The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-02-18
NORTHERN OHIO.

| with sadness or the death or Hon. Horace
Y. Beebe, one of the pillars of our Ra.
venua church. Mr.. Beebe IVES an active
and devoted friend of our cause, and We
condole with the Ravenna church in this
their great lose We cannot now see
where this loss can be made up to our
church. Who will, who can, take his
place? This dark providence will some
day be made plain; and we trust that
somehow it may be the means of conse-
Grating our Ravenna church to renewed
devotion and such an awakening as will
give them added spiritual life and greater
prosperity to the church. Mr.. Beebe
died Sunday, 29th ult., at the age Of sew
enty. one years. He was prominent in
local politics and filed several elective
Offices. He was for several ye ars a mem
Der of the Board of Trustees of Buchtel
College. He was also a delegate to the
Republican National Convention at Chi
cago which nominated Abraham Lincoln
the first time.
| LII. mCUlyuu anu oendbOT 1OdI.
The Sc gentlemen have each been in
this city and lectured in the Y. M. @. A.
course, the former as the advocate Of Ia
Dor reform and of the George land the.
ory, and the latter replying thereto and
controverting the ideas of Messrs. George
and McGlynn. We regard each OF these
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mistic and Hoar altogether too optimis-
tic. The one thinks everything in the
line Of social problems is working all
right, or nearly SO, while the other imeg-
ines every thing is going to the extreme
of disorder, injustice and ruin.
The facts, no doubt, lie somewhere be.
tween these two opposing extremes. Our
contention is that there are great wrongs
to be righted and that all patriotic citi-
zens should help solve the problems of
labor for all, and the enforced employ
ment, if need be, of those who prefer
habits of idleness and thriftlessness to
those of industry and economy. The
way for a nation to be happy and pros
porous is for all to have employment by
which to earn an honest living, and there
is no other road to prosperity.
Oratory at Buchtel.
The local State Inter Collegiate Ora
torical Association was held last Wednes-
day evening in the upper chapel at Buch-
| tel College. There we're six contestants.
The standard of oratory is said to have
been fairly high. Mr.. E. F. Gone, won
the first place and will represent Buchtel
in the State contest at Columbus on the
| 10Th instant. Mr.. Cones subject was
Wendell Phillips as Champion of
Freedom" Mr.. Fl. B. Briggs, who won
the second place, had for his theme " SEN
lac" in which graphic description was
given of the great battle which decided
the fate OF England.
The Norwalk Church.
The work at this church is going for
ward in healthy and prosperous way
the interest apparently deepening. The
series of meetings held last month had a
good influence. During that series DIR.
Akron pastor two. Some additions to
the membership will be made on Easter
Sunday. The conference meetings are
well sustained and helpful. Week before
last DR.. Crane delivered three lectures in
the Universalist church on Socialism, for
the benefit of the senior class of the Nor
walk high school. His themes we're:
"The Principle of Social Organization
and Communism" German Socialism, u
and d" Prussian Nihilism." These lectures
we're fairly attended and we'll received
Bnt there is much bigotry in Norwalk
The Baptist and the Methodist minis ters
refused to read notices of the above lee
ture s! The last Sunday II January, DR..
Crane preached in Attica, where he had
fine congregations, the church being filled
at each service. The Attica people are
pleasantly and deeply interested in the
work of the church, and we'll conducted
Sunday school is kept up regularly.
Akron Church.
Our Akron church voted to affiliate in
the union services entered upon by the
thirteen Akron churches, under the lead
of Alexander Patterson, an evangelist
who has come to the fore of recent years.
OF course our church preferred the course
pursued last year, giving each minister
equal opportunity to be heard; but 1t is
quite different thing when the work is
placed almost wholly in the hands of
those unfriendly and even belligerant to.
ward us and our cause. Nevertheless we
mean to abide with the brethren of the
other churches SO long as we can have
any show of fairness in the conduct of
these meeting.
The Girls Must Go.
On the election of Rev. DR.. Hayden, the
new President of Adelbert College, Cleve-
land, it was decided that due regard FOR
the interests of the young men required
that the young ladies should be turned
out; that they could never hope to tread
Adelbert's halls of learning as the equals
of the young menl This was not because
of any failure on the part of the lady
students, for we are assured that the
scholarship of these young ladies was
much above that OF these gentlemen stu
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