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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-01-27

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MAGNIFICENT PULLMAN BUFFET
SLEEPING CARS RUN BETWEEN
LOUISVILLE AND NEW ORLEANS
VIA MEMPHIS WITHOUT
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DETW ZEN Memphis and vckaburg the line
Dpasses through some Of the finest Cotton
Plantations in the lazoO- Mississippi Delta,
the most fertile agricultural section OF country
on earth,
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Huntington Steamship Line
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ADVANTAGES of The Route.

Hu VuHiuS0O W INC nUHl6' e
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All Large, Strong and Most Com
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THE Rice and Sugar Plantations and great
l massive Sugar Houses and Rehneries south
OF Baton R0ugo are especially interesting, and
never fan TO please she observant passenger.
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PROSPEROUS $sIis R$fs;s

Many opportunities tosecuro fine Government
lands recently surveyed, near excellent coal
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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-01-27

QTnnV IN NIINNEsoTA.-From an ex
AVUAHHk elusive grain country, Mime
lef,th p ~ StN sofa Is being rapidly tranformed
nl1cofi ~ \ t1ftQck and dairy State IN the
81. Paul, MINI ''iesss', ,,., So,,N e,s 81,
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TRAVERslNG AMAGNIFICFNT and EVEN
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TOURIST TICKETS

At Reduced Round Trip Rates arc on sale at
Ticket Offices Of connecting lines to Baton
Rouge, New Orleans and principal
points in Florida, Southern
TeXas and California.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

WE REPRINT THIS WEEK the official
notice of the Committee on Foreign
Missions of our General Convention,
giving the proposition of the Conven-
ton touching that enterprise, and an
account Of the funds on hand for it's
Inauguration. This matter of Univers-
alist missions in heather lands is wisely
left with those who believe in its ad-
ministration, and to them the call is
primarily submitted. Those who be-
lieve that the hour has arrived for our
church to make itself felt in this way,
and who have confidence in Universal
ism as a redeeming agency among all
the peoples of the earth, have now an
opportunity to assist in sending our
gospel of eternal love to those who
''sit in darkness" Subscriptions to
this fund are received on the basis of a
five year plan, and any amount per year
will be gratefully received and acknowl-
edged. There are many Universalists
who can readily subscribe SIS, $40, 500,
$50, Shopper year for five years, and not
allow the subscription to interfere with
home duties and obligations. hope
this plan will be followed, and many
names recorded during the next few
months.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07
UNFAITHFULNBSS IN THE USE OF
TIME AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.

1t has been held and is perhaps the
prevailing theological opinion now,
that this present life is a scene of
probation merely; and that what we
now think and believe and do, our neg
leet or improvement of opportunities
for preparation, culture, growth, will
determine our character and condition
through all the immortal years. Within
the brief space lying between the cradle
and the grave, our mortal life, even
as vapOr, a fading leaf, a flower of the
field, shall be determined by what we
do or leave undOne; whether this life
shall develop itself under the smile of
God, and tower up finally into some
thing grandly divine, its face ever
shining like the sun; or whether it shall
be a sad and bitter life, its steps for
ever downward, amid the darkness of
an eternal night.
In these latter days the theory of
"second probation, so called, has been
advanced, and is now prime article
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07
STAMFORD MITCHELLs APPOINTMENTS.

Stanford Mitchell, the singer, closed his
meetings at Joliet on Christmas Sunday
Last week he spent visiting relatives at
Racine, Wis. This week he is engaged
at Oak Park until Friday night. He be.
gins at the Church of the Redeemer on
the evening of Jan. 8, and spends twenty
four nights with that parish. Then he
holds series of meetings at Sycamore
from the 9Th to 18th of February; and
begins at Englewood, Feb. Ii, remaining
there and holding services every evening
until the next Sunday night.
These meetings OF gospel song and
praise will be very attractive to large
numbers of our people, and will be large
ly attended. Success to this gospel work
and all other forms of Universalist re.
vival effort.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07
REV. DIR. W. s. BALOR.
His Pastors Tribute.


