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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-07
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.

The Universalist Sunday school Union
of Chicago held it's first bi-monthly
meeting of the season at the Church of
Our Father on Thursday afternoon and
evening. October 30. Despite the inclem-
emit weather there was goodly number
in attendance and every Sunday
school in Cook county was represented.
Mrs. Louise j. Pearson, of the Ryder
Memorial Sunday school. read an excel
lent paper on Our Sunday School as a
Factor in Philanthropic Work" which
was followed by reports from the other
Sunday-schools as to what is being done
in this direction. Rev. Robert Jardine,
pastor of the Church of Our Father, gave
an interesting exposition of the Inter
national Sunday School Lesson for the
following Sunday. Supper was served
by the ladies of the church.
The Question Box" was unusually
prolific of subjects for discussion.
Among other pertinent suggestions was
one to the effect that our pastors should
endeavor to interest parents in the work
of the SundaY-school by brief talks on
the subject preceding their usual morn
ing sermons. Mr.. w. Q. Van Glider,
Superintendent of the Sunday school of
the Church of Our Father. dealt with
1.-THE value and Importance of the Uni
versalist Sunday School Union" in an in
teresting manner. The next meeting
will be held at Oak Park early in Janu-
arv
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cess of salvation is one of great men,
tai, moral and religious excitement.
1t is a moral revolution of mans
whole nature and being, and it only
comes as the result of supreme and
continued effort. We are commanded
to work out our salvation with fear
and trembling. Thought, feeling,
volition and action must be put into
it. THAT man may do this work, God
works in him to will and to do his
good pleasure"
God and his church, the infinite
and the finite, are united with man in
the effort to work out his own saliva
ton. They are under divine and
human influence that operates on the
intellect, reason, conscience and af-
lection in helping men to reform
their lives, and build strong, pure
and noble characters. Salvation is,
therefore, divine and human work
in which goodness and mans graft
tude, Gods holiness and mans con-
seriousness. Gods truth and mans
reason, Gods love and mans heart
come into harmony. W. t.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-07
O0RDIALITY IN CHURCH RELA-
TI0NS.

ONE of the essentials to the largest
development of church and parish
life, alike in the great city and the
country church, is warm, social,
friendly spirit and habit among its
members. Cordiality is one of the
great attractions in any congregation.
We do not take readily to chilly
and cloudy atmosphere, but we
hasten to bask in a CHEEKY sunshine.
We come gladly to the Preside, to
warmth and sunshine everywhere.
Goodness is an element of death and
repels all. We come gladly also to
the company in church or elsewhere
where the social thermometer indi-
Gates a genial temperature and we
are made welcome in their friendly
spirit.
A hearty parish greeting to strang-
ers is one of the finest cards of in
vitation to come once more, and to
come to stay; but a neglect of this
winning grace, and the environment
of social GOODNESS, sends them away to
return no more.
All around us are souls of excel
lent qualities that feel the need of a
kindly and refined greeting more
than they feel any other need. They
are perhaps away from home and
their old associates; they are pos
sibly lonely through sorrow and
weary with many cares; and the
church friend that reaches to them a
sympathetic hand and gives them
warm welcome is the one that will
win them to its fellowship, and Sc
cure them as a part of its various
power. Let us make ready and gent
al place for hearts if we would en-
large our ranks in the church.
There is an indifference to this So
cial requirement in many congrega-
tions which needs to be overcome.
Often it is referred to wrong source,
suchgas ain aristocratic and exclusive
feeling, and desire not to mingle
with those outside of certain class
or set; but more frequently it is the
result of a general Indifference and
not of any studied desire to give the
cold shoulder.
People are often thoughtless in
this direction; they simply need
to be aroused to the duty of extend
ing courtesy and attention to strans
ers frequenting the church, and of
developing cordial relations among
the members. If it comes from the
more ignoble source mentioned, and
is the result of any decided exclusive
ness or class distinction, it is some
thing which must be eliminated alto
gether or the church will suffer and
finally die out from the want of the
proper social, and we may add,
Christian spirit among its members.
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"G0D A CONSUMING FIRE"

