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THE OUAKERS IN PENNSYLVANIA.

Under the mild rule of the Quakers
every phase of Professionalism hourished.
The history of the Moravians takes an
important place in the annals of the
State. Scotch Irish Presbyterianism is
inwoven with the whole story of the
frontier. Even the church of England
grew so strong that its leaders began to
think it unpleasant to be governed by
Quakers. The staid Quaker aristocracy
had to divide it's honors with its more
fashionable rival. Thus social life long
before the Revolution became cosmopol-
itan to some degree. while the various
elements of the population, as yet very
distinct one from another, each held it's
own place. There was even significant
settlement of Welshmen on the Schuyl-
kill at the close of the seventeenth CEN
tury, one which was slowly assimilated
by the surrounding population. 1t was
the Welshmen who first laid out the
Lancaster Turnpike, the beginning of
what is still known in States further
West as the National Road" With all
these various races. except the Germans
the process of assimilation went on more
or less rapidly. Even Huguenots, who
came in with the Germans, soon united
with the English speaking people.
Now it may have been only a coinci.
dence that this varied population was
the one which took the earliest steps in
science and the arts. The botanist,
Golden, belonged to population almost
as mixed as that of New York. But there
was nowhere else in the colonies about
the times of the Revolution such group
of men as Benjamin franklin, Da-
vid Rittenhouse, Ebenezer Kinnersley,
Thomas Hopkinson, Philip Syng, John
Baatram. Thomas Godfrey and the
great physicians ot that day. The hu-
name laws of the Quaker common
wealth were praised by Voltaire and
tested by DR.. Priestly.
1t was the air of Pennsylvania that
stimulated the naturalists. Wilson, Au.
dubon and Nuttsll. 1t could hardly
have been accidental that Philadelphia
should have been the centre of so early
an activity in all the new learning that
had barely begun to stir even Europe
itself. Some malicious persons have
suggested that Philadelphia's great men
we're never born within her limits. That
old toast about Franklin and Gallatin
will force itself upon the memory. But
it was a great deal at one time to have
created population and government
that welcomed great exiles from less
k ndlY regions Mr.. Fisher gives New
Euglanders a Roland for their Oliver
by insisting that, it Franklin had stayed
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OUR CONTRIBUTORS.
THE SOLAR ECLIPSE OF AUGUST 9
BY RICHARD BRAITHwAIT.

