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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-16
THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS.
BY REV. JAMES GoRToN.

THERE are two points in regard to
the resurrection of Jesus, which have
seemed, to me at least, as of no small
Importance, which are not touched
upon in DR.. Shutters treatment of
that question, nor in DIR. Cranes
structures upon the views of DR.. Shut
ter. There can be no doubt that the
views set forth by DR.. Crane are those
which have generally been held by
the Christian church, and by our own
branch of that church, and for aught
l know they may still be the views
generally held in the Universalist
Church.
However this may be, our sympa-
thies and convictions under what we,
at least regard as permissible and
rational Interpretation of the New
Testament facts, are wholly in favor
of the view taken by DR.. Shutter.
DIR. Garfield, of st. Paul's church,
has published pamphlet on the res
direction, taking similar view, and
doubtless there are now not a few
eminent scholars and divines of our
own and other branches of the Chris
tian church taking that view; SO that
it is not something altogether new
and strange; it is not new and iso-
lated example of freak or idiosyn-
Grassy, limited exclusively to DIR.
Shutter.
But it is not that matter that con-
Germs me now. Let us admit DR..
Cranes theory of the resurrection,
what then?
If it means anything, fairly inter
preted, it means that the physical
body of Jesus, which died, and was
laid in the tomb, was revivifed-was
raised to life,-and that the soul of
Jesus, after the resurrection, inhabit-
ed the same physical body that it did
before his death; that this was the
same body that made numerous ap-
pearances after death, even contain
ing the old crucifxion wounds,
which Thomas was requested to ex-
anime, and into which he was re-
quested to thrust his hands. This
was also the same body that ate
bread and fish after the resurrection;
the same body, to all human appear
ances, and according to simple and
natural modes of understanding,
which finally ascended into heaven.
Now this may all be well enough for
those who believe in the physical res
direction, and who believe that these
same identical bodies that we now
inhabit, however sublimated, will all
be raised from the dead and consti-
tute the eternal abode of our resur-
rected and immortal spirits.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-16
OUR YOUTHFUL CONVENTION
BY A. ]. oANFIELD, D. D.

ACCORDING to Professor John Fiske
the superiority of man over other
animals is owing chiefly to the pro-
tracted period of human infancy.
Why may not the same rule apply to
societies and institutions, those of
superior worth being of slowest
growth? We have been in the habit
of talking as if the Universalist
Church was more than a hundred
years old, about the age of the Meth
odist Church. This is doubtless true
of it's leading doctrines. Its articu-
lated life, however, dates only from
the great meeting at Gloucester in
1870, the year previous to the famous
Chicago fire.
The twenty-five years that have
elapsed since then include almost the
entire history of our church as an or
ganized institution, doing denomina-
tional work in the world. Before that
epoch were hundred years of won
dering infancy, gradually awakening
into self-consciousness and evolving
intellectual order out of sentimental
nebula. On the dark background of
orthodox terror, Universalism first
appeared to prophetic eyes as faint
ly shining disk of promised good,
with shreds of quivering light pulsing
through vague and undetermined
outlines. Whirling movements around
tentative centers of various fantastic
shapes shot out and disappeared from
time to time. At length these spirit
ual scintillations coalesced into a
compact cosmos, similar to the civil
government OF the United States, and
very different from the Methodist
polity which was imported intact
from the old world.
Thus, as DIR. Sawyer declared at
Meriden, our denomination did not
spring into being like Minerva full
grown and thoroughly equipped for
immediate action. 1t grew from feeble
beginnings and measured its increas-
ing strength by repeated conflicts
with theological serpents which were
conquered from its cradle. This long
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-16
OUR CONTRIBUTORS.
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.
BY PRESIDENT I. M. ATWOOD. D. D.

