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Fine boneIess hams, Just received
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BIG BARGAINS IN
Unredeemed Watches and
Diamonds This Week.
6ney TO loan on ali collaterals.
Spectacles fitted to all eyes.
Large line Of
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Money Lender and JeWeIer
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-28

not remember as he worked up his
discourses. His real thought was vital
and lived with him. The unread per-
ished.
The language of the heart, the
words that fit truth, shall be intelli-
gible to the last Shakespeare speaks
to us across chasm of three hun
dred years, and his sentences have
lost none of their force nor shall they
ever. Over six centuries have passed
since Chaucer wrote where the Anglo
Saxon flowed by him and became
English. Yet the most of his poetry
may be understood by a school boy
of today. Ian MacLaren's Scotch
dialect which creeps into the bosom
and translates itself for him to whom
all dialects had been "vanity and
vexation of spirit" shall nestle at the
sides of those who live many years
hence, if nature remain.
I plead for books about us in the
home, on shelves of our own, as tab
ernacles for the immortals. Good
books have soul in them with
which the lover of them communes
and which becomes guardian angel.
Some one has said that the mother
need have no fears about tho morals
of her boy, if he has a taste for the
best literature.
Books contain what men have
thought in the supreme moments.
They are a record of what the soul
has seen on the heights. If an author
walked through low-land and got
mud on his boots, his pages do not
betray it, since he wrote with clean
hands. In the library we find at our
pleasure company of men who are
talking at their best; here it is our
privilege to feed upon the ambrosia
and to drink the nectar of the gods.
John Morley remarks the relation
between literature and life: "But,
after all, the thing that matters most,
both for happiness and duty, is that
we should strive habitually to live
with wise thoughts and right feel
ings. Literature helps more than all
other studies to this most blessed
companionship."
LA CROSSE. WIS.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-28
THE INFLUENCE OF LITERATURE.
BY REV. c. @. CONNER.

LITERATURE is, briefly putting it,
that which in books inspires us rather
than informs us; that which presents
world d-truths than sets forth the ten
cts of a sect, the theory of a school,
or the platform of party; that which
interests man "as man." and not
merely class, or trade, or pro 'ession;
and that which so wears the grace of
nature in the perfect fashions of God
as to commend itself to the purest
taste, the deepest culture, the broad
est view, and toendure as the seasons
with all their worth and beauty
issued in perpetual editions by the
divine hand while the earth re-
maineth.
l. That influence which we may
first mark as proceeding from this 1
have SO hastily defined, is toward the
cultivation of the seeing eye, the
hearing ear, the perceiving soul, the
feeling heart, the achieving hand, the
loving and aspiring spirit. Much
within us is dormant until quickened
by vital contact. The eye is edu-
Gated by form, the ear nv sound, the
soul by another soul. The characters
of history or fiction, the images of
poetry, the ideals and truths of prose,
while they pass and touch us, help or
harm us, as they are good or bad
Literature may assemble them all
before us for our study. We may
learn in their presence discrimination,
moral quality, personal worth. And
he that paints for us with his words
imparts the power of performance to
our faculties. The master gives his
spirit, and with the believing heart
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-28

