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The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-06

WARREN sells all kinds Of stove hard
ware, zines, pipe, stove boards, OIL
cloth and everything required to fix for
heating. AS Kansas ave
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-06

FOR SALE
rooms, cellar, well, cistern, barn, 1 lot,
close to Washburn college, 5000.
8 room house. cellar, well. cistern, barn,
Topeka ave. between First and Sec
ond sts-; will sell very cheap. We want
offer.
Modern house of z rooms on paved
street, So, 500.
Modern house of rooms, close in. 81 800.
5 room house. 11z lots. on West Tenth,
for sale. or will trade See US about this.
We have cottages. all centrally Iccat-
ed in North Topeka, ranging in price from
$500 to 81 200 on good terms
Vacant lots on paved street, $500 each,
on monthly payments.
PAYNE & THOMPSON,
511 Kansas ave.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-06

We want TO make some giIt-edged loans
on farms in Shawnee county. Call on
at once.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-06

UNCANCELLED postal cards with print
ing or writing on redenmed for cash.
A G. Kennel, 1873 North Jefferson ave-.
st. Louis.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-06

T. E. BOWMAN &, Co.
Columbian Building.
The Universalist., 1897-03-27
WntpersaItst personal.

The retirement from the ministry of Rev
E. j. Felt, of Tacoma, will come as an I'M
happy surprise to his many friends.
Wherefore
Mrs. Cordelia A. Quinby, President
the w. C. A, who has spent the winte
at Leavenworth, Kan, will soon return to
the East in the service of the Associa-
tion.
April 5, Rev. James Shrigley, now liv-
ing in Philadelphia, will round out his
S3rd year, ''every one of which in the long
period of his maturity has attested de-
votion to Universalism rising to the white
heat.n
Mrs. Philena A. Start, so suddenly be-
reaved of her husband in the Boston acci-
dent, desires her friends to know how
much good their expressions of love and
sympathy have done her in her recent
trials.
Rev. Augusta J. Chaplin, d. D., ha
preached in the Universalist church in
Cortland, N. Y, for two Sundays. She
addressed the students of the Normal
school in that village upon the recent Olym-
pic games, which she personally witnessed
at Athens last Spring. The talk was
most Interesting and instructive one, as
may well be imagined Miss Chaplin is
now vending her way West.
The Universalist., 1897-03-27
DRAWN AND EXECuTED.

YOUR MIR. DABBLER thought himself an
artist. He devoted hours to what he
considered creditable work in that line.
"Other pictures were crude, his well !
they showed unmistakable signs of talent,
painstaking, fine lines, good perspective;
"No one could accuse him of sparing his
paint; he made picture that would stand
the touch of time,'' ETC., etc.
can Autumn Scene, drawn and ex
ecuted by Jonas Dabbler, Beetville," ap-
peared in a druggists window one day in
all the gorgeousness that free all-round
use of pigments could give. A wag
stopped on his way and looked at this
stunning piece of painted canvas.
"Drawn and Executed he exclaimed,
"That's good, though drawn and quar-
tered would have helped the execution
part of it. Look at the CORY leaves on
those big stalks set up for trees, and the
black muddle for soil and stones Yes, a
bloody picture well executed; as good as
seeing hanging to look at it," And the
bystanders laughed.
Dabbler, however, who was inside the
door of the drug store, did not even smile.
He is now painting wagon wheels in a
carriage shop and earns modest wages at
that business. He has decided that Beet
vile has no appreciative taste for artistic
talent. NJ.
The Universalist., 1897-03-27
THE UNITY OF THE SPIRIT.

