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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-01

The Sermon on the Mount must, IN
the nature of things, be an autnorita-
tive statement of essential Cnristian
doctrines. 1t is the Ordination Sermon
of the Twelve. While it does not, II Is
needless to say, embody every teacning
of Christ. it does,-at least it should
embody in germinal or prophetic form
every doctrine vital and fundamental in
the Christian faith.-This being so,
is it not suggestive fact that there Is
tn be found no where in this Sermon
any statement whatever Of single So
called .orthodox" doctrine? Neither IN
Luke's report nor in the longer report
by Matthew, can be found any state
ment whatever, or any implication what
ever. that the human race, since Adams
fall, is totally depraved and under Gods
curse; or that Christ came to rescue the
race from either the divine anger or
penalty: or that men are to escape an
endless doom by simply believing IN
Christ's atoning sacrifice. Will
not be disputed that all the teach
ings of the Sermon on the Mount are
ethical. Jesus declared that obedience
to the Golden Rule Is righteousness;
that to initiate the Father is to be IN
moral likeness his children; he finally
teaches that any other foundation than
right doing is delusion, implying that
all evil is evanescent and destined to be
destroyed. If Jesus had really believed
that evil is to endlessly endure, that 1t
is to Withstand not only earthly storms
and floods but even the assaults OF God;
or if he had believed that God would be
an active agent in perpetuating evil end
lessly,-could he have spoken OF evil
doing as having no enduring foundation!
It must be conceded that Jesus in this
sermon is not in the modern sense,
quite ORTHODOX" He would, on such
statement of faith, be accommodated
from some modern SO called Christian
observation-disclosures, the Ser
mon on the Mount embodies the real
Christianity. To return to the exalta-
ton Of righteousness. the one essential
thing in the Christian religion, ID the
next duty of the Christian Church.
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more than 80 cents the yard. and about
thirty-six inches in width, is delightful
for low tone decoration. and is especially
good for room where many pictures
are to be hung. When large part of
the wall is to be presented to the eye
the patterns Of the paper or stuff should
be handsome, but always subdued in
tone. 1t then forms decoration OF it.
self, and is quite Independent of pict-
uree.
For doors and windows lovely figured
velvets and various Liberty fabrics are
to be had for reasonable prices.-Vogue.
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have them do to him. Such an one builds on
the Eternal Reality. But the one who disobeys
Christ, however lie may call him Lord, is build
ing wrong character on delusion. He is
wasting his life; he is sowing the seeds for
harvest of lasting regrets. Evil, instead of be-
ing as some have thought an enduring substance
in the universe, is destined to destruction. To
build on the evil is t. build not for eternity but
for repentance.-We observe that many COM
mentators say that Jesus in the Sermon on the
Mount, because he preached none of the stand
ard doctrines of modern so-called Orthodoxy
did not here preach the whole Gospel. 1t Is
surely a grave charge to make against the
Master that he cid lot, In lis address at the or
dlnation of his apostles. preach the esst ntial
doctrine of the Gospel. If he is not 'orthodox"
is not the trouble with Orthodoxy?
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LESSON STORY.

The scene of the delivery of the Ser
mon on the Mount appeals strongly to
the historical imagination.
Jesus, according to Luke's narrative,
had retreated from the surging multi
tude which now always surrounded him
in Capernaum or near the lake. He had
come to the Mount Of Beatitudes,-
which is also known in history as The
Horns of Hattin; it being the scene OF
memorable battle of the crusades, the
so-called Christian army having been
defeated July 5, 1887, by Sultan Saladin
on the plain, and annihilated in the
mountain of Hattin. 1t is situated
about seven miles southwest from Ca
pernaum and two or three miles west
from the lake; this locality filling the re-
quirements OF Lukes narrative.
Jesus had withdrawn from his disci-
pies that he might, under clearest guild
ance of the Spirit, fulfil an imperative
demand Of his mission. He was to pre-
pare for the preaching of his Gospel by
delegated ministry. To select the
right men from among the multitude
now following him, or seeking him, was
an act of vast prophetic import
At the dawn he came forth from his
solitude and on the crest of the hill, be-
fore a large company of believers, an
nounced the names of his Twelve.
By this time the great throng from
Capernaum, which was, now always
seeking him, had reached his place Of
seclusion. Jesus, therefore, having
chosen the Twelve. came doaUn acith
them and stood on a level place. The
crowd, which was augmented by many
from Judea and Jerusalem, and from
Tyre and Sidon, sought him as Healer.
1t does not appear that Jesus now per-
formed any separate acts Of healing; but
there were. we are told, curative quail
ties in the air about him. All the mul-
titude sought to touch him; for po,oer
came forth from him and healed all.
In the presence of this eager multi
tude Jesus preached to his disciples the
Sermon on the Mount. His words were
for all, SO far as they could be received;
but they were specifically for the Twelve
who gathered closest about him.
The Sermon on the Mount is the Or
DINATIoN SERMON of the Twelve.
The subject OF the Sermon. as evolved
from its underlying principle, is the Re
ality and IncomparabIeness of the
Spiritual Life.
OF this Sermon we have two reports.
Matthew (ch. 90 gives the longer and
we may assume the more exact report.
Luke reproduces the sermon more
briefly, but with no less clear apprehen-
sion of the underlying principle of the
discourse. The other evangelists make
no mention of the sermon.
One needs to study Matthew's account
together with Luke's to perceive how
this incompatible utterance touches
with it's fundamental principle all the
vital things in human conduct.
It's CT ntral inculcation is surely not a
scheme for escape from inherited or per-
sonal guilt. 1t is not an announcement
Of doom hereafter for the unorthodox.
1t is not a declaration that sinners are
to be saved by mechanical atonement,
which Christ came to effect.
1t does teach that the thing of su-
preme Importance is right-doing. 1t
teaches that righteousness is imitation
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INTRODUCTION.