THE BIOGRAPHIES of the first and the
second Presidents of Tufts College ap-
D gar at nearly the same date, although
an interval of more than thirty years
separates the departure of DIR. Ballou
from that of DIR. Miner, Considering
the high reputation which DR.. Ballou en-
joyed among his brethren and the great
services to our church to which all who
knew the facts agreed in testifying that
he performed, it is singular. to say the
least, that no life of him has appeared
until the latter half of the present year.
DIR. Miners biography follows very
promptly the closing of his career by
death. We owe this to the existence OF
the Publishing House and to the admir-
alton and industry Of DR.. Emerson. 1t
will be instructive and profitable to
read the two biographies in connection.
DIR. Flinders Petrie, the eminent
Egyptologist, having had much occa-
sion to study the evidences of intellect
ual power in the memorials left by diff
ferent races, has reached the startling
conclusion, that the use of written lam
guage has not been beneficial to the
mental development of man. On the
contrary, he thinks men we're intellect
ually stronger before the discovery and
general use of language as means of
record and reference. They thought
more and more profoundly, and being
compelled to carry more in their hea is
the heads were better and more capa-
cious. Our multitudinous modern
"helps" DIR. Petrie accuses as hin
ORANGES. He suppor s this remarkable
thesis with much plausible testimony
drawn from his own researches.
1t is certain that those Hebrew
mlsters of the law who taught it before
it is supposed they knew letters, we're
cIpable OF memory exploits to which
their more favored descendants are un-
equal. The delivery of the matter of
large volume wholly by "oral tradition"
with long and intricate notes on the text
a I'D references to numerous authorities,
is a task which no modern scholar
would think himself able to perform. 1t
is said that those Chinese pupils who
have been trained by the oral method
easily outstrip all others in the acquisi
ton of new knowledge. Whether their
mental power is developed all around
4. Al =
what different question. But since it
has been conceded that strong MEM
ory is the uniform adjunct OF strong
mind, the proposition is more credible
than when it was held that capaeious
power of memory implies deficiency in
the understanding.
1t is remarked by observers of the
turns and windings of opinion in France,
that the reaction which had set in some
years before his death against "the
high-priest of nothingness," as Renan
had been called. has attained larger pro-
portions since. M. Brunetiere is one OF
the spokesmen of the newer ideas. He
describes Renan as teaching for thirty
years "that the observance of tn moral
law is not without special narrowness
of mind. and that the greatest saint is
after all only a poor enough sort Of
man." 1t is not in France alone. and
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-28
THE MISSIONARY PROBLEM IN
INDIA.*
BY REV. ROBERT JARDINE.
First Article.


FoR about a hundred years, the
Christian churches of Europe and
America have been endeavoring to
discharge their responsibilities to
their brethren of the Oriental world.
Some time toward the close of the
last century, in the General Assembly
of the Church of Scotland, one of the
brethren, more ardent in spirit than
the others, proposed to send mission
aries to convert the heathen. To this
proposition the reply was promptly
given: "The heathen are in the
hands of Providence and he will con-
vert them 10 his own good time and
way" Such was the spirit of the
eighteenth century Protestant
Church in Europe. But, with the
uprising of the great evangelical re-
vival of that century, there was
spread abroad an intense desire to
spread over the world knowledgeof
that Gospel which had taken such a
deep hold upon the British soul. And
India was the most natural field to
which they could turn their eyes. In
to that country were sent mission
aries of the Baptists, the Anglican,
SAT UnIversallst Ministers Meeting, Chicago.
Monday, Nov. l6.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-28
JOHN HILTON: A TRIBUTE OF
FRIENDSHIP.
BY REV. L. j. D1NsMoRE.
La CROSSE. WIS.

