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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-05-23
SOME OF THE WAYS OF PRESENT
HELPFULNESS.

l. Nearly six hundred Cent a Day
pledges, dated at least year ago, are
still unpaid. II payments were made on
all these pledges for the year which has
passed, the amounts so received would
be exceedingly helpful at the present
time of urgent need.
2. Last year, considerable number
of persons who signed Cent-a Day
blanks. anticipated the payment of their
respective pledges by remitting for one
year in advance. If friends included in
such class would pursue the same
course this year. when convenient. their
timely aid would be gratefully appre-
ciated.
3. AT Easter, in 1895, or soon after
that time, many special contributions,
in varying amounts, were received from
individuals, in aid of the Convention
work. Will not these friends renew the
subscriptions of last year, without wait
ing for personal request; or send to
the undersigned, such an amount as
they may be disposed to contribute for
the current year to the General Conven.
ton?
4. If, in any localities, Easter offer
ings, Sunday school collections, etc.,
have been taken, for the General Con-
vention. may l suggest that the prompt
forwarding Of such offerings will in it.
self constitute an added help and en-
couragement? These collections may
be small in themselves, but the aggre-
gate will count for good deal in the
present condition of our depleted treas
ury.
5. Where the Cent-a-D Day plan has not
been adopted, l would again make re-
quest that arrangements be made to
secure contribution from the parish 10
the General Convention. Is it not pos
sible in such cases, to obtain a parish
offering before the summer vacation?
The hearty cooperation of ministers
and interested laymen is herewith in
vited, that steps may be taken. with as
little delay as possible. leading to the
desired result.
The foregoing suggestions indicate a
few of the plain practical ways in which
a present service of helpfulness to the
work of our Church may be rendered.
HENRY w. RUGG,
Financial Secretary.
PROVIDENCE. r. l., May l6.
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THE EXCAVATION 0F1a.THE GREAT
SPHINX.
BY RICHARD BRATHwAIT.

No monument of antiquity. not
even the pyramids, gives the traveller
of today such a glimpse "in the
dark backward and abysm of time" !"
as the Great Sphinx, half-buried in
the drifting sands, and forever
"staring right on with calm, eternal eyes,"
The Great Sphinx is now regarded
by Psychologists as older than the
pyramids, and, unlike the Theban
sphinx whose riddle was guessed by
Gdipus, the mystery of the Great
Sphinx has never been satisfactorily
solved. Concerning its very appear
ance travellers differ widely. Some
speak of sits posture of repose and
calm majestic expression of counte-
nance" and agree with the author of
"Eothen": "Comely the creature is
but the comeliness is not of this
world" Others see in it only the
mocking, passionless, sinister face
that symbolizes the futility of mans
endeavors to read it's secret, the Sc
cret of destiny and history. To the
Greeks the word sphinx meant
stranger" or "throttler," and this
meaning accords we'll with the name
the Arabs, the children of the desert,
apply to the Great Sphinx, namely,
boo-el-hol, the Father of Terror.
In the Egyptian language it was
called Hor-em-a -akhu, "Horus Tor the
sun) in the horizon" name which
seems to indicate the direction in
which the Sphinx is looking as it
faces the Nile and the East.
Concerning this riddle and wonder
of the elder world twas hardly to be
expected that an American. would be
able to add anything of interest to
the accumulated knowledge and ira
dition of centuries. But such is the
fact. Colonel George E. Raum, of
San Francisco, last February, after
obtaining permission of the Egyptian
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-05-23
THE CHURCH AND THE EVILS OF
THE WORLD.
BY REV. S. H. M'coLLEsTER, DID.
CHICAGO. May Il