THE PROPOSAL of DIR. Nash, made at
Meriden, to change the representation
in our General Convention so as to
make all our pastors members and nave
one representative from each parish, is
worth considering. If the pastors and
representatives would all attend. or even
one-half of them. we should have an
assembly imposing in numbers and pop
ular in composition. 1t would realize
DIR. Pullman's scheme for consensus.
Let us think about it.
That was an entertaining episode OF
the Meriden meeting in which our Pub
fishing House was discussed. The dele
gates talked with ease and without any
effort from any one to impose restraint.
1t reminded us of John A. Gurley going
down to the White House to tell Presi-
dent Lincoln what the people were
thinking and saying about the Admins
tration. "Greeley." said the President,
"that is not likely to make we vain; but
It may do me good. By the way, Gurley'
/ wish you could tell some of the people
what think of them"
The late DIR. Ryder was always a
frank and sometimes severe critic OF
our policies, papers, schools, literature.
But his example is instructive in this re-
spect, that he was, also, prompt and cor
dial in his appreciation of every we'll
intentioned UNCONVENTIONAL endeavor.
He was helpful critic. He was not
satisfied with our General Convention.
our schools, our Publishing House; but
he often said they we're $50 much better
than l ever expected" His confidence
in them and in the future of the church
was shown in the fact, that he made
them the repositories of the greater part
of his fortune.
The invested funds Of our Conven-
tions-State and National, are solid
dependence for means to carry on the
church's business; and it is sign OF
providence and permanence that such
funds are now part of the resources OF
nearly all these bodies. But broad
hint that invested funds cannot be their
main dependence is contained in the
fact, that the present income from them
is scarcely more than half what it was
few years ago. Massachusetts,, for ex-
ample, reports an income Of only 3d. 49,
Sc from permanent funds to the amount
of S7O,770.77.
Three or four years ago we made
reference to the annual report, or, year
book. of the Church of the Messiah, Phil
adelphia, commencing the matter and
manner of it. and recommending similar
annual statements and financial exhibits
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-16

period of unorganized liberty and in
dividual contention rendered the task
of orderly discipline somewhat diff
cult at the outset. But by patient
perseverance on the part of far-sight-
ed men and women, during the past
quarter of century it has been pull
ing itself together and realizing the
value of its own autonomy.
Much has already been accomp-
lished. We have now national or
ganization, democratic in character,
and sufficiently centralized for per-
petual Legislation, weak only in ex-
ecutive functions. The admirable
address of President Metcalf shows
what progress has been made in this
direction; but the signs of uneasiness
in the body over which he presided
manifested the fact that the adjust
ment of our ecclesiastical machinery
is not yet perfected. There are still
uneasy spirits among us who long for
something different from that which
exists. This ambitious uneasiness
proves the youthfulness of our or
ganization. One, at least, boasted of
having been in at the beginning, and
expressed distrust of trustee methods
on the ground of personal knowledge.
Others seemed to think that if certain
talking machines could get upon the
Board the millennium would surely
come. Among these latter were the
brethren of New York and Brooklyn,
most of whom managed to obtain
what they wanted, thus leaving the
West entirely unrepresented on the
Board of Trustees. No legislative
body can be effective unless it be
truly representative, and where two
thirds of the nation remains unrepre-
sented, it may be found difficult to
enforce legislation. The character
lstlc OF youth is to grow IN sections.
Hence l call the Meriden Convention
the outcome of an ardent desire to do
what large experience alone can really
accomplish. Yet there is no occasion
for dependency. The West will
abide its time. Two years more of
territorial administration may place
us in position to demand recogni-
ton. Meanwhile, callow youth is
certain to pass into the better bal
anced judgment of ripeness and
modesty. The lengthening term of
our pupilage predicts a future of cor.
responding splendor and success.
CHICAGO. November s.
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to our parishes generally. The sugges-
ton appears to have borne fruit. We
receive from time to time copies of such
parish ANIMALS, in most instances Vol. l.
Number l. In several cases we have
been served with the second number.
Among those with whom this is now an
established practice are st. Paul's. Chi
cago; Little Falls, N. Y; Newtonville,
Mass; Barre, VT. Stamford, Conn; All
Souls, Brooklyn and we know not how
many more. 1t should be the rule with
all our parishes.
st Paul said to the Corinthians, THE
gospel which l preached unto you."
The Rev. M. j. Savage may now say to
the Washingtonians, 1.-THE gospel which
| preached unto you" For he professed
to declare in his Washington sermon
the Unitarian gospel in contradistinction
to the orthodox gospel. In the first half
of his discourse he seems to have gone
back for his model and his material to
the Universalist preachers of half a
century ago. The account gives OF the
popular theology" is faithful trans
cript of the pictures drawn by Thomas,
Williamson, and Skinner. 1t strikes us
as somewhat out of date. The stroke OF
the fail is vigorous, but the sound is Of
much threshed straw.
in the second half of the dis
course we have the modern Unitarian
substitute for the orthodox gospel.
The obvious criticism on this gospel is,
that we have to take it wholly on Mr..
Savage's authority, as he expressly re-
pudiates any higher authority for it;
and since it is, in every item, thing
which no one can know to be so but
must receive entirely by faith, it seems
to hang tremendous weight on slen-
der thread. Nor is there need that Mr..
Savage should bear the strain. His
gospel, in all its larger aspects, is simply
the gospel of the Kingdom done into
pulpit parlance. Why not rest it on the
authority of him who first declared it
and who gave better evidence than any
competitor for his crown, that he knew
whereof he affirmed?
Now at last, it appears the "emanci-
patton of thought"has been accomplished
and Prof. Huxley did it. We always had
faith that the thing would be done, and
we are more than glad to have our trust
vindicated. The spectacle of thought
in manacles was never agreeable to us.
But the chains we're represented to be
SO many and so heavy, and thought itself
has always been such timid, shrinking
thing, that it was never quite clear to us
how the emancipation would be effected.
But it has been done as all great things
are done, while men slept" Mr.. Smalley
Of London and New York was, however,
awake at the moment and saw the act
of emancipation. He is sure Huxley
did it, though his account OF the trans
action is trife misty. But all will
agree that it was like Huxley to do it,
and it will be becoming in us to put
away skepticism in the premises and re-
joice, all together, that at last thought
is emancipated. 1t is to be hoped that
the old impostor who for 80 long has
masaueraded as "free thought" will now
get the doom his pretensions have SO
richly earned.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-16
CONTENTS.
CHICAGO, SATURDAY. NOV. 1e. 1895.