To the instructed observer of the
first total eclipse of the sun the spec
tacle must have been awe inspiring
and appalling, suggesting with viv-
idness no other phenomenon could
have done the visible end Of all
things, the dark wave of coming doom
in which the universe was to be swal-
lowed up. The sudden failing of the
light, the unearthly darkness spread
ing across the landscape with incred-
ible swiftness, the appearance of stars
in the funereal gloom that over
spread the heavens, were sufficient to
suggest to the uninstructed mind and
Imagination of humanity the day of
wrath and judgment when the
heavens should be rolled up as a
scroll and the light of the sun and
moon be extinguished. That this
was the actual impression of the ear
liest observers is sufficiently indicated
even yet in tradition and corroborated
by observation of the effect of eclip
ses even yet on savage tribes. In
Africa in the last total eclipse, that
of April 16, 1898, the British astrono.
mers stationed in the swampy regions
of Gambia on the west coast of Africa
found it necessary to instruct the ma
tives and keep guard upon them to
prevent their chanting and beating of
tomtoms during the eclipse. AS it
was, the natives showed evi lent signs
of fear and great hush seemed to
fall upon the earth as the last CLEAN
of sunlight died away.
But eclipses are now predicted
many years in advance, the minutes
oftheir occurrence at different places
on the earth, their duration and the
path of the moons shadow are def
nitely known aud the interest that
centers in this, the grandest OF all
celestial phenomena, is chiefly scien-
tifc, though to those who are SO for
tunate as to live in the line of central
shadow the phenomenon is always of
surprising interest to scientific and
unscientific alike. But these occa-
sions are rare, though the number of
solar eclipses is by no means small.
The path of the moons shadow
changes at every eclipse and hence it
occurs that no total eclipse of the sun
has been visible in England during
this century ana that in the United
States we will not witness a total
eclipse of the sun until May p, 1900,
when the line of totality will traverse
the southeastern part from Louisiana
to Virginia. Spain will be the point
of attraction to astronomers in the
eclipse of 1898 as Chill and Africa
were in that of 1898, or as Norway
and Japan were to the astronomers
of England and France and America
in the eclipse of last Sunday.
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te ,ture do not resemble those of any
trees extant, and it is not known
what they were botanically, but they
are now solid agate or chalcedony.
The desert sands have SO long been
played upon them by the desert
winds that they are often polished
into a beauty scarcely equaled by
any mineral product, and they are 80
hard that it requires hours of labor
to saw a stick few inches in diane
ter The visitors at the Worlds Col
umbian Exposition will remember
the beautiful specimens there on ex-
hibition. No onyx or cornelian
could compare with the exquisite
beauty Of their grain, and we were
told at the Exposition that in saving
log large enough for small table
top, wide saw was worn to ribbon.
One tree lies across a ravine un-
broken, forty four feet long, five feet
in diameter, one solid mass of chal-
cedony! The ends rest in sandstone,
as though after it had fallen the an
cient sea bottom had deposited it's
sand, which had in subsequent ages
become stone, and then had eroded
away, leaving this natural bridge. 1t
is one of the worlds most interesting
curiosities.
Besides these, there are the differ
ent tribes of Indians, the Zunis, or
sun worshipers, the Pueblos, whose
villages or pueblos are the oldest on
the continent, the wonderful desert
with its strange fora and fauna, the
marks of ancient volcano and glac-
ier, and other phenomena nowhere
else to be matched. There is food for
lifetime for the scientific, the anti
quarian, the curiosity hunter, the
lover of the strange and outre in
nature along the line of the Atlantic
and Pacific, on the road to Southern
California.
CHICAGO, August 8.
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A CLEVELAND CENTENNIAL
REVERE.
BY REV. oA.1L. E. IIENRY,

DOUBTLESS it would be exceedingly
interesting, in this centennial year in
which we boast so much of the coun-
try's progress in the sciences, in the
means of transportation and COM
munication, and in education, to
know just how much advance has
been made in religious idsas. Some
might not be willing to admit that
any advance has been made within
this period, but it is apparent to all
that great changes have come about.
When Moses Cleaveland's party sur
veyed this sandy plain the lurid glow
of the preaching of Jonathan Ed
wards and Samuel Hopkins was still
visible in the East. But few years
before the former theologian had rep
resented the soul of the natural man
as being held suspended by spiders
web over the roaring mouth of hell,
hated and loathed by God because
of mans depravity, while only the
infinite mercy of God kept the web
from breaking. "The view of the
misery of the damned" said Edwards,
"will double the ardor of the love and
gratitude of the saints in heaven" +"
Another said that this sight twill be
most entertaining to all who love
Goodwill give them the highest and
most ineffable pleasure. Should the
fires of this eternal punishment
cease it would in a great measure
obscure the light of heaven, and put
an end to great part of the happi.
ness and glory of the blessed" !"
These things were being said in New
England and it is probable that the
settlers from those States brought
such theology with them. 1t would
be interesting to read the first sermon
preached in Cleveland. In those
early days all the horrors and cruel
ties and insults against God that the
ingenuity of man could invent were
believed and taught. | can bring
you a man who heard what he calls
"red hot" sermon on infant damna-
tion in the Old Stone Church only
about twenty years ago, and he who
preached it is still alive and active
and useful.
Though l think that we are still
long way from the kingdom of God,
both in thought and fraternity of
spirit, it is evident that changes have
taken place. In 1895 to be Univer-
salist was a crime; in 1896 if it is
crime then this is very wicked city,
and there are thousands of criminals
in our churches, some hiding behind
the mask of orthodoxy, some openly
acknowledging their fault. In the
century's astonishing progress, re-
ligion, always conservative, is advanc-
ing with everything else.
With the change in ideas is coming
a change in the methods of the
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Tokyo, No. "a. Iadamachi
Rokathome Kojimachiku,