Is it not strange that churches ale
often found surrounded by evils and
yet apparently at peace and in ease |?
Perchance there may be one or
more, who will not acquiesce in tie
wrong, but so large majority are
feeling that it would not be policy,
even if they should desire change,
for their church to make a stir. So
while faltering and quibbling wi b
conscience, there is established rigl t
under the caves of their chapel or
church-edifice gilded saloon max
ing converts to Baal, not only Oh g
day but every day of the week. Fer
months and possibly for years tt
church works on and so does the sa-
loon. The former wonders that its
numbers should not increase, while
the latter is waxing more prosperous,
winning the young, especially, into
its court. The one grows timid the
other strong. The one is incessantly
active in planning and executing de-
vices to get money; the other is lying
on its arms and spiritually dying. Is
it to be wondered at that the young
are not drawn into such a church2
They are quick to discern deadness
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EVER AND ANON the persuasion is
borne in on the mind Of those who re-
gard themselves as set for the defense Of
what Joseph Cook calls evangelical
truth" that there is too much amiability
in the pulpit. We formerly knew that
when this cry went up the Universal
lists were meant. They we're preaching
the dangerous doctrine" that God is
the Father of men and is determined to
have whole and holy family. 1t is not
so now. We know that the point of the
protest is aimed at those nominally or
thodox preachers whose sermons, as dis
cribed by their habitual hearers, are not
distinguishable from the sermons of
Universalist preachers. If they are not
personally designated, they are plainly
indicated.
The sympathies of the natural man
within US run, perhaps too readily, with
these severe protestors against theologi-
cal sweetness and light; not because we
share in their fears of the evil moral in.
fuence of the new preaching, but be-
cause we like to have preachers as we'll
as showmen perform according to their
advertisement. In our opinion there is
absolutely no danger that God will be
made out to be too good. If Christian
ity has any message to mankind it is,
that God is actually good; not soft nor
senile, but good. The world does not be-
lieve this; the teachers of the Christian
religion do not believe it; even the Uni
versalist theologian and preacher only
half believes it. But it is the glorious
and immutable fact; and because it is
true, and Divine truth, it is saving
truth. Yet they who still serve the
tabernacle, and will serve the tabernacle,
have no right to this truth.
Armand Sabatier. Dean of the Fac
ulty of Science in the Institute of Mont
pellier, France, is the inventor of
brand new theory of the origin of the
spiritual nature of man. Spirit is diff
used, he says, throughout the universe.
The physical nature of man, provided
with nerve centers, gathers, condenses
and organizes this diffused spirit into
human spirit. He is careful to say that
the nerve centers do not create spirit;
that would be materialism, and would
involve the extinction Of the spirit with
the dissolution of the nervous system.
But since in Mr.. Sabatier's scheme the
nervous centers only accumulate, con-
dense and organize spirit, it's survival is
probable after the means of its produc
tion perishes. On this basis Sabatier
teaches human Immortality. How
strong the faith; how weak the reason"
The Rev. Charles E. Perkins, who
began his ministry with the Universal
lists and in the church at Clifton Springs,
passed from our communion after a sue
cessful pastorate of about four years, to
the Unitarian. Now. after about the
same sojourn with the Unitarians. he
withdraws from their fold, having be-
come, as he says, believer in the "full
divinity OF Jesus Christ" and in some
sort Trinitarian. Mr.. Perkins was in
a devout atmosphere at Clifton Springs
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EACH present conviction, each secret.
suggestion OF duty constitutes a dis
tinct and separate call of God which can
never be sighted without the certainty
Of its total departure or its fainter re-
turn. The power which is not wisely
spent must be wildly wasted. Our true
opportunities come but once; they are
sufficient but not redundant; we have
time enough for the longest duty, but not
for the shortest sin.-James Mdrtinea,s
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CONTENTS.
CHICAGO, SATURDAY. MAY go. 1896,

