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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-11-24
NOTES FROM JAPAN.

That the Uniyersalist church in the
United States is alive is shown by the
reports of the Young Peoples meetings
and Conventions which are brought to
us by our papers. Missionary work is
not tagging at home. DR.. Rugg accepts
a new Office which has special bearing
upon the missionary activities of the
church. That restless spirit, Rev. @. H.
Shinn, still goes like weavers shuttle
from east to west and from north to
south. The new President of the Ma
tional Y. p. G. u, takes his stand on al
most the extreme edge of the continent.
One step more would have brought him
to japan. Surely there are other spirits
akin to these. some Of whom may find
even the broad expanse of their native
land too narrow for the full exercise of
their powers.
The Departure of Mr.. Rice.
Mr.. Rice left Japan on the 18th inst.
for San Francisco by the steamship
China" The cause of his departure is
i'll health of nervous nature chiefly at
fecting his eyes. His physicians do not
regard his disorder as in any way danger
Gus but simply as requiring rest and
change such as can best be found in an
ocean voyage and visit to his native
land. have the feeling that the latter
especially would be good for weak eyes.
His stay is only temporary, so much so
that he scarcely contemplates going
further than the western coast. We ex-
pect him back soon, pursuing his labors
with his accustomed vigor. OF course
no one regrets his enforced absence more
than he. though it takes him to familiar
scenes.
The Theological school.
AS we have stated many times before
the department of our work which alb
serbs the greater part of the energies Of
the missionary force is the Theological
school. and it is especially in connection
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-11-24

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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-11-24
DEATH OF F. A. bonner, OF IOWA.

F. A. bonner departed this life at his
residence in Des Moines, Thursday
evening, November LIST, after an illness
OF two weeks, aged seventy-two years,
eight months and eighteen days.
Bro. Bonner was an early settler in
Iowa. and wherever he lived was known
as faithful and true man and a good
citizen. AS Christian he was consis.
tent and devoted member and earnest
worker in the Universalist Church. His
influence was State wide. He was Presi-
dent of our State Convention for eight
years and was as generous contributor
with his money as his faith was broad.
His funeral services wore conducted
by the writer at his home and attended
by large audience of sympathizing
friends.
Bro. Bonner leaves to mourn his loss.
besides his aged wife, two daughters
and three sons, all married and exem-
plary. useful, upright men and women.
He met his change with resignation and
desire, with full confidence and trust in
the glorious faith that to him was so
good to live by and was SO full of com.
fort and sustaining power and enabled
him gently to fall asleep in the arms of
Fathers love.
BLESSED sleep from which
No mortals wake to weep"
B. f. SHOOK.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-11-24

TX THE Canada Presbyterian says:
1.-The man with the intellectual essay
will soon kill the church, if the church
do not kill him." We have known cases
in which the death of the two was SIM
ultaneous, responds the Interior.
*** SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, in an al
dress to the Congress of the Interna-
tional Institute of Sociology. Paris, said
that in Great Britain, one third of the
taxation goes to pay for the wars of the
past, one-third in preparing for wars for
the future, and only third remains
for the needs of the country itself. What
a commentary this is in regard to the
history of war, and the waste and suf-
fering it infiicts upon people!
~ The recent appearance of Rev.
Washington GLADDEN. on the Central
church platform. elicits this testimonial
from the Evening Post: Mr.. GLADDEN.
is virile, broad American, of rich i'm
agination, rare culture and solid attain
ments. There is scarcely another ad-
vocate of all that Professor Swing cher
ished who is the equal of Washington
GLADDEN., for. without bigotry, he is pro-
foundry religious; without cant he is
persuasive and eloquent, and he is free
from fads as from fanaticism."
~ THE John Walter whose death
was recently announced was grand
son of the John Walter who founded the
London Times, January l, 17SS. He
owned nine-sixteenths of the paper,
which will pass by inheritance to his son.
Mr.. Walter built the present office OF the
Times and the great mansion at Bear
wood, and was especially noted for the
mechanical improvements he introduced
in the press rooms and composing rooms
of his newspaper.
~ Rev. EDWARD EVERETT HALE,
who was the subject of Vignette in
last weeks UNIvERsALIsT, contributed to
The Outlook not long ago a report
which the editors were compelled to
condense, and word sent him to that ef-
feet promptly brought the following re-
ply:
What know is that an editor is omnipotent,
and ought to be, and that nobody but fool
complains of what he does.
Truly Yours EDw L. HALE.
~ THE ritualistic branch of the
Anglican communion is putting forth
some remarkable juvenile literature, Of
which the following is fair sample. II
is from "a little catechism for little
children:"
once each month to my Confession
And to my Communion 60,
At G nfesslon / viii always
Tell out every sin know.
If Edward vi. had only put poets OF
this kind to death we do not imagine
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-11-24
THE MINISTER'S MEETING.

