly popu-
lar and free from all technical discussions
and is intendedrather for the general reader
than for the special student of theology.
In recent competitive vote among the
juvenile readers of the Philadelphia Times
as the best book ever read by them, several
thousand votes gave Mrs. Burnetts "Little
Lord Fauntleroy" first place on the final
list; Miss Alcott's "Little Women" second;
| and Mrs. Burnett's recent story "Sara
Crewe," the companion piece to "Fauntle-
roy" sixth place.
Judge George @. Barrett, of the Supreme
Court, New York, before whom the doodle"
aldermen and jacob Sharp were tried, has
written an article on "Miscarriages of JUS
tice." which will appear in the Forum for
May. The same number will contain sob
stacles to Good City Government" by ex-
Mayor Seth Low, of Brooklyn; "Appropria-
tions for Public Works." by Senator s. M.
Cnllom; and strong article by Michael
Davitt. on "Irish Landlordism."
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-04-28
THE MAY MAGAZINES.

Mr.. George KEENAN, tells in the May
Century how he came to go to Siberia on the
Century expedition. Mr.. KEENAN, had spent
some time in Siberia already in connection
with the overland telegraph scheme, and in
the summer of 1884 he made preliminary
excursion to st. Petersburg and Moscow for
the purpose of collecting material, and ascer-
tanning whether or not obstacles were likely
to be thrown in his way by the Russian Gov
eminent. He returned in October, fully sat-
1sfied that his scheme was a practical one.
he therefore sailed from New York for Liv-
erpool in May, 1885. He says: "All my pre-
possessions were favorable to the Russian
Government and unfavorable to the Russian
Revolutionists." He adds that this "partly
explains the friendly attitude toward me
which was taken by the Russian Government,
the permission which was given me to in
spect prisons and mines, and the COM
parative immunity from arrest, detention,
and imprisonment which 1 enjoyed, even
when my movements and associations were
such as justly to render me an object of sus-
pioion to the local Siberian authorities"
1t is good deal to say, but it seems in
deed possible that Chicago people will blush
with modest pleasure when they read Mr..
Charles Dudley Warmers estimate of them
and their city, published in Harper's Nigga
zine for May. Mr.. Warmers admiration is
unreserved, not only for Chicago's possibili-
ties but for its actualities, and his COMPARE
sons will not be found to be odious-at least
not to the Ohicagoans. AS center of the
universe, Paris, Pekin and Berlin (not to
mention New York; must ere long, he thinks,
admit the position of this great city. So
much for business. From a social point of
view, Mr.. Warner believes that Chicago has
not yet attained its ultimate excellence; still
he holds that the best people out here have
truer love for books and literature than the
corresponding class in New York, and that
they are less critical, and occasionally ad-
mire things more than true Bostonians. The
plain inference from all this is that the peo-
pie of Chicago have at last got firm grip on
culture and true elegance, and simply mean
to make them hum. The effect of such arti-
Giles as this Western series now running
though Horper's will be intellectually good.
They will help to overcome the natural til
Nudity of the Western people, and cause the
effete populations of the East to know their
own humble place.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-04-28
JAMES wHITcoMe RILEY.