Page One.
Editorial Briefs.
The Excavation of the Great Sphinx.
The Church and the Evils of the World.
The Conference.
Some of the Ways of Present Helpfulness.
Venezuela and Its Traditions.
Page Two.
A Parable of Forgiveness.
Universal Salvation and Early Christians.
The Christianity of Christ.
Interesting Paragraphs.
Where Is Holmes?
Page Three.
The Sunday School Lesson.
Page Four.
The Spiritual Nature.
A Princely Giver.
A Wall from Japan.
Comparisons.
The Passion Play.
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 Memoriam.
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was very Marked did not seem to any of
us to be carrying him towards modern
Unitarianism. 1t is, therefore, less
surprise to US now to hear that he has
became mildly orthodox than it was
few years ago to learn that he had be-
came 80 violently Unitarian as not to
feel at home among Universalists.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson re
marks, incidentally to another matter,
that Matthew Arnold never had one
glimpse of what America is to an Amer
ican. This. we suspect. is the constant
comment an American finds himself
making on Mr.. Arnold's American let
ters. He brought keen eyes, cultured
mind, taste trained by English associa-
tions, to America; he looked out on us
with sincerity and with as much SYM
pathy as he was capable Of; and he told
what he saw in his usual frank and crys.
talline phrase. But he was always pro-
vincial; he saw the world from London
and cockney point Of view. While many
of Mr.. Arnold's verdicts on men and
things in this country are sound and are
already vindicted. it must be admitted
that his assumption of criterion of
universal judgment in himself, disquali
fed him from learning the new things
that would have explained to him the
new ways of the new world.
In his lectures recently given in
New York, Prof. Toy. of the Harvard
Divinity School, repeated the oft cited
fact that the annals of Egypt, though
diligently searched, disclose no record Of
the alleged sojourn of the Israelites in
that country, as detailed in the Old Tes-
lament. This portion of the Old Testa-
ment must, therefore. says Prof. Toy. be
regarded as "a reflection from much
later time" The absence of references
to Israel in the Egyptian records, 80 far
as known, is circumstance difficult to
reconcile with the historicity of the &C.
count in Exodus. Yet the argument
from silence" is not decisive. 1t is Of
great interest in relation to this ques
tion, that Prof. Flinders Petrie in his
explorations in Egypt the past winter
has found stone with the name Uf Israel
distinctly inscribed upon it, among the
records of a campaign in Syria by Mere
uptah; and Prof. Sayce reports second
mention of the Israelites in another in
scription by the same monarch.
in great house, on large estate.
lived two invalid people. The house
was filled with servants and the pastures
with cattle. Teams and laborers were
busy in the fields. A large force was
employed in the gardens and on the
drives and lawns. The annuel income
from all the operations on the estate was
but fraction of the annual outgo on
account of these operations. The funds
to carry on the estate and support two
invalid people came, almost wholly,
from investments elsewhere. Yet there
were but two persons whose mainte-
nance and wants were the excuse for all
the outlay. Like that is the theory of
the management of some churches and
some schools and some organizations.
The business to be done is small. the
amount actually accomplished is small.
But the machinery devised and operated
to do it is large and snowy. The clatter
of the mill imposes on the miller: he
listens to the noise instead of measuring
the grist.
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THE CONFERENCE.
BY REV. HENRY GILLESPIE.

WEEK. DAY conference meetings are
said to be the pulse of church.
The church which begins and ends
its work upon the Sabbath is dead.
If it attempts to do upon that day
that which in the heavenly order be-
longs to conference, it is in desperate
straits; if it depends upon an auxiliary
society to manage all its affairs with
out guidance of the Church, it cannot
be perfect in all its parts. The
church which relies upon music and
rhetoric, even though accompanied by
sound doctrine, instead of individual
exemplification of Christian virtues
and perfect cooperation in all of its
material and spiritual affairs, is in
precarious situation.
The weekly conference is the nat
ural cure for untoward conditions of
church life and the course of least
resistance in building the kingdom.
The ideal conference embraces the
following order:
1. Hymn.
2. Invocation by pastor.
8. Hymn.
4. Voluntary prayers.
5. Hymn.
6. Bible Study.
7. Recess.
s. Business.
Unfinished
New Business.
8. Reports of Committees.
10. Hymn.
IL. Benediction.
The Bible study is conducted by a
leader with view to elucidate some
point of teaching. Utmost freedom
is given to questions and discussion,
particular care taken in detailed ex-
plantations; all inquirers and candi-
dates have here their opportunity to
learn "What Universalists believe"
At intervals of not more than once
per month a secular lesson may be in
troduced.
The committees to report are on
charities, finance, social and mis-
sionary or visitation; also any spec
ial ones that have been appointed.
This ideal conference is alive and ear
nest. Every one is interested in the
lesson, the majority assist in hymns
and.prayer, the committees have been
active, every church member who
cannot give good reason for inabil-
ity to be present is in his seat at the
time assigned, visitors are there and
each part of the program has its
allotted time; the meeting is not pro
longed to weariness.
This ideal is not inclusive nor exclu-
sive but suggestion of that reason
able service which makes the church
successful and leads the Christian to
his crown.
MANCHESTER, Iowa.
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-Captious critics who think the Rev.
Mr.. Henry is lowering the dignity of the
pulpit by preaching on The new woman
can go and hear DR.. Henson discourse
concerning Jonah and the whale. By
searching around a little you can find
any kind of preaching you want in Chi.
cago.-T'ribune.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-05-23

