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TWILL DO TO LIVE BY"

A ONCE stereotyped objection to
the Universalist faith declared:
"'Twill do to live by, but not to die
by" The latter half of the sentence
has been refuted on thousands of
happy death beds, and every life
squared by its divine principles, has
demonstrated its life giving power of
the cheerful gospel faith.
An interesting commentary on the
text is found in the neurology of the
Report of the Board of Trustees of
the General Convention for 1895.
Fourteen deaths are recorded. OF
those of our ministers who died dur
ing the year, one died by accident at
the age of thirty eight Edward
Payson Baldwin,-and the age of an
other, George Moses, is not given.
Of the other twelve, M. L. Hewett
was forty eight; Simeon Hovey was
eighty; Alanson Kelsey was eighty
five; A. w. Mason was eighty eight; A.
A. Miner was eighty-one; G. r. Moor
was seventy; La Fayette Porter was
sixty-eight; Aaron Smith was eighty
one; S. W. Squire was seventy-six:
T. HI. Tabor was seventy-one; A. o.
Warren was seventy eight, and
Charles Woodhouse was eighty-three.
The aggregate of the twelve is 907,
or an average of seventy-five years
and seven months! Verify there
must be something conducive to
length of years in faith whose pro-
fessors can show such record of
longevity. "'Twill do to live by"
J. WI.
PASADENA, CAL.
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Original in THE UNIvERsALIsT.
THE TORCH BEARERS.
BY HENRY N. DODGE.

Enthroned upon thine ancient, sea-girt isle,
Ruling thy vassal nations from afar,
Let no vague thought of conquest thee beguiIe
Where grows our constellation. star by star.
Nay. rather, we together hand in hand
Should go, the mighty champions of the free;
Should carry blessing to each darkened land
Where struggling patriots long for liberty;
Forth from the gloom and terror of the night,
Its crowding shapes of darkness held at bay,
Together bear the flaming torch of light
And lead the worlds procession on its way!
MoRRIsTowN, N. j.
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THE EFFECT of baptism of the Spirit
is quickening and expansion of spirit.
A revival of religion should be marked
by an access of those sentiments which
are summed up in the word charity. 1t
should produce breadth, friendliness,
fraternity. A revival that does not
break down the middle walls of parti-
ton but strengthens them, that does
not increase fellowship between church
es but draws new lines and makes the
old ones more tense, that does not raise
the temperature of the common religious
life of the community but communi-
Gates chill to kindly feeling and gener-
GUS aspirations, is not an unmixed bless
ing. 1t becomes a serious question how
much of such religion society can stand.
Zealots are probably useful in some
mysterious way; but that those of the
smaller variety who go up and down the
land infusing a narrow and literal spirit
into people not too broad and intelligent
already, could be spared without loss to
religion grows clearer year by year.
We have not been able to Olsen
tangle the confused and contradictory
reports of affairs in Armenia 80 as to
feel at all certain what the facts are.
For considerable period we read care
fully all dispatches and alleged cores
pondence that came in our way. But
our uncertainty grew with the accumu-
lation of cur supplied information.
There have been murders, massacres
and other atrocities; but we are not 80
clear as we should like to be that the
Turks and Kurds are the invariable ag
gressors, IL there is any corner of the
globe where an investigation is needed
it is in that portion of the Ottoman EN-
pire involved in these stories of outrages.
Turkey has unfortunately bad reputa-
tion. Anything may be believed of
her. She protests that she is maligned,
and she is not without defenders among
Europeans and Americans who profess to
know. Sending supplies and relief
party seems very inadequate method of
dealing with the matter if the case is as
represented; if it is not. the project is
futile. What the Christian world wants
is Trustworthy Information as to Arme-
mia and Turkey.
How large part of Christian and
refoImatory effolt is expended on re-
covery? The hundred men and women
reported as converted" in the recent re.
vivsl were fret perverted. They we're
not trained in the nurture and admoni
tion of the Lord and their feet early es.
tablished in the good and safe way of re-
ligion. They went on crooked or
worldly courses almost from the start.
There is no sufficient reason why they
should not have been like that other
hundred men and women, of the same
ages, who are and have been in the way
Of virtue snd righteousness. They have
been gtiug wrong when they should
have been going right. So now great
effort must be put forth to reclaim them
and to get them to do in lame and un.
satisfactory way what they should all
along have been doing easily and effec-
lively. 1t is pitiful to think of this waste
and loss. 1t is not stimulating either to
think how much time, talent, energy
must be absorbed in just getting these
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CONTENTS.
CHICAGO, SATURDAY, JAN. s5, 1896.
A RELIGIOUS AND FAMILY WEEKLY.

