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Why DR.. simmons Cough Syrup
Is the cheapest. 10 10 the only cough
remedy giving 50 doses for 50 cents
Money Is refunded II not benefited
or satisfied. Try II. Ask your drug
gist for a sample bottle.
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NEW YEAR GIL
1897. NEW YEAR rlROs. 1887.

DeWitt's witch Hazel Salve II an
antiseptic, soothing and healing ap-
plication for burns. scalds, cuts
bruises, etc, and cures piles Ike
magic It instantly stops pain.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-04-11
THINGS, NEW AND OLD.
BY S. H. M'coLLEsTER, D D.

IT would seem that the railroad,
telegraph, telephone, phonograph,
sewing machine, typewriter and few
other mechanisms are of modern in
vention; but aside from these, we
find that most OF the implements in
use, most of the architecture and fur
niture in city and country, bear the
stamp of reproduction. Go into the
museums of Naples and Cairo, and
you will find their fac SMILES. In
these collections there is scarcely
any end to the antiques in the way of
saws, chisels, stoves, horse-trappings,
surgeons implements, jewelry, paint
ings, statuary, cut and stained glass.
These are so marked that we know
that they were made two, three and
four thousand years ago; going to
show that in olden times there were
cultured geniuses and an advanced
civilization; for men never have been
known to spring at once from saw
agery to enlightenment. 1t is long
distance from barbarism to civiliza-
ton; from a cannibal to an Howard;
from an ignoramus to Humboldt.
1t is evident that the wisdom of the
world is really old. Egypt had her
distinguished poet ages before Homer
recited his Odyssey and orators made
speeches in Ur and Babylon thou
sand years before Demosthenes de-
livered his Phillipics on Pink Hill;
and sacred songs were sung on the
banks of the Euphrates long before
David chanted his psalms on Mount
Zion.
1t is much the same with our wit
and humor, puns and bulls, jokes and
repartees; they have foated down the
stream of time on crafts of apothems,
epigrams and proverbs, showing that
men have been won't to laugh and
joke from time immemorial. Society
would not be what it is to-day, if all
had been as serious as the old dea
con, in the presence of whose picture,
even, none dared laugh.
"He who laughs" said the mother
of Goethe, can commit no deadly
sim" The Emperor Titus felt that
he had blotted out day, if he had
passed it without laughing. Sterne
asserts that a laugh extends the term
of ones life. Luther believed this
doctrine so thoroughly that he was
won't daily to have a jolly season with
his family, and Henry Ward Beecher
allowed no dav to pass without hav-
ing a frolic with his children. The
great Lincoln would not have been
what he was, had it not been for his
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-04-11

English system everything depends on
public confidence in the men who are in
high place. And l believe the nation
trusts the integrity and good faith of
our public servants. il notimplicitly, cer-
tainly without misgivings." Here is the
explanation of the strength of England.
The men in place are trusted because
they are trustworthy. Our situation is
entirely similar, in the respect that
everything depends Oh public conf
dence in the men who are in high place"
If we are to take the newspaper as an
index of the public feeling we should
conclude that it is the reverse of conf
dence. But the importance of selecting
men for high places who command con-
fidence should not be matter of de-
bate.
What is the ground of the public
interest in the cathode or X rays? Is it
the prospective advantage to surgery
and pathology, or the fact that another
aureole surrounds the head of Science?
Neither, we judge. The element of
mystery joined with the prospect of reve-
lations, satisfies the conditions of popu-
lar interest. Perhaps another way of
putting it would be to say that there is
in the human mind. that is the common
mind, a profound interest in truth and
fact, and so in science. The practical or
utilitarian ends of this extension of
photography are dwelt upon in the
press; but all such discoveries are inter
esting for widely different reason.
They afford us the means of verifying
anew the interest OF the common mind
in the progress of knowledge and in the
disclosure of the ever fascinating secrets
of truth.
We have not seen Prof. Sully's book
on Child Study, of which mention has
been made in several papers and reviews;
but from the identity of some of the
stories we infer that the Professor has
had either a first or second hand ac-
quaintance with the late John Meals
book, in which are collected an interest
ing miscellany Of the sayings of chill
dren. The conclusions OF the psycholo
gist appear to be somewhat different
from those Of the novelist and Bentha-
mite. Child-study (Paidology) is now a
pedagogical fashion. If results in some
measure comparable to those obtained
much earlier by Froebel and Herbart
are brought forth by this new educa
tional impulse, we may pardon the ex-
travagances, we might almost say the
puerilities, to which the study has al
ready given birth. 1t is desirable that
the public should not come to feel that
there is any necessary connection be-
tween the study Of infancy and the gen.
dering of infantile theories.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-04-11