On this Christmas day, not far from
noontide, almost while the Christmas
songs and services at our churches were
in the air, Rev. W. s. Balch quietly and
without suffering breathed his last. The
morning hymns and prayers had gone
before him as incense, as it were, to pre-
pare his way, and the day COMMUNICATED
as the birthday of the worlds Redeemer,
proved to be also. as we trust, the second
birthday of our old and much esteemed
friend and long-tried comrade in the
battle for holiness in the earth-his
birthday into the realm of glory, to wear
the crown OF righteousness forevermore.
DR.. Balch had suffered extremely at
times for about two weeks past from his
long standing affection, but about one
o'clock ON Christmas morning he sank
into stupor from which he aroused but
once, and then only to ask if the day was
breaking. He closed his eyes immedi-
ately on receiving reply, and never
opened them again. His last hours were
painless and unconscious.
Thus has closed long and remarkable
career. DR.. Balch was eighty-one years
of age, the 18th of last April. He had
preached fitty-four years or more as set
tied pastor, and sixty-one years alto
gether. He was known throughout the
East and West, and everywhere had a
host of acquaintances and friends. His
spirit was large and generous, and his
heart very tender. His mind was accus.
toned to broad, comprehensive views on
all subjects. He sympathized with all
ranks and conditions of men, and no one
stood more clearly, consciously and hear
tily than he on that plane of intellectual
hospitality which is as wide as the race.
He was an ardent and practical lover of
all that was good and noble in man, and
an ardent and practical hater of all self
ishness, meanness, greed, hypocrisy, and
pretsnse. His influence has been great
and wide. He has lived a consistent,
noble and energetic, good life. As Uni
versalists, we may all thank God for him.
He has been an ornament to our denom-
nation, an able and eloquent workman
In it, and continued to feel as keen an in
terest in it's we'll being in his recent
months and days of failing strength as
when he first consecrated his young man
hood and loyal heart to its service. Moth
ing in his life will ever cause regret or
shame to any of us, but rather his whole
life viii ever be cause for gratitude and
pride. His work has been true, open, de-
voted, self-sacrificing, grand And those
who now mourn his loss-and there will
be many of them-may be partially CON-
forted by the reflection that though his
bodily form and genial presence, and
words Of cheer will be with us no more,
yet his example will remain to us as an
indestructible inheritance and worth
more than gold.
L will add no more at present, as 1
shall endeavor in the near future to pre-
pare short paper for The UNIvERsAL1sr
on those personal traits of our friend
which have come to my knowledge
through personal acquaintance.
Elgir, I'LL. A. N. ALcoTT.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

IN HIS Christmas sermon Prof.
Swing put soma valuable thoughts for
the season in an exceedingly forcible
form. Among other things he re-
marked that imam" no longer meant
man only, but woman as we'll. Mrs.
John Jacob Astor, ON whose n ew-made
grave the first Christmas sun was
shining, was a type of humanity wor-
thy to rank with any. The sick of
New York saw in her a living mes
senger of the glad tidings. The group
grew larger year by year and the rich
mans selishness was growing less.
With all their selfshness the rich of
this land, where the poor were pro-
testing most loudly against their riches,
were the most generous of any age in
history. The Shah of Persia, who had
diamonds worth 5000, 900, let his
subjects starve when the famine was
upon them rather than lose a gem.
The hospital or the mission school was
the jewel of the new rule. One mans
mission school in Chicago had already
cost him 100000. But it must be re-
membered that nation founded on the
basis of free distribution of goods
would not be success. The friend
ship of Christmas-time was that of
successful men, not of successful men,
dicants. No gold had come out of
Bethlehem, but the declaration made
there had sanctiied the wealth of the
world. The gates of usefulness were
like the gates of heaven-al passed
through wien their hearts were of one
ness with God.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

IT IS OFTEN the case that an explicit
statement of the doctrinal ineulcatiOns
of the Calvinism of the last generation
is not permitted to pass among modern
Calvinists without explanation and
modification. When these doctrines
are shown up in their true blue rela-
ton, the charge is made that they are
misrepresented and even caricatured.
No doubt Col. Ingersoll's recent reply
to DR.. Field will be attacked after this
manner. We will be told, for example,
that he misrepresents the doctrine of
repentance as presented in the extract
which we give this week, and that he
also misrepresents the teaching of the
orthodox church on eternal punishment.
This is the customary way of meeting
unwelcome arguments against the pop
ular faith when presented in an aggres-
sive form.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

THE RECENT DEATHS or i've OF our
ministers, -John Lyon, Henry G. Vose,
William S. Balch, David P. Bum and
Orlando A. Rounds casts a heavy
shadow over the beginning of the new
year. Never before, in the same length
of time, have we been called to chron-
icle the loss of so many faithful labor
ers in our Zion. Three of these good
men were veterans, having reached an
honorable old age in the service of our
church two of them are taken away
in the prime of years and usefulness.
These successive bereavements, coming
in the closing weeks of the year, are the
more remarkable. They impress again
upon US the inevitable changes which
come with the fight of time, remind
us sensibly of our mortality, and make
the prayer, always fitting at the close of
the year, still more appropriate: Lord
teach us to number our days that we
may apply our hearts unto wisdom"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

