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create 10 his miod the gravest doubts
Of the mans guilt; consequently he
could not permit him to be banged
This was all the governor said. His
position seems to be about as. follows !:
While the integrity Of the Augusta
minister vas not to be doubted under
the certificates Of character furnished,
there vas bare possibility that he was
mistaken as to the days be swears Mur-
ply was at his house. aud for this rea-
son the governor could not grant the
full pardon. If it ever be proved. by
additional witnesses that the minister's
statement is absolutely correct the
st.fus of the case is now such that be
can be pardoned forthwith. The case has
been one Of the most intense interest
since Mr.. Carroll introduced the testi
mony, summary Of which was given
yesterday. Governor Ellerbe's posi-
ton 10 having to deal with such case.
involving the life of human being.
was. to say the least, most. ueeovia-
BILE. He has done what be considered
the only proper thing to do and thus
this case ends for the preseps.--The
State.
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VERDICT or THE COR
ONER'S JURY.
Solicitor Thurroond Held for
Murder.

Special to The State
Edgefield, March 25-At the cor.
oner's inquest to day, Capt D. 5
DuBose, the only eye witness to the
killing, testified that when Will llar
ris, who was on the street, denounced
Thurmond as dirty sconndrel, Thur
mond from his Office door, shot Har-
ris, who never spoke, but died IN
FIVE minutes
The jury Of inquest found shat
Will Harris came to his death by a
gunshot wound at the hands of j.
william Thurmond.
Capt. DuBose, who was only lev
feet from Harris. testified that Har-
ris was not armed
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Sentence Commuted to Life
Imprisonment.

City Attorney Carroll OF Augusta.
By his energetic work done 10 the last
90 days, has succeeded 10 saving the
life Of Daniel G.. Murphy. and that un-
forsaoate mao will not have to pay the
death peoalty upon the gallows This
uila be read by many before M1'phy
knows. however. whether he most d's
ro-day or not. He was Dot told Lass
1igbt, the prison gates having been
locked for the oighs before any one
kDes the result. His aged. grey haired
sather will doubtless be the drss to give
him the news at s o'clock or shortly
sbereaf.er this moroiOg As the case
nop stands. Murphy's sentence has
been conmu.ed to life imprisonment ic
the State peo.tec;;ary. On 'be streets
every man one could meet approved
::iis action upoo the part Of the chief
executive
Ge.eraor E'lerbe has given the case
the gres,est amnunt Of careful! and
paias,sklac consideration Since his
last intei view with the prisoner. be has
beeo convinced os his guilt, and Mur-
phy would surely have died On the GAL
lows to day. but for the earoess work Of
Mr. Carroll in securing the testimony
OF that Augusta minister. whose char
aofer had been SO highly eodorsed
Yesterday morning, ir response to
the request of Governor Elerbe. Solici-
tor Jervey aud Fl. Fl Bfunson. Esq !,
Who prosecuted Murphy. came to TO
lumbia. aud during the day the COVER
nor had them 10 consultation With him.
The stenographic report of the evidence
taken 10 the case the preceding day
was read to thep. What they had to
say 30 the governor is not koowo.
Both attorneys bad been previously
convinced of the mans guilt, but nei
ther of them we're men who wished an
:snocent man executed, if it could be
shown that he was lonocent.
Governor Ellerbe thought the case
ever for some time after these gentle
men had left the city then about 6 80
o'clock he announced shat be had COM
rnused the sentence to life impriscn-
1aent in the State penitentiary. Gov
ernor ElIerbe said that the testimony
that had been presented to bin by Mr..
Carroll was Of such q character as to
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A Shocking Tragedy.
Solicitor Thurmond Shoots
Mr.. w. G. Harris.
Special to The State.