Mr.. Dan L. Paine, of the Indianapolis
Neaos, contributes to the April Book
Buyer the following interesting and au-
thoritative sketch of the Western poet
James Whitcomb Riley:
"Mr. Riley was born and spent the years
of his boyhood at Greenfield, Indiana.
His father was an attorney of some prom
inence, and a genius in mechanics, hav-
ing the ability to initiate in construction
almost anything that can be made with
hands-a trait which his son inherits as
mental, though not manual, character
istic. The father was impatient to see
his son, of whom he was very fond, in
masculine attire; and long before the
child had reached the age when the pima
fore is usually discarded, determined to
crafty this desire. He therefore bought
the small amount Of material necessary,
and himself cut and made for the coming
poet and humorist wonderful suit. 1t
consisted of trousers reaching to the feet,
and a coat OF the 'shad-belly' variety,
adorned with the bright brass buttons
then in fashion for gentlemen.
cat that age the child's hair was al
most as white as wool, and his face was
covered with freckles of generous size
and pronounced color. He was chubby,
and the grotesqueness of this ensemble
must have twanged sympathetic chord
in his infantile breast. When sttired in
his new suit he bore a striking resem-
blance in miniature to Judge Wick,
ponderous jurist and politician promi-
nent in that section and throughout the
West at that time. The similarity OF in
itials as we'll as of person suggested the
within to the rustic wits, and Judge Wick
became his nickname and remained with
him after he had reached his teens, and
then, it may be said, became his nom de
guerre, for by that name he fought and
conquered in his more mature boyhood.
He was his fathers constant companion,
and on county court days no end of mer-
riment was aroused when a conjunction
of these two unique personages with ju-
dicisl titles forced a comparison and pro-
voked the risibles of the dullest. When
the business of litigation was on, the boy
was left to his own devices. Perched in
some obscure niche or window, he i'm
itated every movement Of the court, law
yers and witnesses, and there his studies
of dialect and human nature of the Hoo
sier variety were made, to be reproduced
on the platform and in print in later
years."
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-04-28

and send his people home with warm
hearts toward one another and toward
the world besides; he might evoke the
tear of repentance; he might silence the
passions. and uplift the soul to seek the
presence Of God; and, in all, he might
not be called practical preacher. And
he might help to lay deep in the utter
most depths of the souls of bis hearers
the abstract principle of utter unselfish-
ness, the perfect principle of goodness,
the principle OF perfect love to God. If
he can only convert the hearer, he need
not 60 on to tell him not to deceive, nor
be profane, nor to steal Indirectly or di-
rectly, nor to be good neighbor and
good in every domestic relationship. II
he can only stand SO near to the soul, he
may be sure his work will be we'll done
and he will have souls for the crown Of
his rejoicing.-Christion Register (Uni.
taridn).
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-04-28
LITERARY NOTES.

Seribner's Magazine announces the early
publication of series of illustrated articles
on Railways" 1t is the same series that
was referred to in the prospectus of the mag
szine for 1888. There is wide interest in
the subject, and no doubt the articles will be
valuable and interesting.
Rev. DR.. George E. Ellis, President Of the
Massachusetts Historical Society, and widely
known, not only as a Unitarian clergyman,
but as one of the most intelligent and persist
emit students of American history, especially
of the colonial era, will soon publish, through
Messrs. Houghton Mifflin, & Co., of Boston,
an octave entitled 1.-THE Puritan Age and
Rule in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay,
l629-16S5." The leading object of DIR. Ellis
in this work is to do justice to the motives of
the Puritsns, whom he considers to have
been unjustly criticised in some recent publi-
cations, notably, Mr.. Brooks Adams's "Eman-
cipation of Massachusetts" and Mr.. Hal
lowell's Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts
A portrait of Andrew Carnegie and sketch
of how the famous millionaire pursues his
literary studies amidst his many commercial
engagements will appear in the May Book
Buyer.
Mrs. Susan E. Wallace, wife of Gen. Lew
Wallace, has in press volume entitled ''The
Land Of the Pueblos." 1t will doubtless prove
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-04-28
THE RELIGIOUS FUNCTION OF
MODERN SCIENCE.

Says the Rev. J. Hamilton Thorn =
In what we call our civilization there is
a process going forward which is pre-
pairing the way Of the Lord and making
his paths straight. Follow out any
great line of investigation, and it will
lead direct to God. Science, astronomy,
geology, political economy, without de-
signing it, were widening the bounds
of revelation itself, freeing the spirit
from the letter, when pursuing their
own paths of thought. There is no
great truth that does not cause some
narrow doctrines, and in departments
other than its own, to shrink from be-
fore it. Some thirty years ago in Eng
land there was an irreligious fear, not
that the age was too exclusively practi-
cal, for that may have been, but that
no spiritual good would come out of
science-a distrust that the earnest
pursuit of any kind of reality could
fail to come at last into contact with
God. The intellect of the age, and of
the country, was then too much wor-
shipper in the outer court. But this
did not and could not last; all things
are of God, and lie close together.
Science has her mysteries as well as
faith; social economy, demonstrate what
she may, soon finds that she can
achieve nothing without the heart of
brother, without the spirit of our
father; and now it comes upon us as a
new gospel, that the age and the
country, through earnestness in great,
and apparently independent, directions,
have touched the conterminOus spirit
ual land, have reached thoughts with
which spiritual narrowness cannot CO.
exist, have without observation been
outgrowing traditional and lifeless sys-
TENS, and are prepared, instead of
articles of belief, to find the bright
forms of universal truth in nature and
in the Bible.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-04-28