THAT is suggestive bit of exper-
fence which our brave Southern pio-
neer and editor, Rev. John G. Bur-
russ, details in paragraph quoted
this week, in our department of
"Universalist Thought" He finds in
his particular field distinct ap-
proach to the fellowship which certain
ly should prevail among Christians of
all names. He was entertained on
his missionary journey by preacher
of another faith, Hospitality received
at that preachers home and asked
to preach in his church. Bro. Bur-
russ draws hopeful lesson from this
incident, and speaks confidently of
the existence of spiritual fraternity
among the truly Christian preachers
of the South. 1t must be refreshing
to this active veteran who has borne
the burden and heat of the day for
nearly half century, as one of the
pioneers of Universalism in the
Southern States, to find this i'm
proved condition of affairs in the
field where he has encountered the
bitterest opposition, and suffered re-
proach" for more than the years of a
generation as preacher of the Cos
pei which "bringeth salvation to all
men,"
This instance is in no wise peculiar,
although by no mean as common as
such things should be. We are un-
doubtedly in the presence of an era
when the higher unity of the spirit is
more widely recognized than ever be-
fore. The Christians of different
sects and forms of belief have been in
the past like those who, lookingat the
beautiful expanse of the sky, have
failed to remember that it surrounded
and enveloped all. We are now like
those who, amid the same beautiful ex-
panse, forget the diversities of earth,
or like those who, amid rapt listening,
give ear to the same sweet melody
that is the soul of each variation.
Even amid the occasional aberra-
tions of bigotry, there is undoubtedly
a grand advance made in the last
quarter of the century toward the
recognition of the larger faith and
the more essential verities in which
the Christian world generally believe.
The spirit is emerging beyond the
province of dogma, and we are being
transferred from the rear to the front.
This will link the race in better bonds
and lead it on to truer and happier
progress. The sects will maintain
their respective theories and still
cleave to their respective dogmas, but
mankind in the future is sure to
emerge into the universal light and
the love of God, and find the comfort
of common universal faith in this
splendid unity of the spirit
The Universalist., 1897-03-27
MAN AND THE ANIMAL,

THE writer of the La Plata, Mo. letter
to The UNIvERsALIsT for February 18th,
seems to be unduly worried over the
theory that imam is the offspring of an
animal" Well, supposing he is has man
cause for complaints 1t is the ''animal''
rather that ought to feel humiliated If
some anthropoid ape ages ago could have
foreseen that any descendant of his would
sink to such depths as some of the human
race, he would doubtless, like Job, have
cursed the day of his own BIRTH
As regards ''giving canine attributes TO
Jesus Christi how can we do otherwise
if we love and respect our Lord? Craft
tude, faithfulness, trust, unselfish love, a
forgiving spirit, the laying down of life
itself for others,-all these are "canine
attributes, ARE most strikingly shown
in the dog, mans truest friend-with-
out whose help our Aryan branch
OF the human race would hardly have
risen from savagery, at best not for
long years after it actually emerged from
that state. Can we, then, in view of these
considerations, show truer respect ito
Christ than by crediting him with stcapine
attributes?
Whether the evolution theory be true
need not greatly concern us; but that
view which limits Gods fatherhood to the
human animal is very narrow one at
best. Are not two sparrows sold for
farthing2 and one of them shall not fall on
the ground without your Father Matt.
x:29; has man any pre- -eminence above
the beast? (Eccl iii 10 2D The lower
animals $50 calied) certainly know no such
depths of degradation as man. "Who
knoweth the spirit of man that goeth up
wards, and the spirit of the beast that
goeth downward to the earth9r
I'm truly sorry mans dominion
Has broken natures social union
An Justlhes that ill-opinion which makes
thee startle
At me, thy poor earth born companion an,
fellow mortal.''
Now, if the immortal singer, Burns.
could look upon himself as the s'poor earth
born companion an fellow-mortal'' of the
humble field mouse, surely the rest of us
can afford to recognize the beasts of the
field and the fowls of the air as our equals,
like Solomon, and love them as did our
Saviour.
He prayeth WELL who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast
He pIayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small:
For the dear God who loveth us
He made and loveth all
E. M. WILso
Belfast, N Y, March. II.
The Universalist., 1897-03-27

M E WOULD not know how to get along
without The UNIvERsALIsT. Mr.. E.
has taken it ever since it was published,
during all it's changes of name, but not
sentiment. Oh, how / used to enjoy read
ing the old "Star in the West;' when l
see copy of it, it looks like the face of
an old friend
| owe to think of the good State Con-
ventions that we used to have in dear old
Ohio. | can in imagination see the faces
of the ministers, laymen, and sisters that
were nearly always at those Conventions.
There were Bros. Carlton, Rexford, Mes
senger, Wait, Williamson, Cantwell and
many others. Some have crossed over to
the other land, and we that are left are
growing old, and will soon join those who
have gone before.
1t is over twenty years since left Ohio.
Oh how / have missed church privileges
since l have been in Kansas I do hope
we will make a success of our efforts to
sustain preaching here, and be able to
build us little church.
Mrs. THos. EDMoNDsoN.
Valley Center, Kan.
The Universalist., 1897-03-27

