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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07
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DARWIN's ATRoPHY.

The autobiography of Charles Oar
win, included in the two volumes of his
"Life and Letters" which his son Fran
els has just published, says the Spring
field (Mass.) Republican, is the NEST
entirely frank and naive self-revelation,
having been written for his family
alone. Always sincere man, he shows
how single aim. carried out with alb
solute devotion, changed and limited
his powers. He began life with strong
natural bent for science, it is true, and
with distaste for classical studies, but
he had in his early youth many capaci-
ties for mental enjoyment and spirit
ual elevation, such as the love of poetry
and of the higher literature of art, and
even of music although he had no ear
whatever, and could not tell one tune
from another he had also at that time
the groundwork of religious life, al
though that life was never quickened,
and was soon completely stifed by the
uralist. But not only did he wholly
lose every religious emotion and con-
ception, he lost everything that lifts
thought above the immediate daily lev
ell, and Of this he was himself both con-
scious and regretful. He wrote in
1876:
''Up to the age Of 80, or beyond it,
poetry of many kinds, such as the works
of Milton, Gray, Byron, Wordsworth,
Coleridge and Shelley, gave me great
pleasure, and even as a school-boy 1
took intense delight in Shakespeare, es-
pecially in the historical plays. l have
also said that formerly pictures gave
me considerable, and music very great
delight. But now for many years l
cannot endure to read line of poetry
l have tried lately to read Shakespeare,
and found it SO intolerably dull that it
nauseated ms. have also almost lost
my taste for pictures or music. Music
generally sets ma thinking too energet-
ically on what have been at work on,
instead of giving me pleasure. Iretain
some taste for fine scenery, but it does
not cause me the exquisite delight
which it formerly did,"
Darwin acknowledged the signif-
canoe of his loss his brain had suffered
partial atrophy from disuse,-yet it
puzzled him that the deprivation should
have affected the higher esthetic
tastes )" since he enjoyed books of his
tory, biography and travel, and essays,
and had great delight in novels, even if
they were not first rate. "My mind"
he wrote, "seems 10 have become a
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07
THE TRINITY.

"The term Trinity not being scrip
tural, we cannot adhere to Scripture
and yet use that" Professor Hey,
Cambridge" AS a general truth the
doctrine Of the Trinity has never been
learned from Scripture" Cardinal
Newman. p" Our belief in the Trim
ity, etc., n are only deduced out of
Scripture by collection, nowhere found
by express literal mention" Hooker
CT ask with all humbleness where
the idea of 1hreeness is expressed in
the New Testament. Where is the
Triune God?' Dean Motley" The
doctrine Of the Trinity is of Alexandra
an origin, not of the teaching of Christ.
A school of Platonists at Alexandria
(see 'Cudworth's Intellectual System')
taught, that in the Godhead were (I)
The supreme good; ~ the mind or in
tellect; ~ the soul. And that the
second was generated from the first, and
the third was dependent on the first and
second. ALI church historians affirm
with Bishop Horsley, that the Platonic
doctrines were forced on the attention
of early Christians. Athanasius, Bish-
opof Alexandria, used to tell the Arians
to go and learn the Trinity from the
Platonists. st. Augustine confesses
that he was in the dark about the Trin
ity until he read some Platonic writings
(which the providence of God had
thrown in his way"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

BELIEF is an ediice never completed, be-
cause we do not comprehend its plan, and
every day some workman brings new stone
from the quarry.--A. S. Hardy.
THoUGH reading and conversation may fur
nish us with many ideas of men and things,
yet it is our own meditation that must form
our judgment---Dr. 1. Watts.
Why IT HAPPENs.-Men of great parts are
often unfortunate in the management of
public business, because they are apt to go
out of the common road by the quickness of
their imagination. This Swift once said to
Lord Bolingbroke, and desired that he would
observe that the clerk in his office used a
sort of ivory knife-with blunt edge to di-
vide sheet of paper, which never failed to
cut it even, only requiring a steady hand;
whereas if they should use sharp penknife,
the sharpness would make it go often out of
the crease, and dis6gure the paper.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

