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JOHN FERRIER,
FORMERLY OF SALT LAKE CITY,
Died August 4, 1860.

The sturdy. old man, whom he had
left so short time before, was gone,
then, and this was all his epitaph.
jefferson Hope looked wildly round to
see if there was q second grave, but
there was no sign of one. Lucy had
been carried back by their terri
ble pursuers to fulfill her original
destiny, by becoming one of the harem
of the elders son. AS the young fell
low realized the certainty of her fate
and his own powerlessness to prevent
1t, he wished that he, too, was lying
with the old farmer in his last silent
resting place.
Again, however, his active spirit
shook Off the lethargy which springs
from despair If there was nothing
else left to him, he could at least de-
vote his life to revenge. With indom-
liable patience and perseverance, JEFF
ferson Hope possessed also power Of
sustained vindictiveness which lie may
have learned from the Indians among
WllOul HS Hdu llNcu' AS He sIOOu Wy
the desolate fire he felt that the only
thing which could assuage his grief
would be thorough and complete retri-
button brought by his own hand upon
his enemies His strong will and un-
firing energy should, he determined,
be devoted to that one end, With a
grim, white face he retraced his steps
to where he had dropped the food, and
having stirred up the smouldering fire,
he cooked enough to last him for few
days. This he made up into bundle,
and, tired as he was, he set himself to
walk back through the mountains upon
the track of the avenging angels.
For five days he toiled, footsore and
weary, through the defles which he
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had already traversed on horse BACK
At night he flung himself down ainong
the rocks and snatched IL few hours of
sleep, but before daybreak he was al
ways well on his way. On the sixth
day he reached the Eagle canyon, from
which they had commenced their i'll
fated fight. Thence he could look
down upon the home of the Saints.
Worn and exhausted, he leaned upon
his rnle and shook his gaunt hand
fiercely at the silent, widespread city
beneath him. AS he looked at it he
observed that there were flags in some
of the principal streets and other
signs of festivity, He was still specu-
lating as to what this might mean
when he heard the clatter of horses
hoofs and saw mounted man riding
toward him. As he approached he
recognized him as u Mormon named
Cowper, to whom he had rendered
services at different times. He there
fore accosted him when he got up to
him, with the object of finding out
what Lucy Ferrier's fate had been.
Il am jefferson Hope" he said.
"Eou remember me-"
The Mormon looked ut him with un-
disguised astOnishment-indced, it was
difficult to recognize in this tattered, ,un-
kempt wanderer, with ghastly face and
fierce, wild eyes, the spruce young
hunter Of former days. Having, how
ever, at last satisfied himself as to his
identity, the mans surprise changed to
CONSERVATION.
"You are mad to come here" he
cried ut is as much as my own life
is worth to be seen talking with you.
There is warrant against you from
the Holy Four for assisting the Fer
riers away"
II don't fear them or their warrant,
Hope said, earnestly. You must know
something of this matter, Cowper.
conjure you by all you hold dear to an
swer a few questions. We have al
ways been friends. For Gods sake
don't refuse to answer me-"
What is it?" the Mormon asked un-
easily. BE quick, The very rocks
have ears and the trees eyes"
What has become of Lucy Ferrier?'
"She was married yesterday to young
Drebber. Hold up, :nan, hold up, you
have no life left IN you"
"Dout mind me-" said Hope, family.
He was white to the very lips, and had
sunk down ON the stone against which
he had been leaning, Married you
say?'
Married yesterday-that's what
those flags are for ON the Endowment
house. There was some words be.
tween young Drebber and young
Stangerson as to which was to have
her They'd both been in the party
that followed them, and Stangerson
had shot her father, which seemed to
give him the best claim; but when
they argued it out in council Drebbers
party was the stronger, SO the
prophet gave her over to him. No one
won't have her very long, though, for
saw death in her face yesterday. She
is more like ghost than woman.
Are you off, then?'
Yes, I'm off," said jefferson Hope,
who had risen from his seat. His face
might have been chiseled out Of mar
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scranton-F p Price, Washington avenue.
Gold Medal Brand.
Hyde Park-Carson s. Davis, washburn st.
Gold Medal Br and; Joseph A. Mears, Main
avenue, Superlative Brand.
Green Ridge A. L.Spencer Gold Medal Brand,
Dunmore-F. p, Price, Gold Medal Brand.
Olyphant James Jordan, Superlative Brand
Dunmore d, Manley Superlative Brand.
Providence -Fenner & Chappell n Main ave
nue., Superlative brand;C. J. Gillespie, W
Market street, Gold Medal Brand
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ont success, though from the marks
upon the trees, and other indications,
he judged that there were numerous
bears in the vicinity. At last, after
twoo three hours fruitless search, he
was thinking Of turning back in de-
spair, when, casting his eyes up
ward, he saw u sight which sent u
thrill of pleasure through his heart
On the edge of a jutting pinnacle,
three or four hundred feet above him,
there stood a creature somewhat re-
sembling sheep in appearance, but
armed with pair of gigantic horns.
The big-horn, for so it is called-was
acting, probably, as guardian over a
flock which were invisible to the hun
ter; but fortunately it was heading in
the opposite direction, and had not per-
ceived him. Lying on his back, he
rested his rife upon rock, and took a
long and steady aim before drawing
thefrigger. The animal sprang into
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precaution of never going out alone or
after nightfall, and of having their
houses guarded After time they
were able to relax these measures, for
nothing was either heard or seen of
their opponent, and they hoped that
time had cooled his vindictiveness.
Far from doing so, it had, if any
thing, augmented it, The hunters mind
was of hard, unyielding nature, and
the predominant idea of revenge had
taken such complete possession of 1t
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-09-29
THE OCTOBER CONVENTIONS.