The trustees of Buchtel College took
just the steps that The Beacon and Re-
publican prophesied would be taken.
There has been no danger at any time
of the College closing its doors, and great
injury has been done it by the false re-
ports which have gone out. Now is the
time when Buchtel College needs the
support OF every friend. 1t needs new
friends, it needs moral as we'll as fnan-
cial support, it needs students, it needs
the interest and sympathy and help,
particularly of the people of Akron. The
institution has done good work in the
past, it is doing it now and it must do it
in greater ratio in the future. Its de-
terioration would be fearful blow to
the city. Akron cannot afford to lose
one iota of its culture and influence and
the city must awaken to the Importance
and absolute necessity of not only keep
ing the College on its present footing but
of widening its scope and sphere of ac-
tion.
The trustees of the College have an
important and delicate task before them
in the choosing of president. The fu-
ture welfare of the institution depends
in large measure upon the securing of
a capable and efficient man, and the
matter ought to be gone about in a care
full and deliberate manner. = Akron
Iooaoa3
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-04-11

WHEN DIR. Arnold laid it down that
the master of a school like Rugby
should be christian and gentle
man." he seems to have had at least
sub consciousness of the truth that the
fret of these titles does not always carry
the second. The combination is not un-
usual but it is not uniform. Specimens
often obtrude themselves on public at
tention to whom it would be urkind and
perhaps unfair to deny the name of
Christian. But it would be a greal
stretch of pathological propriety to call
them gentlemen. Yet we must believe
that the two go naturally together. The
characteristic thing in Christian is
certain fine and helping spirit; this also
is the mark of gentleman. Our re-
ligion will then have exhibited its fairest
product when in making a convert it
also and necessarily makes gentleman,
In arguing for the adoption of the
Christian principle in the relation of en-
ployer and employed, DIR. Washington
GLADDEN. remarked recently: "The man
who disobeys or evades this law is not
Christian no matter how piously he may
talk, or how many colleges he may build,
or how many ministers he may send on
European tours" There is, come to
think of it, better test of mans
Christianity than his talk, or his gifts,
or his kindness. 1t should not, however,
be hastily inferred that there is anything
unchristian in pious talk, or in building
colleges. or even in sending ministers on
European tours. Nor should we be
warranted in concluding that man who
has accumulated wealth while not obey
ing the law of love, is moved by desire
to condone his rapacity when he gives to
education or religion. Nor, once more,
is it logical to assume that it adds to the
sin of getting money wrongfully to bes-
tow it wisely.
The complaint is frequent that edu-
Gated and clean men give SO little atten-
tion to practical politics. And it is often
charged to their love of ease or their in
difference to the public veal. A truer
account of their action in this particular
would be, that when they turn their
watchful eye on the political scene they
are affected much as they are when they
witness a street fight. They feel in
stinctively that there is no opening for
them on either side of that combat, and
they hurry on to get away from the re-
pulsive spectacle. OF popular govern
ment we have the name but not the
thing. The nearest we come to it is
government by party, which often COM
prises less than majority of the people.
But the party, in turn, is controlled by
a few men, and those never the best
men. Selections for legislators and
magistrates are made, notoriously, not
for merit and competency, but for po-
litical service. This is not our theory of
government, but this is the system we
have in operation. There is 70 place in
it for self respecting man.
An intelligent Englishman, visiting
in this country, was asked what he re-
garded as the strongest feature in the
English system of government. His
answer is worthy of attention: "In the
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-04-11