Lesson VI: Luke vi. 41-49.
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sometimes not worth saving, for all
remedies will not make them fruitful.
If not brought into bearing in reason
able time they should be removed. The
owner can not afford to spend lifetime
in trying to force too reluctant trees in
to bearing.
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February o. 1896.

SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
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That of the w. C. T. u. Thought
by Miss Frances Willard
Assured.
RAILWAY OFFICIALS ARE SEEN.
Much Enthusiasm Among Local White
Ribboners Regarding the Flu
ture Assem- blage.

There is much rejoicing among the men,
bers of the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union of this City over the announce
ment made in recent letter from Miss
Frances E. Willard, their honored leader,
that the next annual convention of the
National organization will be held in Cali
fornia.
Miss Willard says:
Our next convention is to be held IN Califor-
MA and each State and Territory, / am sure,
will wish to be at its very best when we go to be
the guests OF our brave pioneer workers on the
Pacific Coast.
Continuing, she says in the same COM
munlcation, which is a letter to Mrs. B.
Sturtevant Peet, president of the Califor-
MA Woman's Christian Temperance
Union:
Inc Baltimore convention and my enormous
correspondence indicate that the pulse of our
blessed movement is steadfast and strong as
ever. Indeed, 1t seems to me to have gained in
momentum, and expect this to be one of the
best years, If not the best, in our history thus
lar. There is zeal for the increase of our
mem bershlp, which must always be-neXt to
the lndwelllng of the Spirit-the basis of the
progress we so earnestly desire.
The officers of local unions will interview
railroad officials soon with view to Sc
curing satisfactory rates for visitors to the
convention, which will be held in the early
TALL, and IN all probability in this City.
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How Troops OF the National
Guard Should Be In.
Structed.
HEAVY ARTILLERY PRACTICE.
The Country Needs Properly Trained
Reserve Force of Artil.
lerymen.

A trained reserve to the regular forces
OF country is as necessary to the safety
OF that country as are the regular forces
themselves. This axiom, obtaining as it
particularly does in our own country,
where II is the boast that the maintenance
OF large standing army is not in con-
tormity with the spirit of American insti-
tutlons, would seem to indicate the neces-
sity OF every energy being directed to the
formation of trained reserve or, more
properly speaking, support to the heavy
or seacoast artillery arm of the regular SER
vice. am free to admit that we are en-
deavoring to accomplish this with regard
to an infantry, and in a measure cavalry
and field artillery reserve, but does it not
seem that we are somewhat criminallv
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THE STOCK MARKET.

