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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-22
WniversaItst Personal.

DIR. Atwood has ended bis Western
soiourn and is again at home in Canton,
N.
Mr.. @. e. Harsh, Vice President of the
Iowa Convention, was among our callers
last week.
Rev. G. P. Nash has removed from
Holly, Mich, to 104 Tillman avenue,
Detroit. His correspondents will please
notice and govern themselves accord
ingly.
Mrs. G. A. Quinby, President of the
VIC. A., is now on visit to the West
She spent several days at Oak Park last
week and went from Chicago to Mime.
apolis on Thursday. We hope to see
her in this city again in few weeks.
Woman's Progress, Philadelphia
magazine. for January contains fine
likeness and biographical sketch of Mrs.
M. Louise Thomas of New York, 30 wide
ly known among us as one of our most
efficient church workers with an honor
able history strongly rooted in the past
Rev. DIR. A. j. Garfield took occasion
on Sunday morning to correct the ru-
NOR that he had been a candidate for
the Brooklyn pulpit he voluntarily va
Gated when he came to Chicago" His
name, he said. had never been before
his former parishioners with his con.
sent. A few scattered votes may have
been cast for him by warm personal
friends but entirely against his avowed
wishes. The New York papers repre-
sented that DR.. Garfield was candidate
for the passionate of the Church of our
Father and the report was copied in the
Chicago papers. Hence the "rumor"
now corrected. DR.. Pullman. of Lynn,
Mass, has been called. but his acceptance
is not yet announced.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-22

may the Church of the Good Shepherd
and its pastor prove worthy of her inter
est and the splendid gift.
At an early possibly in the next
paper-we shall give our readers an en-
craving of the Racine church dedicated
under such hopeful auspices. 1t is a
beautiful and convenient edifice. we'll
furnished and equipped for the uses of
the congregation. 1t is adorned with
handsome memorial windows, and is in
every way an attractive Sabbath home.
The parish is united in its pastor, and is
strong in devoted workers, and hopeful
for the future. All deserve the success
that has now crowned their efforts so
handsomely and more speedily than was
anticipated.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-22
A REQUEST


The Universalist Society at Portland,
Oregon, have called Rev. Frank Black.
ford, OF Eldorado. o., to become Its pas
tor and to take up the work in that at
present new and unworked field. He is
DESTROYS, even solicitous, for the hearty
cooperation of all friends of our faith in
the East. He desires a sympathy
which will aid him in bringing our PEG.
pie to knowledge Of this movement
and the significance of a Universalist
church in that city. This can be &C
complished by no more available means
at present than by personal solicitude
for those who have gone thither.
The pastor, in the behalf of those with
whom he will labor, asks of each reader,
OF each who is acquainted with the re-
quest. to send to the pastor at Portland,
Oregon. the name and address of any
Universalist who has gone to that State
to make it his home.
He farther asks the name, address and
a letter of introduction to any one in
that city upon whom any of our friends
would care to have the pastor call.
Importance is to be attached to this
request. 1t may be the means of inter
esting some whom the church might
otherwise be unable to reach. Let it be
carefully and promptly attended to in
hot .y,s4
sible may be given to this movement.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-22
Moses Knew Something

Sometimes it is said that Moses could
not write the Pentateuch, and if he
could the Israelites of his time could not
have read it nor understood it; but Pro
lessor Sayce, of Oxford, told the recent
church congress at Norwich, England,
that "the age of the Exodus was as lit
erary as that of the Renaissance in Eu-
rope. Babylon cities had Libraries then,
some of them six thousand years old,
and when Abraham was born Chaldee
poet was ending long period of verse
by writing poem in twelve books. >
NeaC York Advocate.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-22
DIR. Murray ON Satan.

1t would be upkind to accuse 80 good
and wise man as DR.. James A. III. Muir
ray of having soiourned too long with
the devil, and yet appearances are
against the great photographer. Ten
years ago DIR. Murray began the greatest
feat Of dictionary making yet known
1.-THE New England Dictionary on His
torical Principles" macmillan & CO..
The last installment. just out. has reach
ed only "Dev Diff" So much for the
magnitude OF the enterprise. But the
present installment contains curiosity
in the shape of the longest entry ever
made in any dictionary. And the sub
iectY The devil Through seventeen
and half columns Of solid minion and
agate type does DIR. Murray chase his
Satanic majesty. THE devil take him."
go TO the devil' The devil you say"
Hush, gentle reader, we do but quote
few subheads from the learned doctors
dictionary. Nor is this all the space
use 10 giving the devil his due. A horde
of demoniac derivatives claim three more
columns in this installment. and it is safe
to say that before DR.. Murray has done
with the devil he will have devoted
twenty five large folio pages to his I'M
hallowed memory. May one be pardoned
for wondering just here how many pages
DIR Murray. on the same scale, will devote
to GodY- Chicago Tribune.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-22
AN EXPLANATION.
To tie Editor of THE UNIvERsALIsT.