Three State Conventions of our West
ern Church meet next month.-Uiz:
MICHIGAN, at Charlotte, October 8, 10.
and IL. The Editor of THE UNIVERSAL
IsT accepts special invitation to attend
this Convention.
Missouri, at La Plata, October u, ID,
and IA. Rev. @. II. Shinn will be pres
emit.
KANSAS, at junction City, October 18,
10, 90. The official notice is promised
for an early issue. We hope to receive
it in season for next weeks paper.
In addition to these Western Conven-
tions, the Kentucky meets at Hopkins
vile, October 10, 20; and the Convention
of Ontario (Canada), at Bloomfield
Prince Edward Co., October 10, 20, 81.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-09-29
PERSONAL.

The son of the late Rev j ohm F. Gates,
who died in Perry, N. Y, two or more
years ago, is now connected with the
Detroit Universalist congregation.
Mr.. Thomas Payne, whose address is
260 Sixteenth street, Detroit, is Treas
urer of the State Y. P. G. U. He is MAX
ing arrangements for the annual meet
ing next month.
Rev. Cephas B. Lynn well remembered
in the West for his General Convention
addresses and campaign, takes charge
until November l, of the Harlem church
Second Universalist of New York.
G. HI. Shipman, a grandson of Rev. q.
L. Shipman, and graduate of Buchtel
College in class of '93, is engaged as in
structor in higher mathematics at Gin
ton Liberal Institute. The Fort Plain
Standard, in speaking of the Faculty
says, HE is considered very valuable
acquisition"
We again note the fact that Rev.
Harry l.. Garfield is the National Sec
rotary of the Young Peoples Christian
Union and that his headquarters are 126
Second Avenue. Cleveland, o., where all
correspondence relating to the Young
Peoples work of the national organiza-
ton should be sent. 2
Rev. Harry L. Garfield, National Sec
rotary, attended the semi-centennial
meeting at Erie and preached on the fol-
lowing Sunday at jamestown, N. Y. He
will attend the Eastern Conventions of
the Y. P. G. U. = Connecticut, New
Hampshire, Massachusetts and New
York-soon to be held.
Bro. j. S. Dennis, of this city, and well
known throughout our church, entered
on Monday on his seventy fifth year. He
is hale, hearty and handsome, and while
patriarchal in appearance. is youthful in
spirit with no signs of decay in form or
faculties. We hope to extend our con-
CALCULATIONS six years hence when he
enters upon his octogenarian period.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-09-29
THE ERIE SEMI CENTENNIAL.