LET Us SEE IF INGERsOLL misrepre-
sents Calvinism in what he says of the
practical results of the orthodox doc
trine. Jonathan Edwards was a Cal
whist and no mistake. He says Glow
ever the saints in heaven may have
loved the damned whilst here, their
eternal damnatiOn will only serve to
increase a relish of their own enjoy
ment." This is substantially Inger-
SOILS thought in regard to the redeemed
father, who secures a selfish salvation
by virtue of an eleventh hour repent
anee, and then looks down from heaven
in complacency at the earthly ruin of
his family. Edwards, however, makes
the case worse than Ingersoll, for he
imagines this result as taking place in
a good earthly father, while the other
parent is represented as selfish, indif-
ferent and wicked from the start. The
change wrought by repentance is more
internal under Edwards's view than
under that Of Ingersoll.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07
DEATH OF REV. D. P. BUM.

Another of the "old veterans" of the
Universalist faith, pioneer in our
church in the West, and a man widely
known and beloved, is suddenly called
home Rev d. P. BUM, of Decatur, ILL.,,
retired to rest in usual health on Tues
day night, Dec. q, and was found dead
in his bed early on Wednesday morning.
He was in the seventy-sixth year of his
age.
We must defer until another week
further announcement in regard to this
new bereavement, and also a fitting
memorial of the deceased. The funeral
was attended on Thursday Afternoon of
last week, the pastor of the Decatur
church, Rev. Sophie Glib, officiating at
the last solemn services.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07
PROPHECY AND PROPHETS y

Rev. Jacob Straub's new work on the
above subject-to give the full title,
Prophecy and Prophets; or the Laws of
Inspiration and their Phenomena us
now ready and for sale at the Western
Branch. Price $1.OO.
1t is solid and instructive work requir-
ing care in reading, but rewarding all
who devote thought to the interesting
discussion. 1t will have an early notice.
We merely announce its appearance this
week and recommend it in advance to
our thoughtful readers.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

ANOTHER MORE MODERN, but no
less vehement advocate of Calvinism, is
Charles III. Sturgeon. He puts SIM
lar case thus: "What will you think
when the last day comes, to hear Christ
say, Depart, We cursed, and there will be
voice just behind him saying, Amen;
and as you enquire whence came that
voice, you will find it was your mother.
Or, young woman, when thou art cast
away into utter darkness, what will
you think to hear voice saying, Amen
and, as you look, there sits your
father, his lips still moving with the
solemn curse ?'' These statements are
not one whit less diabolical than those
which Ingersoll presents in his repre-
sentation of the doctrines of Calvinism,
they can be verified and paralleled in col
umns of quotations from the Calvinis-
tic divines and writers of the past and
the present.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

They do some things in Ohio better
than they do the same kind of things in
Iowa. For example, Pierson Mccoy,
who murdered DIR. Northrup, the temper
ance advocate in Portsmouth, o., was re-
Gently convicted and sentenced to peni-
Tertiary for life the Judge refusing a
new trial. Per contra, Iowa, as represent
ed by the Sioux City authorities in the
case of George O. Haddock fails to bring
the criminal or criminals to justice.
Since the second acquital of Arensdorf it
is not at all likely that any further move
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

The NEW YEAR opens with special
activity in many of our churches
Revival preparations are being made in
Oak Park, Englewood, Sycamore and
the Church of the Redeemer in this
city. A very interesting and profit
able series of meetings have just been
held in Joliet, and this weeks paper
also records a phenomenally successful
series of meetings at Walton, Ind. We
shall have more such good news to
chronicle as the weeks swiftly pass
away.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

iornia whittier he went hoping to be able
to assume charge of the parish at San
Bernardino. The climate was not suited
to his enfeebled condition and he re-
turned to Maine where he died. He was
one OF the ablest among our younger
clergymen, a man of fine mind and con-
secrated purpose His death is another
very serious loss to our church.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07
THE REGISTER FOR 1888. IA

This valuable work indispensable in
the Universalist tamily-is now ready for
1888. Price 25 cents. Order copy when
renting your subscription for the
new year. 1t is a mine of information
for all interested in the progress of our
church, and contains our statistics made
up and arranged to Nov. 1, 1887.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

WE MAKE ROOM this week for all
notices of the Christmas observance in
our churches reaching us to date. Such
items cease to be legitimate news after
this issue, and no more will be printed.
Those churches and schools that have
failed to report in season must carry
the lesson of punctuality in sending
such reports over to next year. Prompt
ness in the transmission of church
news is something that many of our
correspondents need to learn.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07
REV, o. A. ROUNDS DEAD.

In the paragraph of Rev. DR.. Atwood,
on the first page, we have the only intel
hgence that has reached us of the de-
parture from earth of Rev. o. A. Rounds,
recently Of Utica, N. Y. He had been in
poor health for several months, and
only lately returned from Southern Cal
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07
PERSONAL.