N regard to that portion of terri
1tory in South America claimed by
both British Guiana and Venezuela,
nothing more interesting has offered
in print than the following passages,
taken by permission of Harper &
Brothers from William Eleroy Cur
tis's new book entitled, venezuela:
the Land where it's Always Sum-
mer::"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-05-23

The excessively weak condition of
Voltaire prevented his being baptized
for several months after his birth.
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OUR CONTRIBUTORS.
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.

BY PRESIDENT I. NJ. ATWOOD, DID.
The oasis., 1896-10-24
DISEASES OF THE SKIN.

The intense itching and smarting incl dent to eczema, letter, salt-rheum, and other diseases ofthe skin is instantly allayed by applying Chanlberlains Eye and Skin Ointment. Many very bad cases have been permanently cured by it. It is equally efficient for itching piles and a favorite rem- edy for sore nipples; chapped hands, chil- plains, frost bites, and chronic sore eyes. For sale by druggists at 25 cents per box.
 Try Dr. Cady's Condition Powders, they are just what horse needs when in bad condi. ton. Tonic blood purifier and vermifuge.
 For Sale by Chenoweth S Mix.
The oasis., 1896-10-24
IT Troubled VVith nheamatism neaa mi.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Apr. 16. lSe4-I have used Chamberlain's Pain Balm for rheumatism and found 1t to be alI that is claimed for it. believe it to be the best preparation for fhepma. tism and deep seated muscular pains on the market and cheerfully recom- mend it to the public. ]. C. BRooKs dealer in boots, shoes, etc., No. is Main St.
 ALSO READ THIS.
 M MEcHANIcsyILLE, St. Mary County. Md sold a bottle of Chamherlain's Paln Balm to man who had been suffering with rheumatism for several years. It made him wei man. A. ;, McGILL. For sale at 90 cents per Dottle by Chenoweth $ Mix.
The herald., 1896-04-22
SOME SHIPPING STATISTICS
Fruits, Nuts, Wine, Brandy and Vegeta.
bic Export Figures
Industries that In Carload PORN Indicate Great
and Growing Values-ShIpments Of
1895 Compared With 1890

Some few weeks ago Gen. N. P. Chip
man read report before the Fruit
Growers association of California, in
which he said about the fruit trade Of
1895:
THE tables show that we sent out Of
the state during the year of fruit, nuts,
wine, brandy and vegetables 4S,S71.1
carloads of ten tons each. This is gain
over 1894 Of 5346.4 carloads, and gain
over 1893 Of 8042e carloads. The ship
ments of fruit alone have increased
form 16,195.7 carloads in 1890 to 27160.7
carloads in 1896 Compared with 1894,
fresh deciduous fruits by rail fell off
1858 carloads in 1895. Dried fruits by
rail gained 1907 carloads; citrus fruits
gained $3.50 carloads, the total being H.
446 carloads-the largest output in any
year. Raisins have increased steadily,
although there was slight falling off
In 1895 and 1894. The raisin crop now
averages about 1900 or 400 carloads.
Wine and brandy shipments have in
creased each year, and in 1895 We're
nearly double those of 1891. The canned
fruit shipments fell off about 40 per cent.
since began to report shipments Of
vegetables in 1893, the exports have
fallen off nearly SO per cent The gain
IN 1898 over 1894 of fruit shipments is
fully accounted for in the gain of citrus
fruits alone. The gain and loss of other
fruits about equalize each other. The
orange crop Of 1894 was cut short by
frost, and hence the apparent large in
crease In 1896. The crop of deciduous
fruits was shortened by frost in 1895,
which accounts for the lack of normal
increase over 1894. My belief is that
with full output of all kinds of fruit
trees now in bearing we would have
1uily $4,000 carlaods for export. Our
The herald., 1896-04-22