Page One.
Editorial Briefs.
The Effect of Death.
The Puget Sound Country.
Page Two.
The Voices and their Mission.
Uniyersalism Misunderstood.
The Post Office Mission.
Noted Men and Women.
Page Three.
The Sunday School Lesson.
Page -Four.
Editorial:
New Railway Station at Jerusalem.
The Chaplain's Prayer.
The ThroOp Offer to California.
The Journal of POet.-II.
Press Notes.
Page Five.
Church News and Correspondence.
Page Six.
The Family Page, Farm, Garden and Dairy
Page Seven.
Our Boys and Girls.
Page Eight.
News of the Week.
Church Notices and In Memoriam.
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way but incompleted represent cost Of
nearly 81 100000 more.


nearly 81 100000 more.
Let the man who thinks Tacoma is a
boom city" contemplate these figures
and then sit down and estimate how
rapid will be the growth of this marvel
GUS product of the new commercial era
upon which the civilized world is just
entering, when once the "hard times"
are over and money is again investing
itself freely. No man who loves his city
desires repetition of those exciting days
OF $3.50, with their reckless extravagan-
ces and public plumbers. But there is
not clear sighted business man in the
City of Destiny who does not know that
Tacoma must repeat those days of rapid
growth and busy enterprises. With her
magnificent situation. commanding al
ready SO much of the trans Pacific trade
as to disturb San Francisco with fears
that she is to lose her commerce to her
northern rival, there is no power on
earth can save Tacoma from another
boom with the first relaxation of our
country's finances.
And this is the goal toward which the
prophetic gaze of those early projectors
of the great trans continental road was
80 hopefully set. 1t was no idle dream
that nerved them to their gigantic task.
They saw a new great empire rising in
the rich. full regions of Puget Sound.
They knew the world q commercial high
way must find at last the line of least
resistance around the globe. In the linn
itless timber, coal, iron, gold, silver, al
uminum and agricultural resources
which extend over a territory greater
than all new England, with New York
and Pennsylvania added. theysaw the in
evitable rise of a commonwealth whose
development should mark the character
istic features of the Goth century of
American progress.
The map of the United States as it
was in 1872, looks strange beside the lat
est edition. Look forward and think
how strange the map of today will ap.
pear beside the one Of the year 1000, and
phOh SOu5lu0E Ill WuaL LQ0 Qr6aL0SG
changes will consist. The center of
transformation will lie at the head waters
of Puget Sound, on the shores of Com.
mencement Bay, where sits today the
proud young City of Destiny, whose
prophetic star, still in the ascendant,
points to future which no coming age
shall despise.
New thoroughfares across our cont.
nent will be established, new modes Of
travel devised. but it is doubtful if there
will ever be bolder, or more significant
enterprise than the plunging of the
Northern Pacific Railway out into the
undeveloped and almost unknown region
of the Northwest to point on Puget
Sound not down on the map. Some day
the full bearing of this pioneer line upon
the future of our northwest country will
be in ample evidence. Meanwhile let
the hopeful continue to hope, and let
the skeptic keep watchful eye upon
the northwest horizon.
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FIT. SCOTT. KAN

THE population Of Oregon, according
to the census just completed by the
county assessors, is 364. .762, an increase
of about 13 per cent over the govern.
ment census of 1890.
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PASADENA, CAL.

The grave of old John Brown,
~whose soul goes marching on" has
been purchased by the State of New
York.
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have too much esteem for God to
fear the devil.
A man who respects himself should
publish his book see no one, and forget
it.
The organs serve the mind but ill.
Malebranche was an idiot until the age
Of seventeen. A fall injured his head
which was trepanned. He became a
man of genius. Had Descartes been tre-
panned he might have become an idiot.
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EDITORIAL BRIEFS.