To tie Editor of THE UNIvERSALIST.
In view of the comments made by the
Ohio correspondent. fairness to all
parties requires a word of explanation
as to how l happen to be teaching a
Bible class in Buchtel College. The work
was undertaken not on my own respon-
sibility, which would have been an i'm
pertinence, and not merely at the re-
quest of the students, which would have
been discourteous. but by invitation of
the President was glad to do it, just
as was pleased when, some time ago.
DIR. Cone did NE the favor to take a
class in my Sabbath school, because
such an exchange of services tends to
emphasize the cordial relations that
ought to exist, and which does exist be-
tween the College and the local church.
j. F. THOMPSON.
AKRON. OHIO. Feb 10th. 1896.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-22

THE proposition to
Inc STANFORD uni endow a theological
versity Chair chair in the Leland
Stanford University was evidently not
sufficiently digested before placing it
before the public. The letter of Presi-
dent Jordan which is embraced in the
Throop communication is not encourag-
ing for the success of the plan if the
money were at hand. As the case is pre-
sented by the President we cannot see
how the Convention could endow chair
in that institution with any protection
to the Universalist UNCONVENTIONAL inter-
est involved. President Jordan's letter
is clear and explicit on this point. More
over it is given out that the University
may be closed if the decision of the Su-
preme Court upholds the government in
its suit against the Stanford estate. In
view of these considerations the PROPOSE
ton for the endowment of theological
chair may be regarded as substantially
closed. Unless some one comes to the
front speedily with $4,000 the Throop
Institute will secure its desirable rever-
sion under Mr.. Throop's will.
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800

AN interesting per
Honor OF sonal" may find ap-
Buchtel College nronriate Mace in
Woman. tbis colrmn of Tur
UN1vERsALIsT. Mrs. Lille R. Pardee,
who has been recently elected to the
Secretaryship of the Senate of the new
State of Utah is native of Ohio and was
graduated from Buchtel College, where
she received the highest honors ever
given to graduate of the institution.
Until her marriage four years ago she
was professor of Greek and Latin and in
structor in the gymnasium of the same
college. Her maiden name was Lille r.
Moore. James d. Pardee, an attorney
of Salt Lake City, is her husband. The
President of the senate in recommend.
ing Mrs. Pardee for Secretary of the SEN
ate, said: II recommend Mrs. Pardee by
reason of her fitness for the place. |
consider her work in the committee
rooms fully up to the standard of any
mans" All honor to this Buchtel Col
lege woman of redeemed Utah.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-22
Cannot Depend on Them.

People who are attracted to church
simply because they happen to admire
its pastor. or because they like its mem
bers, are not, as rule, the ones that
stand by that church in adversely or if
they move to another town can be relied
upon to affiliate with the church of our
faith there. Interest in the Universal
ist denomination makes one a vastly
more valuable helper in the home field.
-Onacard.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-22
Robertson Smiths Dictum.

Those who recall the late DIR. Robert
son Smiths searching, not to say scorch.
ing reply to Professor Tyndall's famous
Belfast address, will recognize the tenn
per of the man in his dictum that Hux-
ley and Tyndall could never have gained
such influence as they had, except "in
an age ipdulgent beyond most others to
ignorance which calls itself philosophy,
and blindness which calls itself scientific
doubt" This was the judgment of one
OF the most accomplished scholars Of
his y.-Northa0estern Advocate.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-22
The Presbyterian Million Fand.

The Presbyterians find that their Mil
lion Dollar Fund is coming in rather
slowly. According to the Presbyterian
about one third is in sight, but as to the
other two thirde, there does not seem to
be much prospect Of its appearing, as
already two thirds of the year has pass.
ed, and it scarcely seems probable that
the remaining two-thirds will be col.
lected in the short time before the next
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-22
UNIvERsALIsT PROFESSION OF FAITH.
ADOPTED 1903.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY %.
EDITORIAL.

The communication
Liz Anioop ooni which is printed this
niunlcaUlon' week from Throop
Polytechnic Institute reveals to the pub
lie what has been understood for some
time by the initiated, that Throop In
stitute does not desire the success of the
movement to raise $4,000 for Univer-
salist Theological school on the Pacific
slope. Naturally the Institute prefers
to inherit under the will Of Father
Throop the $4,000 which will revert to
it in case the additional $4,000 is not
secured by March 20, 1896. 1t now looks
as though the Institute would win
through the failure of the Convention to
secure the money within the specified
time. A great opportunity will pass if
the amount is not secured.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-22
Linooln's Confidence in the People.

