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indissoluble. This is the saving
power, the power which enlightens
the world and gives hope to all the
ages. If you will take the Bible and ar
range it in its successive ages you will
have the key which will unlock the
mystery of the word of God. The
types, symbols and prophecies will at
once grow clearer and palmer. The
good tidings of salvation shall be
unto all people, and how can they
be unto all people, unless they ex-
tend through the ages, and all people
hear the gospel of salvation? The
world cannot hear without preacher,
and it cannot accept and believe with
out an understanding heart. Neither
can it hear if it will not hear; but the
world must finally, sooner or later, be-
come eager and willing to hear. We
have faith that it will.
1t is rank heresy to the Word of
God to think that he hardens some
hearts for the express purpose of fu-
ture torment. But men are apt to be
like what they worship, and the man
who worships such a God as this
can hardly be otherwise than narrow,
cold and cruel, because he is making
an effort to walk in the footsteps of
what he worships. We naturally de-
sire to initiate our leader, and 80 men
of the middle ages were cruel and
revengeful, because they believed
that God was cruel and revengeful.
This idea had such a strong hold
upon the minds of men, that for hun
dreds of years after Christ's coming
they could not wholly eradicate it
and teach a doctrine of love and
mercy.
Jesus is revelation of the Father,
and if we have learned Jesus to be
merciful, and loving, and kind, we
have also learned God to be; for he
can be nothing else if he sent the
Son as revelation of himself. God
is love. tits his love and mercy that
saves a wandering world. And as
Jesus came to reveal the Fathers love
it is the mission of the church to re
veal the love and glory of the Saviour
of men. This the true church will un-
hesitatingly and unswervingly do;
and sooner or later all men will be
reached and saved, by this power OF
love, and grace, and truth, which he
80 wonderfully shows.
PLAIN CITY, o.
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PURIFIED BY FIRE.
BY ERMINA C. STRAY.


For our God IL a consuming fire." Hebrews
xii. 30.
We aret told in the Scriptures more
than hundred times that Gods
mercy endureth forever. We are also
told that God is love, that his great
and holy love prompted him to send
Jesus to save world of sinners lost
Some one may ask, How can we recon
cile those passages of Scripture with
the above text, "For our God is a
consuming fire." We feel that we
should hold losing position if we
could not reconcile many passages of
Scripture which look contradictory
and thus cause dissension and strife
in the church. We say, therefore, that
the first principle of Goodness is love,
for God is love, and his mercy endur-
eth forever, and it is that very love
which prompted him to kindle his
cleansing fires, to burn and destroy
sin in the breast of man.
If we perform our duty through a
feeling of fear and a desire for the
promised reward, it is, at best, but
half-hearted service, lacking the love
of the truth on our part which should
prompt obedience; whereas if love
prompts it even the humblest deed is
beautifed and glorified whether that
love be to God or the brethren. And
we can sacrifice much for our human
brotherhood knowing that it is done
for him, as we'll. Love, then, is the
first and highest attribute in Gods
nature, and so should it be in our ma
ture.
We see this love of God mani
tested in the revealed plan of saliva
tion for the ages, which covers the
Patriarchal, Jewish, Gospel and mil,
lennial ages. God reveals himself
through Christ and through his love
aud truth he saves and sanctifes the
soul.
Our Heavenly Father is too often
looked upon, and altogether too often
pictured asa stern, unbeuding Judge
who required the life of this only Son
to appease his wrath against a world
of sinners lost, when all the while the
Son was only the Father revealed; or
in other words, the Father was in the
Son, reconciling the world to himself.
That is the figure of unity repre-
sented in the Father and the Son. A
union of purpose and plan which is
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Cabin" and his opinion was asked.
"Well," said he, after long and
critical examination, II should say
that that is the way Hattie Stowe
ought to look, but doesn't"
Although reared Presbyterian,
and all her life intimately associated
with preachers of what is termed an
orthodox" denomination, she was
truly catholic in recognition of the
good in all. Some of her choicest
contributions to critical text were
descriptions of old world cathedrals,
historic paintings in Roman church
es, and prose poems apropes of
sanity service among the fathers
Her "Agnes of Sorrento" is tribute
to the goodness and graciousness of
the latter day apostles, who, in the
fellowship of prophets, joined the
noble army of martyrs and marched
through the worlds wilderness, seek
ing fields of labor in the interest of
their Lord.
Mrs. Stowe was called visionary,
but it was her exceptional good for
tune to see her visions realized, and
to hear her prayers answered. The
secret of her life was disclosed when
she wrote:
when winds are raging DER the upper ocean,
And billows wild contend with angry roar.
IT'S said far down, beneath the wild commotion,
That peaceful Stiffness reigneth evermore.
$50 to the heart that knows thy love. . Purestl
There is temple, sacred evermore;
And all the babble of life's angry voices
Dies in hushed stiffness at its peaceful door,
A good, a useful woman.
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"REMINISCENCES OF HARRIET BEE
CHER STOWE.
BY JOSEPH HOWARD. JR.