the Gospel of Christ which we protest.
Many of our churches are weak indeed, and
need to be resurrected to new life. I feel
that if our ministers would give us more
purely Christian sermons, setting forth
the plain, simple truths of the Saviour's
teaching, that our inmost spiritual natures
would be more alive to Christian work,
and our spiritual enthusiasm warm the
hearts of others, and thus increase our
church membership, and give us new life
and energy. We would than feel it our
duty and earnest desire at all times to be
present at our meetings, not in a sleepy,
dreaming state, but alive to every true
Christian feeling of love to God, and love
TO man. A LAYMAN
The Universalist., 1897-03-27
FROM A SOUTHERN CITY.

ALL our people are very grateful to you
for your kindness in sending copies of The
UNIvERsALIsT. Every copy does good SER
vice, and they are loaned and reloaned
till completely worn out. l hope to get a
number of subscribers for it soon. Mrs.
---, of whom you have heard no
doubt, is especially pleased with your
sfair treatment of both classes in regard
to the distribution of wealth. She is a
wealthy woman of an old and wealthy
Southern family, and feels keenly the lack
of sympathy of the masses toward the
wealthy class. She says, "We need
brotherly love and the kindly interest of
all, just as much as any class. The pos
session of means does not rob us of the
natural longing for sympathy, and fair
treatment, and full appreciation of our
real worth or needs. -
She is on the Board of Managers of the
Florence Crittenton Home, and at re-
cent meeting of the board, the matron, a
narrow Methodist, produced copy of
THE UNIvERsALIsT which you have so very
kindly sent there, saying that she had ex-
amined it and found that it was not fit
paper for the inmates to read, and asking
that whoever was responsible for its coming
there would stop it,-she knew very well
who. AS this was an excess of authority,
one of the board-a Congregationalist-i
sisted that the matter be laid before the
Committee on Literature, which as yet
had not passed upon the matter at all.
The result do not yet know, but l think
the committee will be of different opin-
ion regarding the moral character and eff
feet of THE UNIvERsALIsT. V.
The Universalist., 1897-03-27
An Offensive Question Sent Home.


Those churches which have adopted
the congregational method of church
government arose as a protest against
'the authority OF pope, prelate, presby-
terry. prince or parliament" over the
church or over the conscience of the
individual believer. They protested not
only against the hierarchy in church gov
ernment, but also against the union of
church and State Is not their work
largely done? Even in those Protestant
countries where there is nominal union
of church and State. is not public opin-
ion 30 potent that the State would not
dare to present either policies or leaders
to the church which were not accepta-
BILE to it? Even the Protestant church.
es with an Episcopal form of govern
ment are in the same condition, as would
soon appear il the ruling powers were to
attempt to enforce their own will, in
contradistinction from the will of the
church, upon the body it has the name
Of governing. AS protest against the
union of church and State, as protest
against the despotism of the Episcopacy,
have not these churches done their
work? Before they ask the Universal
ist Church why it does not die, would it
not be well for the Baptist and Congre-
gationalist churches to ask themselves
why. historically. they should live any
longer? Aud if they think the question
offensive, will they not also ask them
selves why precisely the same question
is not offensive to Universalists?-R
T. G. Druleg.
The Universalist., 1897-03-27