There is nothing better to be remem-
bered in connection with the return of
Lincoln's birthday than his confidence in
the people. He believed in a govern
ment of the people, by the people, for
the people. He thought the people could
be fooled some of the time, part of them
all the time; but you cannot fool all the
people all the time" He said: you can
repeal the Missouri Compromise, or even
the Constitution. but you cannot repeal
human natures" and he knew that hui
man nature in the long run would insist
on justice.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-22
Our Illinois College Town.

Galesburg is city built by colleges
and better town is not in Illinois. Her
institutions of learning have attracted
the people of wealth, culture and infiu-
ence to make their home in that city
These people attracted industry and en-
terprise to their midst, built railroads,
manufactures and courthouses. This
is the natural history of the effects of
college.-LeaOistoac News.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-22

1T takes an English statesman to
put the case strong. Sir William Vernon
Harcourt, the Liberal leader of the
House of Commons, in his dashing at
tack on the government, anent the
Queens speech. describes the declara-
ton of Lord Salisbury in regard to Ar
menia as IAN unparalleled confession Of
diplomatic insolvency and national i'm.
potence."
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-22

Universalist Jeremy White) was the
chaplain of Oliver Cromwell; and states
that Universalist is now the chaplain
of the House of Commons; for Canon
Wilberforce is on the side of universal
redemption; the final holiness and hap
piness of all mankind. If any one doubts
the latter fact let them read Canon Will
berforces letter printed in the preface
to Allins "Universalism Asserted"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-22

A DISPATCH from Con-
MISS barton III stantinople of Tues.
Oonstantinople dav states that Clara
Barton. President of the American Red
Cross Society. has arrived and is organ
izing system for the distribution of re-
lief to the suffering Armenians. 1t is
believed that through the good offices of
Minister Terrell this Angel of Mercy
will be permitted to engage in her ever
blessed work. If the Sultan debars her
the "unspeakable Turk" will be more
unspeakable than ever. We hope for
the success of Miss Barton and with her
and her associates for the success of a
great and much needed humanitarian
work among the suffering Christians of
ancient and beautiful Armenia.
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of men, uniting all souls in one as a
pledge and assurance of the expul-
sion of all sin and the triumph of
good throughout the universe.
We can not grow up out of Christ,
but we can grow up in him and his
truth forever. In this subjective
sense, then, Christianity has become
progressive. 1t is progressively de-
veloped in our souls. 1t is received
by us as we are prepared to accept it
and apply it to our needs. We are
so constituted that we can not receive
all the truth at once. Our mental ca
pacities must be enlarged, our hearts
disciplined, our reason strengthened,
our conscience educated, our souls
freed from sin and error, our motives
changed and placed upon higher
level, our affections directed to nobler
objects, our sympathies enlarged, our
views expanded and broadened be-
fore we can comprehend in its power
and fullness "the truth as it is in
Jesus" Said the Saviour: eff any
man will do his will he shall know of
the doctrine, whether it be of Cod"
We must put ourselves into harmo-
NOUS relations with God and Christ,
in spirit and act, before we can learn
the truth as they are ready to reveal
it unto us.
This is the method of all human
progress in knowledge and progress
in religious truth especially. Judaism
prepared the way for Christianity,
the one partial, the other universal.
When in the fullness of time Christ
came, his system was gradually made
known to his apostles. So slow were
they in learning that it was not until
after his departure from them that
they understood the spiritual import
of the Gospel, and not until long
period after this, even, did they COM
prehend its broad and catholic prin
ciples, as embracing in its purpose
the Gentiles as well as the Jews.
And how slowly since have its higher
meanings been unfolded to the minds
of men, and amid what mass of err
rors and corruptions has the Chris
tan church entered into the present
measure of its attainments! But pro-
gress is constantly made in social
and individual life.
Just before his exit from the world,
Jesus said to his disciples: II have
yet many things to say to you, but
We can not bear them now" They
had not progressed enough to profit
from the new truths which he was
able to make known to them. Thus
it is with all of us. There are many
truths which we can not fully COM
prehend any more than child can
comprehend the more abstruse prob
lens of arithmetic or astronomy.
When our minds are prepared God
will reveal unto us all the truth that
we need. Robinson, in his address
to the Puritans before they left the
old world for the new, said: 1.-THE
Lord has more truth yet to break
forth out of his Holy Word"
s. So, 81 beseech you, be ready to
receive whatever truth shall be made
known to you, from the written word
of God" This is the state of mind
that prepares one for new truths.
We have not yet exhausted the truths
of the written Word. New truths
with richer meanings are yet to come
forth from it. ISL.
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AFTER having in earl.