So Paul wrote to the Hebrews.
(See the last verse of chapter twelve.)
What then? Is God therefore our
enemy? He loved the world while
it was dead in trespasses and sins.
He pronounced all things which he
had made good from the beginning.
He sends his people sun and rain. He
makes the earth soft with showers to
give seed to the sower and bread to
the eater. When did he begin to hate
his people? In what sense is God a
consuming fire! Surely ina fgurative
sense. And what does the figure rep
resent, an enemy or friends The
heather gods were indeed angry be-
cause PrometheRs stole fire from
heaven and brought it downto earth.
But there is no tradition that the fire
was a curse. Though God himself
be represented as a consuming fire,
does it therefore follow that fire is a
curse, is an enemy? The answer
wholly depends upon what shall be
consumed by the fire. The unquali-
fed language of Paul does not deter
mine that the deity will do us harm.
Hence it has been qualified to illus
trate the thought of the dark ages.
"God out of Christ is a consuming
fire." is the favorite language of cruel
belief. But even this adulterated
Scripture needs Interpretation. 1t is
absurd tosuppose that God is ''out of
Christ" or ever will be. For in
Christ dwelleth all the Godhead
bodily. When our brethren use this
proverb and say that God out
of Christ is consuming fire" we
may suppose that they mean he is
consuming fire to every body who
does not believe in Christ. But our
brethren deserve no credit for be-
lieving that. We have no contro.
versy with Christians who believe
that. All Universalists believe that
God is consuming fire to everybody
who does not believe in Christ. And
yet we are a great way from our sister
churches. There is perpetual an
tagonism between us as to the nature
of the fire and what is to be consumed.
With our brethren the fire is the
fire of wrath, and the consumed are
human souls. These God will be
forever consuming, though they will
never be absolutely consumed; for
ever suffering and always capable of
still further suffering.
And now we are on the ragged
edge of controversy. Universalists
do not believe that the consuming
fire of God is destructive of human
interests. They do not believe. that
God is in any sense the enemy of
the wicked. Hence as to this figure
of a consuming fire God will in no
wise destroy what is needful to our
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class. This leaves the population ex-
tremely destitute"
Later a member of the Relief Com
mittee at Harpoot writes: Zone feature
of the situation calls for serious
thought and effort. 1t is the large num-
Der of widows and orphans left without
any bread winners on whom to depend
for support. A careful canvas of the
city of Malatia and seven near villages
show that there are 1883 orphans and
630 widows there. The number in Ar
abkir is said to be even larger. In the
village Of Haboosi there are between 80
and 40 orphans who wander about the
streets as the dogs do, eating and sleep
ing where they can. Every town and
village furnishes it's contingent of wild
ows and orphans. and the villagers are
too engrossed in the struggle to provide
bread for their own families to care for
these helpless ones as they would ordi-
narily do. What is to become of them?"
In Malatia, Mrs. Harris, the wife of
Prof. j. Renoel Harris, of Cambridge,
England. has gathered samples of en-
broidery wrought by the women, hoping
to find market for them in England
and America. Anything that can be
done to furnish lucrative employment to
widows and orphans will greatly relieve
this saddest feature OF the present stu
alton.
Some efforts have been made to care
for the orphans; ten have been sent TO
the Deaconess's Home in Smyrna, and
few more will shortly be sent to Broussa
and Constantinople. Through her kind
ness, some fifty have been placed in
homes in Malatia for one year, but the
multitudes uncared for is hardly ef-
fected by these efforts.
The Christian people of Europe and
America are summoned to aid in this
work. 1t is heavy responsibility but
the appeal will not be lost upon
thoughtful and sympathetic people.
When the complete history of the Ar
menian massacres of the last twelve
months comes to be written the record
will be one that will horrify more COM
pletely than heretofore those who have
been made partially aware of the terri
BILE conditions that have surrounded
this unhappy people.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-07