CHICAGO, SATURDAY. NOV. 16. 1895.
Page One.
Editorial Briefs.
The Resurrection of Jesus.
Missouri Convention.
Evils of the County Jail
Page Two.
Convention Address.
This Life and the Next.
New Books.
Literary Notes, etc.
Page Three.
The Sunday School Lesson.
Page Four.
Editorial:
Mr.. Alcott Steps Down and out
Returns of Japan Sunday
The TwO-FOid Nature of Man.
From Ultima Thule.
Centribr ticus for Japan Missions
Page Five.
Church News and Correspondence.
Page Six.
The Family Page. Farm, Garden and Dairy
Page Seven.
Our Boys and Girls.
Page Eight.
Church Notices and In MemOriam.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-16

-Blasphemy.-" alvin speaks of
babes span long crawling about the
floor of hell" Contemporary Review.
xvii; 900. Could the most inflated
savageism utter a more barbarous and
fiendish sentimentY
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IcoNrINuED ON PAGE EIGHT
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-07
TEXAS ENGINES NEVER IN FIRE.
Statement That They Were in"ig-
unutIy Dentcd-The Facts.

In connection with the recent break
down OF the new battle-ship Texas, the
following appeared in a New York paper
on Thursday:
when her engines were being construct
ed at the Richmond Iron-Works, Inc!
were tried by fire. and some say they
ought never to have been put IN the
ship
A Dispatch reporter called at the 10,
comotive- Works yesterday, and directed
the attention OF the managers TO the
paragraph Mr. Trigg. speaking Tor the
contractors. said: THE statement that
the Texas's machinery was In lire at our
works Is absolutely false
There was a fire at the Richmond Lo-
comotive- Works in March. 1891 which par
TALLY destroyed the boiler-shop Dullulngs,
in which the boilers of the 1eNaS VIZ
at that time. A board, appointed by the
government to ascertain the damage anu
pass on the question as TO whether or no,
any of the material for the IehiS coulu
be used condemned everything belonging
to the machinery ~ the pulldlng' an, No VIC ,e
replace all Of this work. which was done.
Not n pound of the Texas's machinery
was ever subjected to the fire -,
Further than this. it Is matter OF
spectors on hand throughout the whole
progress of the work. and nothing was
allowed to be used that did not conform
in all respects 10 the speclilcatohs unuer
which the machinery was constructed
The management of the Richmond 10,
comotive- Works are greatly incensed
over the reports which have been cir
culated, and say that in none OF these
has IL ever been limited eysn that the
machinery supplied by tl>.r works has
failed to perform whatever has been re.
uujred' of IL. The trouble in the several
breakdowns Of the Texas has always been
with her stearing gear or propeiiers. ana
neither OF these were supplied by the
Richmond Locomotive-Works.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-07