Alice is NOBLE Dora is gift" Richard
is powerful" and Llewellyn is ..Ught-
nlnS. w men we speak of the Diyipa
Being we still use words-Almightv
Most High, Jehovah, Jesus, Immanuel
rms is further shown in the frequency
VIII Whlch certain IDEAS have been
maze use OF. Light has given to us the
names OF Ariel Phoebe, Lucy and
niVermore: Love is expressed in David.
Phlia, Mabel and kathleen. The idee
Oh giving is in the name John and in ;ts
various forms Evans, Ivan, Hans, Juan.
lean lean ana also III the names Dora, Theo-
dofe, Dorothy and Nathan. Strenetl,
is indicated in the names Nero. Siarlx
Ar'hur' Charles, Durand and Strong.
Now let us inquire what it was that
determined the word which should be
CHOSEN FOR a name. Here we shall find
that chance and human fancy have
played their part. We shall not dis
cover any carefully wrought plan. Tho
word to be chosen has been. however
the suggestion of some fact connected
With the birth of the person to be named
time, place, circumstances some phy-
slcai quality. or some fond hope OF
strength, bravery or goodness enter
tanned In fact there is hardly an event.
national, local or personal: hardly n
place or feature of q place: hardly n
beast or bird or fish or tree or stream.
hardly point of the compass or n num-
eral; hardly an occupation or profess
sion; hardly a physical or mental or
moral characteristic; hardly hobby
that man has ridden or a blunder thar
he has made. that has not lent itself to
the naming of some man. When God
had formed the first man he called him
by the name of that out of which he had
made him, Adam. or dust" The name
Isaac. or laughter" suggests the oc-
casion of the bestowing of the name.
The story of Jacob is revealed in the
meaning of the word, "supplanter.s'
Secundus, Tertius and Quintus tell the
number of the birth. Hugh is mind"
spirit Agnes is "chaste." Lower re-
lates that when certain duke of Lith-
uania became Christian, he divided
the lower orders of the people into COM
panies, and gave to the first company
of men the name Peter and to the Sec
ond the name Paul, and to the women
he gave the names Catherine and Mar
garet.-New York Evening POST 81
The herald., 1896-04-22
The Fruit Industry, From Its Importance, 1a.
Be So Called

The fruit industry is the life blood of
California, and it's Importance will grow
from year to year. 1t is the custom to
speak of the 5000 or 1000 cars of oranges
shipped, or the annual prune crop of 50,-
O0O,0 900 pounds, or the raisin crop of S0.-
600, 900 pounds, etc, etc, as if the in
dustries were fully developed, and no
new branches to set on foot. But there
is room to supply the country with
olives and olive oil. There is an opening
to do in lemons what has been done in
oranges. The United States consumes
about 0,000, 900 lemons year. Then
the people of the state, up to this time
have been content to produce fruit and
sell it in one shape and another and
have done but little towards supplying
the country with the multitudinouS
fruit preparations and products that
come from Europe. A Herald represen-
tative this week met a Mr.. William
Carl, fruit merchant of New York
at the Chamber of Commerce, who was
in the act of examining a sample of
dried orange peel made by Mr. James II.
Garrison of Redlands. Said Mr. Carl:
THAT is the first lot of California
dried orange peel 1 ever saw which
comes up to the requirements of the
trade, and that is as good as the very
best l ever saw from Italy. The peel is
cut properly from point to stem, so that
they are about an inch wide at the, mid
die. The white is all carefully removed
from the outer peel, and the goods are
nicely dried. They are of high, rich
color, and perfect in all respects. In
New York that peel is worth Is cents
pound, wholesale price. A great deal
of it is used in making elixirs, cordals,
bitters. etc, etc. The refuse oranges of
Southern California ought to be put
through proper press to express the
juice. which will sell in large quantities
in Eastern cites. Phosphates are all
the go now, and orange phosphate is
one of the most popular.