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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-09-01

it was stormy and the larger portion of
the audience had found it more COM
Portable to stay at home, preface the
sermon with a TRADE against this in
difference. Now, even If the unfaith-
full parishioners had been present to
hear it, it is doubtful whether the
scolding would have done any good. 1t
would probably have had an effect just
opposite to that intended. But not one
of the delinquents was there. The
faithful were being whipped for the
faults of the unfaithful ones. Perhaps
down in the pews there was some
woman who had worked hard all the
week and who had scarcely felt able to
come to church, who had made an
extra effort just because it rained.
There is no surer way to ALLEVIATE your
faithful parishioners than such a
course. Let me give you this final
advice: When the day is stormy and
the audience promises to be small, do
not say, 81 will preach an old sermon
to-day. 1 will have an excuse for a
service" Do your very best on such
day and try and reward those who
are faithful enough to be there.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-09-01
THE PASSING CHARIOT.

The story of Philip holding commun-
ion with the eunuch in his chariot
contains lesson for every one. Before
the Lord spoke unto Philip he may
not even have suspected that a wonder
ful opportunity was now to be given
him. Possibly his soul may have been
passing through trial on account of the
hardness of mems hearts. But through
all the trial he had been kept in close
sympathy with his divine mission.
God now opened his eyes, and gave
him heart to hasten forward to preach
one of the grandest sermons of his life.
Every Christian may be enlie ehtened
by the Lord and may have a heart for
the Lords word. When thus enlight-
ened, life furnishes wonderful oppor-
tunities. Every hour-could we only
interpret our surroundings-ha its
passing chariot, Souls are yearning
for help. Like the man of Ethiopia
many one is saying, "How can I un-
derstand except some man should
guide me-" Hearts desolate, full Of
sorrow, hearts blind and unbelieving,
stand in need Of words of sympathy.
Instruction FROM human lips, touched
with live coal from Gods altar, is the
work of the hour.
Blessed is every one whose soul is so
alive, not only to human need, but to
the worlds Saviour, that he is able to
open his mouth and preach Jesus to,
the irquiring.
The truth has not changed. The
power that forces conviction upon the
conscience through the truth is the
same. Gods love is not any less. Gods
providence-ad adjusting circumstances.
times and places, and instruments-is
no less marked in our day. The
chariots are now passing! o for the
eye to see, the heart to feel, and the
divine gift Of convincing utterancel
The mission given to Philip at that
moment might have been unfulhlled.
Fear or lethargy or self-loVe might
have caused postponement. What a
loss would have followed Be it ours
to live so near our divine Master that
no chance is lost of honoring his name
by word and deed ChristiGn Advocate
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-09-01
ETERNAL GROWTH.


