The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-08-21
SATURDAY, AUGUST 81.
EDITORIAL.

On account of the i'll
heCufn Vi lnisSlon ness of member of
airy oaCe' his family. Rev. |.
Wallace Cate. Of our Japan Miss ion has
decided to return to this country. He
sailed from Yokohama for Anne RIGA on
the tenth of the current month. Mr..
Cate had re.engaged for second five
year term, and was, if we are not mis-
taken, in the seventh year of his mis-
sionary work in Japan. His return will
be regretted by all friends of the Mis-
sion for he is capable and well-fur-
nished man and has done good work.
500
The great visions are
more otaCeiy for the great souls.
Msnslons' The little child lives
in a house of narrow walls and low roof
and few rooms, and the horizon is only
a few steps away; but ere long the mind
breaks out from its pent-up limits; the
heart reaches to new areas of friend
ship. and the moral sense and the sense
of spiritual things awaken to a percep-
ton of two continents of beauty and
glory, and a new house is entered. and
new experiences become part OF the
possession of life. 1t is thus that we
"build more stately mansions" about ue,
by building up life into more noble pro-
portions; or rather, it is thus that we
make to ourselves path into those
stately residences that lie out in the
iuture.
500
THE good life is not
The Good Life. only prepared to claim
better future having the only title to
the truest riches, but it is prepared to
carry greater stores of wealth with it
out of the past. In it's net are gathered
from the sea of life the finest pearls; its
crown becomes filed with gems from
the fields it has passed through. and
memories that will gladden. the evening
of it's mortal day. and carry great
peace into the closing scene of earth;
robe of honor that is ever worn as
nobler than the royal purple of mon
archs and treasures of wisdom and vir-
tue that will pass with it across the
silent river and enrich the immortal ex-
perience. For while it is true that in
the field Of life, and under Providence,
the sowing and the reaping are instant
and constant, because in part they are
both one act, still we can but feel that
some part of the good harvest is kept in
reserve for later feasts even as pilgrims
take their garnered wheat and stores OF
refreshing drink along on their journey
a strange sky. Thus the good.life gar
ners in these lower meadows and praries
some imperishable fruits. Even as the
growths of Egypt were carried away to
make the feasts of Canaan, does the
finer wealth of character endure; so it
remains to enrich US in each new period
OF life and endures even to the end of
mortal experience and into the Great
Beyond where it will rejoice over its
most transcendent rewards.
500
The announcement is
Inc "efs Meet made that DIR. Shinn's
ings Ended. maatinosat the Wars
which have been held annually for six
teen years, are ended with the success
full meeting of the present year. The
Banner remarks that "the reasons for
such a decision are many. ample and
varied and undoubtedly will be stated
at the proper time" The Weirs meet
ings have been very useful occasions
for the generation of enthusiasm" in
behalf of our UNCONVENTIONAL work.
They have also been pleasant social
gatherings, amid delightful natural sur
roundings, They have given a great
impulse to our missionary work East
and West and have proved consecutive
series of triumphs for DIR. Shinn as
their original administrator. The series
closed in manner BETTING their his
tory. $1,000 was raised for the negro
Universalist chapel at Suffolk. Va. THE
UNIvERsALIsT of next week will have a
report of "Weirs 81" cleaned from the
copious reports of the Leader and Ban
ner.
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some very curious
Animals as Urlml' facts are brought to
nails and Hercules view in a paper by
DR.. t. E. Wilmington on Legal Proceed
ings Against Animals" published in the
Cornhill Magazine for July. 1T is an
historical fact" he says, that a cock
was publicly burnt at Basic in August,
l474, for the diabolicsl crime OF laying
an egg; the egg also being burnt lest it
should produce a cockatrice. or fiery fly
ing serpent" The pig was a more fire.
qusnt defendant. Record is given Of a
SOW which was solemnly imprisoned,
tried. and executed by the Paris hang.
man for the murder Of baby in 1903