-Endeavor to be patient in bearing with
the defects and infirmities of others, of
what sort soever they be; for that thyself
also hast many which must be borne
with by others. If thou canst not make
thyself such one as thou wouldst, how
canst thou expect to have another in all
things to thy liking?
Unconscious murderers daily mingle
in LIES busy throDg, who have no thought
of the penalty which should be measured
out to them, who daily stab and MAIN
their innocent victims with faults Of
character. which they have not the will
or inclination to check or subdue.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-04-28
For THE UNIvERsALIsT
THE SILENT LAND.
BY REV. E. CASE.

The Silent Landl There is no Silent Land
Beyond the precincts of this earthly sphere;
The human soul so lofty, gifted, grand,
Doth pass not to the silent, dark and drear.
Into the regions of Immortal Light
Where gathered hosts of the departed are,
The Apocalyptic soul declares mo night"
1t lives and acts. the deathless and the fair.
Mid boundless regions stretching far.away,
Where all perfection of the angels reign,
The Spirit blossoms in eternal day
And walks in glory the far-reaching plain.
Think you the Land that to our world hath sent
Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, and the throng
Whose glorious anthems to the world have lent
The bliss and rapture of celestial song;
Think you that Land is dark and silent now.
Where mighty anthems through its arches
roll,
And rivers of song in tides of rapture flow
Me obi us sweetness on uplifted soul2
Think you the tongues of hallowed songs are
still.
The lips once touched with Goals of heavenly
fire.
Whose warblings made our souls SO often thrill
That in enchantment we did half expire;
Or they who have so melted us, and oft,
With burning words of their high climbing
thought,
Are their lips silent now they're gone aloft
Into the realms where love is ne'er forgot?
o ye the deathlessl So it cannot be, q -
By all the soul can see. feel, think and hear,
And the eternal promptings Hope gives free
In moments whenwe know that God is near.
Into the Silent Land All mol Not SO!
But into the Land of glorious Life above,
Where ne'er the shadows fall of grief or woe,
But where cen thought is music, life and
love.
Een1lfOrt g. O. ADriI Is. 1888,
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-04-28

We are at best but stewards Of what we
falsely call our own.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-07

worse, the effect of his injuries and great
pain eliminating il lockjaw, from which
be died in a short waile.
In lonely home in Texas valley Floyd
county, Henry Henderson. q negro man
about 35 years of age, was found murde ed
i'll his bed. His wife died about six months
ago and he lived in the house by himself.
The house was locked and has been that
way since last Tuesday morning. 1t wes
supposed that Henderson had gone off visit
ing. The last seen of him was on Monday
night about 9 O'Clock. As he stayed away
50 long some suspicious arose. These suspi-
cions becoming well founded, portion of
the shingles of the roof of the cabin were
torn otf and a CHASTITY spectacle was
revealed. The missing man was
found living in pool of blood Major
Tut, fatner-in-law of the murdered
man, stated that Henderson ate supper at
his house on Monday night. He left after
supper ard that was the last seen of him.
Henry Henderson bought horse, and John
Smiths father stood security for him. On
last Monday Afternoon Henderson snapped
horses with Mil ard Brown. For some rea-
son this diepleased the old man. There was
some grudge between Henderson and old
mau Smith. John Smith went home with
Henderson on Monday night. Since that
night Smith has never been seen, neither
he's the horse, bride or saddle OF Henderson.
The door OF the murdered mans house was
locked, and some one must have been inside
to have secured the key.