''As thy days, so shall thy weakness
be" is the law for all of us mature men
and women in regard to our outward
life. But we may be emancipated
from that dreary law in regard to the
true life of our spirits, and, instead of
getting weaker as we get older, we
may and we should, get stronger. We
may be, and we should, be moving on 8
course that has no limit to its advance.
We may be travelling on a shining
path through the heavens that has no
noon-tide height from which it must
slowly and sadly decline, but tends
steadily and forever upward, nearer
and nearer to the very fountain itself
of heavenly radiance. 1.-THE path of
the just is as the shining light which
shineth more and more till the noon
tide of the day." But the reality sur
passes even that grand thought, for it
points us to an endless approximation
to an infinite beauty, and to ever-grow-
ing possession of never ending fullne So,
as the law for the progress of all
Christ's servants. The life of each of
US may and should be continual acces-
sion and increase of power through all
the days here, through all the ages
beyond. Why9 Because "the life
which l live, live by the faith of the
Son Of God" Christ liveth in me. It
is not my strength which grows so
much as Gods strength within me,
which is given more abundantly as the
days roll. 1t is so given on one condi-
tion. If my faith has laid hold of the
infinite, the exhaustless, the immortal
energy of God, unless there is some
thing fearfully wrong about me, 1 shall
be getting purer, nobler, wiser, more
observant of his will, gentle like
Christ, every way filter for his service,
and for larger service as the days in
crease.
Those of us who have reached middle
life, or perhaps got little over the
watershed, ought to have this expert
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Scotland. l wish space could be al
lowed for inserting here the whole quo
tation from the Tribune. 1t seems
that Mr.. Sheriff's work dwelt largely
upon church going and sermons. This
writer had said that people go to church
ito be tickled," !" and the Tribune adds:
"Some of us like hard and pitiless logic,
and some of us dulcet sentences, flow
cry figures and musical periods. a
good many of us cannot endure a
preacher who is not comely to look
upon, and who has not voice of siren
sweetness. In deciding upon these
qualifications we believe that some
women are governed by well regu
lated code, and judge the preacher very
much as they judge a French hat. As
the pious crowd emerge from the meet
ing house, all the talk is Of the sermon
and its author. The dissatisfied pro-
nounce it to have been stupid, while
the pleased insist that it was delicious
and edifying. Some have been bored
almost mortally, while others have been
entertained almost to ecstasy. The
preacher is denounced as a fool or eu-
logized as an angel. And all this time
there is an eternal God above, pitifully
listening, let US trust, to those who
take his name in vain, not merely in
speech but in all their life, thought and
action.'
The following comment is made upon
the whole question: 1.-THE above should
receive the serious and candid consid-
GRAFTON of every professor of the Chris
tian religion; and the more because II
is so near the line of truth. In these
days of expediency, though perhaps nc
more than in former times, Christianity
is made to bend too much to human
disposition, instead Of human disposi-
tion being controlled and directed, as il
should be, by the principles and virtues
Of Christianity" Much more was sale
in the same line but space forbids &
longer quotation. The passage oi
Scripture receiving exposition is from
Eph. i, IS. There is other miscellane
GUS matter and a letter from G.. s
Weaver, D. D. The last page is mad.
up of general reading matter selected
with great care. Chief among these
selections is an article from the N. Y
Tribune on the growth of New Yori
City, the schoolboy days of William L
Marcy, who was prominent in American
! politics, once Governor of New Y Yorl
Slate. and Secretary OF State TO Pre- !;
dent Buchanan, and the appearance Of
John Hancock in 1882 when far ad-
vanced in age. Among the "Odds
and Ends" there is one which will
make good ending of this long des-
cription of an old newspaper.
"Dr. Gross, the justly celebrated
surgeon of Philadelphia, was once dan
gerously i'll. Shortly after his recovery
he met one of his lady patients-they
are not always patient ladiec-who re-
marked to him:
20, doctor! rejoice to see that you
are out again; had we lost you, ouI
good people would have died by the
dozen?"
"Thank you, madam" replied the
affable doctor, "but now, fear, they
will die by the grossp
Take the best paper that comes with
in you reach, and preserve each issue
for future reference. The volumes as
shey make themselves, will be of use
some time to somebody.
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own love, faith and purpose, h3S eyer,
God may cause them to serve sols pur-
pose in the universal order.
A Universalist is one thai, love,
in will, and in belief, subordina<es the
individual to the universal. ne be-
lieves in universal good to be worked
by the power of a good and wls8 Cod
and through the assimilation md CO.
operation Of the lives Of na&n His
love and his will come into the do
minion of the belief, and his II } passes
to its work under sky and 4rnshine
toward which the significance 9f earth,
under his view, rises.
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ence as our own in very distinct de-
gree. The years that are gone ought
to have drawn us somewhat away from
our hot pursuing after earthly and per-
ishable things. They should have
added something to the clearness and
completeness of our conception of the
deep simplicity of Gods Gospel. They
should have frightened our hold and in
creased our possession of Christ, un-
folding more and more of his all suffi-
cheney. They should have enriched us
with memories of Gods loving care,
and lighted all the sky behind with
glow which is reflected on the
path before US and becomes calm con-
fidence in his unfailing goodness. They
should have given us power and skill
for the conflicts that yet remain, as the
Red Indians believe that the strength
Of every defeated and scalped enemy
passes into his conqueror's arm. They
should have given force to our better
nature and weakness to our worse.
They should have rooted us more
firmly and abidingly in him from
whom all power comes, and so have
given US more and fuller supplies Of
of his exhaustless and ever flowing
might.
So it may be with us if we abide in
him, without whom we are nothing,
but partaking of whose strength ''the
weakest shall be as David, and David
as an angel of God.''
If for US, drawing nearer to the end
is drawing nearer to the light, our
faces shall be frightened more and
more with that light which we ap-
proach, and our faith shall be ''as the
shining light which shines more and
more unto the noontide of the day.
because we are closer to the very
fountain of heavenly radiance, and
bathed and flooded with the outgoings
of his glory. "As thy days, so shall
thy strength be-"
The promise ought to be true for US
all. 1t is true for all who use the
things that are freely given to them Of
God; and while thus it is the law for
the devout life here, its most glorious
fulfllment remains for the life beyond.
There each new moment shall bring
new strength, and growing millen-
NUNS but add fresh vigor to our i'm
mortal life. Here the unresting beat
of the waves of the sea of time gnaws
away the bank and shore whereon we
stand; but there each roll of that great
ocean of eternity shall but spread new
treasures at our feet ard add new acres
to our immortal heritage. When life
is immortal, the longer it lasts the
stronger it becomes, and so the spirits
that have stood for countless days be-
fore his throne, when they appear to
human eyes appear as ''young men
clothed in long white garments full
OF unaging youth and energy that can
not wane. So, while in the flesh we
must obey the law of decay, the spirit
may be subject to this better law of
life, and "while the outward man per-
isheth, the inward man be renewed
day by day." ''Even the youths shall
faint and be weary, and the young
men shall utterly fall, but they that
wait on the Lord shall renew their
strength. ."-Aler. Mdcldren, d. d.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-11-29
Tim DnBAUoHmRY or THm nALr
LOT,