Special to The State.
Edge6eld, March PA sad and
unfortunate homicide occurred here
at 6 O'Clock this afternoon. Solicitor
| Thurmond shot and killed w. G
Harris, drummer for The Murray
Drrg company of Columbia. S. O.
Mr.. Harris is nephew of Collector
of Internal Revenue Townes, and son
of ". G. Harris, q prominent citizen
of Edgefeld county
The trouble, it seems. arose out o1
the fact that while Mr.. Thurmond was
member of the State Legislature be
recommended that Governor Evans
appoint gentleman named Glover
as magistrate instead Of Harris, the
old incumbent and father of the de-
ceased Since Mr.. Thurmond has
has been solicitor he has had moth
ing whatever to do with recommend
ing applicants for positions of magis-
trate. but under Governor Ellerbe's
administration Mr.. Harris, senior,
was again an applicant, but Glover.
who was appointed by Governor
Evans. was reappointed by Ellerbe.
Mr.. w. G Harris deceased, seemed
to think that Solicitor Thurmond was
instrumental in having it done and
about it he accosted Solicitor Thur
mond this afternoon at about 5 O'Clock
in the drug store of W. E Lynch.
Mr.. Harris. it is said, had been
drinking and used very h.t language
Thurmond. to avoid difficulty, left
the Lynch store and went to>his of
fee. He was there engaged at work
when Mr. Harris passed by on the
way to his hotel, in company with
Capt DuBose. the proprietor On
reaching the doorway to Thurmond's 9
Office Harris stopped Capt DuBose
walked on few steps The subject
Of former discussion was again
brought up by Hsrris. the latter final
i saying to Thurmond that he { Thur
mond) had acted like Cd id
dog and scoundrel." and threw his
hand to his pocket as if to draw his
pistol aad placed his foot on Thur
mond's doorstep. Thereupcn Thur.
mond fred from where he was sitting :
Harris staggered backwards and fell
upon the sidewalk He got up aud
walked a few PAGES, when he fell
dead The ball entered from the
front just below the shirt stud and
passed ito the cavity o! the heart
q jury Of inquest has been sum
moned and, after viewing the body,
adjourned until to morrow Great
regret is felt here over the occur
renee. Solicitor Thurmond was
never known to have had aDy trouble
before and is regarded by verybody
"a peaceful and law abiding citizen
lie surrendered himself and is now
j." Jail He is completely overcome
bv his misfortune He has retained
Messrs Croft & Tillman and n. u
Evans to defend him
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To Prove an Ahbi
Surprising Developments IN
The Murphy Case.

There we're some startling revelations
in the Murphy case yesterday. 10 the
6rst place City Attorney Carroll of Au.
gussa. the bright aud wide-awake attor.
ney Who interested himself in the case
Of the unfortunate man at the time bis
neck was about co be broken. because
he believed FROM what Murphy's broth
#er told him that the man vas innocent,
gave the testimony Of Baptist minis
Ter. that minister's wife and his daugh-
ter. to prove ao alibi. In the second
place he presented evidence that the
gun produced by the detectives at tine
trial vas not the guG that was sworn to
on the trial as having been sold to Mur-
ply in Ora1geburg. bns vas q gun pur-
chased by Murphy at Beech Island aod
Was 10 the residence of the minister at
the time the murder was committed.
An this vas sworn TO by many witness
es and it was shown that che tracing Of
she weapon tailed exactly with what the
condemned mau told his brother about
i. Nj. Carroll went further aud pro-
duced the gun that was bonght in
Orspgebnrg. Then be produced an
affidavit going to show that the detec-
;tives bad practical by admitted that they
had liked" their witnesses Add to
make the case more complete in behalf
81 the condemned man be put Sqpsrin-
siendent Neal Of the State peni.shtiary
.on the stand AID proved by bin tba.
Goyesnor Evaos had given him orders
net TO sallow any one to see Murphy
aftss be vas brought here for safe keep
ing save the detectives 10 the case aod
those whom these detectives wanted to
See bin. Thus was the delay in pre-
asenting the defense accounted for. Mur-
phy s attorneys had applied for admis-
son 10, the prisoner. he testified. and
had been refused admission under this
order.
Mr.. Carroll came before Governor
Ellefbe yesterday morning with all his
information IN the proper shape. He
brought along most Of his witnesses
anu everything that be wanted to pre-
ssus Vas 10 Che shape Of sworn afida-
sits, He left no point ungoarded and
presented case that was OF intense
interest. Assistant Attorney General
Townsend was present aud crossed ex-
auined the witnesses. The governor
himself frequently asked them ques-
tons. The examination Of the sit-
oesses occupied all the morning. 10
sas afternoon Governor Eslerbe heard
BIZ. Carroll present the case Mr..
Carroll made 8 spieadid speech. He
arranged bis evidence 10 logical order
add dissecsed the esideoee produced at
The trial 10 a mastery manner. He |
laid particular stress upon the fact tba.
HE chief State witness. Glenn Bars.
h.d already appeared before the COVER
nor aud confessed that she was paid to
lie
Governor Eil1rbe listened intentiy to
sveryshiug that was said. He stated I
.hss De you'd announce his decision 10
lie evening. As 8 o'clock he au-
uounced that he had wired for Solicitor
Jervsy and Attorney Brcnson. who
lad rep1eeeptes ehe State upon the
rial, as be wished to confer With them
his morning To the light of all of
gbich, I, is pretty safe to cay that MUIR
phy will not hang tomorrow The
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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-03
THE MISSIONARY IN THE PULPIT.
BY REV. F. W. HAMILTON.