The Rev. John Hilton, long time
faithful and honored minister of the
Universalist Church, and for a number
of years successful practitioner of the
art of dentistry, has passed away. 1t is
fitting SO honorable and symmetrical
life should not be lightly dismissed from
the reverent regard of those still living.
When sentinel on the watchtower
falls at his post of duty, his honor and
ability should be commemorated, and
those who perish on the field of battle
are laid TO rest with military honors.
When John Hilton gave up his spirit at
the call of the Heavenly Father, no long
lines of cleaning steel with dropping
flags and rolling music followed the cold,
still body to it's burial place, but he was
as truly soldier in the army of God and
died in behalf of the right and true, as
any of the great and noble that song and
history never let pass from the memory
of man. For he lived an unselfish, up
right and truthful life; was faithful to
what he knew to be the voice of duty,
and kept himself clean and pure. He
loved the truth, he was devoted to the
great interests of a living and practical
religion; and as God opened to him the
door Of opportunity, and gave him
strength, he was earnest, active and 10y
al. He was much hindered, and shut
out from many fields where he would
gladly have labored, by lingering weak
ness of throat and lungs, but where he
could, he did much for the cause that
lay closest to his heart, and many there
are who have done less for the church
with far greater opportunities.
DIR. Hilton was born in Ontario, Can
ada, April T. 1S4s, and died in Freeport,
ILL.,, Nov. 4. 1896. In his early boyhood
he was taken by his parents to Liberty,
Mich, where he grew to manhood under
his parents roof. profting much by such
opportunities for instruction as the COM
mon schools of the community afforded. i.
When he was prepared for it. he entered
the State Agricultural College at Ian
sing, and completed there very thor
ough course of study with credit to him
self and satisfaction to his instructors.
When he was about ready to graduate
he became acquainted with the Rev.
j. B. Gilman, we'll known Universal
ist clergyman of that State. who was
destined to exercise marked influence
over his future career. Mr.. Gilman
recognized his fine-grained instincts,
his delicate and lofty sensibilities, and
his profoundly religious nature, and per.
ceived his peculiar fitness for the Uni
versalist ministry. A warm attachment
sprang up in the heart of the young stu
dent for the preacher of the Gospel ard
inclined him to yield all the more read
lily to an earnest appeal to make the
pulpit of the Universalist Church his
chosen instrument Of power for his great
life work. The young man recognized
the wide fields of usefulness that it Of.
fered the earnest and conscientious fol
lower Of Jesus Christ. A thoughtful
aud studious disposition was attracted
by it's intellectual activities. and strong
spiritual nature was stirred to il a depths
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-28

tne Eugllsn parliament IN lSlZ tC
recognize a responsibility for the
moral and material welfare of India
and to give encouragement to mis-
sionary and educational efforts. 1t
Was missionary influence which led
to the establishment of first class
educational institutions at which the
youth of India may imbibe Western
learning and come into contact with
Western spirit. It was contact be-
tween the Hindu and the Western
Christian mind which gave rise to all
the movements of religious, moral
and social reform that have largely
transformed Hindu life. The Brah-
ma Somaj and other kindred move
ments are directly the result of mis-
sionary influence although not such
result as the missionaries desired.
The wide influence of the Rajah,
Ram Mohan Roy, Debendra Nath
Tagore, Keshab Chandler Sen and
Pratah Chandra Mazoomda would
have been impossible had the way
not been prepared by the long pre-
ceding years of missionary effort.
The Parliament of Religions in Chi
cago would have been impossible but
for the preceding century of con-
tact between the Hindu and the
Christian people through the media
tion of the missionaries. The Brah-
mans, Notwithstanding their ancient
literatureand philosophy which every
one must admire, have done moth
ing whatever toward ameliorating the
condition of the masses of India; nay,
their exceedingly exclusive caste
constitution makes it impossible for
them to hold out a helping hand
to uplift their low caste brethren.
Amongst them the idea of the broth
erhood of man is entirely an alien
conception if it is entertained at all.
True, there are many Hindu religi
Gus sects, such as that of Chaitanya,
in which distinctions of caste are
abolished and rational principles of
worship and of life are preached.
True, also, Buddhism was a great
protest against Brahmanical exclu-
siveness and helped to break down
caste distinctions.
But Buddhism is no longer an In
dian religion, and the Brahmans still
exert powerful influence, and that
influence does not tend toward the
welding of the people into har
monious brotherhood; quite the op-
posite. Whatever has been done dur
ing the present century, toward over
coming the intense conservatism of
Hindu social and religious life has
been done by the force of Western
civilization. The missionary schools
took the lead in awakening the or
iental mind. The influence exerted
by the missionary spirit compelled
the government to establish educa-
tional institutions, schools, colleges
and universities; and now the whole
countryfs dotted, at pretty wide in
tervals, by these centers of enlight-
eminent. The railroads, the factor
les, the commercial establishments,
the different departments of the gov
ernment services, all of them filled
with educated Hindus ard Mussul-
mans are so many influences for
breaking down the old caste distinc,
tions and the other conservative
forces of the country.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-28
CONTENTS.
CHICAGO, SATURDAY, NOV. as. 1896
4 RELIGIOUS AND FAMILY WEEKLY