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checks. and other negotiipie pap, ~
sucb DAYS, The only change rruIcsfd Ly
the bin Is. TO ipaugurate me Sa'"''S
half holiday. ,.-t
s.rfIon g,7, OF tie code II virginia. g.
tablishIng the order of liability betwe."
allenees Of different aar.s OF -eaI cs'a'c'
subject to aliens or change .,n.r,ue
By Mr.. Newberne: For the RELIEF Oh
l. ~ Eason. "a. 81, ~ "
By MIR. Cooke: For the relief OF y, W.
Gibson. a disabled Confederate solueI.
az Air Rerkeiey: To amend cnap'e,
eoa of the Acts OF 1904. with reference
TO the game law along the ROANOKE n,v.,,
BY Mr.. Cooke: To amend anu Trans.
an act to incorporate the EhPh0
portation Company. - ,a ,ho
Nv AIR. Charles Smith: To amend inc
charter of the town Of Cape CharleS
nv Mr. HUBBARD: Amending anu s,,,
the time for the penalty on taxpayers -
Bv Mr.. S. W. Wood: To repeal an act
approved March 10. 1884. authorizing tne
Board OF Supervisors to dete,l 1,, o,,nsv
Nv Mr.. Hundley: To amend and re.
enact section Is OF an act entitl.d an az
10 Incorporate the town OF ,Is~s, ~ -,
The comfy of Nottoway. approved March
Nv, Mr.. Turpin: To repeal an act 10
nroyids for the establishment OF high
school for Bedford county ,ho
By NJ. Mccain: To incorporate 'he
Frederick Electric Railway Company.
BY MIR Cooke: To amend ana rs-em 's,t
section 2467 of the Code OF virginia, WIZ
reference TO the recording OF papers.
reducing the time for such recording rom
twenty to five days.
By Mr.. Mccain: To extend the tInc OF
commencing the construction of the Po-
tomac Western Railroad Company
The bin providing for permitting tne
toun of Culpeper TO borrow money was
taken from the calendar and passed.
The House adjourned at o'clock unui
Monday at noon.
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A TLANTIC-COAST LINE.

SCHEDULE EFFECTIVE SUNDAY,
DECEMBER |. 1896
TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND-uNlo
DEPOT.
200 A. NJ, Arrives Petersburg 9:3l A. NJ.
Norfolk II Is A. NJ. Stops only
at Petersburg. Waverly' ana
sos A. NJ. Arrives Petersburg $50 A. NJ.
Weldon IL: AS A: NJ, Fayet'e-
VILE 40 Il. NJ, Charleston
iiI3 p. NJ. Savannah l.io 4.
NJ. Jacksonville 1855 A. NJ,
Port Tampa 6D p. NJ.
Connects at Wilson with No
AZ, arriving Goldsboro 3:O5 y.
NJ, Wilmington 5:D /. IL
Pullman Sleeper New York to
Tampa via Jacksonville.
255 Z. NJ, Local, arrives Petersburg 5.i-
u. NJ Makes all stops.
$50 L. NJ, Arrives Petersburg 6:l9 +. NJ.
Norfolk $50 p. NJ. Makes all
stops.
7:So p. NJ, Arrives Petersburg sol p ~,
Weldon 9:i3 +. NJ, Fayetteville
1:O7 A. NJ. Charleston 6:25 A.
NJ. Savannah sos A. NJ, Jack
sonville 1880 p. NJ. Port
Tampa $50 p. NJ.
NEW LINE TO MIDDLE
GEORGIA POINTS.-Arriving
Aiken 7.22 A. NJ. Augusta so,
A. ~, Macon II A. NJ, Atlanta
l215 T.. NJ. Pullman Sleepers
New York to Wilmington,
Charleston. Jacksonville, Port
Tampa. Aiken. Augusta. and
Atlanta.
II 20 z. NJ, Arrives Petersburg 1925 A.
NJ, Burkeville 2ti a. NJ.
Lynchburg ass A. NJ, Roanoke
655 A. NJ. Bristol II 80 A. NJ.
Pullman sleeper Richmond to
Lynchbur2.
1913 A. NJ, Arrives Petersburg :o5 A. M.
Weldon ESQ A. NJ, Henderson
40i A. NJ. Raleigh 5:17 A. NJ.
Eberton 2:04 +. NJ. Atlanta
400 r. NJ. Pullman Sleeper
Washington TO Atlanta
TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND.
$40 A. NJ, From jacksonville, Savapnah,
Charleston. Atlanta Macon,
Augusta. and all points South.
$40 A. NJ. Atlanta. Athens. Raleigh.
Lynchburg. and the West.
sos A. VI. Petersburg Local.
II :O5 A. NJ. Norfolk. Suffolk. ana Peters
burg.
$40 L. NJ, Jacksonville > n 2 h,
Charleston, WILMINGTON, Colds
boro'. and all points South
200 +. NJ, Norfolk. SUFFOLK, Waveriy, ana
Petersburg, and Lynchburg
and the Wes,
s.23 Z. NJ. Petersburg Local
T. NJ. EMERSON,
]. r. KENLY. Traffic Manager.
General Manager.
G.. s. CAMPBELL
Sc % Division Passenger Agent.
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nArLR0Ap LINES.
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Nav Ap1ts|k:UsstsmR.a,
SCHEDULE IN EFFECT DEC. 4 ID.