The words which follow are the
words of minister to his brother
ministers. Let not the lay brethren
skip this article on that account, how
ever. 1t may appear that it has a
message for them also. Such as the
message is it comes out of loyalty to
our church and zeal for our cause,
and it embodies the results of the
writer's experience and observation.
Upon us, brethren, depends the sue
cess or failure of the work of Univer-
salist Church extension. l use this
term because want to include every
thing, from the planting of a mission
Sunday school in the outskirts of our
towns to the opening of our preach
ing stations in Japan. There can
be no missionary in the field and
no missionary spirit in the hearts of
the people unless there is first mis-
sionary in every pulpit. The people
will not outrun their pastors; they
will follow their pastors. If you, my
dear brethren, wait for your people to
rise in their might and carry the mis-
sions, and, incidentally, yourselves,
you will wait in vain and church ex-
tension will stop. If you will rise in
the might of your Christian manhood
and the right of your Christian office
no parish will for long resist your in
fuence and refuse to follow your
lead.
l know that Universalist ministers
are busy men, generally overworked
men. know that only too often they
are burdened more than they ought
to be with the financial concern of
their parishes. 1 know the apparent
slenderness of the resources and the
multiplicity of the demands. know
how many parishes and standing COM
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-03
"HOW IT LOOKS AT THE 'FRONT.'"
BY REV. RICHARD E. SYKES.

AFTER nineteen months service in
this important missionary center of
the far West, we have acquired a
knowledge of the difficulties attend
ant on such a work, have taken
an inventory of our resources, laid
our plans accordingly, and resolutely
set about to fulfill them. 1t is not the
purpose of this article to magnify
difficulties. 1t is the part of wisdom,
however, to see things as they are,
so that when on the field we shall not
rashly rush into an engagement and
be compelled to retire in confus ion.
Enthusiasm unaccompanied by
sound judgment, resolute purpose
and sustained effort, is doomed to
disappointment and disaster. In a
work like this one must take the
long look, seeing the result afar off,
and be content to work and wait for
It's accompaniment.
A leader of missionary enterprise
of the Universalist Church in a city
situated between the Mississippi and
the "Rockies" finds himself at the
head of small band of devoted peo-
pie, who identify themselves with the
movement for a religious purpose
only. Few people come to us to
promote their pecuniary, social or
political ambitions. If they do come
for such purpose, they soon retire
in disappointment We have nothing
to give men but our blessed interpre-
tation of the Gospel and of the facts
of life. Not few who sympathize
with our faith, and who perhaps
elsewhere have been identified with
our church, keep aloof, either because
they have already formed attach
ments in other churches, where they
find much to commend and little
that offends, or because they look
upon our enterprise as an expert
ment.
They know that church building
is anticipated, that therefore contri-
buttons must be made and that they
will be invited to give. The blessed
spirit of loyalty and sacrifice fails
them and, like the young man in the
Scripture, l fear they go away sad.
The few faithful are usually poor
and so, from necessity, must worship
in a place such as they are able to
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-03
WE GAN: WE MUST.
BY REV. Q. H. sHINN, D. D.
GALEsBURG. Ill.