union with Jesus Christ, cannot be for
ever groaning and crashing his teeth ?
We would see ministers act like men,
not like monkeys; we plead for cheer
fulness not for levity. The safe path
is here, as it so often is, midway be-
tween two extremes.
Consider how much more winsome is
a religion that is cheerful, how much
more powerful ministry will be for
good that avoids the mournful and the
lugubrious. A minister's duty is to
preach the gospel, the good tidings, as
The word literally m cans both in Greek
and English. Do men announce good
tidings in sorrowful tone, or with
grief-stricken faces ? 1t is we'll when
a minister feels, with the apostle, "woe
is ms If preach not the gospel" but
that does not mean that he is to preach
a gospel of woe. Not that any part of
the truth is to be suppressed. The
warnings Of Gods word are to be pro-
claimed as well as the invitations, the
penalties of sin as faithfully as saliva
tion from sin. But every truth is to
have its due prominence, as it has in
Scripture, where appeal is more fire.
quent than threat, where psalm is
louder than jeremiade.
To be frivolous, trivial, rattlepated,
is for minister to announce himself
untitled for duties that are full of So
lemnity and eternal import. But to be
serenely cheerful, to be even joyous,
though always decorous, is the privi-
lege and the duty of the true minister
of Christ. To be otherwise is to create
a false impression regarding the relig-
ious life, and to prejudice men in ad-
vance against the message he is charged
to deliver to them. -Erdminer
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

and overpowers sensual people. They
cannot unite him TO history, or recon-
Gle him with them selves. AS soon as
they come to revere their intuitions,
and aspire to live holly, their own
piety explains every fact, every word"
He, then, and he only, knows Christ
WHO has been transformed and lifted
up by his influence. who has been made
nobler and better by his words, who is
in harmony with his work, who has
been changed into his image. This is
the knowledge which carries in its
bosom the germs of life eternal. sit
can not be valued with the gold Of
Ophir, with the precious onyx or the
sapphire; the gold and crystal can not
equal it, and the exchange of it shall
not be for jewels OF fine gold. No
mention shall be made Of coral or pearls,
for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
The topaz of ETHIOPIA shall not equal it;
neither shall it be valued with pure
gold"
This is the knowledge which carries
in its bosom the germs of life eternal !;
for these are the qualities and this the
character that shall endure. Evil must
die; outward things will perish; but
the work done in the heart will last
while God lives. When we have the
clearest vision of that work when the
best part of our nature is in the ascend
ant,-when we are living in our loftiest
moods and feelings, then it is that
there is least Of doubt that life will be
protracted beyond the horizon. 1t seems
worth while to carry it over, and we
feel an assurance that what is worth
Immortality will be immortal. But
when life descends from it's attitudes to
grovel in the dust, when it becomes
poor and shabby, then it is that our
doubts rise like clouds to obscure the
glory of another world. Let him who
would keep his assurance bright, keep
high and pure his thought and life !
Let him strive to secure the knowledge
which is life eternal.
In one of the poems of Robert Bu-
chanan, sculptor, burdened with heavy
grief, is represented as shutting himself
up from the world in his studio, TAX
ing block of marble, and carving out a
human figure so life-like and beautiful,
that at length he began to long for its
living companionship. He yearned
and prayed, until, the poem runs, his
prayer was heard and answered and the
image lived. Like that cold, white
statue stands the Christ of the nara
tives and the Christ of the creeds, CHS
eled as finely as may be, commanding
the worlds admiration. We see the
figure in its divine proportions and
beauty. But it is only in response to
the felt needs of the human heart, its
desires and aspirations and yearnings,
that the image becomes vital with the
breath and blood of life, and we know
it in all holy inspiration and example.
mo more in ark OF hill or grove.
The hottest abides;
Nor in the SCROLLS dead letter,
The eternal secret hides.
For the dead -, not the living.
Ye seek his empty grave
Whose life alone within you
Hath power to bless and save.
"Oblind ones, out ward cropping,
The idle quest forego;
Who listens to his inward voice,
Alone of him shall know"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07
The 9em Gear Sermon Page.
REV. MARION D. SHUTTER.
THE HIGHER KNOWLEDGE.
Minneapolis, Min


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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

Mrs. t. B. Carse, of Chicago, is
born leader. She has originated and
carried to a successful issue more great
financial undertakings than any other
woman in the White Ribbon Army Her
husband died in Paris eighteen years ago,
leaving three sons to the care and train
ing OF this beautiful and tender mother.
-Four years later the youngest was killed
by wagon driven by typsy German.
These two overwhelming sorrows pre-
pared Mrs. Oarse to lay her life upon the
altar OF the temperance reform. She is
President Of the Central w. @. I. o., OF
Chicago, that training school for White
Ribboners that has given more leaders to
the organization than any other union.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