The Comstocks closed the week at further adj
vance, the north and middle stocks and Gold Hill
group being equally affected. The advance though
general was not large, but trading was brisk after
the board. The Bodies were weaker
The leading fluctuations of the week were as fol
lows: Best & Relcher, S40s9c; Cholar, 64G97sc
Con. Cal d Va, So 1892 So; Confidence. 81 loo
/ 25; Gould & Curry, 45@55c: Hale & Norcross
ST 05@1 30; Ophir, 81 4o@1 55; Potosi, 5S06Sc
Sierra Nevada, 53@62c; Yellow Jacket, 43@56c.
NOTES.
The Alaska Packers Association has declared
dividend rs of 75c per share, payable on the 18th
The Savage Mining Company has leviei an as.
sessment OF 20c per share, delinquent February g.
The 0verman assessment of 10c per share will
be delinquent in the company's Office tomorrow.
The Con. Cal. dS Va. has three bars of bullion
valued at $1lG29 rs, the first on the present run
of the Morgan mill.
The weekly report from the Con. Cal. & Va is as
follows:
1850 level-Are repairing and easing tinbers in
south drift on the ninth floor (irst floor above sill
floor this leveD From fourteenth floor sixth
floor above sill floor of this leve) continue work
upward at south end of opening to sixteenth floor.
On the sixteenth floor opening has been enlarged
IS feet in length, showing ore in top 3 feet in
north end. assaying $25 50 ton. Have ex-
tracted from opening, including about 10 tons from
north end of stope tenth floor, So tons Of ore,
average value of which, per samples taken from
cars in mine, was $50 A ton.
1850 level-From fifth, sixth and seventh floors
above sill floor of thisevel opened out through up
raise No. are extracting some ore on north along
assaying $50 TO $50 ton.
The south drift from the east end of the
southeast drift on the sill floor of this level has
been extended Is feet, the face being in quartz
assayng So to SIS per tom total length Of the drift
209 feet
From the fifth, sixth and seventh floors from up
raise and from the north end of the stope on the
thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth floors have ex
racted $50 of ore, the average assay value of
which per sample taken from cars in the mine,
$40 81 per ton. The total extraction of ore
from the mine for the week amounted to 246 tons,
the average assay value OF which, per sample from
cars when raised to surface. S34 SO per ton.
Have reopened and timbered the northwest drift
from the main west drift from c. and c. shaft for
distance of lS feet, total distance of 1873 feet
northweS- from the mouth of the crosscut
that connects with our slopes in he west side Of
the mine
1000 level-the north drift from the Con. Va
shaft station on this level has been advanced 40
feet passing through porphyry and clay separa-
tons: tot al length of the drift 1926 feet. Have
shipped to the Morgan mill 800 tons of ore, assay
ing, per ra lroad-car samples, S4l 81 per ton.
Average assay value, per battery samples of a.
ore worked at the mill $3.50 tons) $S2 Al per
ton.
Following Are the Highest Prices During
the Past Week.
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R|FLED HIS TROUSERS,
Jeremiah Mccormack, a Coal
Dealer, Lost His Days
Collections.
A Daring Burglar Entered the Room
Where Mccormack Slept and
Made a Big Haul.

A daring burglary was reported at police
headquarters yesterday morning, and as
good description of the operator has beer
obtained the detectives expect to have him
under arrest soon.
Between and 6 o'clock the lodging
house of Mrs. Jennie Handley, mother of
the late Detective HandIey, was entered
The burglar apparently had particular
object in view. as he made direct for the
room occupied by jeremiah Mccormack,
coal-dealer at 917 O'Farrell street. Nc
CormacK had collected several large &C
counts the previous day and had the
money, about $3.50, in the pockets of his
trousers, which lay on a chair near his
bed.
Mccormack must be a sound sleeper, as
the noise made by the burglar in entering
his room and abstracting the money from
the pockets OF bis trousers did not disturb
him.
The burglar effected an entrance by lore
ing open the parlor window, and made his
exit by the same way. He was observed
coming stealthily out of the window and
across the grass plat in front of the house
by passerby, who gave chase, shouting
as he ran for the police but the burglar
was too good sprinter and effected his
escape.
When Mccormack awoke in the morn
ing and discovered his loss he hurriedlv
dressed himself and reported his loss at po-
lice headquarters. The man who chased
the burglar was able to give a good de-
scription of him to Mccormack ana the
police were notified of it. The description
was read TO the different watches yester-
day and they were asked to keep sharp
lookout for the burglar and arrest him.
1t is thought that from the fact that no
other room was entered the burglar must
have known that Mccormack had taken
the money home in his DOckats
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it is very moderate and quite satisfactory

it is very moderate and quite satisfactory
to them.
Referring to this compensation and the
$4,000 attorneys fees already received, the
main affidavit srecites that the three de-
PENDANTS in the original suit owned about
tive-sixths of the stock, and cannot get
any OF the S27, 500. So it is claimed that
the other stockholders will receive as much
as if about $40, 900 had been collected and
all the stockholders had shared, wherefore
the compensation already received is said
to be extremely reasonable. Chetwood
further declares that his compensation
Will be the same whether the litigation
ends tomorrow or lasts ten years, so he
can have no motive to prolong it.
The matter will probably be argued some
time this month.
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FOR 4 DIAMOND PIN.