We, the Universalist Church, can
and must do all that we have under
taken and more.
First: Japan. Every member of
the Universalist Church, every believ-
er in ultimate and universal cure,
must feel proud of what our Japan
Mission has, in so short time, accom-
plished. Whether we favored the
mission at first or not, our knowledge
of its success and our selfrespect as
custodians of faith that will bless
and save in all climes, must forbid
the abandonment of this great move
ment. We can and must sustain the
Japan Mission.
Second: The New Fields at home.
These opportunities for church ex-
tension in our own land are opening
from sea to sea. Reasoning minds
and sorrowing souls, all benevolent
spirits, are repudiating the old inter
pretations involving the fall and ruin
of man, and can be saved from inf
deity and despair only by the beau
tiful doctrines that have made our
lives rich and happy. Hence tre-
mendous obligation rests upon us all.
We must share our joys, carry our
light to other lives. 1t is great sin
to be a Universalist and be doing
othing for it. 1t ism my ambition to
disturb the serenity of every idle
Universalist ON the globe. The most
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no money In those days, we forget
that they furnished what we now
raise money to supply, ministers of
the Word. The situation has always
been the same, the problem just so
simple and inevitable.
1t is not practicable now to send
the pastors of our established
churches West, South and to Japan.
We are an organized and modernized
church. We must send to these rich
and promising fields other laborers,
and we must do it at once We have
lost incalculably by delay. Now we
are planting in California, Oregon,
Washington; in Missouri, Dakota, in
Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, and in far
off japan. The new parts of our de-
nominational organism are so numer-
GUS and so healthful that the most
cynical observer feels thrill of en-
thusiasm. We are alive, we are grow
ing, and of course we must supply
nutriment to the developing body.
Who does not rejoice that there are
calls? They are the clamoring appe-
tites of an expanding life. Stint not
the fare; cut generous slices; pour out
the vitalizers; and see how God will
Give fbo ;,orooeof
The case makes its own appeal. In
the presence of trumpet-tongued
facts all other eloquence is tame.
Times are hard; yes, but not every
where. This is time when the pros
porous and those whose losses have
left them enough still, should see
their opportunity and promptly ac-
cept their privilege. Times are hard;
yes, but we never make hard times
the excuse for starving our children.
They are growing and they must be
fed. Times are hard; yes, but we are
still a rich and thrifty nation, and
Universalists as class are not no
ticeably poor either in purse or in
spirit. We are abundantly aole to do
what is required of us. Are we not
willing9 Every church can do some
thing. Let it be done at once. The
'diaspora" brethren scattered
abroad, can each do something. Let
them not wait until tomorrow.
The Spring tides are starting and
nature is preparing for summer. Over
all the earth, down to the roots of
every living thing she pours her re-
freshing food, that summer may not
fail. This too is our season for start
ing the Spring-tides laden with fer
tility, from every hill and vale, that
the life-giving flood may be ample to
reach the roots of every denomina-
tional planting, from historic Good
Luck to the mission in Nagaya, and
make sure an affluent summer for our
beloved church.
CANTON THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-03
CONTENTS.
CHICAGO. SATURDAY. APRIL 3. 1897.
RELIGIOUS AND FAMILY WEEKLY