ton, resembling in striking degree
the description in Genesis. Sun -dials,
the water clock, the zodiac, the plan
cts and spots on the sun were known
to the wise Sabaans who dwelt on
the plains of Shinah. Looking at
the past it does surely seems as
though there was nothing new under
the sun.
Still we are made to feel that it is
far otherwise as we realize the mar
velous development of the present
day. The revelation of the Roetgen
X Rays through Crooke's Tubes; of
Edison's Screens of prepared chemi-
Gals, when applied to the human
body, exposing to perfect view the
innerly man; of Reckert's invention
whereby one can look through
thousand miles of wire so as to dis
cover person, as well as hear him
that distance. 1t took 100000 men
twenty years to build the largest
pyramid on the banks of the Nile,
but today twenty men will dig and
raise from the deep cellars of the
earth in nine days a bulk of coal
equal to the pyramid of Cheops.
Our age surely does surpass any of
the past in discovery, invention, con-
struction and application.
MARLBORO, N, III,
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-04-11
LoMBARD's SPRING TERM.
Work Begun ON the New University
RuiIdfug

Work Begun on the New University
Building.
The spring term of Lombard Univer-
sity was formally opened last week
President Nash conducted chapel exer-
cises and made few remarks. Several
new students have entered and the pros.
poets for a good terms work are bright.
Work has been resumed on the new
building. 1t is expected that this will
be dedicated commencement week. 1t
is also the expectation that the corner
stone of another building will be laid at
the same time. Everything is on the
line Of progress at Lombard and all it's
old friends are hopeful.
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is an old speculation and has given
us atheism, materialism, idealism,
pantheism, monism, naturalism and
secularism. 1t has always been the
foe of true religion, real piety, and
sound morality. Its nature and
influence has not changed and the
result of its teaching will be in the
present what it has been in the past.
DIR. Abbot in his Scientific Theism,"
as strange as it may appear, accepts
the doctrine of Divine Personality.
By personality he, however, means
only that the world organism has con-
sciousness and will. This he claims
does not conflict with the pantheistic
doctrine that God is the All, and the
All is God. He does not hesitate to adj
NIT the pantheism of his theory. DIR.
Abbot's theory of evil is not clear or
consistent. He holds that it is the re-
suit of mans finite nature and rela-
tions. tits not real, but only relative.
Hence, in his philosophy human and
divine relations are not real, but only
fictions. But in his philosophy of
the universe there is no place for
finite and derived being. God is all
and all is God, and God is infinite
and undeceived. All being is of one
substance and belongs to one organ
ism.
That substance is infinite and that
organism is God. What provision
does such philosophy of the universe
make for the existence of the finite as
the source and cause of all evil?
This philosophy does not recognize
the existence of but one real cause,
and that is God. Evil, then, is as
really divine, and is as much a part
of God as any other form of life in
the universe. Sin and suffering are
facts given us in consciousness and
experience, than which there are no
higher forms of evidence, and no
stronger proofs of the existence of
any class of facts. To deny their
real existence as facts of experience
and history in the face of this evil
dence is to open the door to univer-
sal skepticism. If DR.. Abbot's phil
osophy is true and God is the all,
they are conscious elements in his ex-
perience and are forms of divine
manifestation and evolution.
DIR. Abbot also accepts as true both
the immanence and transcendence of
God. His words are: Scientific
Theism, conceives him as immanent
in the universe so far as it is known,
and transcendent in the universe so
far as it remains unknown-imma-
nent. that is in the world of human
experience, and transcendent, that is
in the world which lies beyond hu
man experience" This theory makes
Gods transcendence a fact, not of
human knowledge, but of human
ignorance. The evidences of its ex-
istence is not in the fact that man
knows it, but is to be found in the
fact that man does not, and cannot
know it. Here Scientific Theism,
which from its name should be the
knowledge of God, consists of our
ignorance in regard to him. Now
that which man does not and cannot
know has no existence to his intelli-
gence and reason.
CAMDEN, o.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-04-11
CONTENTS.
CHICAGO, SATURDAY, APR. IL, 1896.