BY PRESIDENT I. M. ATWOOD. d.
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The herald., 1896-05-24

of the harbor commission. 1t was when
the champions of the people threatened
to carry the war onto their respective
floors that the emissaries of monopolis-
tic greed capitulated and permitted the
ratification by congress of the agree
ment that had been entered into when
the Frye amendment was acceded to In
the senate by Senator White.
The action in the premises or Frye
and Congressman Catchings. Hermann
and Hooker is fearfully suggestive OF
the influence that can be welded by
rich and constituencies lobbyist. and
reveals a condition that may well alarm
the honest, patriotic people of the coun-
try Senator Frye was prepared not only
to repudiate the course of the senate.
which he was in duty bound In confer
ence to sustain, but also to violate his
personal word, and Representatives
Hermann and Hooker executed
change of front in the matter that can
only be designated as absolutely and
unprecedentedly shameless. That men
who have been so long entrusted with
the sacred powers of representation in
what should be the highest and purest
legislative body in the world should so
openly serve the ends of inscriptions
wealth affords just cause for grave con-
Germ.
Where wealth accumulates and men
decay
The herald., 1896-05-24
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

DR.. James Martineau, the celebrated
English Unitarian divine, who was 81
years old last month, is described by
the English papers as in god health anG
keen and strong intellect.
The shah of Persia leaves a large and
well-assorted stock of widows, and, il
they all go into mourning at once. g
new national loan may be needed.-Mex-
lean Herald.
1t is announced that $40, 900 has been
raised in London for the Huxley memo
rial. which is to take the form of a
statue in the Natural History museum
and the establishment of a medal at the
Royal College of Science.
The late Baron Hirsch, notwithstand-
Ing his immense fortune, was a radical
of the radicals in his industrial and So
Geological views. Once. after listening
to socialist orator at Hyde Park, in
London, says the Chronicle. he turned
to friend saying: Il agree with eV-
cry word that man has said. / will
talk to him"
Thomas r. Reed is not an excitable
man, and can be, when he so wishes
very cool in the presence of a persist
ent interviewer. A Washington CORE
spondent recently attempted to obtain
Speaker Reeds views regarding several
important national issues. Young
man." said Reed solemnly. this prom
ises to be very lively baseball season. v
That was all that he would say for pub
LEGATION.
Mrs. Gladstone's devotion to the G. o.
NJ. is well known. On one occasion,
when about 10 years ago he was called
upon to speak in the open air at
Greenwich to an extremely hostile au.
dience, she won the day for him by
standing throughout by his side hold
ing an umbrella to shield his silvered
locks from the glare of the sun.
Representative Mccall of Massachu-
sets, like every member of the house.
has his trials and tribulations with con-
stituents who write to him for seeds.
But now and then the flood tide of clam
or for seeds, more Seeds" is interrupt
ed by some candid constituent who
don't want any seed. Here is one
Dear Mr. Call" he wrote, Il see by
the Boston papers that it is time to
pull congressmen's legs for seeds. You
were kind enough to send an assert
ment last year For heavens sake don't
send any this year"
Artists say that the most beautiful
home in England is that of Alma Ia
dema. r. A. Its most remarkable fea-
ture is the wall of the drawing room.
which Is paneled with tall slim pic
lures each of them by different paint
er-Leighton, Boughton, Sargent, Wits
tier and a score of artist friends. each
contributing to this remarkable decora-
ton. Another interesting feature is the
oak and ivory piano, on the inside lid of
which are inscribed the autographs of
the most celebrated singers and musi-
clans in the world
The European itinerary Of Ii Hung
Chang will probably embrace a wide
area. On arriving at Port Saaid Rus
sian warship will convey him to the
Black sea. The journey to Moscow will
be by special train. AS soon as the cor
onation fetes are over the viceroy will
pay brief visits to Berlin, Paris and
London. His arrival at London is not
expected before July. His projected
visit to the United States has not been
abandoned. Lii proposes, If possible, to
return home by the Atlantic and Pa
cific
The herald., 1896-05-24
SUNDAY, MAY "A, 1896
FOR THE PRECINCT PRIMARY

