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corps was halted by a pompous
Turkish official. No protestation
availing, the physician in charge
telegraphed Miss Barton in Constan-
tinople. Immediately she took the
message to the Porte, and within an
hour telegram was sent that nearly
took the breath of the bumptious
Turkish official and prostrated him
before the corps of physicians. With
alacrity he made every arrangement
for the safe conduct of the doctors,
and sent forward the telegram to all
officials along the line. None but a
woman, and that woman Clara Bar
ton, could have sent the Sultan on a
run to the nearest telegraph station
to order his underlings, on pain of
death, to afford every aid to Miss
Barton's men.
'Many incidents of this kind oc-
Cured and make the miraculous in
the story of Miss Barton's work.
"She planned her expeditions so
wisely that the whole field felt the
graciousness of her mission. With
woman's tact and insight she Sc
lected the very best men for the field.
She made no mistake in this. She
distributed in a way that made every
dollar of her $4,000 do the work of
thrice and sometimes quadruple this
amount. She helped the disheartenea
to help themselves. This is the high
wisdom of her work. and this has
characterized all her magnificent en-
terprises in America.
$50 highly esteemed did she be.
come and SO deeply respected and
loved that all tools, such as plows
rakes, ETC.. that bore the magic in
itial she had put upon them were
returned by the wild Kurds after be-
ing stolen by mistake in the wild
confusion of robbery expeditions.
"She conquered the wild barbarian
and the fanatical Turk as we'll. saved
the lives of thousands, gave hel
heart to many thousand more, left
whole communities comfortable
where desolation had reigned, anc
came home to be welcomed by the
American people, whose money she
has spent SO wisely and well.
"AIl honor to this poblest of wo
men. We may feel as nation proud
that she is of us, and an American
whose works are her glory and ours
as WE'LL"
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WALTER SOOTTS DIARIES AND
LETTERS.
BY HATTIE TYING GR1swoLD.

In re reading Lockhart's Life of
Walter Scott, have been more than
ever interested in the letters and
diaries. The real nature of the man
cemesout with great clearness in these
unstudied writings, though the noble
nature is well enough evinced in the
immortal poems and novels. The
story of Scott's life is known to all
the reading world today, but l have
thought that some of the personal
extracts from the letters and diaries
would interest others as they have
me, and | will transcribs a few of
them, with little regard to time or
place, or the general thread of the
story. In these days of scientific
charity it is pleasant to find that
Scott so long ago, and far away, got
at its root for himself, with no out
side experience at all to assist his
Judgment. He writes in 1917: Il
am glad to see you are turning your
mind to the state of the poor. Should
you enter into details on the subject
of the best mode of assisting them,
| should be happy to tell you the few
observations | have made-not on a
very small scale, either, considering
my fortune, for kept about thirty of
the laborers in my neighborhood in
constant employment this winter.
This | do not call charity, because
they executed some extensive plante-
tions and other works, which l could
never have got done so cheaply, and
which l always intended one day to
do. But neither was it altogether
selfish on my part, because was
putting myself to Inconvenience in
incurring the expense of several years
at once, and certainly would not have
done so, but to serve my honest neigh
'bors, who were likely to want work
but for such exertions. mention
this to you, because the rich, much
to their honor, do not, in general,
require to be so much stimulated to
beneyolence, as to be directed in the
most useful way to exert it,"
This last observation is as true to-
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and incorrect design, but splendidly
grouped and colored. Not so some
of the last work of his failing brain.
Even his publishers had to acknowl
edge the falling off when Count
Robert of Paris, was received. He
wrote at this time: "Here is prec.
ious job | have a formal remon-
STRANGE from those critical people,
Ballantine g. Cadell, against the last
volume of Count Robert, which is
within sheet of being finished. l
suspect the ir opinion will be found
to coincide with that of the public;
at least it is not different from my
own.
"The blow is stunning one, l sup
pose, for l scarcely feel it !.
Did l know how to begin l would
begin again this very day though |
know should sink at the end. After
all this is but fear and faintness of
heart, though of another kind from
that which trembles at loaded
pistol. My bodily strength is terribly
gone; perhaps my mental too" This
was shortly before that last journey
abroad from which he returned to
die. The last lay of the minstrel had
been sung. The harp was forever
silent, but the immortal music still
fingers on the air of Scotland and is
known throughout the world.
COLUMBUS, WIS.
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The Cone Reception.
(From Leader of Last Week
CORDIAL GREETING TO DIR. CONE.