Mrs. Esther Pugh is one of the
original Ohio Crusaders. She is Qua
ker by birth and training, finely educa-
ted woman. She is the Treasurer of the
National W. y. I. q. and has kept its
complicated accounts with marvellous
accuracy. Wherever known her name is
"good on Change" and in many finan-
cial straits it has stood between the Ma
tional Union and bankruptcy. She is a
born journalist, inheriting a genius in
this direction from her father, who for
many years was proprietor and manager
OF the Cincinnati Chronicle.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

The Gospel temperance movement
In this land has no leader more trusty
and tried than Hannah Whitall Smith, a
Friend indeed" by ancestry and "mem-
bership." In all meetings of the W. @.
L. o., the dove-like plumage, peaceful
face, and sweet "thee and thou" utterapce
are constant benediction.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

Mrs. Sallie F. Chaplin, of Charles
ton, 8. O., as Superintendent of the
Southern Work, leads the White Ribbon
forces of the sunny Southland. OF HUI.
guenot parentage, Mrs. Chaplin was rear
ed In affluence and educated IN the best
schools OF her State. BY intellect, Gull
ture and influence, she is the peer of any
OF her temperance co-workers There is
herdly distinguished South Carolinian
OF her epoch with whom she has not been
acquainted.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

Mrs. Judge E. T. Merrick, of New
Orleans, belongs to an old South Caro-
lima family, and is President of the Lou
isiana w. O. L. q. Possessed of wealth
culture and social prestige, she finds her
greatest happiness in furtherinq the
work OF this grand moral reform.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

Mrs. Mary Read Goodale is one of
the surprises of this new Crusade. Four
years ago quiet, retiring woman, fright
ened at the sound of her own voice when
that voice was heard by dozen auditors,
so lacking in courage that when intro
duced to the National Convention, at st.
Louis, her husband had to respond for
her; now going from State to State, ad-
dressing the largest audiences and thrill
ing them through and through. Next to
Mrs. Chaplin and Mrs. Meriwether, she
Is probably the most fluent lady speaker
the South has produced.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

"A beautiful story is tod of Mrs. Ze
zelda q. Wallace, of Indiana, in connec-
ton with that wonderful book, Ben
Hur," by Gen. Lev Wallace, her step-son.
1t is said that Mrs. Wallace, in answer to
the authors wish for her opinion on the
appearance of the volume, replied, "Oh
my son, it is none lch of story; but
how did you ever invent that magnificent
character, the mother?' "Why, You dear
simple heart" he answered with kiss.
show could You fail to know that the or
lginal OF that picture is your own blessed
self?"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

Mrs Mary t. Lathrop, President of
the Michigan w. @. T. u, is not excelled
in gifts by any member OF the brilliant
galaxy OF women representing the Ma
toDal organization. She is an honored
preacher OF die Methodist church, and as
an evangelist has been invited to the
leading churches East and West. Mrs.
Lathrop has fine womanly presence,
earnest, convincing manner, and her rare
gifts of oratory have won for her the
name of the Daniel Webster of the Tenn
perance Reform.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

Mrs. Mary A. Woodbrid for eight
years Recording Secretary of the Nation.
al W. O. L. u, was born in Nantucket,
Is strong, clear headed aud self-reliant.
In the Crusade she made her first appear
ance in public work. With children
grown, and her husband in hearty sym
pathy, she has since then devoted herself
to the cause of temperance, leading the
forces in Ohio through the campaign of
1883, for the Constitutional Amendment
with great ability.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

-Mrs. Mary 81. Hunt, Massachu
sets, is National Superintendent of
Scientific Temperance instruction in the
public schools. She secured the passage
OF the first temperance law by Congress,
this law providing for scientific temper
ance instruction in all schools under gov
eminent control, and in the territories.
She is fluent, logical and convincing
speaker.
Daily Republican., 1888-12-11
Useful and Handsome
PRESENTS