WASHINGTON, Nov, 20, 90 Professor
John M, Langat0n, OK mlniater 10
Hayti, who waa the independent can
didate for Congress Ia the Petersburg
district Of Virginia, says that he was
elected bee0nd doubt, and although
great efforts are being made 10 count
aim out, they will be OF no
avail, lie asserts that not only
had no TO contend with tho opposition
of the Democrats OF tho district, but
that the whole OF MahOne'a political
force was used againat him, and that
tho attempt Of General Malone 10 do
feat him injured the Republican
national ticket, Langat0n says that
Ids legal majority was between 5000
and 5000, and that that vote
will give the State 10 llar'
riaOn and Morton, lie 49,
aefta that no expended $4,000 OF his
own money, and he did not receive aid
TO the extent OF q single dollar In his
district, although tho national commit
tee gave General Malone $4,000 for
use In tho state,
The above Ia from a Washington
special 10 the Ohio State journal,
Langston Ia q cOlOred Republican, who
was educated In Oberlin and up 10 1879
was q conspicuous figure In Ohio poll
tics. Recently no removed 10 Peters
burgh, Va, and now claims he was
elected 10 Congress from that district,
The point we wish 10 note Ia the
amount OF money no says no spent In
the recent election and the amount the
ex'rebel General Malone nov liopub'
llean) spent, Every one knows that II
does not take $4,000 10 conduct an
honest Congregational election, Eyeiy'
one knows that $4,000 spent Ia one
district, with q condensed population,
means a corrupt and vote brlbing cam
paigni and yet we are already 80 sal
lOua 10 these corrupt influences that
men elevated 10 the higheat Offices In
the gift OF the people speak Of them
with careless unC0ncern,
Ia II not high time that good men
and true men everywhere, OF all parties.
commenced 10 take q stand against the
atrocloua iniqulty OF vote buying,
lit IN not checked, We shall soon be
ut the end OF u representative govern
ment.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-11-29

Shakespeare, the greatest OF all play
writer's and poets, and n fair motor, died
poor, and now William Warren, the
actor, dies possessed Of 100000.
WITn the returns all In, the Wheeling
Register, OF Friday, claims the election
Of Fleming, Democratic, for Governor
Of West Virginia by nine plurality,
This Is what might be called tight
squeeze,
The widow Hubbard did not get her
Fry, neither did she fry amy fat out OF
her Fry,
TINS man Rucker out In Colorado
who wants TO exchange shots with Joe
Blackburn to determine who has lied,
and which Is q gentleman, 10 u man
who ought 10 be suppressed. Dueling
decides nothing; settles nothing. Every
man who proposes, In this age of the
world TO fight q duel, ought TO be pub
licly horsewhipped.
GENERAL GRosvENoR, who is Sena.
tor Sherman's best friend, says the Sen
ator will not accept q Cabinet CHR,
THE Beaver case indicates clearly
that q man may play checkers, eat nut
ton chops and tomato.sauee with q
widow without becoming liable In o
breach Of promise case.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-11-29
wr holIOvo that Leyl p. Morto