The celebration of the Fiftieth Ami
versary of the organization of the First
Universalist Church, in Erie. Pa, by a
series Of meetings extending over three
days, in charge of Rev. Howard Mac
Queary, the pastor of the church, began
on Tuesday. September IL, in the church
on West Ninth street, and was through
out an occasion of deep interest to the
members of the parish and the visiting
clergymen who participated in the ser
vices.
The Erie Herald, in closing its admira-
BILE reports of the several meetings. said:
THE services have been marked by an
exceeding interest on the part of the
membership of all churches, and the
public at large has taken advantage Of
the opportunity to hear an exposition of
Universalist principles and to hear dis
cussons of the religious and economic
questions of the day, by those eminently
qualified by study and experience to
speak on the same"
Rev. Mr.. MacQueary is entitled to con-
CALCULATIONS for organizing and carrying
out a splendid program to mark the
notable anniversary. The Erie church
has an honorable history and has been
served by many eminent pastors. Ithas
numbered among its membership some
of the best people of the city and the
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-09-29
Editorial Brevities.

~ "THERE are some people who go
to church and clasp their hands SO tight
in prayer that they can't get them apart
when the contribution plate comes
around"
~ "WHAT is the secret of your life?'
asked Mrs. Browning of Charles Kings
ley. "Tell me that may make mine
beautiful too" Kingsley replied, II had
friend"
~ WHY ask for distinction in this
world-for space in the worlds thought
and dominion over men," when the most
homely service, we'll rendered, is distinc-
ton before the One who sees all things?
"Be lamp in the chamber" says George
Eliot, "if you cannot be star in the
sky"
~ The Bible never speaks of "good
resolutions" but again and again of
purpose" And this is what we want,
that with purpose of heart we should
"cleave unto the Lord" The first his
tory of the Church of Christ is called the
Acts of the Apostles. A fine name, in
dicative of great wisdom.
~ JAMES MARTINEAU finely says:
"If we cannot find God in your house and
mine, upon the roadside or the margin of
the sea. in the bursting seed or opening
flower in the day duty and the night
musing. do not think we should discern
him any more on the grass OF Eden or
beneath the moonlight of Gethsemane."
~ SWEET Summer dies.and Autumn
comes trooping in with its singular mix
ture of beauty and later baroness
typical of some human lives. But why
regret it as so many do? asks The Chris
tian Work, and answers with this quota
ton:
What is there to regret? Why should we mourn
To leave the forests and the brooks behind,
Or toward the rank low meadows sadly turn,
Since here another loneliness We find
Softer and not less beautiful, and blest
With glimpses faint and fair of the long.wlshed
for rest?
Then jOy!-the night is near. So, glad to know,
That rough or smooth the way, we have not far
togo.
~ The biographer of the late DIR.
John Henry Hopkins, the well known
high church Episcopal theologian. de-
clares that DIR. Hopkins's support of the
late Phillips Brooks as bishop "entailed
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-09-29
THE GENERAL CONVENTION DIS
TRIOT CONFERENCE.
Chicago, st. Paul's Church, Oct. 1926.

The Universalist General Conven-
ton, at the last biennial session held
at Washington, authorized the holding
of three DistrictC Conferences this year
in the month of October; and the
Board of Trustees appointed COM
mittees of management for such con-
ferences in the New England Dis
trict, the Central District, and the
Western District.
The Conference for the Western
District will be held October % -25 in
st. Pau's Church, Chicago. The
opening sermon will be delivered on
Tuesday evening, October %, by Rev.
DR.. Shutter, of Minneapolis.
The program is already well adj
vanced in preparation and will soon be
ready for publication. The Confer
ence will be a notable occasion and
may be made highly serviceable to
our Western Church by the co-opera-
ton of pastors and people to secure
representative attendance.
The Conference is not an executive
body. 1t is not held for "ecclesiasti-
cal, Legislative or financial work." and
"no one is responsible for the utter
ances of any speaker but himself"
The membership is defined under
the rules of the Board as follows:
The membership of the Conferences
shall consist of the officers of the Gen
eral Convention and of the State Con
ventions of the Conference District, of
the members of the Conference Com
mittee, of all ministers in the fellowship
of the Universalist Church, and of three
lay delegates from each parish within
the respective districts, to be certified by
the pastor or the Chairman of it's Stand
ing Committee or Board of Trustee
The Chairman of each Conference Com
mittee shall preside over his Conference
and in his absence the Vice Chairman.
The attention of our pastors is
called thus early to the Conference
of the Western District and the COM
mittee of arrangements desire large
attendance. st. Paul's church proffers
its hospitality and will entertain to
the best of its ability clergymen and
delegates, and as many visitors as
possible. Let all endeavor to make
the Western District Conference
notable success in attendance and in
terest.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-09-29
PIONEERS OF THE FIRE LANDS.
Their Annual Reunion Held at Huron, o.,
Last Week.