Upon the result Of yesterdays meet
ing of the Democratic county central
committee the Democrats Of this county
are to be felicitated. The opponents Of
the ward plan Of holding primaries
scored~a. triumph and in consequence
the e1Action of delegates to the next
countYcc4nvention will be by the Dem
ocrati@ and customary method of pre-
cinct Urinary. This decision Is in har-
mony with the preponderating senti-
ment Oh the party in Los Angeles county
and thsrefore will be received with en-
phatic satisfaction by the rank and file
who are only interested in doing that
which will conserve the interests of the
political organiza ton to which they
acknowledge allegiance. There existed
no reason for the change from the pre-
cinct to the ward primary; there were
abundant reasons why the change
should not be made. These reasons
have been given from time to time in
The Herald and were ably set forth yes
terday in the remarks Of those members
of the committee that lead in the oppo-
sition to the change.
Now that the kind and the date of the
primary have been determined on
every effort should be made by those
solicitcus for the partys welfare, to in
duce a full participation of Democrats
in the elections so that there may be an
assurance that the delegates selected
to go to the county convention will be
representative of the whole Los Angeles
county Democracy. The coming state
convention promises to be one Of the
most important in the history of the
party and the numerical strength of the
delegation from this county will alone
render it factor of great consequence
In that body. 1t will be potent for good
or evil, according TO the character of the
men composing it, and its composition
will depend on the makeup OF the
county convention that will be created
at the primary election that will be held
June 2. If the honest, intelligent mem
bership Of the Los Angeles county
Democracy will do It's duty at the pri-
mary the design of Buckley and the
Southern Pacific to secure a delega ton
to Sacramento that can be used to assist
the San Francisco Buckley representa-
ton in the latters efforts to break into
the state convention, can be easily de-
feated. and instead a delegation repre-
sentative Of the decency, the character
and the intelligence of the party be sent.
The herald., 1896-05-24
MckjnIey's Conslstencv
NSNIcy SoHSIKeHNy
McKtpIov's defop n arc n ava epoI

McKinley's defenders have pointed with
pride to a stump speech in August 1891.
in which he condemned free coinage. One
trouble about this speech is that. even
though Mckinley may have been right on
the silver question in August. 1891. he did
not stay SO long. Only two years later
in September. 1893 the Ohio financier was
making speeches on the same question
again. and this was the way he talked:
THE silver product of the country, one
Of the most important we have. Should
not be Disseminated against. but some
plan should be devised for its utilization
as a money which will insure, not the dis
placement of gold. but the safe and full
use of both. as exchanges among the peo-
ple'
This speech was delivered at most crit
ical time. President Cleveland had called
an extra session of congress for the ex-
press purpose of repeating the silver-pur-
chase act. and the house had promptly re-
sponded to his appeal But the senate halt
ed and hesitated for weeks, until the sound
money men of the country were almost in
despair 1t was in this gloomy period that
Mckinley raised his voice, not to help those
men of both parties who were fighting for
sound money against heavy odds, but to
help the other side by protesting against
any discrimination to the injury of silver
and derua nding the use OF silver as fully
as of gold.-New York Evening Post.
The herald., 1896-05-24
The Logical Candidate !

'The enthusiasm for Mckinley among
Republicans and in Republican papers is
good enough, but the enthusiasm for him
in the Democratic papers is not so good
There's where Brother Clarkson Is away
off again. That enthusiasm for Mckinley
in the Democratic papers is a product of
cannot fail to observe that the man who
knows how to manage his own business
affairs just well enough to become insol-
vent, is the very man to lead the party
which has twice thrown the country into
violent business commissions and brought
II to the verge OF bankruptcy. Observing
this. they point out from time 10 time
without the slightest trace of enthusiasm
in so doing. that the major is the logical
candidate Of bis nartY.-Chicago Chronicle
The herald., 1896-05-24
THE LARGEST OF ALL