Universalists will always be ready
to unite in all the demands of this
new and more hopeful era of the
world. They will do it without any
sacrifice of principle; and will not fail
to adhere consistently to the teach
ings of their own faith. Indeed their
faith teaches them to meet the out
stretched hand of Christian love
wherever, and whenever, extended to
them. Those are to be pitied indeed
who know only the fellowship of a
creed, no matter how perfect and
hopeful that creed may be, and who
ignore the larger fellowship of souls.
We are to remember that the new
born and noble are to be found in all
the orders, in all the churches, in all
the divisions of the one Christian
army of the one Lord and Master of
all.
Universalism teaches that we sus-
tain common fellowship with Chris
tians of every name, and that we have
brethren in all of the churches, amid
all the diversities of belief.
AS our sympathies meet on this
better level, our humanities will grow
more ideal, and our life become rich
er and more fragrant. The heart is
ever more catholic than the head. AS
our age passes more and more into
the religion of the spirit, our many
sectarian names will assume less sig
nifcance, and our foolish strifes will
die away like the lower limbs from
the growing tree. Our church life
will be more at the top, where the
branches all unite, and less at the
base, where they are more separate
Our unity will be in the life of the
spirit. In this "good time coming"
we may we'll believe that the regnant
faith of Universalism will be no bar.
as heretofore, to the largest fellow
ship and the most vital Christian ex-
perience.
The Universalist., 1897-03-27
AN ANSWER TO THE MINISTER'S DREAn

AN ANSWER TO THE MINISTER'S DREAM.
In looking over your interesting and
profitable paper, my attention was drawn
to an article, "A Minister'S Dream,
which to me was very interesting, as
dreams generally are. think l can real
ize to some extent the minister's feelings
and the anxiety that must have been i'm
pressing his mental vision. 1t is not sur
prising that on his awakening he was
bathed with perspiration and in great men,
tll pain. But still il was only a dream.
Then the thought came 'Is it any more
the minister's duty to go to church, than
it is the duty of the peopleln Tie rev.
brother asks the question, ''Would any
layman find the sweat starting at dream
ing that the organ was playing, services
had commenced, and he was not in his
usual seat to be present and take part in
the servicesl" This is a very important
matter for our laymen to consider. l speak
for myself l am not much of dreamer,
but | must say have been quite a close
observer for many years in our regular
services in the church, and / do not ever
ECCOllGCl VI DuJ bCllCNt dO
times l might have been caught nodding,
l must say at times that other laymen
were making the same motions as myself.
The question naturally presents itself to
my mind, SIS it the fault of the hearer or
the fault of the minister, or can any fault
be attached to either?n l know, as lay
men, we are very negligent indeed, in
much of our church work, and l think in
many instances that the labors of many of
our ministers are not appreciated to any
great extent by our people.
We have all kinds of sermons, or rather
lectures, political, temperance, scientific,
and ON many other subjects, all probably
good enough. Many of our hearers are
delighted with these cup to date" dis
courses, and often much praise to the pas
tor is the result; yet the church is not
always in a prosperous condition; the
membership does not increase. There is
some cause for this. We are not gaining
as a church as we ought to gain. To me, it
appears that oftentimes the worship is to
the minister instead to the one Cod the
Father of us all / would ask, Cannot
this condition Of things be changed so that
we could secure more grand results for
The Universalist., 1897-03-27
THE EASTER OFFERINGS.

The Executive Board of the Illi-
nois Universalist Convention de-
pends on the offerings from the
churches for the support of the Mis-
sionary and Church Extension work
in the State. These offerings are
quite generally taken in our churches
on Easter Sunday. There are spec
ial reasons for the churches of the
State responding this year in an am
pie and generous manner to the call
of the Convention. A State Mission
ary has been placed in the field with
a definite salary and certain appro-
priations have already been made
for the benefit of several struggling
parishes. The officials of the Con-
vention can only meet these obliga-
tions as the churches fulfill their duty
and provide the necessary funds.
The pastors of the State are earnestly
requested to cooperate with the Exc
cutive Board in bringing this matter
to the early attention of their respec-
tive parishes.
Easter is near at hand and the pas
tors should give due notice of the
expected offering in order that the
friends of the Convention may be
prepared to make their contributions.
A notice of this annual offering, on
which so much depends, given from
the pulpit for the next two Sundays,
will largely increase the amount of
the contributions on Easter Day.
The Convention will need all the
funds that can possibly be raised,
and every church in the State should
assist by an offering in behalf of the
work. In too many of our pulpits,
this preparatory notice is neglected,
and the consequence is that the par
ishes are not prepared when the time
for the offering comes. A sermon
devoted to the explanation of the
Convention work and what is ex-
pected from the people would be
wise deliverance in any OF our pull
pits. If this cannot be done "pre-
lude" tothe sermon might be fitly ar
ranged to cover the necessary expla-
plantations and thus increase the Of
fering at Easter.
The great need among our people
is to understand the work of the Con-
vention, and to be educated in the
idea that the Convention work is
their own work; that the prosperity
of the church at large is dependent
on the offerings of the local parishes
in behalf of the Church Extension
work. When our churches generally
are made to understand that the Con-
vention is not an alien body, but is
that organization of which they them
selves are part, the responsibility
falling upon our Executive Board will
be made less onerous, and the general
prosperity of the churches of the State
be more surely established.
The Easter offeringl Let it be
made generous one at the Easter
tide of 1897. Let the pastors lead
the way in this loyalty to the Con-
vention and its enterprises, and the
response of the people will be en-
couraging to all concerned.
The Universalist., 1897-03-27
Another large colony of Mennoni