The ministers on Monday at the rooms
of the Western Branch discussed the
proposed Universalist Club for Chicago
and vicinity. After considering the
matter in detail-pro and con-the con-
clusion was reached that such a Club in
order to be successful should be under
the charge of the laity. The vote was
unanimous that such Club should be
organized and Mr.. G. E. Roberts of Oak
Park, Mr.. Swan of st. Paul's and Mr.. S.
n. Brooks of the Church of the Re
deemer, were made committee to con-
slider the matter and take the initial
steps for such. an organization.
The Secretary, Rev. r. F. Johonnot,
was by vote added TO the committee 10
represent the Ministers Meeting.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-11-24

On our first page this week the
readerwill find the statement OF the new
Financial Secretary of the General Con-
yeption. REV. DIR. HENRY w. RUGG, who
has established his office in Providence,
RI, and will henceforth devote him
self to the financial work of the church,
endeavoring to arouse new interest
among our people in the work of the Con-
vention and developing our financial re-
sources. DIR. Rugg brings to his new
office wide acquaintance with our
people, particularly in the Eastern
and middle States. He is one of the
men who believe that we can do very
much more as Church than we have
been in the habit of doing in the direc-
ton of missionary and church extension
work and this conviction will lend in
tensity, as we'll as intelligence, to his ef-
forts to work up our financial problems.
The Financial Secretary will be fire.
quently heard from in our columns. He
will be always welcome for he speaks
not alone for himself but for theChurch.
DIR. Rugg will hereafter be the official
exponent of the plans and policies which
may be adopted for the enlargement of
our Zion, and the general development
of our missionary work. May he send
out many bugle call to duty and may
his words always summon to the privil-
eyes and duties of an enlarging and
prosperous Church.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-11-24

Rev. Alanson Kelsey, one of the sweet
est spirits that ever blest the Universal
ist ministry, and an old veteran of our
faith, is no more of earth. He died at
the residence of his son law, j. G.
Carver, near Griffen, Ca, Nov. 10. Bro.
Kelsey was we'll known in Western New
York, where most of his ministerial life
was spent. There are many old friends
who will be panied to hear of his de-
parture.
Bro. Kelsey had reached venerable
years. We have not the date of his birth,
but he was ordained to the ministry 10
1915, and was probably nearing his four
score period if he had not passed beyond
it. He leaves the good name which is to
be chosen before great riches. and his
memory will be cherished. His minis
terial record was humble. but honorable.
A truly good man has ended the earthly
life.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-11-24
The Primitive Methodist Quarterly

The Primitive Methodist Quarterly
Review has, according to contempor-
airy, startled not a few orthodox people
by an article on THE Fall of Man." The
writer scouts the idea that the serpent
was the devil, and maintains that the
Fall was simply the birth Of conscience.
The Fall, in fact, becomes a rise-a rise
to an agonizing self consciousness, tor
turing sense of guilt, and a ceaseless
conflict with weakness and limitation.
Through sin, a1d the sense of sin, we
ultimately struggle upwards to place
of large life not attainable by any less
bitter or woful path. Mr.. Stead in COM
menting on this article in the Review of
Reviews, we'll says: ut would be inter-
esting if we could hear what the Prim-
tive Methodist fathers of twenty or even
ten years ago would have said to this"
Tt would be interesting, we may add, to
hear what the Primitive Methodists of
today have to say in regard to such re-
evolutionary opinions.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-11-24