In Constantinople new poll tax has
been levied on the Mussulmane only,
which is avowedly war fund for the de.
Tense of Mohammedanism This indi-
Gates that the Sultan is getting ready to
use his last weapon of defiance against
the Powers, that of proclaiming "holy
war" and arraying the Mussulmans
against all other races, both in his own
dominion and India. Europe may there
fore have rude awakening, and find a
devasting war on its hands which could
have been prevented by prompt action a
year ago. The end, of course. would be
the humiliation of the Turkish empire,
but at a cost of life which would, perhaps,
be unprecedented.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-07

Rev. DR.. Henry Irving Cushman, in
speaking of the Ministry. at Portland,
said that we should encourage schol-
arship that is anchored in Christian
faith, rather than a theoretical and an
exclusively rationalistic scholarship.
Every scholar must accept something.
He must begin his thinking somewhere.
The Christian scholar in the ministry,
il he has any right to be in the ministry,
must begin his thinking upon human
life and it's problems in the essential
spiritual facts of the Christian revela
ton. We have been inclined to encour
age drifting scholarship, carried about
by the individual reason and conscious
ness any whittier, within or without
Christian limits. Such scholarship
can not help the ministry. The
Christian minister's scholarship should
center in the Christian verities about
God and man, and it should always
have the direction, the inspiration
and the favor of those verities. In
some such way as this we need, for the
improvement of our ministry, an an
chored scholarship"
AT Portland DIR. G. L. Perrin had a
congenial theme assigned to him, viz.,
"a Working Church." in relation to
which he said: IF I were to ask this
congregation, DO you believe in work.
ing church,? of course you would all
say yes. A church that inclines to in
activity is either dead or on the verge of
death. How can an individual be
brought out of obscurity and gain in
fuence if he allows the days to go by in
idleness? He gains power by spending
power. To keep his energies at their
fullness, he must impart them to others
in deeds of helpfulness. 1t is so with
religious organizations. just in proper
ton as your denomination is working
it will be alive; and in proportion to its
life will be it's disposition to work. The
church has a two-fold object,-to pro-
mote spiritual growth among it's indi-
vidual mem ers, and to spiritualize the
community"
Rev. F. w. Hamilton closed his SER
mon at Portland on 1.-The Law of I'm
sel6shness," with the following sen.
fences: at is passing strange that men
should feed their focks on the east wind
and wonder why they are SO weak, should
drain the very life blood of enthusiasm
by constant attacks on creeds and de-
nominations. and then wonder that their
people take no interest in their creed
and their denomination. If we have
nothing better to offer the world at
large than rehashes of either the plati-
tudes of conventional orthodoxy or the
the vsgaries of German scepticism. the
world will go its way unheeding. II we
will rise to the opportunity Of our noble
faith and give the world our message
with the power of consecrated lives
behind it, there is no fear for our fu-
ture."
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-07
The Pulpit as a stump.
(Chris ian AdvOeate.)

Few ebullitions of extravaganza upon
the stump surpass those that have
been uttered in .Isome pulpits. While a
profane picture shocks the mind more
than words, it is certain that whatever
is uttered with the voice would be
neither better nor worse il it were illus
trated by the artists pencil. Ministers
have spoken of wedding banquets in
hell" of "the devils holding convention"
to concoct a political platform; and
some have resorted to language which
we should not be considered excusable
in repeating.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-07
MINISTER'S MEETING.

The regular monthly meeting Of the
Universalist Ministers of Chicago and
vicinity. will be addressed Monday. Nov
ember 16. by Rev. r. Jardine on "Expe-
riences in India" Visiting brethren
invited. w. p. BURSELL. Secretary.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-07
FIELD AGENT, II. L. MOORE.
UNIvERsALIsT PROFESSION OF FAITH.
ADOPTED 1903.

We believe that the Holy Scriptures OF the Old and
New Testments contain revelation of the character
of God and of the duty interest and final destination
of mankind.
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Signs of the Times.
(Interior.)