We believe that Leyl p, Morton, OF
Now York, In the only millionaire ever
elected Vice President Of the United
states, since this Republic was
started on lis career, lie Is the only
man who has been elevated 10 such u
pinnacle OF fame, solely on account OF
Ills wealth. lie is the only man who
ever received the distinction OF second
place In the gift OF the American peo'
pie because OF his promise OF o generous
contribution TO the campaign fund.
According TO the statistics OF the last
quarter OF u century he has now two
chances out OF i've TO become Presi.
dent. Johnson became President
In 1865, through the assassination OF
Lincoln, and Arthur became President
In 1851, through the assassination OF
Garfield. Since Lincoln, We have elect.
cd Grant, Hayes. Garfield and Cleveland.
All the Vice Presidents elected since
the organization of the Republican
party have been comparatively poor
men, except Morton, and mont be-
fore have ever been elevated on
account Of money considerations,
Hannibal Hamlin Of Maine was and
is. n poor man. lie is still living.
Andrew johnson Of Tennessee was
nominated Vice Hresldent, with Lin
coin in 1864 on the Union ticket be-
cause OF his robust loyalty to the
Union, and TO convince the South that
the Union party was not o sectional
party. johnson was u poor man. In
1863 Schuyler Colfox OF Indiana was
nominated for Vice President on the
ticket with Grant, because OF his long
experience In public affairs and his un-
usual popularity In all sections. lie
wns n man In moderate circumstances,
AZ that time. In 1872, In the Conven.
ton az Philadelphia, Henry Wilson OF
Massachusetts, was nominated FOR vice
President with Grant, on account OF
his long and shining record, not only
rs a practical laboring man, but his
life devotion TO the elevation
of the laboring man. Henry
Wilson was q poor man. In 1876,
Wm, A, Wheeler, of New York
was nominated for Vice President on
account OF his location and his record
In Congress as a retormer and AS a man
OF rODubL nO0tbNy anu pVollihb lhVVbli
W. Wheeler was q poor man. In 1880
| Chester A. Arthur, Of New, York was
| nut on the ticket with Garfield, first TO
| please Conkling, and second, because Of
| His popularity with the stalwart
element In the Republican party. Ar
| thur was not % rich man ut that time,
In 1884 General John A, Logan, Of Iii
| nois, was nominated for Vice President
| because Of his army record, his popu-
| larity IN the West and his robust char.
| acter. Logan was n poor man. In 1883
q radical departure was made, and a
man many times u millionaire was
| nominated for Vice President, simply
and solely on account Of his enormous
| wealth. W. appear 10 have reached a
| period IN our career, when venality
rules in high places, and when nothing
talks 80 loud for place and fame as the
Jingle Of money bags. Brains, intel
lectual achievement and patriotic en-.
deayor, must take q back seat. Nam.
mon rules the roost.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-11-29
oANToN ON pRnsa PARADE.

PROVIDENCE smiled on Thursday
with q bright November day, crisp IN
air and bright In continuous sunshine.
The industrial parade was q splendid
exhibition Of The widely diversified
trade and manufacture OF the city and
10 the many visitors and capitalists
present was In the nature of u reyela,
zion. The Boston directors Of the
Cleveland, Canton a. Southern were
surprised aud gratined NJ the strength
OF the exhibition and our Cleveland
friends, who honored us with their pres
ence, expressed astonishment that the
Capital City Of old Stark has within
her boundaries such an array Of thrifty
manufacturing enterprises, Our old
citizens, even those who came here DO.
fore the N0lyeB had ceased 10 howl In
the surrounding woods, and who have
been with us always, were not aware
that Canton could turn out such a d.
versihed list Of industries.
We are all glad now that the new
road was inauguratedIwith o parade.
II will prove an Investment full OF
promise FOR large dividends In the fu.
ture. We not only know our strength,
but feel II in every p~ulsation Of our
being,
All we need now, 10 double our popu.
lation In the next decade, is 10 part
with u little Of our timidity and con.
servatism and proceed 10 make this q
city. First, u thorough system OF
seweragej second, substantial pave.
ments on all our principal streets.
We think there Is no reasonable
doubt that this win be done.
Looking over the whole field Of prob.
abilities, there is no city In eastern or
central Ohio, that seems 10 have as
bright q future 40 our own city of
Canton.
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-II Looke punloVA.
serious Aspect Of he Indianapolis strike
The latest News from tho scene %
AgtiOn,