DIR. SHEDD was pre-eminently a
theologian and probably the most out
and-out exponent of Calvinism that this
generation has seen. He had no sym
pathy with any divergence from the
standards which embody that faith. He
was hidebound and inf1exible in his
treatment of the doctrine of election and
concurrent Calvinistic dogmas. 1t is
we'll said that he stood for Calvinism
without variableness or shadow of turn
ing" His "DogmaticTheology," in three
volumes, is monumental work elaborat,
ing with great learning and patient re-
search into patristic lore, doctrines which
are now rapidly passing from dominion
over the human mind. He held pro-
fessor's chair at Union Seminary, but
his influence was largely overshadowed
by his more celebrated associate, DR.
Briggs; and it is one of the curiosities of
the time that such an extreme conser
alive as DIR. Shedd was placed in such
close relations with the now famous
and heretical DR.. Briggs. The Inter
Ocean in a notice of DR.. Shedd's death
remarks:"Dr. Briggs is more representa-
tive of the kind of teachers who are pre-
pairing young men for the ministry at
the present time. But whatever changes
may come in the theological trend Of the
pulpit, DIR. Shedd's great history will
stand DIS a monument of patristic learn
ing storehouse of knowledge in do
main of research which is no logger
attractive to the representative scholar
ship of the period. DR.. Shedd was a
logician of remarkable power. and un-
finching in his acceptance of what he
conceived to be the logic of his prem
Uses. One of his latest publications dis
cussed the future punishment of the
heather, and he showed no hesitation in
apply rigidly the doctrine of election,
or, as Rev. DIR. Holland put it recently,
the Ward Allisterism of God That
an orthodox clergyman of a conservative
denomination could use such an express
sion without offense is a striking illus
tration of the change from DR.. Shedd to
DR.. Briggs"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-11-24
"ORITIOISM AND FAITH"

This was the subject of the paper
read at the recent Western Confer
ence by President Cone, of Buchtel
College. 1t was paper which did
not lend itself readily to the report
er's skill and hence no abstract was
attempted at the time of the Confer
ence. The following paragraphs out
line the leading positions elaborated
in the paper and may be accepted in
place of the more extended report
which The UNIvERsALIsT would be
pleased to print were it ready to
hand:
In the course of human progress,
an adjustment is often necessary Of
men s religious beliefs to the changed
aspects of knowledge. This is Illus
trate in the conflict between religion
Tor more properly theology and sci
ence In the discussion of the rela-
ton OF criticism and religious belief
it is important to determine the char
acter and limitations of both. A con-
fict between the two is inevitable if
thelatter is regarded as including the
doctrine of the supernatural origin
and the infallibility of the writings
composing the Bible, or the identity
of Christianity and its historical doc
uments.
The task of criticism is to deter
mine the text of the writings of the
Bible, their character separately and
their relation to one another, their
language and style, their doctrinal
points of view, their purpose or "tend-
ency," the historical circumstances of
their composition, and their relation
to the thought of their age. 1t has
it's difficulties and its perils, and is
not an exact science. 1t can enter
tain no presuppositionsas to the char
acter of these writings which may de-
termine it's conclusions, since their
character must be settled by the re-
suits of it's operations. The theory of
their infallibility is, then, for it, an
impossible point of view. 1t must
approach them as literature, which
is to he treated like all other human
productions. On no other hypothesis
can they be really interpreted, since
writers who are to be interpreted must
be assumed to have written as men.
The various objections to the criti
cal procedure were then considered
and shown to be groundless. Here
upon the proper limits of religious
belief were considered, and it was
shown that the difficulty of reconcil-
ing it with criticism lies in it's includ-
ing matters of dogma which do not
belong to it, particularly the dogma
Of the infallibility of Scripture.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-11-24