HARRIET BEEcHER Stowe will be for
ever known as the author of ''Uncle
Toms Cabin" She was the daugh-
ter OF a distinguished clergyman,
himself an orator and vital force of
NJ small proportions. For many
years Lyman Beecher was the leading
mind in the Protestant denomination
regnant in New England. His six or
seven sons became clergymen also,
and it was natural that the girls of
the family, inheriting the sturdy in
tellect and humane heart of their dis
tinguished father, should in some
degree, illustrate also the benefit of
illustrous parentage. Catherine Bee
cher was the earliest of our American
women to appreciate the advantages
of an education which should fit the
girls of today to become the women
of tomorrow, and as far back as 1927
she was the principal of successful
seminary in Hartford which had
been established many years, and to
which she brought her young sister
Harriet, then fifteen years of age, as
an assistant teacher. From that time
until within ten or twelve years ago,
Mrs. Stowe, who married early in life
Protestant preacher of large and
varied scholastic attainments, served
her generation by teaching and writ
ing. While her father was president
of Lane Theological Seminary, where
her husband was a professor, she
wrote frequently for the periodicals
of the day, and published, somewhere
in the forties, volume of sketches
entitled the "Maydower," and dozen
or more Sunday-school stories. 1t
is now forty-four years since Mrs.
Stowe began her great work, "Uncle
Toms Cabin" in the Nation al Era,
an anti-slavery newspaper, published
in Washington, DC. 1t was subse-
quently published in book form, at
tanning a sale then of half million
copies, was reproduced in Great Bri-
tain, where something more than
million copies were sold, was trans
lated into French, German, and Rus
sian, reaching a sale in those langua-
ges of something like half million,
and from that time on, in forms cheap
or rich, has been republished, so that
its total sales may be fairly estimated
at considerably over two millions of
copies. Mrs. Stowe was invited to
Great Britain by the Duchess OF
Sutherland, and became instantly the
lion of the hour. Public receptions
were held in her honor. Grand social
demonstrations were made by the
titled humane OF England. Every
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The sentimentalists are wont to plead
for mercy for the man who robs, shoots.
cuts, or murders while drunk. There is
wholesome tonic in the decision of Jus.
tice Morris. of the court of appeals at
Washington, d. c.: 1--WE hold emphati-
cIlly as the law of the District of Co.
lumbia that voluntary intoxication is
neither an excuse nor a palliation for
crime. Voluntary intoxication is itself
crime, at least in morals, if not always
in law. 1t is always at least a vice.
And it would be subversive of all law
and all morals if the commission of one
vice or crime could be permitted to oper-
ate as an excuse or palliation for another
crime"
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and Of the press through its most au-
thoritative oracles. With this religious
and moral demand conspires the halt
called by Industrial, commercial and
economic causes. We cannot all be rich:
we can all be righteous. This is the
Gospel for the times"
"A scene never to be erased from the
memory of those who witnessed it was
PARTICIPATED in by throng of happy
people at Natural Bridge N. Y. last
Sunday afternoon. In the morning the
new pastor, DIR. L. w. Brigham, had
been ordained and installed by most i'm
pressive and inspiring ceremonies. At
four o'clock service of reception Of
members and the communion was held.
The pas tor had the promise of nine can
didates; but when he called them to take
positions around the altar, 10. there
we're twenty four! 1t was an almost
overwhelming introduction to his minis
try. His first official act was to welcome
these new members into his church.
Twenty OF them were baptized, after
which all we're given the Right Hand of
fellowship. the young pastor conducting
the services with remarkable self-com
mand though with profound emotion.
The theory that the "hard times"
are in large part due to the bicycle
mania is not supported by conditions in
England. There are more bicycles in
use in that country than in this in pro-
portion to population; yet the prosperity
Of England, as evinced by the financial
reports of the government and Of trade
was never more general than during the
present year. A great amount Of money
has gone into the wheel and some of that
money has been withdrawn from other
lines of expenditure; but it has not been
withdrawn from circulation. The bicy-
Gle mania might make it hard for some
industries. but it could not make hard
times.
DIR. Geo. H. Wells, now sojourning
in Japan, writes home in strain of de-
predatory criticism Of the country and
its memorials. "Their finest architec-
ture is coarse and poor compared with
that of any other people" We cannot
help distrusting DR.. Wells competency
to judge in such matter We remem-
ber the impression made on us by the
samples of furnished houses of different
nations at the Chicago Exposition. The
Japanese house surpassed all the others
to our mind in perfection of finish. The
English, German. French, and Ameri-
can houses appeared coarse and clumsy
in comparison. There was delicacy of
touch, a perfection of symmetry, re
finement of utility in the Japanese and
it's furniture which awakened surprise
and admiration. We returned to the
spot again and again and dwelt on the
contrast. We can we'll believe that the
architecture of japan lacks majesty and
strength; but we can scarcely accept the
dictum that it is coarse,
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CONTENTS.
CHICAGO, SATURDAY. JULY IL. 1896
Page Ono.
A RELIGIOUS AND FAMILY WEEKLY