Page One.
Editorial Briefs
The Missionary Problem in India.
The Influence of Literature.
Rev. John HI iltOn.
Page Two.
w. g. T. u. Sermon.
The Ne w Books.
WeIl-knOwn Persons.
Page Three.
The Sunday School Lesson.
Page Four.
EDITORIAL:
Thanksgiving.
The Liberal Congress.
The Famine in India
President PattOn's Doctrine.
W. C. T. U. in st. Louis.
Universalist Personal.
Exchange Notes.
Page Five.
Church News and correspondence.
Page Six.
The Famil, Page, Farm. Garden and DairyS
Page Seven.
Our Boys and Girls.
Page Eight.
Church Notices and In Memoriam.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-28
OUR CONTRIBUTORS.
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.

PRESIDENT I. NJ. ATWOOD, ID.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-03
1.-THE GREAT UNKNOWN"
Very Funny Comedy TO be Played
This Evening.

There is large sale of seats for to-
night, when the Frawleys viii appear
in THE Great Unknown" The play is
rich in opportunities. and is said 10
be very funny. The comedy all
through is full of good things that
come upon the auditor like surprises.
Mr.. Frawley, Harry Corson Clarke.
Frank Worthing. MacIyn Arbuckle.
Miss Bates, and all the favorites have
good parts.
The curtain is not long up before one
gets the hang of the characters in The
Great Unknown" BY intimation it is
known that Mrs Arabella Jarraway,
the female head of the family, is away
in Paris indulging a prediction for
writing novels. There is prima facie
evidence that she has left behind her
two romps of daughters, one Of whom
contrives to fall in love with her music
| teacher, while the other fixes her young
| affections on Cousin Ned" Jarraway
pere is a trife susceptible himself in a
| harmless kind of way, and is driven
| captive at the chariot wheel of Shirley
Munittrick, young widow of histri-
onic aspirations. The audience is led
to believe that when mamma" comes
home there will be a general straight
ening out of these domestic frivolities,
but as it happens it is mamma" her
self that is disciplined. She returns
with French maid and conviction
that her genius has earned for her a
| mental divorce from JarrOway.
Her friends proceed to humble her
| Aunt Penelope tells her that she has
| simply wasted whole reams of pa
per and gallons of ink in telling what
has been told 100 times before" and
her husband advises her to take hold
of the homework and drive the litter.
airy malaria out of her system. Hel
daughters come on the scene made III
as pair of tomboys, and between then
they bring the female Jarraway to he
senses. There are propositions fo7
marriages galore and the inference il
they all live happily ever afterwards.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-03
FRENCH CANADIANS IN MAINE.

There can be no longer any ques-
ton" writes a down East" CORE
spondent, that the French are in
Maine to stay" Their numbers are
placed at about $1,000, half of whom
are congregated in the manufacturing
cities of Biddeford, Saco, Lewiston,
Auburn, Waterville and Brunswick.
When they arrive from Canada they
are nearly always poor and unskilled
but they are quick to learn, and are
generally industrious enough TO be
valuable to their employers. Between
800 and 400 are owners Of real estate
with property valued at something like
s.. 500 900. The French Canadians are
nearly all Catholics, and to the strong
hold of the Church upon their lives is
to be attributed their general good or
der and freedom from crime. They are
making advances toward useful c1t1-
zenship in Maine, and must be counted
a permanent and important element III
the population.-Springf1eld CMass.)
Republican.
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FERNANDES & ROZA.

CONTRACTORS and BUILDERS
Carpentering in all it's branches.
All work guaranteed and promp1iy
attended to. Orders can De ielU VIII
]. M. Camara, Jr. Tel. SS1.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-03
Australia Waiter Dead.

George Holiday, the waiter of the
o. s. S Australia, who was taken to
the hospital the day before the depart
ure of that vessel for San Francisco.
while suffering from severe attack of
pneumonia, died very suddenly yester-
day noon. He was native OF Liver
pool England, and was about % years
of age. He was quite we'll known in
Honolulu
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-03
A GOOD EXAMPLE.

