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A BUSY EVANGELIST.
The following is extracted from a let
ter received by me officially, and was
deemed by the trustees of the General
Convention of interest to the public.
G. L. DEMARRsT, Secretary.
wALKER COUNTY, GA, NJ arch 9, Il

WALKER COUNTY, GA, NJ arch 9, 1888.
DEAR BR. DEMAREsT.-My labors
keep me on strain nearly all the time.
l very rarely see the time that L can
say, l am going to devote this day to
one particular object Being nearly all
the time away from home, am liable
to be interrupted, if writing, right in
the middle of a sentence. 1t is often
the case that l am thus interrupted,
and do not get to settle down to work
again for two or three days. l shall
have to drop this before l complete
what want to write, and go to school
house not far away, and preach tonight.
Tomorrow, and probably tomorrow
night, and again Sunday, morning and
night, l expect to have to preach at
two, or it may be three, different
places. And so it is quite probable
that shall have to defer finishing this
scrawl till Monday. l have to do about
all my writing in the daytime, as my
eyes soon inhame if attempt to write
by lamp-light.
Anticipations realized. This is Mon
day morning, 10 O'Clock. Saturday
morning, a couple of friends, brother
and sister, came to the place at which l
wrote the two preceding pages, to bring
me to this place. We remained there
till late afternoon mo opportunity to
write), when we came over here,
since which this is my first opportunity
for writing. 1 resume now for the
purpose of communicating to you, by
way of explanation, few ideas that l
have intended, ever since last spring, to
! communicate at some time.
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Probably the opinion prevails, up your
way generally, that 1 am just ranging
aimlessly about over this Southern
country. Never was greater mistake
ndulged. My travels have been for a
good many years confined principally to
tolerably well defined circuit, calling
for q travel of $500 to 5000 miles in
order to traverse it. In this work 1
travel eleven, twelve, sometimes over
thirteen thousand miles annually, about
fifteen hundred of which is by private
conveyance over rough highways, and
still rougher byways, and in various
kinds of conveyances, sometimes two
horse farm wagon; sometimes buggy;
occasionally an ox-cart. Frequently
leaving the railroad and its comfortable
coaches, and betaking to these rough
modes of travel, l make circuit of
fifty to seventy-fve, even as much
sometimes as one hundred miles, be-
fore returning to the railroad. In the
last three years L have travelled above
$4,000 miles in the manner described.
Now | know that l am performing
labors that not one man in five hundred,
who is competent to the performance
of my duties and labors, would perform
for double the pay in dollars and cents
that l get know also that could do
more for the cause in certain localities,
were 1 to confine my labors within mar
rover bounds; but l am well assured,
in my own mind, that l am doing, in
very humble way, work that is al
ready bearing much fruit, and fruitage
of which will increase more and more
as the years roll, and produce a rich
harvest, after the winds of a century
shall have moaned their requiem over
my lowly, perhaps by that time un-
known, resting place. [ am establish
ing churches in various places, to which
| make from five to half-a-doZen visits a
year. and which will remain after l am
gone; from which, as centers of intlu-
ence, if few men can be found when
I leave the field with one-half the en-
ergy and spirit of self-sacrifce that l
have shown for twenty years past, will
go forth and influence in behalf of our
glorious faith, that will place it in an
impregnable position in these cotton
States. L have in the last three years
received more than two hundred per-
sons, good and true, into the fellowship
of our denomination, many of them
from the popular churches.
My labors are arduous and exhaust
ing, and growing more so as the years
go by, I being now very nearly up to
the seyenty-drst milestone in my pill
grftnage, and sS my physical psar rest
would be very sweet. But the spirit
ual man bids me go forward; and to
his behests l must yield obedience
while ability abides. have large
band of loving and beloved friends, de-
voted friends as we'll, widely scattered
ever this sunny Southern land; and
while they so earnestly entreat me not
to forsake them, and continue even the
meagre support for which have here
tofore labored, l cannot tie myself
down to one closely circumscribed 10.
cality. Fraternally yours,
d. B. CLAYTON.
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cept forced to do so by sickness.
Week days and Sundays passed off
alike, each with its stated amount of
work and rest, and he seldom took a
holiday or made visit, unless over
urged by his friends who saw his need
Of it. Then he would drive hard bar
gains about the time, and usually get
off with day or two less than was
prescribed. He was very careful and
economical in money matters, yet very
generous to his children. He was ex-
act and methodical in all his affairs,
and thoroughly understood his business
matters. But he did not trouble him
self about the management of the gar
den, the cows and such things, and
considered the horses 80 little his con-
Germ that he used to ask doubtfully
whether he might have horse and
cart to send to Keston for Drosera, or
to the nurseries for plants"
The change in his religious belief
came about very gradually so that he
says it was wlsuout pain. AT the end
he had lost everything, except his belief
in First Cause. AS he writes himself
in 1879: 'In my most extreme tluctua-
tiOns l have never been an Atheist in
the sense of denying the existence of a
God. think that generally, and more
and more as 1 grow older, but not
always, that an Agnostic would be the
more correct description of my state of
mind" And again: 81 cannot pretend
to throw the least light on such obstruse
problems. The mystery of the begin
ming of all things is insoluble by US;
and for one must be content to re-
main an Agnostic.'' The whole chap
ter which is given to the subject Of re-
ligion is of intense interest, showing
as it does the candor and extreme sim
cerity of the man, and his genuine
modesty, for he frequently disclaims
the power to reason or to think deeply
upon this great theme, and never makes
the least effort to justify his opinions
or to impress them npon others. On
the whole, the books add much to the
admiration and affection which we feel
for the man, and are certainly among
the most absorbing ones we have read
for many long day. Carlyle should
have written one more chapter, 1.-The
Hero as a Man of Science: Charles
Darwin
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PERSONAL "REMINISCENCES.
BY Rev. j. W. HANSON, d. d.
(Chicago.l