frludy, Jun6 70, 1876.
MY DEAR FRIEND: How | was glad to
receive your kind letter and am very
very sorry that l could not write you
for long while; please excuse me. We
closed our school with the last Friday
and we had nice happy Flower Sunday
with our children.
Now, my dear friend, | wish to tell
you about our "Children's Aid Society"
and our "Universalist Girls Home" Our
children's aid society consists with our
older children and the school workers.
1t has two committees in it. flower and
help. The flower committee is one to
visit the sick people or send some flowers
to those persens. The help committee is
one to keep things tidy and orderly. and
to look after all the things in our school
and church. Every Friday we had this
society during the last term. Miss Os-
born was the head of this society. She
is hoping if she can change this society
to the branch of ~. P. G. u" in Amer
lea. The members all tried their best
way to be good and kind to the others.
In the last March we commenced our
Universalist Girls Home" with three
promising girls. One is fourteen years
old and the others are both thirteen.
They are all nice girls in our schoo
and Sunday school; the oldest one is a
fine singer. OH how sweet her singing
sounds, and writing, reading are all ex-
client. They are trying very hard to
learn. We cannot hope perfect girls for
everything. so We are wanting that they
can help o, work afterward with what
they could. My mother is living with
those girls and she is teaching them sew
ing. cooking, and all the other work
which girls need at home. Now, my dear
ftiend the expense Of each girl is thirty
dollars year. And hope il some of
our dear friends will help this "ho me
work" how thankful We shall be- We
are wanting to have more girls into our
home. One of them hom we are wish
log to take in, has dirty, miserab-
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FROM THE SUNRISE KINGDOM.
CHICAGO. August 8

lr is with pleasure that we receive
permission to print from Onward this
week, letter recently received by
one of our active Unioners in Dor
chester, Mass, from Miss Imai, one
of the most gifted of our native young
women workers in Japan. The idiom
of the letter is charmingly quaint,
and the spirit none can mistake.
Her heart runs right on though the
pen falters. We are certain that the
words of this young woman, who has
but recently been brought under the
sway of our truth, will thrill all those
who read them, and we shall look for
many responses to her earnest ap-
peal. Scarcely a Union, Senior or
Junior, but that could raise the
amount necessary to give Japanese
girl years training under Unive sal
ist auspices. Many class in Sun
day school could do the same thing.
Many Ladies Aid" could educate
one Japanese girl each year. On
ward will acknowledge all funds for
warded for this purpose and will see
that the money reaches its destina
tion. 1t is extremely gratifying to
know what Miss Imai's letter so we'll
tells us, that Universalism in Japan
means not only the theory but the
process of Salvation.
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Certain Enthusiasts DANGEROUS
(The Commonwealth

Begging pardon of our young people,
both those who were at Washington
land thosel at Milwaukee, and also
those who would gladly have been with
them; begging pardon of them all, en-
thusiasm is dangerous. II our enthusi.
asm stands still and exhausts itself and
others and ourselves in noise, alas for
US; alas for it, The best machinery re-
duces friction and noise TO a minimum.
The wind that fills the sails seems to be
calm and without bluster, but it makes
the prov cut the water Give us en-
thusissm that fills the sails.
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in Boston, he would have Ewasted his
whole life simply in:putting Gown theo-
logical opposition to the freedom of
scientific thought;Twhile "in Pennsyl-
vania he found the ground already
cleared for him. and in all his numer-
GUS writings there is not sentence in
which he complains of any lack of liber-
ty in his adopted colony."-Nec York
Tribune
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CONTENT rs.
CHICAGO, SATURDAY. AUG. is. 1896

Page One.
The Solar Eclipse Of August 8.
On the Road to Southern California.
From the Sunrise Kingdom.
A Cleveland Centennial Reverie.
Selections.
Page Two.
Sermon: Exuberant Goodness.
Selected Articles.
Noted Men and Women.
Page Three.
The Sunday School Lesson.
Page Four.
Editorial:
Cardinal SatOlli's Successor.
The PerversiOn of Scripture.
The Tendency in Literature.
The Problem to be Solved.
The Site of Paradise.
Rev. B. F. SnOOk's Vacation.
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 IemOriam.
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ON THE ROAD TO SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA.
CINCINN ATT,
BY ]. W. HANSON, DID,.