If your dentist puts you in agony,
first by jabbing your teeth to your
distraction and then by presenting n
big bill, you might follow the example
of Jacob Fromme, lawyer, who is be
ing sued for $3.50 by his dentist. The
lawyer refused to pay the bill because
he claimed that the dentist hurt him
severely He put in a counter claim of
81 600. the items of his bill being as
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-03
THE BIGGEST zoo.

The Geological Gardens of the
South African Republic are the largest
in the world.
They consist of about 20 farms IN
the Lebombo region, guarded by a
whole tribe of Kaffirs.
Within this area there is, perhaps
every species of wild animal to be
found in South Africa.
This region is guarded by special
resolution of the Volksraad.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-03
HELEN KELLER ON A WHEEL.

Helen Kel1ar, the deaf, dumb and
blind girl, has added to her other
achievements that of riding bicycle
through the streets of Cambridge. 1t
is. to be sure, a tandem, and her com
panion does the steering; but as show
ing the possibility of new pleasure
for the blind, this fastest triumph OF
the famous as we'll as an interesting
one.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-03
CUSTOM HOUSE CHANGES.
ASSIGNMENTS Of Inspectors and
Guards and New Appointments.

Guards and New Appointments.
The following changes have been
made in the customs force, taking ef-
feet December /, 1896:
Inspectors: w. Schneider, James
Becknell, George Groves, w. H. Storey
H. c. Morton.
Inspector Monoha in charge OF the
guards.
Day Guards: ]. Akima, c. Wallace
D. Kama, H. Keliona.
Night Watch: District Inspector w
w. Needham in charge; Inspector Z
Kanuha assisting; guards, S. Kahiapo
C. Kumanu, A. Kahoalii, A. Morris, )
Kekahio, A. Nunes, George Hawai-, Jno
Kanuu, the last two new men IN place
of Clarke and Kamakanui, resigned.
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We Are Here


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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-02-04

An Excellent Entertainment by the Clsrks-
Vile Dramatic CLUB.

| GAINESVILLE. Feb. 3.-special.-The
hall occupied by the Masons and odd
| Fellows was literally packed with our
best citizens Friday night TO witness the
| drama of the MAN From Maine
| The entertainment was given by our
| local dramatic club. under the efficient
! management of their president, hf. W
! II. Russell.
The play was wei gotten zap. ana the
! characters unusually well sustained FIR
amateurs in the country. where opportuni-
ties are few and advantages limited
OF course. we DO not claim 20 have among
Us. even I'm embyO, a Forse {, Booth.
or am Irving. or amongst the lady MEM
beers a Cushman. a Bernhardt or a
but We have a Russell, though not ILL
liam: but can say this. All who took
part I'm the play acquitted themselves
wei. They were surrounded with friends
from ClarksNille. Chase City, and Boyd
ton. and did their best TO entertain
their friends. and did il well. ! have
been informed that while the admission
fee was nominal. the club realized about
$50. so the entertainment was COM
plete success, financially and otherwise.
Pretty good for old ClarksVile. Inc
cast was as follows
Ezekiel Collander. from way down in
Maine-W. Wood.
Colonel Van Cruger. a wealthy New
Yorker-F. b. Reamy.
Frank Thornton. a rising young attor-
ney-C H. Lipiort.
Lord Ponsonby. an easy-going English
SWELL. NJ. Scott.
Philip Davis, one Of the great army Of
black sheep-Harry Ware
" St. Ebbins. formerly "B,ll Hanks"
a new dudc-Charles Ahcott.
Nucgins. a thug. who is as tough as he
looks-SiN Lipfcrt
Billy. the Bum. one OF the great un-
washed--W. a. Magee.
Jasper. Van Crugers husky seavent-
Louis Gilliland
Mable Van Cruger, a social leader
Miss Alice Russell.
Mrs. Selena Bradley. a woman with a
history-Miss Hattie Hardy
Daisy Dean. "a Maine Wild hower-Miss
Hottie Wootten.