The ministers assembled in goodly
number at the Thorndike last Monday,
and gave hearty welcome to DR.. Orello
Cone. Rev. DIR. j. M. Pullman presided.
He called on DIR. o. F. Stafford to invoke
the Divine blessing and with con-
seriousness of the kind Being from whom
they came, the company unitedly
shared the gifts spread before them.
While thus happily employed, DR..
Pullman gave notice that it would be
necessary for DR.. Toy to take an early
departure from their midst. and they
Immediately gave ear TO his address.
Remarks of Dr. C. I'll. Toy
This scholarly representative of Har-
ward said: Il am grateful for this op-
portunity to meet you all, and especially
to take by the hand my friend, DIR.
Cone. For many years l have been in
innate with him. He has my warmest
welcome to Boston and Cambridge, as a
devoted student of Biblical truth. Here
he will continue those studies in which
he has long been interested. For twenty
years the New Testament has engaged
the attention of scholars. Therefore
one is glad to recognize the useful labors
of man who has exercised his critical
power in this sphere of investigation.
The moral and religious bond which
holds together all classes of the Chris
tian world is the Bible. Sometimes we
need to be reminded that such book
exists, that it exists as stimulus and
encouragement to us in the path of duty.
The story is told of an educator who
said to his students, Having exhausted
the Bible, we will now take up the stu dy
of geology" But the Bible is a store
house of wisdom that finite minds can
never exhaust.
The minister fills peculiar sphere of
service. Other men can give instruction
in the science of ethics. But the minis
ter does not stand for morality merely.
He views morality as lofty ideal. AS a
conception of right and duty which is
connected with the central Spirit of the
universe. The Bible-the instrument
with which a minister teaches and
works-treats human life solely from a
religious point of view. 1t is a point of
view which is constantly eluding us, be-
cause the visible, material things of life
so often dominate our minds. The Bible
is not nicely constructed system of
theology or economics. 1t contains a
mass OF concrete experiences, colored
and throbbing with life, instinct with
vital reality. In the vast range and va
riety Of thought it comprehends no ca
cred book in the world equals the Bible
In concluding, let me express the hope
that DR.. Cone will have happy and
productive residence among us, and that
we may often meet each other.
The lines of elericals around those
Thorndike tables resumed the uncom-
pleted feast, and when the last viands
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-10-24
CONTENTS.
CHICAGO, SATURDAY. OCT. "a, 1896.
a RELIGIOUS AND FAMILY WEEKLY


Page One.
Editorial Briefs.
Walter Scott's Diaries and Letters.
Americas AlmOner."
The Cone Reception.
Page Two.
Every Day Church Sermon.
How is Universal Salvation Accomplished?
Page Three.
The Sunday School Lesson.
Page Four.
Edit )rial:
The Moral Forces of Universalism.
The Sibylline Oracles.
Fifty Years Ago.
Our Mission in Japan.
The Minister'S Meeting.
Death Of Rev. B. F. Foster.
Universalist Personal
Exchange Notes.
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.
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OUR CONTRIBUTORS.
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.
BY PRESIDENT I. M. ATWOOD, DID.