Editorial Briefs.
Purified by Fire.
"reminiscences Of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
How to Start and Hold On"
Important Home Suggestions.
Page Two.
Minnesota Convention Address.
"The Coming Unity of the Spirit"
Page Three.
The Sunday School Lesson.
Page Four.
Ed itorial:
An Institution to be ReckOned With.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
BuchteIs Commencement.
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.
Fox River Association.
Rev. HI. Slade's Trip to California.
Church Notices and In MemOriam.
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WE HAVE been much interested by the
effort making among Unitarians to in
stitute Young Peoples Societies after
the similitude of those so prosperouely
established by the Universalists. We
are in cordial sympathy with the en-
deavor and wish it the largest success.
So little reference has been made in the
discussions to the example and work OF
the Universalist Y. P. G. Unions, as to
warrant the inference that the Unitarian
societies are to have, not only name and
basis of their own but an Independent
vocation. The disposition to be original
in their religion has taken possession of
the Unitarians. 1t induces something
of the same artifciality which DIR.
Holmes noted in the modern makers of
hymns. Tricks of statement cannot be
made to take the place of fundamental
verities.
Our neighbor, the Register, needs
looking after. 1t was said of Whitefeld,
not Bishop1 Heber. that he could "move
an audience to tears by pronouncing the
word Mesopotamia." And the inquiry
of young minister addressed to Presi-
dent Kirkland in the Registers version.
comes from a much remoter antiquity.
For long we supposed President Dwight,
of Yale. to have been the original of the
story; but we have found it fastened on
Principals in Scotland. Bishops in Eng
land and Doctors in Germany. We sus.
pect it is tradition coming down from
st. Chrysostom, who once said he could
preach daily, but that it took him months
to make sermon.
The testimony of President Eliot,
given at the Universalist Social Union,
that "the distinctive tenet of final uni.
versal salvation is Enthusiastically the
goal toward which all modern thought
tends" accords with the observation OF
the most careful students Of modern
thinking. We have often given it as the
result of our own study and observation,
that religious thought gravitates stead
lily and quite swiftly to one or the other
of two goals-atheism or Universal
ism. President Eliot is as keen OBJ.
server with large opportunities. His
testimony that the goal is universal sal
walton and not atheism supports us in
the most welcome manner. All forms
of what was once orthodoxy are now
halfway houses-halting places on the
march to resting place at once for
thought and for faith. The human
mind cannot stop at any other goal than
that to which President Eliot perceives
that it tends.
1t is fact of which the greedy
should take heed. that along with the
great aggregation of wealth in the hands
Of a few ndividuals-relatively
corporations, there arises the most dis
tinct protest against monopoly and lux.
ury that has been made in modern times.
And it comes now from sources not
only entitled to respect but from sources
which must be respected. 1t is becom-
ing the voice of the.church, through its
representative ministers. and Of the uni
versities through their great teachers,
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HOW TO START AND HOLD ON"
BY REV. HENRY GILLESPIE.