Happening to mention certain recol-
lections of men who have made legible
records in the annals of the times, to
the Editor of THE UNIvERsALIsT, he
suggested that the constituents of the
paper would be as interested in our
"reminiscences as he was himself.
One was the suddenly celebrated
nominee of President Cleveland for the
office of Chief Justice, Hon. Melville
w. Fuller. From 1854 to 1860 we con-
Quoted the Gospel Banner, in Augusta,
Maine. AT that time "Mel'' was a
young lawyer, who gave little evidence
of possessing the brilliant abilities that
have since placed him in the fore front
of the legal profession, and that have
now caused the Presidential lightning
to strike him for the proud eminence
he will occupy only to adorn. Even at
that early day he was Democrat, and
eked out the absence of briefs by con-
tributing to the age the party organ
at the capital of Maine. What seems
astonishing is that having lost sight of
Mr.. Fuller, except in an occasional
mention in connection with some legal
matter, he should all at once-seem-
ingly after but the lapse of a year or
two,-appear at the summit of fame
But really of him, as of most who
achieve greatness, it may be said :
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they while their companions slept
Were toiling upward in the night.
At the same time another young man
was linking his maiden pen in the same
city. He began as legislative reporter
for the Republican organ, the Kennebec
Journal, and the two gave little prom
Use of the future eminence to which
they were destined. We saw them
both almost daily, but what imagina-
tion was daring enough to dream that
these two young men would stand, in
1883, on the heights now occupied by
MELVILLE W. FULLER and JAMES G.
BLAINE.
These recOllections sent the mind
still farther back. In Lowell, Mass, at
the age of twelve, we were in the High
School, although little younger than
they-with three boys who have since
distinguished themselves in various
ways. The widow of one now survives
her husband, and carries the burden of
$50, 600, 600, the result of her husband s
enterprise, He was the originator of
what Mrs. Partington calls the "PictO-
rial Cherries DIR. J. c. AVER. Gu
riOusly enough our chief recollection of
him is when party of US went to a Sc
cluded spot on the banks of the Merri-
mack, to test the effects Of Laughing
gas" then coming into notice. When
under its influence, he came to express
himself, Jim" burst into the famous
passage from Shakespeare, and protest
ed against "eramping his genius over a
pestle and mortar"
Another remarkable lad as the event
showed, though no one suspected it,
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-02
CHRISTIAN BENEVOLENCE.