Page One.
Editorial Briefs.
Things, New and old.
Scientific Theism.
The Saloon in Politics.
Page Two.
What Universalists Believe.
New Books.
Noted Men and Women.
Page Three.
The Sunday School Lesson.
Page Four.
Editorial:
"Old Faiths and New Facts"
Reception to President Nash.
True Ground Of Business Confidence.
Roman Catholic on Purgatory.
Universalist Personal.
Easter Reports.
Page Five.
Church News and Correspondence.
Page Six.
The Family Page. Farm, Garden and Dairy.
Page Seven.
Our Boys and Girls.
Page Eight.
Our Ohio Churches.
Church Notices and In MemOriam.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-04-11
OUR CONTRIBUTORS.
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.

EY PRESIDENT I. NJ. ATWOOD, DID.
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Hons adopted tho gold standard have
exceeded all previously known. But
here is o simple test which the farmer
can easily apply for himself:
Take the average of prices in your
neighborhood for the five years ending
IN 1875 Git is not fair to take one Year,
and the average gold or greenback value
OF O ten ounce bar of silver ut that
time. Divide and see what that silver
would have bought. Do the same for
the FIVE years ending with 1895. and you
will find that the silver will buy more.
Is 1t not arrogant and insulting non-
sense to say that silver has deprecated
when it will buy more of the products
OF your labor? Hero is a table to help
you IA the calculation:
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lawyer, has conclusively shown that
some $4,000 men own or absolutely con-
troll one-half the property of the United
States; that 100, 900 men own half the
remainder, and that the great mass of
laboring producers actually OWE very
little If any more than they did in
1860. The results are simply awful.
Ten men in New York city today hold
the credit Of the United States abso.
lutely at their mercy. If it were to
their interest, they could tomorrow
sweep away the gold basis and precipi.
tate a panic in Wall street. But the
farmer is told that all this is none Of his
business and is expected to be controlled
In his vote by the gold superstition.
The Gold Superstition.
How can there be a gold superstition,
What do you mean by such a phrase?"
mean just what the words imply
that a large portion Of the human race
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Thousands of men are afraid of the light
ming, and yet not one man in ten thousand
is ever killed by it. Few men are afraid
of consumption, and yet it causes one-sixth
of all the deaths in the world. 1t is more
deadly than either wars or ~pestilences.
Any sort of wasting disease may lead to
consumption. Any slight disorder of the
respiratory organs may easily develop
it. Weakness of the body, emaciation,
lack of vitality are plain invitations for the
germs of consumption. Consumption Is not
entirely a disease of the lungs. 1t is a dis
ease of the blood that shows itself most
strongly in the lungs. 1t is not-as it used
to be considered-incurable DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery has changed all
that. 1t will cure ~ninety-eight per cent. of
1t is the most wonderful blood maker and
flesh builder in the world. It cures where
doctors nave failed. 1t has brought back
to life hundreds of men and women who
were considered as good as dead.
Mrs. Nancy r. Tubb, Of Amory, Monroe Co..
Miss, writes: About ten years ago / suffered
an attack of nervous prostration resulting in
other troubles which my family physician pro-
until we lost all hope. ! finally happened to find
one Of DIR. Pierce's little Memorandum Books,
saw his medicine recommended and thought I
would try 1t ; sent and got one bottle Of each
Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Pre-
as ! began to use these incidence my health be
gan 10 improve, and before had used Joue.haH
dozen bottles I felt almost as strong ~ I ever was.
! am now enjoying good health again: Two
years ago had a little boy who seemed to be sun,
try the Golden Medical. Discovery, and to my
surprise 1t cured him entirely; he has never had
anHh:T attack"
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perhaps to one, and that is, Has silver
deprecated OF gold appreciated since
1881 On their answer to that depend
the votes Of q million honest farmers.
Monometallists say gold has stood still
while ali other things have cheapened-
We say that silver has stood almost un-
changed while gold has advanced nor
mously in value, and. what is more, we
prove it by every line Of reasoning which
can be applied to the subject. That sill.
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few, it must be ad.
mitted--were hon.
estly made by legit-
innate enterprises in
which the govern.
ment was not a
partner, and many
By the advance il.
real estate in eur
great cities. Many
others have carried
the investigation
much f~artller r.
Thomas G.. Shear
MON Ter SIo proax
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contrary. EN-
pires Of land and
hundreds of mil
lions Of money.
were given to
great corpora
tions. Credit Mo-
bilier, the Indian
ring, the whisky
ring, the star
route ring and
scores Of others
followed in rapid
succession, but
though the farm
ers ured
they did not re-
volt. They over
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breadstufs chan
they can eat and
more cotton than
they can wear
and 0 pork
and beef than
they want or
o shoes than
they need? Why,
the largest wheat
crop ever raised
only amounted to
three bushels per
capita for the
people of thc
civilized world.
and, deducting
seed and that
made into whis.
XIV. little over
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manufacturers.
And how were the, rest made?'
The enormous land grants and subsi-
dies to railroads made a few dozens like
Stanford, Croker and Huntington. The
sudden growth Of western cities due to
the hothous' system of forcing develop.
ment made a few hundreds. Dozens like
Jay Gould and his fellows were made
by the system of railroad w~reckinc.
Many were made by speculation in gold
and government bonds, by the national
banking system and many other schemes
fostered by governments. A few-very
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By JOHN q. BEADLE.