One of the Articles Stolen From a Resi-
dence Two Years Ago.
Mrs. Bessie Macdonald, 24l4 Pacific ave-
nue., obtained search warrant in Judge
Lows court yesterday morning to recover
a diamond pin now in a pawnshop on
Market street. near Mason.
Between January and June, 1894, Mrs.
Macdonald's residence was entered by
burglars while the family was absent from
the City. About $500 worth OF jewelry
was stolen. Since then the police have
been working on the case without success.
A few days ago Mrs. Macdonald alleges
she recognized a diamond pin, one of the
articles stolen, in Franklin's pawnshop on
Market street, hence the application for
the search warrant.
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immediately followed by the actual open.
ing OF hostilities, requires that we Will
have our reserve ready, and not uniformed
entirely or in course of preparation. The
necessity of having such a force should
appeal to all having the safety
seem that even laymen would I'M
derstand the necessity of having a Sec
ond line, unless there be still some among
us imbued with the ancient and hap
ply now almost exploded idea that be-
cause we are Americans and have once
licked somebody we are necessarily in
vlncible.
The Government is placing heavy guns
IN position to command the approaches to
our harbor, but we have no troops in our
National Guard that could serve and fire
them with the possibility of striking
stationary let alone a movable, target. If,
as stated by General Flagler Ordnance
department, United States army, the pro-
lect for the defense of the country involves
an expenditure of forty-eight millions OF
dollars in the purchase and manufacture
OF great guns, mOrtars, torpeGoes, ETC., is
it well to place in charge of these an I'M
trained force. which through inexperience
would cause more injury to the appliances
for defense than would the guns of the
enemy?
When war is declared POSSIBLY it may
never be, but sometimes it is well to deal
with remote contingeacies) there will be
no time for drill, no time to study even
first principles, no time to select the young
men of the National Guard who will be the
best adapted for this work; and when we
shall want our artillery reserve we shall
want them like the man from Texas
wanted the gun.
In California we are not training our
troops in the nature Of defense that is
needed. Do we not know from what is
daily occurring in other parts of the world
and that has occurred that "a nation I'M
prepared to defend itself is most exposed
to the encroachment: and aggressions
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FIGHTING THE FAIR WILL.
The Executors of the Lost Testament
Reply to Late Contests.

". S. Goodfellow, Louis C. Bresse, James
S. Angus and Thomas G. Crothers have
filed motions to dismiss and demurrers to
the contests of the stolen Fair will filed
recently by Mare Livingston and the
Board or Teachers Retirement Fund Com
missioners.
1t is alleged in both motions and de-
murrers that the contests filed do not state
facts sufficient for cause of action, and
that neither contestant has the legal
capacity to oppose the probate of the will.
In Levingston's case it is also alleged that
he IS not party interested, and against
the fund commissioners it is claimed they
have no legal existence. 1t is further
alleged that the contests were not filed
within the statutory time.
The motions and demurrers will be heard
before Judge Slack on January 10.
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The pyramids have existed for thousands
OF years and puzzled the ingenuity OF the
learned to trace their origin. The most
magnificent are those in the neighborhood
OF Grand Cairo, the finest is 120 feet higher
than St. Paurs Cathedral.
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UNDER PRIVATE ORDERS.

Brannan and BIuxome Street Lots.
10Ox120-S. line of Brannan St., 200 feet w. Of
4th: also
5Ox12O-N. line of Bluxome ST. $50 w. Of 4th.
To be sold whole or in lots.
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Rents $1S4; Folsom, ShotweII and 9TH,
245x140-As a whole in lots-Entire n. front
of 18th, bet Folsom and Shotwell fronting 40 on
Folsom and Shovel, with trunk factory leased al
$40 to september, 1897, and cottages on Fol-
som
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SATURDAY. Jan. Alp
STOCK AND BOND EXCHANGE.

SATURDAY, Jan. 4-10:S0 A. NJ.
UNITED STATES BONDS.
BID asked Bid. ASKED
q 4s coup ..IOS1s L S Is reg. 1882
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That portion of Miss on block As bounded by 5th,
18th, Harrison and Folsom, belonging 10 the City,
fronting about 63 feet 10Th and 1913 feet on Har
rison; depths irregular; diagrams at our office 10
per cent of purchase price to be paid the auc-
tionear; remainder on acceptance of bid by Mayor
Sutro, who reserves the right to reject any and all
bids.
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MORSIST SESSION
Poard-200 Hutchinson Co, 1875; IS Mar
ket-st Railway. AS; 20 S Water. So
Street-$lG00 California-st r Bonds 109A;
$4,000 Geary-st So Bonds 105.
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Cor. Stockton and Clay; Rent s1s7

Cor. stockton and Clay Rent S1S7.
59:Sx63 :9-SE. cor. Clay and Stockton SITS.
55:10x63 :9-E. line of stockton; SIS S. {
Clay; the whole covered by Chinese stores an
dwellings, paying at greatly reduced rents SIS
per month.
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Natoma, bet. Sd and New Montgomery.
2Ox70-140 Natoma; front and rear house: rent
$50; sure TO increase in value.
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Sacramento-St. Cor. Cheap; Rent SIC
3Ox46-929 Sacramento; SW. cor. of Prospect
place above Stockton; both streets accepted.
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Page, near Market Rents SIG

81 :6x120-117-119 Page and l26-I261A Rose
avo., W. of Cough; 112 blocks from Market; mod
ern improvements; rents reduced from 1920.
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AUCTION SALES.