We have now on sale, pur-
chased expressly for Holiday
Trade, a handsome and useful
line Of goods. We shall devote
a portion Of our first floor and
a large part of the second
floor to their display.
The giving Of useful articles
for Christmas GIFTS is growing
more popular each year, and we
want our share of this trade.
The prices will be carefully
looked after.
In Reed and Rattan Goods
We are showing many things
novel and cheap. Rocking
Chairs, 81. 5oto $500; Children 5
Rockers, SI75 up. Work
Baskets, Music Stands, Wood
Baskets, etc. High Backed
Rockers in Antique Oak and
Mahogany, 1880 to $1,000.
Madras Curtains, Lace Cur
tains and Heavy Draperies. A
word about these goods. We
have frequently been told this
fall our line Of these goods was
the finest in the city. During
this month we will sell all Cur
tains at a reduction Of 10 per
cent.
Another department in holi-
day attire is our Rug and
Mat Department. Choice things
in Smyrna, Velvet, Goat and
Sheep Skins.
Handsome Linen Cloths in
sets. Damask Towels. "a very
appropriate gift) Down Pillows
and Quilts, Blankets, etc.
Come and look over the
many things. Some will find
favor in your eyes, we hope.
Daily Republican., 1888-12-11
me nsw LutnsrEn Onurch.

a substantial organization OF the
English Luthe,a Church has been or.
fectsl In Wilmington, aud on Sunday
TIE pastor, Rev. W. A. SAdtleT, wa
Regularly installed IS tha pastor. tn
services we're conducted by the Rev
William Ashmekd 9hAeffeE OF 81
Stephens UhuIcb, West PbilAielphiA,
The new church just oggRaiz q IL also
named St Stephens Ohnroh. The cen
greal'ion for the present meets IL
Fletcher Hall, 10 tho Psniusula Mstho
list building until Il 10 able and cal
build = church. A very Ane, fouriahins
Sunday school has been organized AM
meels In the same hall. Tne hall VA
quite full on sunday. The charge T.
the new pastor a. well hB tbs charge 70
Tia congregation were delivered b. the
Rev. Benjamin Sadtier, ID. ID OF Baiu
raore, formerly pres d5n Of Muhlsn
berg College, and father OF the newly
installed pastor. Tbs Rev FeatlemEl
really preaohed two sermons IN suoosB-
sion, The GrAt, charge TO the new
pAs or, was based uPou 1 ThessA opiaps
|, s.: For our g1spe. came not untu
you in word only, buo also In power
and In the holy Ghost, and IN mu1I
assurance, as 20 know what manner o.
men We we're among you for you:
sake"
10 his sermon the Rev. gsntlsmar
| oGti1ed the character and duty o! 2
faythfu nss'C', and ia conclusion ssih
hat miniatsr eau commit no more
IL at bIuBdOr than 70 mako his people
1 fasl that he Is condeseendlnR In tAklnl
q nEse Of them, ans that his stag witt
.hen is 10 be oBlr until be can End E
| batter opening OF more lucrative o.
intelligent helt.
Toe sermon to she congregation wa
based upon l Tnessalouians, ~, ~
And we beseeoh you, brethren, &c
snow them which labor smong you
aud are over you Ia tbs Lord and sd
Ionish sou, and 10 esteem them very
| hts by IN love for t.elr works sake
Aud na ~ peace amongst yoursc yes.
Toe text liseli Is a sermon, b1t Is No.
'Artber euioired by tho enoeAring D q
sarnest WoTte Of Ihs preacher,
The congregation will meet Il
Fletcher Hall every SuudSy mornlrC
~ 10 90 o'olack f1r worship. The Sur
'ay school will inset every afternoon g
2 o'clock. The pastor will preach BIZ
Itrod uetory sermon next SUNDAY.
Daily Republican., 1888-12-11

Persons who Blsh 10 procure hslI
either in dwellinE, store or tEop, vii
dad the REPUBLICAN, the best sdver.
t''.nS medium in shn city. q fimllsf
femsTk viii ElaO apply to persons vito
aay wish TO sell goods from the etor,
'Ounter, real estate, either privately Of
Z pun.lc sac, horEes, Cows, cArFlaEsa.
'urniIaIe or RGy other article. a sen.
,.sDan WHO advertised for . man dome
.,me Rgo Informed ne thEt be had eighty
APPLICANT, enc who advertised for q
Eir.ia wsuty applicants, aud otbeFe
Shu advertised tor boya were glad to
Top their notice on q single insertion
sentlsmAu Informed US lev days
go thEt be advertised = hole column
Ia one Of cur city papers in October fer
seek, and Il did not bring ore aedi
denAl purchaser. AiIer the lapse Cf =
6 somewhat similar Advertisement
wss plaesd in the REPURLICAE, aud Ii
died the store With purchasers, and the
Soods Welt of like hot Csksg. A great
lumber Of our business men fully az.
DTeciAts shs value of tha REPUBLICAR
~ an advertising medium end We kaoW
As rule that they get the worth Of the
money thus expended, while 10 SOM
thsF papsTs their investment Yields bal
little ifAay prohE, and might nearly ~
Hsil 10 considered As = giiJ to ths u =
fishers.
Daily Republican., 1888-12-11