In travelling to Southern California
by almost any railway, there are
wonders ca route that would amply
repay the requisite outlay, were there
not the added delights at the jour
ney's end. This is particularly true
of the Santa Fe system. The reader
may not know that this great CONT
mental chain consists of the three inn
mense links, the Santa Fe proper
from Chicago to Albuquerque; the At
lantic and Pacific from Albuquerque
to Barstow; and the Southern Cali
fornia from Barstow to San Diego
and Los Angeles. On the center
link of this trans continental-iron
chain are some of the most interest
ing of all the objects that fascinate
the traveller.
The Grand Canyon.
l have already attempted in these
columns to describe one of them, the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado, aud
have ever since been appalled, at my
temerity. Tom Moore sang:
take all the pleasures of all the spheres
And multiply each through endless years,
One minute of heaven is worth them alI.'
And it is rigidly true that all that
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The herald., 1896-10-28
THE VENEZUELAN QUESTION
Referred to by Engiand's Secre.
tary Of War
AN AMICABL E COMPROMISE
Seems Now to Be- Regarded as a C:..
talrty
I AMICABLE COMPROMISE
tt Only Doubt Expressed Refers to
Lands Beyond the Schomberg Lire.
Arbitration System Favored.

LONDON, Oct ef.--Thc marquis of
Larsdowns, secretary of state for wc-,
made an address o. political !-sues at
Leeds tonight. The speaker expres; ed
the belief that tire Venezuelan question
would 7oon be dsait with by an arb,tra-
tor or by an amicahe compromise.
Tn the eccr5e Of hts soverrmer t, he
said the II 6ian government felt the
gravest fears az to the possible loss of
life from fGmire. AVID WHgGes.ed that
the undertaking OF Irrigation works
would Go the most tcwards relieving s
distress.
neferli,,g to therecert statement OF
Sir Edward Clarke, that 70 impartial
avbit-r wcu,d decide in favor Of Great
Britain in the Eerc-uela1 question, the
marquis ass -rt.d that he wag given to
urserstn1d that SIR Edv 'rd on-y re-
ferred to the di.t!icts beyord the
ScIonhurg line, This, said the marquis,
was minor point, aid was open to
vice divergence of opinion, but he as
surod his hearers that Great Britain's
claim to the territory as whole was
not put forward without the most care
ful consideration. There was reason to
believe. he concluded, hat time was
approa chi-g when these questions would
be dealt with by en- arbiter. When the
time came, they would go to court, not
believing that every point would be CIV
en- In their favor, but confident that
their claims, at any rate, were supported
by evidence based on well-establ1shed
principles of International law.
The herald., 1896-10-28
ON THE TRACK.
Heavy Track and Fine Weather at Oak
land-Results.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 27.-Track at
Oakland heavy; weather fine.
Seven furlongs, selling-Hermanito
won, Tuxedo second, Zaragosa third;
time, 1885.
Six and one-half furlongs, two-year-
olds-Tea Rose won, Howard S. second,
Jay Wheeler third; time, 1923.
Six furlongs-Reddingto won, Jim
Bozeman second, Salisbury II third;
time, 1:19%.
Seven furlongs, handicap-Peter II
won, Sir Play second, Rosebud third
time, 1:331s.
Five and one-half furlongs, selling
Hymn won, Principal second Mic Mac
third; time, liza.
INGLESIDE RACES.
The following is the list of entries and
weights for the races at Ingleside which
are posted at the Los Angeles Turf club.
212 South Spring street. Commissions
received on these races, and full de-
scriptions of the events given. Races
begin at p. M; first quotations receiy-
ed at 1880 p. M:
First race, mile and seventy wards
purse-Instigator 106, Little Mid i10. Mamie
Scot, l07, .Strathrol LIS. Jack Richeieu liz
Second race two-year-olds. five and ono
half furlongs. .purse,MoInfiammator, iOs
Sdrandezia lQo. Alma 105. bohemian Lass
l05, Dolore lO5, Lou Lou 105, Sugar Foot
Third racs, opening day handicap ons
Mile-Caesarlan 110, St. Lee 1O0. I,fncnjr
II a. Alvarado 90. Wawona 100. Domier
The herald., 1896-10-28
rest for careless riding or driving, but
not as bicycle scorcher even then."-
New Yory Journal.
BONDS. JEWELS, MONEY.
A Moody Missionary Meeting Raises
$4,000 and Collateral.