A Christianity that does not develop
the idea of self-support, and also of
self-sacrifce for others, has little about
it that is worthy of respect, and cannot
long respect itself. Benevolence is a
good thing. But benevolence simply
for the sake of being benevolent is not
a good thing. To administer aid so as
to impair manhood is to sin against
God. To bestow charity in way to
cripple energy, and to destroy the de-
sire to throw off the charity, is a crime
against human nature. To dot this
land or any land with mission churches,
which have no prompting and no ambi-
tion to be anything else, and which are
content to have their houses Of wOr-
ship built for them, their preachers
provided and supported for them, all
the expenses of religion paid for them
and the advantages of education SUI
piled to their children without charge,
would be to curse the land in the name
of Christian charity and Christian
missions. Examiner Baptist
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-02

The New York Sun thinks that the
Methodist parsons and lsymen who are
attending the General Conference are
very much like politicians. "They are fond
of drawing parallels between the forms
OF procedure in Congress and those of
their own body. The sessions Of the
Conference are similar to those of the
National House OF Representatives in
more ways than the members Of the Con-
ference have referred 70. Anybody who
has been about the lobbies at Washing
ton when the chaplain was conducting
the morning religious service in the
presence of an audience of empty
benches, would recognize a familiar
scene at the Metropolitan Opera House
in the morning while the opening devo-
honal exercises are in progress. Half
the seats allotted to the delegates are not
occupied. Their owners are out in the
lobbies like so many Congressman, and
very much like the law makers, they
troop in when prayers are over. The
habit of Congressman OF resting their
feet on the desks in front of them, also
finds parallel in the conference. Some
of the delegates dangle their legs over the
orchestra"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-02
REV. I. ]. MEAD AUGUSTA, ME.) ON THE
ACCOUNTABILITY OF MAN.

REV. I. ]. MEAD AUGUSTA, ME.) ON THE
ACCOUNTABILITY OF MAN.
The Scriptures teach that all men
are judged according to their deeds,
their lives, their characters, and again
according to the light each man,
nation, community, has. In whatever
nation, under whatever religion, one
may live, he is answerable to the laws
of his nature, physically and morally,
and he is held accountable thus to God;
and also held accountable by the stand
ard of right, the moral law, made
known to him through the gospel, if
he be dweller in Christian lands and
an adherent of the Christian religion;
if otherwise, he is held with equal ac-
countableness to the law he has, from
whatever source it may come. To say
that one born in heather darkness,
who tries to live up to the light he has,
shall be sent into endless pain in the
next world for not having known of or
lived up to the gospel of Christ, is to
impeach the wisdom, justice aud good
ness of God and to accuse him of the
greatest criminality possible to con-
ceive. On no such basis is the divine
government founded; on no such prin-
ciple is that government conducted.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-02
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF CHARLES
DARWIN.
BY HATTIE TYING GRISWOLD.
Columbus, Wis.,
H..

After Darwin's return from the Yoy-
age in the Beagle he settled down in
London, where he lived nearly four
years. He was married in 1889, and in
1912 removed to the country, where he
resided until the time of his death.
The life of the family after they were
settled at Down, was one of the quiet
est possible. Here the children were
born, and here the great books were
written, and here came an occasional
visitor in the person of some distin-
guished man of science-but for the
most part, the family life was as quiet
and uneventful as any of which we can
possibly conceive, in the heart of
populous district, and in a family of
wealth and position. Darwin owed it
to the fortune left him by his father,
that he was never obliged to work for
money and could live the life of a gen.
tleman of leisure, giving all his time
to his scientific work. 1t is one of the
surprises of this book to discover that
the great naturalist was so much of an
invalid during great portion of his
life. So great were his achievements
in science, so great the mere physical
labor of his researches and his writings,
that one can scarcely imagine him as
otherwise than strong and well. But
he had much sickness to contend with
during all his life, after his return from
the famous voyage, sometimes losing
months at time in this manner, and
even when he was nominally well, suf-
fering greatly from weakness, lack of
sleep, and many painful ailments. He
bore his illness with such uncOmplain4
ing patience that his friends hardly
realized what he suffered habitually.
His son writes that 'for nearly forty
years he never knew one day of the
health of ordinary men, and that thus
his life was one long struggle against
the WEAKNESS and strain of sickness"
The deep devotion and unwearied
care of his wife alone made his exis-
tence endurable. She gave up her
whole life to this care, and thus
enabled him to do the great work
which he did, oftentimes through the
greatest suffering, but always with a
brave heart. One by one the great
books were written, and his fame grew
until it spread through the earth-but
the same quiet life went on at Down,
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NOTES..