LEAVE RICHMOND. BYRD-srRrs,
STATION.
800 A. N. Daily--kicngon ana No,,...
NESTIBJLS LIMIrFn -
rive Norfolk II % 4. III So, ~.
only at Petersburg Mas
and suffolk SeconS',Il.
tickets not accepted ,or ' -.s'
stge on this train. 1ss-
e:06 A. NJ. Daily. THE CHICAGO ~
PRESS for Lynchburv -
noke. Blueiie.d. Pocs1 n.A'
kenova, Columbus. and IA
cage. Pullman Buffet Sa...--
Roanoke TO Columbus 49,.
change, also, Tor R.s,'.i.
Bri-tol.. Knoxville. Chs,,1a,.ofs.
ga, and intermediate rS,e',too-
$50 Z. NJ. Daily. for Norfolk So
and INTERMEDIATE statio.s
rive Norfolk 800 =. NJ A.
1i:20 Z. NJ. Daily. for Roanoke. R.s,..,
Pulaski. and Bristol c'n'
meets at Roanoke ~.
noosa limited. Pulirn,,S ssais.
ers Roanoke TO Memp6iss 80.
New Orleans Also. fo- p.ni
field and Pocshoniss. a. -
Rocky Mount and an ,,,,,..-
Winston-Sslem Division
PULLMAN PALACE SLEEPER J..
ready for occupancy at Z. VI. ais. PM.
man Sleeper Petersburg 10 Roanoke U.s.
Trains arrive Richmond from Iv-.,
burg and the West daily $40 4. Nj ~.
y NJ. From Norfolk and the W
II c5 A. NJ. and vestibuled Limited 10
l.. NJ. r. w COURTNEy
District Passenger Agsn,
W. p. BEvffI.
General Passenger Age~,
General ONCE. Roanoke. Va So,
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No. q, daIIy Ior Atlanta ana points os-
yond with through Pullman service.
No. 403 "Vestibuled Limited Train.
Buffet Sleepers. Richmond to Atlanta.
Close connections at Atlanta for New
Orleans and all points South and South
west and at New Orleans with the South-
ern Pacific and Texas and Pacific rail
charge on .VestibuIed Trains
ARRIVE RICHMOND,
Limited W Train" $40 A. n, daily
No. IS. Mail and Express. Gas p. NJ.
daily.
apply 10 II. d. owen, Ticket Agent. Byrd
Street station: Richmond Transfer Com
pany, 90l east Main street, and Com
pany's office, $50 east Main street,
T.. ST. JOHN,
Vice President.
JOHN III. WINDER.
General Manager.
r. j. ANDERSON,
General Passenger Agent.
H. NJ. BOYKIN, City Passenger Agent.
s35 east Main street Sc y