The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-16
ALL WILL BE SAVED.
The Universalist Creed Ex-
pounded in the City.
REVIVAL SERVICES STILL GO ON.
Rector Garrett on tho Spiritual Sight
Mr.. NuttinE Attacks Catholic
Power in America.

Rev. @. II. Shinn, genera! missionary
Of the Up;versalist denomination sent
ont by the Weirs Association, of welrs,
n. H.. preached to the Seattle members of
that church last week, on Friday and
Saturday evenings. and once yesterday.
The services were held at the hall rented
By the UniversaIists at Fifth and Pike
streets, and were well attended. All three
of the discourses were doctrlnal, as mis-
sion work was the purpose of Mr.. Shinn's
visit to the city.
On Friday evening his subjec. was
"salyation," the text being taken from
Jesus Sermon on the Mount. The subject
relates to the essence of Universalism,
and was handled in luminous and mas
terly manner.
His sermon on Saturday night was a
continuation of that of Friday. though
his subject was strictly the question OF I'M
belief and unbelievers. He divided unbe-
levers into three types-infidels, atheists
and benevolent indifferents. The special
influence OF eternal spirit was recover
these unbelievers and restore them to
rectitude by his own power, acting upon
the very will of the unbeliever. The idea
expressed most forcibly was that God
was not duality; that the devil was not
Of His creation; that there was but One
infinite power and not two, as in the older
theologie5.
Mr.. ShinE's Sunday discourse was also
taken from the Sermon on the Mount. the
words being Our Father Which Art in
Heaven" His special effort on this occa-
sion was to set forth the creed of Universal
ism. He recited the formal creed of the
denomination as follows:
First-we elieve that the Holy Scriptures of
the Old and New Testaments contain q revela.
ton OF she character OF God and of the duty in
terest and final destination of m ,nkiad.
second-We believe that there is one God,
whose nature Is Love, revealed in ole Lord Jesus
Christ, by one Holy Spirit OF grace, who will
faally restore the whole family OF mankind to
holiness and happiness
Third-We believe that holiness and true hap
piness are inseparably connected, and that be-
levers ought to be careful to maintain order
and practice good works; for these things are
good and profitable unto men.
In this connection short extract from
the Rhode Island catechism is of interest,
1t is as follows:
Quesiion-WEat is UniversalIsm?
Answer-Universalism is a belief in God the
Father Almighty, maker Of heaven and earth.
and in Jesus Christ. His Son, our Lord, Who is
the True Teacher, Example and Savior of man.
mankind: in the Holy Spirit; in the holy Chris
tan church; the community of saints; the for
giveness of sins: tho certainty of retrbution;
the resurrection OF all men from the dead, and
the final holiness aud happiness of all in the
life immortal.
Mr.. Shinn declared that the one clause in
the creed recited above. which declared that
the Supreme would FINALLY restore the
whole family of mankind to holiness and
frya roii niA
and more faith i'll God than all the creeds
Of all the other churches combined. His
sermon was short treatment of each
separate claue quoted above. The differ
ence between UnItarianism and Univer-
salism was that the first was evolution:
the latter revelation.
Mr.. Shinn is man Of impressive ap-
pearance. manner and voice. He is about
30 years Of age. His talents are peculiarly
fitted for the missionary field. His man
ners are simple and direct and very cord ial.
He sings we'll and generally leads his con.
gregational singing. He also has the very
rare faculty of reading the Scriptures from
memory. This he does not az mere recita-
ton, but with the ease and effect of read
ing and speech combined. On Saturday
night his reading was fifteen minutes in
duration, all without a book. What
makes this requirement all the more re-
maTkable is the fact that he repeats texts
thus from all parts of the Scriptures with
equa ease.
Mr.. Shinn has organized in the past year
universalst societies in Du nth Mimi,
Grand FORKS and Fargo, n. D.. Portland
and San Francisco. In each of these
places his work has been to effect an organ
Ization of women for the task of raising a
church lot fund. generally not less than
I000. as the nucleus of better and larger
things The Erangel, the organ of the
universaiists, published ut Santa Cruz,
Cal, says that he has proceeded thus in
about fifteen localities where year ago
the Cniversalists had nothing to show
and that the fruits of his labors are appar-
ent in them all