The accompanying illustra-
lions are from New York
newspapers of recent date.
They are published to show
the popular idea of the per-
sonality of the American far.
mer in the gold stronghold Of
the country.
Twill invite your attention to two
pictures.
Twenty-Five years ago the American
farmer was a king. Poets sang about
him. Orators praised him.
Edward Everett held up an ear of gold
N corn before his audience and eulogized
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the DrleI time
between this and
the ~election?"
Not at all. In
its present shape
indeed it is sin.
gularly simple.
Il can be reduced
to two or three
plain questions,
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crops, the coun-
try rings with
cries of
rage and denun-
ciation n. The
farmer has sub
mitted too long.
He has lost the
respect of those
have robbed
him., and it is
~--L ~
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spotted brooches.
He is the butt o.
vile jokes in the
city saloons. He
shares with the
mule and the
mother in law,
t h plantation
darby, the rusty
~stovepipe and the
tramp as the
stock material for
cheap paragraph
ers. He is brought
on the stage Of
every low theater
as the stock VIC
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Price Of . Price OF Price NJ
yyI,,Df n,ttr, .1.z
Tho Concentration of Wealth.

MANY cite the concentration Of
wealth in a few hands as one cause Of the
farmers poverty, but is not that worse in
other countries with different systemsT"
There is no country Of high civiliza-
ton in which it is 80 bad, except per.
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n. Y. Press.

age value per ton has declined from
sl3.62 to 1875, This last is the farm
price as reported by the agricultural
department for July; nevertheless, on
the day I write this hay is selling in
New York city by retail at SIS per
ton, which is a beautiful illustration
Of how your city consumer profits by
the loss Of the farmer. Wheat is supposed
to be an exception because our rivals il
other countries are producing so much.
and yet the figures are significant. In
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YER Is BY natural
law far more sta
BILE in value than
gold has been
proved from &c.
ology, from min.
eralogy, from
metallurgy and
still more by
comparing the
fluctuations of
prices in differ
ent ntriee
having the diff.
ferent standards
or in the same
country ut differ.
ent times Every
one Of these tests
The aan,a resnlf
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haps in u or
two where the
process has been
going on for
1000 years, but
in no country,
ancient or mod.
ern, has the proc
ess been SO rapid
as in this. In
1860 there G
alleged to be in
this nation a dog
en- m~illionaires.
Today there are
at least 5000 and
probably many
more. On this
point we have
u II i M p eachable
testimony a Ii q
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the grower in
s u C h eloquent
wordsthat storms
of applause shook
the hall. We
loved to read and
quote the old stir
ring lines telling
how 1.-The en-
battled farmers
stood at Lex
ington and Con-
cord, and it was
u s a lily
agreed that they