DU MAURIER and William Morris
pass very nearly at the same hour from
their neighboring studies and studios.
Each was an artist, though in different
way and degree; and each used his gift as
an artist in refining and ennobling COM
mon life. Morris is the more attractive
character; we are rot sure but he was
the greater artist. Du Maurier made
remarkable stroke with his one novel.
more dazzling, certainly. than anything
ever done by Morris. But the whole
work of Morris is much above the whole
work of Du Maurier.
Mr.. Elbert Hubbard. journalist, art
ist, author, traveller, but best known as
the inventor of the little periodical of
protest" The Philistine, published at
East Aurora, N Y, has made his fame
secure and his fortune uncertain, by
visit to Canton and some lectures to the
st. Lawrence University. Mr.. Hubbard
is quaint and entirely original style of
man, who has made his mark by fidelity
to his own mission. He is literary art
ist whom no mechanic has been permit
ted to spoil, and no milliner or per-
fumer to disguise. His sketches and
stories and pencilings by the way, have
a flavor all their own and very pleasant
to the taste. The students and their
severe oracles were alike taken captive
by Mr.. Hubbard's inimitable matter
and manner. A cordial welcome awaits
the Philistine whenever his journeyings
bring him again to Mecca.
The world is quickly responsive to
the presence of divine fire. One spark
of it in any human soul is long adored
1t thus comes to pass that men and
women with just trace Of the thing
recognized as genius have a place in the
literary or artistic pantheon. irrespective
of their character. II they are good
they get there of course; if they are bad
they do not fail on that account. This
leads to some moral confusion. Not
few persons mistake accidental asso-
citation for necessary and causal connec-
tion. Tney say that genius is always
'erratic." and they attempt to teach,
not only that illogical dogma, but its
converse,-that sound and clean and
conscientious people are incapable of
poetry and art.
Such shallow thinking is not evi
dence of genius. certainly. There is
just as much necessary connection be-
tween genius and flabby morality as
there is between wealth and wicked
ness or beauty and frailty. The stimu-
lus of the possession of power, of any
kind, strains the cords of self command.
The inctement intoxicates. Access Of
strange emotion, the flaming up of hid
den fire. perturbs the spirit. So all our
blessings overweight US at first aud tend
to make our steps unsteady. But il we
are men and not children, we do not
permit our Joy and treasure to make
fools of us. Least Of all do we betray
the weakness and the ingratitude of
offering our good as an excuse for our
evil. Genius is as compatible with
goodness as learning is with simplic-
ity
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1t occurs to us as we look over the
programs of the three Conferences now
impending. that it would be provocative
of interest all around il there should be
some exchanges among the speakers. II,
for example. some brethren from the
Western Conference should exchange
with some brethren from the Eastern
Conference, and il those of the Middle
States Conference should be exchanged
to some extent with both the others. it
would conduce to the public interest and
not improbably to the public good. By
taking the speakers in each case from
the territory of the Conference the
meetings acquire local character and
in time will be less attractive than one
of our State Conventions.
The Evening Post, Of New York, a
consistently clean sheet which it is al
ways profitable to read, is asking the
very pertinent question, whether the
public want criminal news in their news
paper, and whether they prefer it to all
other news. THIS is the notion with
which the new journalism" is possessed;
and it searches the earth daily for
crimes that it may not fail to lay before
its readers the delicacies they are sup
posed to covet. The Post suspects that
the journalists of the new school are in
error, and it proposes to them that they
take vote of their readers on series
of questions, the first of which shall be-
"Do you prefer crime to any other va.
riety of news?" The proposition is rea-
sonable. 1t is the only way to learn how
far our papers are catering to an evil
appetite and to what extent they are
creating it.
| The swiftness with which the
wheels 60 round is brought home to us
daily. How short while ago it is since
| Thomas and Skinner and Fisher and
Brooks and D. X. Lee and E. II. Chaplin
we're active leaders of our host II
seems only yesterday that Thayer and
Adams and Ryder we're conspicuous or
our stage. We cannot believe the cal
endar when it shows us that DR.. Miner
left US more than year ago. As We
muse how vividly comes before US long
procession of brethren, honored and be
loved, who were such large part Of
our little world, and so short time ago
The first year of our ministry in.
troduced US to a custom, then long in
vogue, now for sometime disused. The
author of a book of denomiI ational in
terest or value, often, if not usually
went about among the parishes and
made sale of it by personal solicitation
1t was in this way that we made the ac-
quaintance of W. E. Manley, author OF
the Biblical Review. We spent the bet
ter part of week driving him to and
fro over our comprehensive bishop
ric, selling. if we remember Alright, six
teen copies of the first volume of that
work. He was one of the few men
among US then entitled to be called a
scholar. We found him entertaining,
practical, progressive. as we'll as instruc-
tive. He had a students thirst for
knowledge and great application. He
loved study better than position, money
or pleasure.
CANTON THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL.
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Address-Rev. ID. NJ. Hodge.
Address-Dr. Pullman.

In the absence of DR.. Perrin, who was
imperatively kept away by the call of
pastoral duties. President Pullman
asked Mr.. Hodge to speak on "The Bible
and the People" Preliminary to the
topical thought. Bro. Hodge said: was
one of DIR. Cones students, and CRATE
fully recall that he introduced me to
Crosby's Greek Grammar, and to
knowledge of German gutterals. But
am still more indebted because he ac-
quainted me with German Biblical criti-
cism. | am thankful for the works in
which he has summarized the best re-
suits OF critical research, and the contri.
buttons made by himself to that depart
ment of literature. AS to the common
CONTINUED on FIFTH PAGE.)
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