This is the land Of enormous growths,
Flowers. fruit and pumpkins galore.
And the only state where the raisin Is
raised.
And where the fig trees grow by the door.
Alfalfa produces eight crops year,
Apricot trees yield fruit by the ton.
The corn silk grows to the top Of the
house
And opens its ears to the light of the
sun.
The VOLUNTEER" crop is surprisingly large,
And wnd-fall for settlers born tired.
The same eucalyptus can be cut many
times,
And a grove (for the wood may be hired.
Everything grows on tremendous scale
But the largest crop. perhaps, in the
land,
(Where can we go where there's not For
Sale')
Is the ubiquitous real-estate man.
j. r. MINER.
The herald., 1896-05-24
BOSTON oS SsS STORE
places where Paul was laboring to es-
tablish churches with the Christ spirit

places where Paul was laboring to es-
tablish churches with the Christ spirit
in them.
1 think Paul meant what he said:
"In Christ there Is neither Jew nor
Greek, bond nor free, male nor female.
Ye are all one in Christ"
So 1t is very evident to any candid and
truth-loving person that woman Is
just as acceptable in Gods kingdom as
a man Is, and that being so. in his king
dom which to any Christian is already
here on earth, and in full operation so
far as works and deeds are concerned,
in and outside the church. 1t naturally
follows that each and all must be their
own interpreters of what God has APP
pointed for them to do. Why woman
who is a true Christian should not speak
or teach in a church. or in any other
place. is indeed q very strange senti-
ment at this day and generation, and
he or she who does not see the signs of
the times and the utter shortening
on every hand to bring the world at
large nearer to Christ, Is indeed far in
the rear and does not understand
that an evolution in religious life
and work is of as much more impor-
tance as day is from night. There
ought to be. in all candor. Such a thing
as a graduation in Christians life. as
there are in all other branches of edu-
cation. in order to be progressive, and
effective in all good work. Many of our
good ministers never get beyond the
first cause in their effort to educate the
people to be firm and steadfast in their
faith. and to hold fast and at all times
study the Scriptures in order to keep a
firm hold on what God intended for
them to know. Paul said. THE letter
kills, but the spirit gives life" Again,
''the spirit makes you free; We are no
more in bondage" That is, when a
Christian is liberated and lives in God
in his soul and mind as he should, there
is no need Of being in a constant state
Of fear that this or that passage of Scrip
ture should be overlooked or forgotten,
by any Christian, at least. When any
person has received a thorough educa-
ton he does not have to go back to his
lessons all the time to find out If he had
an education; 1t is within him, and all
any sensible person will do Is to make
use Of the knowledge that he spent so
much time to obtain and add by expe-
rience much more to it all along lifes
Journey
God honored woman above "all liv-
Ing" and through her in Gods provi-
dence came the Redeemer OF Mankind;
was not that glorious mission? No
man has any right to relegate the wom-
an into any servitude or seclusion any
more than she has in regard to man.
Our Saviour did not. He sent woman
into city and she Converted that
whole city" Thousads of women in all
lands have no husband or homes to
shelter them, though all women are led
to understand that in a home she be-
longs and ought to stay, and nowhere
else. When men become more unset
fish (even ministers), and take to them
selves wives. as they should. 1t will then
be more tolerable, perhaps, to hear
them discuss womans sphere. ]. H.
The herald., 1896-05-24
A DANGEROUS SYMPTOM

Those congressional representatives of
the Huntington interests, Messrs Frye,
Hermann, Catchings and Hooker, have
had very narrow escape from some
very painful hide-lifting with Senator
White and Representative Mcguire as
e-lifters-in-c chief. 1t is plain that
only the bold, aggressive action of the
senator from Southern California and
the representative from the Fourth con-
gressional district prevented the con-
summation of the Huntington scheme t.
either defeat any appropriation for a
harbor for Los Angeles by forcing a dis
agreement in the conference COMMITTEES
or compelling assent to the proposition
Of the committee naming the members
The herald., 1896-05-24
Woman Speaking In Churches

Editor Herald: Noticing in your last
Sundays issue the opinion of one minis
ter of the gospel in regard to the ques-
ton of woman suffrage. he being de-
cidedly opposed to any woman having
the ballot on account of her sacred home
duties: Furthermore, that 1t is contrary
to the intent and teachings of scripture.
I do not think that he is right in his
Interpretation of holy writ If he so I'M
derstands il.
The Apostle Paul quotation. which one
hears so often, that it was a shame for
a woman 10 open her mouth and speak
in church. had no reference whatever
to any good and pure minded woman,
but was intended for the bad element
that was then predominating in those