The UNIvERsALIsT has many readers
on the Western Reserve of Ohio who
will be interested in brief report of the
annual reunion of the pioneers of the Fire
Lands which was held at Huron last
week. The Fire Lands, writes a. cores
pondent of the Chicago Tribune, I'm.
braces several counties, including Huron
and Erie. These lands we're given by the
General Government out of a section of
the Western Reserve subsequently
coded to the Connecticut Land company
to residents of Norwalk, Greenwich,
Sherman. Clarksield, Groton, Berlin,
and other Connecticut towns, whose
property at home had been destroyed by
the British in the war of 1872 and COM
prised 100000 acres. But few of the
owners settled on the Fire Lands, most
of them disposing of their possessions on
the Reserve. The property was appor-
toned in pounds, shillings, and pence,
according to the valuation of the proper
ty destroyed in Connecticut. The re-
union was also a commemoration of
Commodore Perry's victory eighty one
years ago September 10, and many his
torical "reminiscences of events leading
up to and eliminating in Perry's victory
and the protection and peace it brought
to the pioneers. were given by President
Stewart.
The village of Huron was the first
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-09-29
LOST HIS GRIP"
terest.

This is a very expressive phrase,
and one often used without much
thought of it's meaning. When one,
from any cause, fails of his life-pur-
pose, or goes down in the wreck of
Improbable enterprises, men say,
che has lost his grip Intelligent
tenacity, or grip, is fair attainment,
and one that is worth cultivating. It
is much easier, and much more nat
ural with most of us to avoid trouble
and let things drift. The Revelator
speaking to the church of Philadel-
phia writes: "Hold fast that which
thou hast, that no man take thy
crown" How often does this old
time word to this ancient church
need to be repeated to our churches?
Holding fast to what we have is the
only sure way of obtaining more. 1t
is thus that we may see more clearly
the truth of that somewhat difficult
saying, "Whosoever hath, to him shall
be given, and he shall have abun-
dance; but whosoever hath not, from
him shall be taken even that which
he hath" This seems to say to us
that one can have and yet not have
that is, can possess and yet not under
stand or profit by his possession; and
the uncomprehended, unused, I'M
profitable possession shall slip away.
There are few broad principles to
which we as church of the living
God should cling with great tenacitY,
and never lose our grip on them.
l. Faith in Human Nature. |
know we see much in our common
humanity which causes us to veil our
faces. The riddle of "this sad and
unintelligible world" is often beyond
our Interpretation. There is enough
wrong and misery in the world to
shake our faith, and sometimes we
are tempted to say with the old Cal
yinists: Talk not to me of human
nature, sir; human nature is great
rascal" Still let us tighten our grip
on what faith we have. But, what
ever comes to pass, let us never for a
moment give up to the mood of the
modern Mephistopheles, who has well
been called san incarnate sneer."
The cynic who closes his eyes to
everything good and beautiful in the
world is most to be pitied of all un-
believers. 1t is bad to be without
veneration for the venerable, or con-
fidence in the reliable, or respect for
the opinions of the wise. And if we
are tempted to despair of, or despise
human nature as it is, let us look on
hopefully to the grand consummation
of the ages when man shall be freed
from the temptations of the flesh and
arise to the dignity and stature of the
original design.
2. Need | say, cling fast hold of
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-09-29
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30.
EDITORIAL.