Probably it is in measure due to the
war, but people nowadays fairly blossom
out into badges and tokens. Thirty odd
years ago, before our soldiers adopted
crosses and clover-leaves as corps
badges, the only persons who wore them
were members Of secular lodges or col
lege fraternities. But we noticed lately
that we passed almost in succession men
and women wearing distinctive dresses
or emblems which marked them as Dun
kards. Salvationists. Sisters OF Charity
Daughters of the King. Brethren of
Andrew and Philip, or Christian En-
deavorers. And we are glad to see it.
All of the signs OF the times are not
what an optimist would desire, but it is
a good sign to see those who believe in
Christ and his Cross have the courage
of their convictions, and willing to show,
modestly but plainly, their discipleship.
And if one will but take some pains to
note the number he meets wearing dis
tinctively Christian badges he will find
that there are many tens OF thousands
in every city who have not bowed the
knee to Baal. Even in the least numer.
Gus of chance gatherings he will not
find himself alone in his love for the
Master.
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says of them: II doubt whether they
are the innocent, confiding, inoffensive
Christians that the American people be-
lieve them to be. My experience with
them is that they are the sharpest,
shrewdest and trickiest of all the East
ern people. They say in Turkey that it
takes ten Jews to equal one Armenian.
and five Armenians to equal one Persian
in sharp business dealings. They have
many able men among them, and T
doubt not that their leaders have to
certain extent fermented this trouble.
hoping that the governments of Europe
would interfere, and that Armenia
would be entirely freed from Turkish
rule. would rather trade with Turk
or Jew in any part of the East than
with Christian. I have the highest
respect for Christianity, but the Christ
ians of the East are not like us. The,
businessmen among them are to large
extent a set of sharpers, so much so
that the words Oriental Christian in the
minds of the Eastern travellers is al
most synonymous with that of a thief
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Stock Notes.

Cotton seed oil is said to be fatal to
cattle ticks.
The Cornell station says that heavy
milking ewes, two years old, are best
for early Embarrassing.
If your pullets have been properly
cared for they should be laying nicely
now.
Do not keep the hens until they be-
come too old. The pullets and year
ling hens pay the best.
II your hers are lousy they will not
lay. a hen cannot fight lice and I'LL
the egg basket at the same time.
The Russian war office thinks it has
discovered that gray horses have more
strength and endurance than brown
olles.
Experiments with feeding wheat
have shown that when wheat and corn
are the same price per bushel, it pays
better to feed the wheat and sell the
corn.
One year old is soon enough for
soWs to breed to attain the best re-
suits. At this age they will pass the
narrowing ordeal better, be better
mothers, and the pigs will be larger
and and grow more rapidly.
It you intend to breed any sort Of
stock the coming season, try and get
it better than you ever had before.
Better not breed at all if yoal cant i'm
prove upon what you have been doing
in the past.
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Rules for Breeding.

Like begets like, only departing I'M
der strange, and extraordinary influ-
erceS. 20, -.
Natures laws are unerring, and,
when scientifically directed, success is
always attainable. ..
The male should Invariably be line
bred. His pedigree, form, constitution
and disposition are his chief require.
ments, and should be as nelr perfection
as possible. t-
Inbreeding is desirable where positive
qualities are well established. and are
transmitted with r a certainty and
strength that can not be reached by
any kind of miscellaneous breeding.
The male should not be confined in
dark and foul stables, but should have
light and exercise and be fed with
strict reference to strength and vigor.
The female requires light, air, and
exercise, with a proper amount of food
containing the proportionate elements
OF growth for the foetus. ~
The female should not be allowed to
associate OF have in sight inferior ami.
mails While in sexual heat or in early
stage Of pregnancy, but should famili-
arize with the best of her kind.
Kind treatment and regular attend
ance are strictly essential to success
Elk.
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materialism and denial of the exist
ence of everything spiritual, equally
good. 1t is simply jury of scientists
and other thinkers prepared to try the
case of the Seen VS.. the Unseen upon
it's merits.
Professor Hyslop was quite willing
to talk of crystal gazing when a Jour
hal reporter saw him in the crowded
library of his residence, No. SIG West
One Hundred and Forty-nin street.
After having prefaced his remarks with
a reiteration of his disinterested posi-
tion upon the question, he went on to
say,
Crystal visions are among the most
curious of unexplained phenomena.
Strictly speaking, they have little scien-
tlfic value, so far as I know. They
are simply hallucinations produced by-
gazing at a crystal globe or a glsas of
water, and seem to have little if. any
thing to do with the will of the in
dividual. Often the illusions are mere
mosaics of previous incidents in the ex-
perience Of the gazer; sometimes they
are visions of things which the gazer
has never actually seen, but which
like most so-called strange dreams.
may easily be imagined by anybody Of
active fancy.
Still, I have witnessed many start
ling condolences in connection with
those same Authorizations. 1t happens
mot infrequently that the gazer sees in
the crystal or water scenes which have
actually happened, or possibly, are ac-
tually happening at the time. Then II
is that the phenomenon seems to en-
croach upon the realm of the. super-
natural, and is called by most I'M
thinking persons second sight AS q
matter of fact, nothing has been adj
fduced to show that the Mrincidences
may be explained as an insksnce Of
clairvoyance. In fact, I on tempted To
throw the clairvoyant out Of the reckon
ing altogether, as almost unworthy of
:onsid ton in the question.
elepathy, in my opinion. NAV
prove to be part OF the cause Of the
2henomenon. What mean By that
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Is another secret Of my winter yield OF
eggs. This and the baked bones are
the nlainsprings of my good luck. =