DIR. G. l.. Demarest, Secretary of the
General Convention, will in January,
visit the Pacific Coast, in the Conven-
TONS interest.
Charles l.. Hutchinson, of st. Pauls
church, has been nominated for Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade. He stands
very good chance of election.
Rev. DR.. Ryder is prominently mention
ed as President for next year of the
Home of the Friendless in this city. He
will undoubtedly be elected as the head
of this noble charity.
President o. Gone, Profs. W. d. Ship
man and @. @. Bates, of Buchtel college
were in attendance last week at the an
nual meeting Of the Educational Asso-
citation of Ohio, at Athens.
Rev. A. A. Thayer is now at Albany
Oregon, where he will make the good
friends happy by his preaching and So
cial visits. We are glad to learn that Mrs
Thayer's health is gradually improving
Rev. o. g. Colegrove, until recently pas
tor at Decatur, Mich, preached at Earl
vile, last Sunday and made call at this
office on Saturday. He looks in rudy
health, and is well prepared to do good
work in the ministry wherever he may he
called.
The Golesburg Register, of Saturday,
says of the late DR.. Balch: "He was q
man of very positive convictions, good
neighbor and citizen. He was formerly
pastor OF the Universalist church in this
place, where he was much respected and
had many warm friends"
We omitted to mention last week an
other bereavement in our ministry which
has recently taken place. Rev. 81. @.
Vose, of Marion, Mass, good man and
true, with very honorable record as
pastor, died on Thursday, Dec 10. His
age was about seventy years.
Wilmot l.. Warren, for score of years
on the editorial staff of the Springfield
Republican, died at Attleboro, Mass, at
the house of his father in-law, 8. M.
Vose, Dec %. He had been in failing
health for over three months. Mr.. War
rem was born in Bethel, VT, in July,
1847. He was graduate from Tufts
college in 1868. He married Josephine
Hopkins, Of Montpelier, Vt, in Decem-
Der, 1870, and they went to Europe,
spending year in travel. Mrs. Warren
died in 1880. He married Mary Lee vose
in May, 1885. Mr.. Warren was trustee
of Tufts college and leading member of
st. Paul's Universalist church in Spring
field.
On the 28th ult. Mrs. Julia Mortimer
Bryant died at her home in Brooklyn,
n. Y. Mrs. Bryant was the oldest daugh-
ter OF Bernard Peters, who was we'll
known as the pastor of one OF our
churches in Cincinnati. He removed to
Brooklyn and took charge of our church
known now as All Souls Church. After
few years further pastoral charge in
Hartford, Conn, he returned to Brooklyn
and became editor and proprietor of the
Times. He has been successful in his
new field, but is still active as layman
in the church Of which he was the pastor.
This daughter, Julia, was born during his
residence in Cincinnati and will be re-
membered by many friends in the West.
She was woman of rare loneliness, both
of person and character, and was favor
lite amo ng large circle of friends.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

MAY OUR CHURCHES, parishes and
ministers realize an abundant blessing
during this year of grace 1888, as the
reward of that faithfully directed and
earnest Christian endeavor which COM
mands thelblessing in all our years.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

THE Christmas issue of The UNIvER-
sALIsr met with warm reception. Many
OF our readers sent in words of congrst-
ulation. A Wisconsin pastor writes
"The Christmas number was just splen-
did; in fact all numbers are good" One
of our good sisters remarks: 81 think the
Christmas number Is very charming and
the most attractive have ever seen. I
have enjoyed it very much, and my eyes
grew moist and my glasses cloudy as I
read the articles" Several of our West
ern parishes have ordered extra copies
for distribution. We can still supply the
number to new subscribers and old; but
how long the supply on hand will last, is
problematical. They go out very fast.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07
SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1888.

THIS is THE first issue of our paper
for 1883. We tender the compliments
of the season, and wish one and all of
our readers very happy and prosper
Gus new year.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07
THE FUNERAL SERVICE.

The funeral services were appointed
for Wednesday, Dec. 28, at 1870 P. NJ,
from the family residence snd o'clock
at the First Baptist Church, chosen for
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

THE EDITOR is assisted by an able corps of
SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS, with correspond
ents in the several States. See eighth page
for Special Business Notices.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07
Ill.

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 good
and profitable unto men.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07
ii

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, 1888-01-07

TIE Starr King monument fund at
San Francisco amounts to nearly $1,000.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07
UNVERsALIsT PROFESSION OF FAITH.
ADOPTED 1903.

We believe that the Holy Scriptures of the Old
and New Testaments contain revelation of the
character of God, and of the duty, interest and
final destination Of mankind.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07
Gbe Wn1bersalist,

J. S. CANTWELL, D. D, Editor.