phical writer's" Intuitions of the Mind
Inductively Considered" His admins
tration Of Princeton was very successful
and the college developed under his
charge into the splendid university
which is now one of the great education
al centers of the country. AS teacher
in his chosen field DIR. McCosh was al
ways popular with his students. DR..
Mcpherson, of this city was one OF his
students and he pays him this tribute:
"In some respects he was the sternest
teacher ever had. and think the best.
He had wonderful faculty for starting
a spirit Of inquiry in his students. He
knew how to guide their minds into re-
searches that would convince them Of
the correctness of his own opinions. If
after thought and research they failed
to agree with him that was almost as
great source of pleasure to him as it
would have been had they accepted his
beliefs. His greatest strength was in his
ability to arouse the minds OF those
about him to right thinking. He did
this out of the stores of an astonishingly
full mind and tremendous intellectual
energy"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-11-24
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER "a.
EDITORIAL.

IT was inferred week or two ago
by the Chicago press that Washington
GLADDEN. would be called to the pastoral
charge of Central church, Prof. Swings
organization. Since then the brilliant
young Presbyterian preacher of Evans
ton, DIR. N d. Hills, has preached from
that platform, and now the Chicago
papers are tumbling over each other in
their haste to install him in Prof Swings
pulpit In the mean time the church
gives no sign of calling anyone, but
proposes to hold regular services on Sun
day morning if the members of the con-
gregation provide the necessary funds.
They are being tested now on that par
ticular, and at present, all important
point
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-11-24

GEN. BOOTH, of the Salvation Army,
who is to visit Chicago this week, was
asked by newspaper interviewer, do
you think the millennium will come if the
whole world is converted to the Saliva
ton Army?" replied: ut would be very.
near at hand. If the newspaper men
were converted it would be very long
step in that direction" That was CEN
ter shot very handsomely aimed. Gen.
Booth, however, is always very kind to
the newspaper men. He readily grants
them interviews and there is no man
now before the public who knows how
to use the press to better advantage.
The Salvation Army is indebted to the
newspapers for large share of its pres
ent hold upon the attention of the pub
lip
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-11-24
PERSONAL.

Rev. Edgar Leavitt's parish at Santa
Cruz, CAL, gives him farewell recep.
ton Tuesday evening, Nov. 81 He will
leave Immediately after, sailing from
San Francisco for Japan, Dec. 4.
DIR. Sawyer, is reported by the Leader
as severely, though it is hoped not seri.
ously i'll. He had somewhat improved
by Monday evening of last week.
Rev. James Billings had birthday
party at the Hico, Texas, parsonage, No
vember Is. He duly celebrated his
eighty fifth birthday at home and the
next day started on an extended mis-
sionary tour throughout Texas. This
veteran has courage and faith and it is
his faith that keeps him young and
gives him courage.
Rev. E. Manford Clark has removed
from Bolton, Texas, to Hico in that
State and will assume charge of the
Billings parish at that place. He will
be good helper in the Texas missionary
work. Let his hands be held up and his
work encouraged by friends in the North
and South alike.
The members of the Hazelwood,
(Mass.,) parish gave reception the past
week to Rev. DIR. Rexford and Rev.
Thomas A. Dryer. President Palmer
made brief remarks stating that they
had assembled to bid adieu to Dr. Rex
ford and to welcome his successor.
Hazelwood is one of the parishes ad-
joining Roxbury which has received the
initial impulse from DR.. Rexford's min
istry.
The Fitchburg parish paper says:
every one present at the Semi Centen-
NAL Banquet, remembers the pathetic
letter from Rev. Charles Woodhouse,
read by the POSTMASTER Enfeebled by
illness, till his mind was very excitable
and weak, Mr.. Woodhouse had thought
himself able to come to the Anniversary
and looked forward with almost child
ish glee to seeing his old friends again.
His wife had written in the same mail
that they had humored the Doctor and
he had also written DIR. Fisher and Mr..
Harrington Sibley that he was coming.
In less than week later he had passed
to the other land, the homeland.
On Wednesday. October 81, at high
noon, Rev. Joseph Kimball Mason, DID,,
of Buffalo, N Y, was united in marriage
with Miss Laura Porter Lewis at the
home of the brides mother, Mrs. Rich
ard Lewis, of jamestown, N. Y, Rev. L.
II. Squires officiating. The clerical
guests were Rev. Messrs. Conklin, Nor
rell and Kirkpatrick. The Buffalo par
ish was represented by General and Mrs.
John G. Graves. The bride had many
and beautiful presents. and DR.. Mason's
friends expressed their esteem by the
presentation of several hundred dollars
in gold. Washington was included in
the bridal tour. The Editor of THE
UNIvERsALIsT. who knew the bride as
little girl in her parents home in Cincin
natl, sends congratulations and an album
dance of good wishes for the prosperity
and happiness of DIR. and Mrs. Mason.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-11-24