Another large colony of Mennonites
is on the way from Russia to the Dako
tas to join those who have gone before
to make homes for themselves under a
free government. These are from Tash
kend. an ancient Persian town now in
possession of Russia. They have lived in
Russia many years. their ancestors hav-
ing gone there from Germany century
and half ago, but they have never lost
their individuality. nor have they for
gotten their religion. 1t is said that
there are thousandso of them on the point
of comiog to the United States for
homes.
The Universalist., 1897-03-27
How TO Look at Life
f0.nerrasra

We are to look at life as God looks at it.
That means that we are to put faith
bravely in him. We cannot yet under
stand the mysteries of our existence as he
understands them, but we can refuse to
allow them to dishearten us.
The Universalist., 1897-03-27

"The revival being held i'm Music Hall
is excitement followed by exhaustion
Character is attained by growth. Here
is where the revivals are at fault. A
forced growth is engendered, and hot
house plant is the result, unable to sur
vive in the natural atmosphere of the
world. A religious life cannot be forced
with impunity. A revival is an attempt
to do in three weeks what the churches
ought to do in that many years. What is
the result? The effort is followed by
collapse. 1t will never do to substitute a
stimulant for the bread of life.
Neither is it expedient to supplant
the steady growth by an unnatural
mushroom development. After the re-
vival is past lethargy creep over the
participants: reaction sets in; the
nerves, strung to the highest tension,
collapse; the will, which was held in
check with vise-like determination,
now becomes lamentably weak as the
stimulant leaves, and in many cases the
soul is plunged into deeper despair be-
cause of the discovery that this excite
ment is not the natural way of living
Christian life.
ut takes a church which has Just
passed through an exciting revival about
half year to regain its normal status
and to do the work required of it. In
the meantime it has gone back to where
it was in strength and power and feels
the need of another revival. from which,
through season of lethargy, it will re.
cuperate sufficiently to hold another re.
vival, and so on, ad iaatnitum. How
much better is the ceaseless, steady
growth. Noiselessly and imperceptibly
the soul should climb higher and high
nrO
The Universalist., 1897-03-27

Novels teach the youthful minds to
sigh after happiness that never existed.
Goldsmith.
The Universalist., 1897-03-27

my God, whom worship, would by any
possible method of condemnation send
down to Hades 200 100000 of my broth
ers. that know not their right hand from
their left, and save few of US who are
little better perhaps in our morals,
would not go into Heaven if l could. l
could not worship such a God as that.
l would join the hosts of Hades in re.
belling against such God. Our God is
not God of that kind. God is love,
and is trying to save men,"
500
Our Cincinnati pas
oiOom'nO VI tor. Rev. U. S. Mil.
lapse. Tort uorL ~ h;s n,,,n;t
in embracing the splendid opportunity
presented by Mr.. Moody's Music Hall
meetings for the enforcement of our doc
trinal ideas in contrast with the teach
ings made prominent during the Gin
cinnati revival. In bis sermon last
Sunday, he unfolded the underlying
weakness in the philosophy of the whole
revival movement as usually displayed
in the orthodox services. He pleads for
Christian education. and the develop
ment of the religious life by regular ap.
preparation of the virtues. without the
excitement surely followed by relapse
and exhaustion. The following passage
gives the preachers thought, and is
good common sense applied to the mat
ters of religion.
The Universalist., 1897-03-27

"If ! could cOncede for a moment
hat the world as l know it-and know
it rim to rim, having travelled in all its
lands. having seen it's despicable mill
ons, having seen it in shame and filth
aud if were compelled to think that