Carnegie hall, Fifty-seventh street
and Seventh avenue, was filled to over
flowing at each Of the three meetings
held there Sunday under the auspices
Of the Christian Missionary alliance.
The feature of the afternoon AMI
evening services was the appearance of
Dr. Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist,
who delivered addresses at both meet
ings. The morning service was devoted
particularly to missionary work, and
the offerings were the largest ever re-
corded at similar gathering, aggre-
eating $4,000. The individual contribu-
tionS ranged from seven cents to $4,000.
The person who gave the $4,000 stipu-
lated that his name should not be made
public.
Other donations of $100, $4o0 and $500
were not uncommon, and one person
gave $1,000 United States bond, and
another, an enthusiastic merchant, III
interest in his business. Besides these
there were many pieces of jeWelry
handed in by the collectors which had
been given by those unable to make
contributions of money.
During the afternoon services an
other collection was taken, and from the
amounts on some of the cards read out
to the congregation by the Rev. DR.. A.
b. Simpson, several thousands of dol
lars more are to be added to the orig
inal amount. While DR.. Moody was dis
coursing at this meeting several en-
thusiasts were vehement in their ejacu-
lations of "Amen!" and GLORY be to
God" so much so that Mr.. Moody re-
quested them to delay shouting until he
had finished his address.
Miss May Agnew, who had for num-
ber of years been an adjutant in the Sal.
walton army, played the piano at the ev-
ening meeting, and was assisted by -FOUR
signed from the army three weeks ago
to join the missionary forces. Before
beginning his sermon Mr. Moody r.
ouested those present to silently pray
for our government. He said he had
never known a time when 1t needed
prayers more than now
MIR. Moody's remarks were character
istic of the man, and kept the large
audience in close attention until their
conclusion.-New York Times
The herald., 1896-10-28
HOW HENRY GEORGES OPINION
WAS FORMED

Early In September Henry George was
requested by the New York Journal to
make a tour of the so-called doubtful
states and to give to the public the re-
suit of his observations of the political
conditions prevailing there.
Before his reply was received the
news came from Maine of the increased
Republican majority at the state cleo
ton there. Then followed Mr.. George
answer, as follows:
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Sept. Is.
Editor New York Journal
In my opinion, confirmed by Maine,
the result is foregone. l believe, there
fore, that convinced free silver man
would be better to make the proposed
trip for the Journal than ], as candor is
sometimes uselessly painful to friends.
Will go ahead il you wish and do my
best to give exact truth as see 1t, but
both my feeling and judgment are
against this.
Would prefer to save my time and
your money by not beginning. Could
stop until tomorrow committee meet
ing for your private information If you
wish, though do not think could learn
anything not public. Otherwise would
start back. Advise me, Victoria hotel,
HENRY GEORGE.
In reply to this message was tele-
graphed to NJ. George requesting him
to stay for a short time and desribe the
situation as he saw it--that the Journal
wanted the truth.
On October 5th. Mr.. George, having
then spent three weeks in the doubtful
states, was requested to telegraph fol
the information of the editor of the
Journal his opinion of the probabilities
In reply he sent the following:
CLEVELAND, o., Oct 5th.
Editor New York Journal:
My belief is that Bryan will be
elected.
This is my carefully formed private
opinion. I congratulate Journal on the
good prospects, HENRY GEORGE.