Page One.
How to Have a Growing Denomination.
"How it Looks at the Front
Our Forward Movement.
We Can: We Must.
The Missionary in the Pulpit.
Page Two.
The zone at a Time" Method.
No Retreat From Japan.
The Situation in Missions.
Extracts From Report of the Financial
Secretary.
Page Three.
The Sunday School Lesson.
Page Four.
Editorial:
The Philosophy of Home Mission Work.
The Mission to Japan.
New Work in Old Fields.
Parish News.
Page Five.
Convention onIContributions
Ways and Means.
why Foreign Mission?
The Root of the Matter.
A Word of Encouragement.
A Layman's View Of it.
Our Motive for Church Extension.
Page Six.
The Family Page. Farm. Garden and Dairy.
Page Seven.
Our Boys and Girls.
Page Eight.
W. C. A.-Notes for April.
Our Ohio Letter.
Church Notices and In Memoriam.
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The harvest is abundant but the

The harvest is abundant but the
laborers are few. The writer is the
only active Universalist clergyman
in the State of Colorado, comprising
territory as large as New England,
New York and New Jersey combined.
In other equally great sections of
the West, our church is practically
without an ordained representative.
The far West because of its natural
resources, unsurpassed beauty, and
Italian climate, is very inviting. Col
orado, itself, is young giant of tre-
mendous strength. New cities are
being born, and Denver, the capital
city, is already one of the most splen-
did cities on the continent.
The Universalist Church must not
fail to see and improve her opportu-
nifty, but with conservation and en-
terprise must enter the field and win
the victory. In our work, what we
most need is character, persistence
and cash. My faith tells me that ere
long some devoted and wealthy man
or men of our denomination, seeing
the future greatness of this Western
country, will inaugurate missionary
movement on large scale. resulting
in the establishment of Universalist
churches in every city of Importance,
and in the founding of university
to meet the growing needs of our
people.
DENVER Colo.
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DROF. HENRY DRUMMOND,
l. whose death, just announced,
makes mourners on both sides of the
sea, has told us in we'll known essay,
that growth has these two character
istics: it is spontaneous and it is mys-
terious. 1t comes without effort, and
no one can tell how it comes.
I have feared that some of our
churches and people have taken Prof.
Drummond quite too literally. They
expect the denomination to grow;
they are grieved if it does not grow.
But they expect it to grow without
effort and without anybody's being
able to tell why.
It may be profitable to attempt a
fuller account of growth. Absorp-
tion and assimilation are not growth.
They are preliminary process, but
they do not constitute growth. In
order to grow, what the organism
has taken in and made part of itself
must be put forth into making new
parts of itself. This is growth.
The vital process is an exact anal
ogy of what is requisite to the growth
of church or denomination. Taking
in is part of the process, but does not
complete it. Putting forth is the
corresponding and completing part.
See how close the analogy runs. The
organism does not put forth into new
parts all that it takes in, nor the
greater part of it. Most of what it
absorbs goes to the maintenanceof its
own life and functions. But GER
tain portion goes to the making of
new parts, or there is no growth. So
the home church, or the existing de-
nomination, requires the larger por-
tion of. its energy, labor, contribu-
tions, to keep it living and healthful
and capable of carrying forward with
vigor the blessed and beautiful min
istries with which it is charged. But
lift is there alive. it is part of grow
ing organism that is putting itself
forth in new structures-in increase
Of its own bulk and power. The de-
mand on it, therefore, is like the call
of growing limb for material to grow
with; it is an imperative call. To
neglect it is selfdestruction.
If the case were ten times harder
than it is there would be no alterna-
tive. When there were only five Uni
versalist churches in America, the
growth depended on them. They
met the demand by sparing their pas
tors to go out as missionaries to the
surrounding regions. The Gospel OF
the kingdom must be preached to
other cities also" and they sent out
the preachers. If we say they raised