fully sing this song, for he had lived
it. He had his own troubles and af-
fictions, but he learned how to be
sunny and hopeful, kind and forgiv-
ing, and to shoot every cloud of fear
or darkness through with shining
countenance, as the sunshine fringes
with gold the dark edges of cloud.
There is something good in every
body. In our enemies there is some
thing lovable to us if we would dis
cover it. We should stand in the
attitude of helpfulness and love to-
ward all that we may do them
good and not harm. The only right
thing to do with an enemy is to win
his friendship and respect. To an
tagonize him is to increase the sum
of evil in the world. The time may
come when ones ability to help an
other is at an end; to abandon him
before that is sin. This was Jesus
teaching. and he died on the cross
with blessing on his lips for his
murderers because they knew not
what they did.
1t was customary in the days of the
Puritan fathers, and we find traces of
it in society today, to rebuke, threat
en- and antagonize the wrongdoer.
They supposed God had made hell
to keep such in as persisted in doing
evil, and they could best serve him
by standing in the relation of moral
and religious policemen to protect
society.
Our tendency is to overlook the
good in people by failing to get their
back ground of life. We fasten our
eyes on something in their outward
appearance that we do not like, their
social standing, or actions, or accent,
and thus put them beyond the pale
of our sympathies or the possibility
of help. These faults are sometimes
magnified through this means, until,
perhaps, a hundred things we would
like about the person never cross the
field of our vision.
We find, then, that it is a solemn
duty to think we'll of the world, that
we may a Id to it's comfort, JOY, and
happiness. The smile of approval, the
word of goodwill these are the
sunshine under whose influence all
the leaves and blossoms and beauti-
full things of life are brought out,
showing us their loneliness and fra
GRANGE. This is law of nature. The
seed or root that nestles snugly in its
little bed just beneath the surface of
the ground is not driven up into the
daylight by the clustering winds and
driving storms of winter. But the
friendliness of springs gentle zephyrs
and the inviting rains call them forth.
And as the inviting sunshine, the blue
of the sky, the sweet and gentle in
fuences call out the living things of
earth and turn them into forms of
beauty, so do kind words and deeds
affect us in the moral and social
world. A kind deed is a tremendous
power for good in the world, as well
as a mighty safeguard against the
encroachments of evil.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-11-24

Two eminent divines of the Pres
byterian Church have passed away dur
ing the last week,-Dr James McCosh of
Princeton College, New Jersey and DIR.
w. G. I. Shedd of the Union Theologi-
cal Seminary, New York. Dr. McCosh
was in his eighty third year. He retired
from the Presidency Of the College in
1888, giving place to DR.. F. E. Patton.
He was scholar and thinker OF world
wide renown, a philosophical and meta
physical writer Of great eminence in the
early years Of the second half OF the CEN
fury. DIR. MeCosh was Scotchman by
birth and while a professor in Queens
College, Belfast, wrote the work which
first gave him standing among philoso-