The call for a cure to prevent
churches from dying after having
begun under seemingly auspicious
circumstances suggests the follow
ing: Build churches upon the "Foun-
dation that is laid" and trust their
local management to those who, hav
ing perceived the truth, have also the
courage to confess it by church men,
bership, and love enough to turn
about their ways and live it accord
ing to the recognized morality of the
times in which it is the province of
Universalists to lead. A church so
established is like we'll born indi-
vidual,-has no inherent weakness to
disease and no tendencies to vicious
ness.
To found church in this manner,
making no truce with sin, requires a
far greater outlay than to found one
upon 'desire to promote righteous
ness," etc. This latter method, when
not consciously yoked with the sin of
expediency, Jocks with blind eyes upon
the fact that belief is the source of
thought and deed and that personal
indenfcation with the truth is very
important element of a moral life.
The sequence of the church SO foun-
ded is that its much priced liberal
ism becomes cover for license, while
the morality that it teaches must be
begged or stolen, personal sense of
duty vanishes, while discouragement
and petty ambitions supervene. Then
the tale of woe begins, because be-
levers have been unequally yoked
with unbelievers or have not laid
aside every sin which doth so easily
beset us.
Let our ministry once and for all
disown expediency, and standing
shoulder to shoulder defy all the
hosts of evil and WELD like men the
sword of truth, having no terms for the
adversary but unconditional surren-
der" to the faith and love entrusted
to our care.
The foregoing will remove the
cause of blockaded, intermittent and
perverted work in Universalist mis-
sions.
The cure for the cases now on hand
is to place the local management as
it should have been at its incep-
ton. Anything short of this is theo-
logical quackery. The object having
been announced and begun in par
ish already discouraged and confused
by repeated failures and unsatisfac-
tory church relations, should be main
tanned until accomplished, and no
attempt should be begun without
counting the cost. Better let the par
ish rest with yearly sermon or two
than to begin and then leave after
the first flush of enthusiasm has past
and few stubborn obstacles been
encountered. The State Conven-
tion should give material aid when
necessary and the work be given
careful supervision by the State Min
isterial Conference, beside the pray
ers, cordial endorsement and SYM
pathy of the entire denomination.
Circuit work, settled pastorates and
revivals all have their place in the
effort, which will not be easy, for the
case is chronic one, but with such
wisdom, ability and patience as we
are able to exercise, depending upon
the inherent goodness Of all men and
the God above, us there, is for Uniyer.
salism no such word as fail.
MANCHESTER, IA.
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Some well-diggers near Dickinson,
N. D., the other day came across human
skull at depth of forty feet and below
four foot vein of coal. Could the true
story of how that skull came there be
told it would be more interesting than
any yet told by the greatest novelist and
in addition there is fascinating posi-
bility that its telling might require re-
casting of accepted theories in geology
aud might even Danish the shibboleth
of modern STANDARDIZATION
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OUR CONTRIBUTORS.
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.

BY PRESIDENT I. M. ATWOOD, DID.
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-20
Fine Residence Lots on E


The Beers are race of hunters, as
we'll as pastoralists, and the Transvaal
Beers especially have been engaged in 4
war of determination Qamentable to the
lover Of animal life) against every spe-
cies Of wild beast. Numbers of them
have been occupied ever since boyhood
in the hunting of elephants. buffaloes,
lions, rhincceroses and other heavy
game. They have practically exterminat-
ed the elephant south Of the Zambezi,
and the buffalo is becoming very scarce.
No man who understands South African
hunting can pretend to say that the
chase Of these animals is not danger
GUS one, requiring the highest qualities
of nerve ard courage. will not cay
that the average Boer hunter will, by
way of recreation, face the lion single
handed in the way that the great Eng
lish manifestations, Oswell, VardOn,
Gordon Cumming. Baldwin and others
have accustomed us to. Few hunters,
indeed, are so quixotic. The Boer treats
the lion as dangerous vermiD, if posi-
BILE obtains help from his fellows. and
as a matter of business Stays him by a
vOlley. But hundreds Of Beers have
slain lions single handed, and hundreds
have been mauled and even killed by
lions. London Globe.
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The Pope,s Private Apartments.

To the pope's bedroom only his pri-
vate valet and his secretaries have ac-
cess. 1t is of small dimensions, and con-
tains only bed, in an alcove adorned
with graceful marble columns, a writ
ing table, an armchair and kneeling
stool and one wardrobe.
Besides these, there is his private
study, III which the table and chair
stand upon little carpeted platform.
other tables being placed on each side
upon the floor, together with an ex-
tremely uncomfortable but magnificent
straight backed armchair, which is one
of the gifts offered ON the occasion of
the episcopal jubilee. There is, more
over, a little room containing only an
old lounge and an old fashioned easy
chair with wings" and nothing else.
1t is here that the holy father retires
to take his afternoon nap, and the ro-
bust nature of his nerves is proved by
the fact that he lies down with his eyes
facing the broad light of the window.
This private apartment occupies the
second floor, according to Italian reckon
ing, though We Americans should call i;
the third. 1t is on level with Raphael's
loggie. The floor above it is inhabited
by Cardinal Rampolla, the secretary OF
state.-Marion Crawford in Century.
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sand as . Filter.

1t is well known that the thickness Of
the layer of line sand in filtering beds
cannot be reduced beyond certain point
without endangering the quality Of the
water that filters through. DR.. Kurth Of
Bremen has found in examining water
filtered through layer not sufficiently
thick that the number Of bacteria was
greatly increased. owing to the presence
of special microbe that could not be
found in the water before il entered the
filter. These microbes must therefore
have existed in the filtering material
and have been developed by the passage
Of water through it.-Exchange.