The selection of Rev. DIR. Rugg, of
Providence, r. l., as the Financial Sec
rotary of the General Convention, is
in many respects an admirable appoint
ment. 1t was, as we learn, a bona fide
selection and not simply the ratification
of a previous candidacy. 1t should be
understood that DR.. Rugg was not can
didate for official position and accepts the
trust at the request of his associates in
the Board who recognize in him certain
qualifications for position of this ma
ture which it would be difficult to secure
elsewhere. DR.. Rugg has thorough
understanding of the responsibilities i'm
piled in the appointment. He under
takes no holiday task, and knows what
will be expected. He is the official who
by wise plans, and judicious and timely
appeal, in person and by correspondence.
in pulpit and on platform, and at home
and abroad, is to develop the financial
resources of the church, and to interest
our people in it's missionary and educa-
tional work. All this requires solid
qualities in the one who undertakes it's
administration. DR.. Rugg has the con-
fidence of his associates in the Board,
and the friends who know him best as
equal to the great work before him. His
success will be TIE success of the church
in her great emergency. Let all hasten
to give him a cordial and unremitting
support, when once his plans for the fu-
ture are duly published.
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village plated and dedicated on the
Fire Lands in 1911, and the work was
done by David Abbott and Hiram Town
send and recorded in the first volume of
Huron county records. The establish
ment Of the Moravian missions, the Mi
Ian Ship Canal. the first fruits planted
on the Fire Lands, we're among the many
items of pioneer days alluded to by Presi-
dent Stewart. Interesting historical ex-
tracts were read from an article written
by Huron county farmer, Mr.. l. M.
Gillett, of Norwalk. on the establishment
of the Moravian missions, the first set
Element made on the Fire Lands by the
Moravians in 1887 at New Salem, on the
Huron River, being on the line of the
Townships of Huron and Milan, next
South, and in Erie county. Two old &C.
count books, the property of Eliphalet
Barnum, of Danbury, Conn.,, and Judge
Jabez Wright's old surveyors compass,
used in making first surveys on the Fire
Land in 1911. we're shown with other
relics and commented on by the Presi-
dent.
A list of thirty six pioneers. all over
the age Of sixty-nine years, leading off
with James Hopkins, of Fairfield Town
ship, and I. T. Reynolds, of Berlin Town
ship, each eighty nine years old-all of
whom we're present at the meeting-was
read by Secretary Mains. Old people
still living on the Fire Lands, but not
present, are Mrs. Cuddeback, of Vermil-
ion, age 104, and Mrs. Cotant, of Green
wich. ninety nine years old. The address
of the day was given by the Hon. s. A.
Wildman, of Norwalk on the History of
Two Civilizations" the South of Europe
and the North of Europe, as IMPLYING
the ancient and modern civilizations of
the world.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-09-29

THIS week is likely to prove me-
morable one in the vicinity of Richmond,
Ind, one of the strongholds of the So
ciety of Friends, or Quakers, the locality
of their yearly meeting. and seat of Earl
ham College, and their Theological
School, Not to be out of the fashion the
Friends now have heresy trial on hand
which is to come off September &c. The
theological culprit is man widely known
and honorably distinguished among the
Friends, DIR. Dugan Clark, the Dean of
the theological school, and noted
preacher. 1t appears that his offense is
not in any word spoken or in any prin-
ciple taught during his professorship in
college, or in his ministry, but in the
fact, as explained in the published re-
ports "that his conscience impelled him
to accept the rite of Christian baptism
at meeting in Ohio last summer" 1t
is further explained that "in many
things the disciples of George Fox have
never swerved from the stand taken
when the church was first established;
and Christian baptism is one of these.
The Society of Friends is averse to all
forms and symbols, believing that they
are all inventions of the devil, and any
son of the church who violates the time
honored custom has invariably suffered"
when the elders Of the Richmond
yearly meeting learned of DIR. Clark's
offense he was given hearing, during
which he admitted his guilt, and ex-
planned by saying that he believed the
liberty of conscience for which the found
ers Of the church had stood so great per-
secution, was the principle that justified
him in finally yielding to an impulse
with which he had battled for years in
his own heart. He held that the Bible
gave him authority for baptism, and
that the church was in error when it
taught the contrary. The elders replied
that baptism by the Holy Ghost, as
taught by George Fox, was the, only and
true way in which blessing could be
bestowed by heaven, and that DIR. Clark
had seriously offended. He was given
permission to renounce his conduct and
to make amends by true repentance, but
the Professor refused. Accordingly he
was relieved of his pulpit work and the
ban placed over him until his trial,
which will take place at the Richmond
yearly meeting this week."
This will prove an interesting EVENT. if
the case comes to trial. 1t will be a
heresy trial of peculiar kind as no false
teaching enters into the case. The Pro
fessor never preached sermon on bap-
tism and never urged his sentiments on
the students, believing that each com
municant should investigate and settle
the question of baptism for himself.
The Friends are very tenacious of their
doctrinal tenets and DIR. Clark's offense,
although a private divergence, cannot
pass unchallenged. The yearly meeting
at Plainfield, Ind, last week took occa-
sion to proclaim that the only baptism
that could be recognized by the society
was the baptism Of the Holy Ghost.
This deliverance is regarded as fore
runner OF what may be expected at Rich
mond and as leading up to the expulsion