Homemade Butchers Windlass.
Conveniences for butchering should
be in every community. A plano one
in common use in the East is given be-
low. First, prepare a strong timber, a.
6 or s inches in diameter and nearly
as long as width Of the barn. Bore q
three-quarter inch hole at each end
and drive in each end an iron. b, let
ting it extend about ? inches. Then
take two pieces of old iron, c q use
wagon tire, and bend in the form Of
Y, fastening each end to the beam
above. The iron or roll, b, will fit in
the point of the bent iron, c. With a
two-inch augur bore two holes at right
angles through the roll, about a foot
from the end; then take eight pieces of
? by material, four of them made to
fit the augur holes. The other four
should be1s3 or 4 inches shorter and
nailed in between Then take some
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qual1ned statement is that if other facts
yet TO be established happen to prove
colnltc,ll1illsiyely that there is such a thing
as telepathy, or thong t-transferenc
Is shall be nearly willing to accept it
as an explanation Of the faculty Of
Hcrysta l-gazing There may be many
other ways in which the existence Of
the telepathic communication may be
demonstrated. AS / say, crystal-gazing
is not sufficient in itself to do so, but
We may ascertain in the future that
thought-transference is responsible for
the visions seen in the crystal
remember, the scene in the crystal
is not a complete hallucination. In the
first place, the image is seldom, if ever,
the actual size of the supposed scene.
If a gazer has a vision of a man, the
figure seen in the crystal or water is
always much smaller than the man
himself. So the vision is not perfect il
fusion. In fact, the gazer is never de-
celVed by the vision, but always real
ICES, even while seeing it,, that, it is
only hallucination
Again, the vision can generally be
traced to the observation; unconscious
at the time of the object or objects
seen IN the mirror. 1t is surprising
how many things we see without re-
alizlng that we are looking at them,
and still more astonishing how we re-
member sights that have never attract
ed our conscious attention. You may
be walking along the street and see a
woman with a red shawl. 1t is almost
certain that the garment being I'M
usual under the prevailing fashions,
would attract your attention immedi-
ately You might not notice, however,
that the woman wore a black bonnet,
II there were nothing unusual about it;
but weeks afterward the unconscious
observation of the bonnet might crop
up in your memory. Possibly you could
not cecollect when you had seen a
woman in black bonnet; Or, at any
rate, that particular black bonnet;
nevertheless, the image of the black
bonnet might be almost indelibly i'm
pressed upon your mind and cause you
to Go not little guessing.
The most remarkable case of crystal
visions that has ever come within my
personal observation is that of the wife
of Brooklyn clergyman, a most es-
timable lady, who would be greatly
panied to see her name in print: There
fore you must pardon me for keeping
her identity secret. I can assure you,
however, that have utmost faith in