CONDUCT is a profession Behavior
is a perpetual revealing of ourselves.
What man does teis what he IS.
A WRITER in the Church Union thinks
tsssifssif pgfds hapk 1rgalss fssspus sers.sesss
Mr.. Robert Ineersol nigh consider
himself pretty much reduced bc inpslpa-
BILE dust by dladetone's article in the
North american.
The Boston Traveller in large type
editorial says that the April Universalist
| Quarterly contains a number of valuable
papers; that one Of the most thoughtful
is that on the Immortal Life" by Rev.
W. s. Woodbridge. This paper, it adds,
lis very interesting in its speculative dis
cussiop, and is written in a reverent
spirit of truth seeking"
EDWIN D. MEAD said in recent ser
mon in this city. There is no Wall street
in the soul no exchange where to bar
ter hope for duty Giving is getting
there; and infinite responds to infinite
and satisfies. Draw confidently on eter.
nifty for all the god-like in your needs
and / think it is the spirit of God that
declares the drafts will be honored"
"SEEK the good of other men, says
Lord Bacon, "but be not in bondage to
their facts or fancies." Sometimes it is a
positive injury to another to respect his
prejudices; but it you must cross them.
| do 80 as gently as possible. He who has
learned how to combine gentleness and
| firmness has mastered one of the great
est lessons OF life.
THE Northeastern Christian Adrocate
remarks in a recent editorial Christ
came to make known to the world
Gods mercy and love. There are not
wanting evidences OF benevolent designs
in nature and what men call providence,
but there is nothing that teaches more
than submission to the divine will there
in expressed. But Christ's gospel was of
Gods love for men reaching down from
heaven to lift them out of sin aud degra-
datlon into holiness and eternal happi-
ness. This is the distinguishing mark of
Christianity. 1t has been too little ap-
pretended in the past, but tine Christ of
the gospels is being recognized as the
friend OF humanity, and 1t is compelling
q reconstruction OF the old fatalistie the
ologies."
DIR. THEODORE I. MUNGER in Cne OF
his published sermons, has the following
fine passage: Much might be said on
the wisdom of constantly taking fresh
view of life. 1t is one of the moral uses
Of the night that it gives the world anew
to us every morning, and of sleep that it
makes life a daily recreation. If we al
ways saw the world, we might grow
weary of if. If third of life were not
| spent in unconsciousness, the rest might
| become tedious. God is thus all the
while presenting the cup Of life atresh to
our lips. Thus, after night Of peaceful
sleep, we behold the world as new and
fresh and wonderful as it was on the
first morning Of creation, when God pro
nounced it very good And sleep has
divine alchemy that gives us to ourselves
with our primitive energy OF body and
mind. The DAYS are not mere repeti
tioDs Of themselves; tomorrow will have
another meaning; shall come to it with
larger vision than | have to-day"
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Specia1 Contributors.
JACOB. j
BY REV. Z. CASE.
Genesis xxi. 80, 81.

Genesis xxi. 81, 81.
l cannot, will not let thee go,
Altho' know not who thou art!
Yet something thrills me through and through
And warns and melts my inmost heart.
Thou art stranger, yet feel
something that desires thy stay
A something inezpressible-
That will not let thee haste away.
ALI night I've wrestled with thee here,
A stranger in this wilderness;
No friend on earth save thee, is near
To cheer, to CON fort and to bless.
My way is lonely, dark and wild,
And beasts of prey are bowling round;
And sin hath oft my heart beguiled
And my young strength in fetters bound.
If thou art He, the Holy One,
That hid'st thyself from my dim sight,
Thy feet shall never from me run
Till thou hast left with me Light
To light and guide me on my way
Through all this weary wilderness;
Or if thou wilt not with me stay,
Depart not till thou shalt me bless.
If thou art he whose name is Love,
And who wilt love and die for me,
Oh, touch my heart as from above,
. And ope my eyes that 1 may see!
And give me, Oh, thou great unknown
On what is carved my angel name,-
From out thy treasures that white stone
That none on earth may know or claim.
But no thou wilt not leave me SO
Pm faint and weary, and must lie,
If thou should'st quit my soul and go,
Here, in the desert lone, die,
But if thou surely art my friend
Thy rod and staff shall comfort me;
And thou wilt guide me to the end
Though deaths dark vale before me be.
/ see tho stars before me pale,
But all along the glowing East
The Sun The Sun Behold it rise,-
Thou Son of God and righteousness
Thou, thou art He! thine outspread wings
l see, know thee,-who thou art!
Now, touch me with thy strength that brings
Thy life thy love, through all my heart !!
Beaufort, S. C.
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REV. DIR. Stafford (TRoY, N, y AN EsTI
MATE OF MATTHEW ARNoLD:

REV. DIR. Stafford (TRoY, N. ~ AN EsTI-
MATE OF MATTHEW ARNOLD:
Among his books he was at ease.
Books have no impertinent eyes nor
ears nor tongues. He was unused to
the presence of mankind in the mass;
he could, before an audience, no more
help his shyness than ground squirrel a
boy digs out of its hole can help its fright
when gazed at i'll its revolving cage.
He lacked the orators gift, and also, as
l must think, wanted ability to judge
of men and manners by direct gaze and
contact; he was not whole man. He
has, we are glad to think, served good
mission as a teacher of teachers. He
had large mental and spiritual posses
sions. He wrought long and hard for his
opinions. He was not, as we are wont
to say, practical; he was not man of
affairs; he was a student Of schools of
thought, and of literatures in many
languages; he appreciated fine shadings
and tints in words ordinary eyes and
ears did not notice. We, accord him
just fame as zone who served the worfss
in realm where true workers are not
numerous. Matthew Arnold is very
large fragment of a man.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-02
REV. DIR. PULLMAN LYNN, MAss.) ON OUR
POSITION IN THEOLOGY:

POSITION IN THEOLOGY:
We are of the Greek and not of the
Latin or Roman school of Christianity.
We hold to the Immanence as well as
the Transcendance of God. We believe
in redemption from evil by the awaken
ing and strengthening of powers already
in us; not by the dead lift of powers
outside of us. The Latin theory is by far
the easiest-all is done for you. The
Greek is hard-you must work out
your own salvation, because God is
working within you. The Greek Plo-
tinus said; II am trying to bring the
God which is in me into harmony with
the God which is in the universe" lie
could not do it by thought, and he
missed the recOnciling term which is
personality in action. Not think out
your salvation, but work it out.
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REV. DIR. oANFIELD lBRooKLYS, \. r. O,
THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST:

NEW IN oANE lELD 'hhOOhLANy n Il ON
THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST:
If once our complete unhesitating
belief that Christ actually expired on
the cross, was actually laid in the
grave, and sometime afterward actual
ly appeared to his disciples could be
shaken or broken by the arguments
of adverse criticism, or by the growing
reluctance of the age to believe in any
thing inconsistent with that regular
course of nature whose invariability
science in its fresh developments even
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REV. R. h. PULLMAN baltimore, MD ON
"UNIvERsALIsAr:"

UNIV EhSALI5Ms
An evangel is good news, an evan
gelist is a teller of good news--the
gospel is good news. If Universalism
be true could the world ever hear better
news ? Could the aching heart ask for
better hopes, or the Christian worker
ask for greater encouragement than
comes from the assurance that he is
working on the strong side-the win
ming side-the side of love that is
stronger than hate-the side of truth
that is stronger than falsehood-the
side of right that is stronger than
wrong-the side of God, almighty and
all wise? This is Universalism-the
doctrine that the moral and spiritual
forces of the gospel will prove to be
irresistible in the long run.
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OUR RECENT WRITERS.
REV. W. $. GROVE (NEwARK, N. J.) on THE
CHURCH.

The church is the true apostle of
God-being all things to all men; to
the ignorant it is a teacher, to the
weak it is an inspiration, to the tempt
ed an armOr. To the weary with life's
ceaseless burden-bearing it is place of
rest and peace, to the lonely it is a
home, to the afflicted a comforter. To
the young it is a mother, to the strong
it is spirit of conservation, to the
aged it is a staff, to the dying divine
embodiment as of the everlasting arms.