WHILE bomo Of the DtnoarAp, j1ur.
nAss are wasting Ilme III tryiuR to
pEo7e that Nj Cleveland was ao,uAIly
Ee-eleolsd BY ibs votes pl The people,
and boas.lnz thas lbslr party 10 no .
stronger and 10 . better uond ion thar
ba'oss the slee ion, tiIe NsR Y3rt
Herald, Whloh Is universally G3kuaE.
lsdgsd tbs leading aud uhost Il ii lantig.
D6aoorAho isusBk In this so1niry.
tells The ruth 10 Tvs vi Ashln zion cor.
Eesp5ndsh0sr in Wlioa soaEs tas To-
loving:
"there have been parties worse bearer
shAa the Democratic pstIy wAs in Ma
Eember, bot there has never been, n
tho history Of men nov living, = set OF
men who felt 90 badly beaten As tbt
Democratic Representatives and SgDn
tors Just nov assembled here.
'D!scouraSsd, dsmtralzsd, digcr
gHniEsd are not sdSqaa words "a a.
scribe The condition Of the D,noorntI,
pert Of Congress. The have retafpel
here without plEns, puTp csss or ho2ss
They do net consult Iozsthsr. eyrr
men Ia for himself. and no man seen
70 think Of anything except 10 let To,
tEiumplAol Rspuolicsus do what ldsy
please, Win an oooas,pnRi mssk Al,
oNIy Democratic objection AMI a.
sAfnast determination tp get WHIST shg
can in the general grab game fog ~
"deestrleks "
$50 far as the men her assembled AZ,
Concerned thOTe ia no longer ANY Den
cratic party"
Iais ls about The Condition Of 4
Demo ,tah9 party eVlET where, aud sVsr
In this sisIe 'hsy are asll gro EllnE.g.
snsfNnE 81 each other pvsF Their rs.al
defeat
Daily Republican., 1888-12-11
The Bull in a China SIN,

He came in very dis,s.
looked around snd Saul lug .'..,
lull stock that he did no. l y.
where to begin his a d., aao1
smashing China, 50 he s,il !
would depart if we p,omi,al
him one thing, and tb5t ,',,'t \
make a smash ourselves 80 n Y
letting goods drop about il y, !!
cent. all around, 50 cur i'm nv N.Y.. ~
line Of '''' H'a''
Chamber seis, Tel Set,
Basque Figa,c.. v,.,,
Bone Plate China Bsrry se .,''
Fruit Plates fdine,,,
Library Lamps, Hall Lam,
And all fancy Glassware VII
be dropped accordingly. y
II you want anyRogsrs sooi.
or Table Cutlery or a ' pooi
Carving knife and Fork l Srn.
and see US. ''''''
Pick out what you want srd
we will lay it aside for ycu mil
wanted. @''
Daily Republican., 1888-12-11

We ARE GLAD 10 see shall the BE
aubiicans OF tais city ara not tale, bu
ags up and doing getting ready for The
asxi campaign, Fhs trouble IL tha
rss, has ElTAys be5n that toe
mach iwporiAns work vas lett undsne
ram Il was i05 lac 10 do u, bat the
iuSloA!lons noR are hist ihs parly will
aos iall in.o 'hsi erT5r sgAin. Al lhu
aroseat Nna Il is highly important
tlai every Republican, who IL entitled
20 = vote, saAll be assessed, and thon ~
soon ~ lhs Tax collectors rtoslvs thsir
duplicates 10 SOC shat each OF those
assessed pays bic tax and Hsjaros \ tsx
reoalpa II shis Eork is dOns and done
propssly the Republicans viii sWeep
NsE OAs,le County 10 1890.
Daily Republican., 1888-12-11

QUE FRIENDS In tbis city, county
AID SIass E.lI confer . fAvsF By Sand.
log 10 NJ an account Of every Agliien,
Of dsAih that may oe9ur Ia Ihslr neigh
O1rhood, silher. by telephone or matt,
II the earliest practical moment b.
50 dolng they will oonief . favor tns,
sill be reopr1cAtsd As opportunity may
cfsr. We Wish 10 m Ike the RIPUBLI
CAN Interesting for It's local joIdngs
q d cur friends can aid us With very
hI,ls IN oonvenieuos 70 AooJmpls h this
o iaot,