serious Aspect Of the Indianapolis strike
The latest News from tho scene %
Action,
I%EmAHAfpLIs, IHn,, November 1.-THE
superlntendena OF all the roads cen tering
here Saturday, after holding two meet
ines, notified the strikers thai one OF
them would BIO reemployed, aud llat they
would BIO paid the money due them Ia
the meantime some switching was lone by
the few men who did not go out re'
enforced linemen, yardmaaters, masters OF
TRANSFORMATION aud clerks, With such iOTcaa
enough was accomplished 10 prevent q
complete stoppage OF traffic. but 20 little
was done compared with tbe usual work,
that business men aud shippers began 10
feel seriously the effects OF the trouble.
nut even al what the substitutes did, tho
strikers became ineensed, aud expressed
their feeling with 10 muoh Intensity that
violence was likely 10 oedur NJ any time.
II became 20 evident that they were being
gradually locked out that shortly afternoon
they determined 10 ask the engineers and
hTemen 70 DO present ~ thell meet
ing 10 induce thom, II possible, 70
Join their movement They succeeded
Ia getunga number OF them 10 attend and
while the men OF the two other brother
hoods expressed strong sympathy iof tho
swItchmen and unoiiolally hlnted the
intentions Of the important movement yet
definite action WIS postponed unul their
meeting tomorrow The engineers and
hremen, while At their duty on tho engines
Saturday afternoon, talked among thems
selves about going out Monday II something
was not done on the part Of the Auperlnten'
DENTS, aud when questioned by 70
pOrters, uniformly said that while the
brotherhooda were not Al present Involved
Ia any way with the strike, II the roads
continued 10 ignore the local men would
he, before foFty-elght hours more had
elapsed, for they thought the awltehmen
should have their demands, Come Of lhel
substitutes At the switches, when surround ]
cd by the strikes, who threatened N,
crack their skulls, became alarmed|
and deserted their posts, but no
violence occurred, although o Panhandle
switching train was stoned and moved
back Into the yard by the working Grew
TO avoid further trouble, Tho action OF
the superiRtendenh In diaoharglng the
men has increased the ll'feellng, and there
II no telling what may occur although
some hope IN expressed Of a settlement tho
first Of the week.
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Invention Of the ahot Tower.

There was once o mechanic at Dris-
t0l, England, who Ind q quoG dream,
Watts was hih name, and lao was by
trade u ahot maker. Tho making 81
the little leadon pellets was Then a
allow, hborioua and, consequently,
costly process. Watts had 10 nlee
great bars of lead and pound them oft
Into sheets Of a thickness about equal
10 tho diameter OF the Rhot ho dcaired
10 mako, Then he cut the nhootG into
little cubes, which no placed in o no.
volving barrel or box and rolled until
the edges wore OIL from the constant
friction and the little cubes became
sphoroids.
Waits had often raclied his brain
trying TO dovip q bottor scheme, but
In vain, Finally, after an evening
spoDt with some jolly companions at
the nlohouse lac went home and turned
into bed. Ilo soon foil into u deep
slumbor, but the liquor evidently did
not agree with him for no had q bad
dream, He thought he was out again
with the "boysn They were all try
ing to find their way homo when II
began 10 rain shot, Beautiful Rlob,
ules Of lead, poliGhod and shining fell
in u torrent and compelled him and
his bibulous companions 10 draw their
heavy limbs 10 q place Of 0hcltCr
In the morning, whom Watts arose,
ho oincmborcd the dream. lie Thought
about IL al day, and wondered what
shape molten lead would take in fall.
ing a distance through the air, At
last, when be could rest no longer, no
carried o ladlcful OF the hot metal mp
into the steoplo Of tho church OF sc.
Mary, Of Rodcliilc, and dropped IL
into The mort below, Descending no
took from tho bottom Of the shallow
pool several handfulG OF perfect shot
iar superior 70 any he hud ever Coen,
Watts fortune was Aadc, for no had
conceived Che idoa Of tia she, tJwgG,
which hCr ever Naec been The only
means employed in tAo manufacture
Of the little micsilc3 20 much used in
war and sport, Chicago Mail,