AFTER having in earl
froI' honl~neS Ter years published
Testimony one OF the ablest scien.
tifc defences of Agnosticism. the late
Mr.. G. ]. Romsnes lived to write in
1927 have always felt-and the
older that grow feel more and more
that the two most precious things
in life are faith and love. Without them
life is all vanity and vexation of spirit
Few men (adds Christian LIFE had more
steadily and patiently prosecuted the
quest after truth than this great biolo-
gist. And on the very verge of death he
summed up his experience Of life in four
striking lines:
Enough Of sorrow for the heart 70 cry
mot for myself but for my KIND am :"
Enough OF sight for reason 70 disclose.
"The more lean, The less my X Owledge
grows"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-22
Interesting Notes.
Topics of the Day Discussed.
worship Victoria as a Divinity.

WORSHIP Victoria as Divinity.
There is sect in Orissa, in the Ben.
gal Presidency, who worship Her Maj.
esty, Queen Victoria, as their chief di-
vinity. Col. Graham discovered that
Her Majesty was also an object of wor-
ship in the temple of the Phodong Lama,
at Tumloong, in Thibet.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-22

The Atlantic Monthly has made an
inquiry of ten thousand teachers and
uperintendents of public schools con-
corning the actual status of teachers and
the schools in every part of the Union
The replies from the best informed men
in the work in every State give at first
hand information that contains much
encouragement. but much discourage
ment also. The excessive size of classes,
the instability of great masses Of teach
ers, the insecurity Of their positions, in
some communities the petty political
and religious interference these "con-
fessions" are startling and shocking. A
general summary of the results of this
interesting inquiry, by President G..
Stanley Hall, will appear in the March
Atlantic.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-22

1t is not generally known that Abra-
ham Lincoln was entitled to affix the LII.
d. to his name. 1t is now announced that
the honorary degree of doctor of laws
was conferred on him by Knox College,
of Galesburg, at its 1860 commencement
exercises. He had just been nominated
for president few weeks previous. This
fact ought to ensure picture OF Knox
College in Miss Tarbell's life of Lincoln
now publishing in McClure's magazine.
where illustration is so Interestingly
employed to represent everything re-
garding Lincoln. What find it would
be to discover an autograph OF Lincoln
with the LID. attached!
500
-"Some people," remarks John Nc
Neill, the Scotch preacher, wear their
doubts like cockade in their cap as
badge Of intellectual superiority" We
have known just such cases, but the
sorry spectacle seldom deceives any one.
Doubt may be honest and is sometimes
admirable, but of itself it is never sign
of profound thinking or mental integrity.
Frequently it signifies the reverse of
this.
500
-"Of all the senseless babble have
ever had occasion to read" said the late
Professor Huxley "the demonstrations of
those philosophers who undertake to tell
US all about the nature of God would be
the worst. if they we're not surpassed by
the still greater absurdities of the phil
osophers who try to prove that there is
no God"
500
1t is we'll known by this time that
the chaplain of the House OF Represen-
tatives is a UniVersalist clergyman.
Christian Life recalls the fact that a
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-22

1t is we'll known by this time that
the chaplain of the House of Represen-
tatives is a Universalist clergyman.
Christian Life recalls the fact that a
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-22

AKRON. OHIO. Feb. 10th. 1896.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-14
TO LEARN ABOUT FISH.

*. Ito Here to Collect Information for
the Japanese Government.
K Ito, who arrived on the Doric, has
come to the United States as special
agent for the Japanese Government to in
vestigste the fish business in this country.
my purpose" said he yesterday, at the
Occidental, sis to find out all can about
the cultivation, capture. preparation and
marketing of fish in the United States.
First shall visit the New England coast.
| shall also examine the inland fisheries.
Then, on my return, shall make careful
investigations and inquiries on the Pacific
Coast. How long shall be engaged / do
not know, but l mean to learn all that
there is to be learned from necessarily
hasty investigation of so large territory"
Mr.. Ito is resident of Hokodate, Japan,
and is apparentlv.about 35 years of age.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-14

feet of hydrogen, which will support it in
the air for twenty-four hours if necessary.
A light steel cable 1900 feet long will
anchor it to the ground. The balloon is
so constructed that the upper portion
forms parachute and if the lower part
should be puncturcd and the gas escape
tn occupants of the basket would come
down gently. as in a parachute descent
and would not be seriously injured. In
case the station below should be taken the
occupants of the balloon can cut loose The
cable and sail away.
The two aeronauts are not going to Cuba
as Cuban sympathizers. The dangerous
undertakings merely matter of business
with them. The necessary funds are fur
nished by the Cuban sympathizers in the
United States through the Cuban Junta
in New York. Within couple of weeks,
probably when the rainy season shall have
closed in Cuba, the aeronauts with their
outfit will sail for Cuba in some fast
steamer which will be pretty sure to land
them on the island.
After landing on the island the balloon