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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-13
WnipersaItSt Dersonal.

Rev. j. E. Keyes will ASSIST Rev. C. L.
Ball in a series of meetings this week at
junction City, Kan.
Dr. Straub and Rev. W. p Burnell ex-
changed pulpits Sunday, TIE services be-
ing held respectively .at Blue Island and
McHenry.
Prof. Arson B. Curtis, Phi D., recently
of Tufts College, has accepted call to
the Universalist parish at Binghamton,
N. Y, and will remove there at once.
Rev'Joseph Henry and Florence Kollock
Croker left Chicago on Tuesday of last
week for their new home in Troy N Y,
where Mr.. Croker assumes charge of the
old established Unitarian church in that
city.
Rev. E. j. Felt, of Tacoma, Wash,
passed through Chicago .onss..Saturday on
his way home. He came East to attend
the meeting of the...sCommittee of the
Young Peoples Christian Union and to
consult with the Board of Trustees of the
General Convention
Many of our readersswill-- recall the con
tributions of Miss Clara M. Saunders, of
Kingsbury, O., to our columns few years
ago. Size was then a young girl of pre-
cocious literary gifts and her poems were
remarkable productions for one of her
youthful years. Miss Saunders was mar
ried in Montana, in 1884, to Mr.. j. X.
Bramble. We grieve to record her decease
at Marysville, in that state, January 81.
The In Memoriam columnscontains a trib-
ute from her home paper.
Mrs. p. w. Gates, an old and venerated
member of the Church of the Redeemer,
Chicago, died recently in Southern Cali
fornia. Her remains were brought home
for burial and her funeral attended from
the Church of the Redeemer, Rev. 7. B.
Gregory and Rev. Il. F. Johonnot, of Oak
Park, conducting the last services The
probate of the will of Mrs. Gates revealed
the fact that 500 was bequeathed to the
Church of the Redeemer-a substantial
remembrance of her interest and good will
in the old parish.
Detroit has veteran woman philanthro-
pist in the person of Mrs. d 'Arcambal, who
LIDS maui SlllGuulu IGCOIu III Jlldl Guy III
her Home of Industry. Mrs. d'Arcambal
is well known in our Detroit Universalist
parish, and Rev. Lee S. M'Collester writes
of her as follows in the parish paper:
Commander Booth Tucker in his talk
last Sunday fell into the error so common to
strangers who visit different cities and tell
of the reforms or charities they are going
to establish, for when he spoke of prison
gate homes which he was going to set up
in our cities, he made no recognition of the
Home of Industry and Mother d 'Arcambal,
in this city. We need no other home of
this sort here, and we ought to give it the
largest support possible. AS for Mother
d 'Arcambal, no name is more widely known
in reform work in this country than hers,
and no person is more sought for counsel
by reform workers than she. Though we
admire and sympathize with the work and
officers of the Salvation Army, we still
refuse to be carried off our feet by the en-
thusiasm of crowds, the curiosity for for
eign personages, and forget the quiet
and steady industries, reforms and burden
bearers of our own city 1t is an evil habit
of our times to worship foreigners and
forget home talent of equal capacity and
power.
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And he added: AS regards the chill
dren themselves this enactment APP
plies with still greater force"
DR.. McGlynn has rendered Cardi-
nal Satolli and the church he repre-
sents an important service in this
Forum article. But who would have
thought, few years ago, when DIR.
McGlynn was in contumacy and was
regarded by many as a second
Luther, that he would appear, as in
this Forum article, on such excellent
terms with the papal administration
in America, and the eulogist OF the
Italian ecclesiastic whose authority
was made supreme by Rome over
the affairs of the church in this
country?
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RIGHT VIEWS OF GOD.

VEvAY. Ind. January 27.-[To the Ed
tor. Reading in the Psalms today, at
once wrote some thoughts suggested as
follows:
with the merciful thou wilt show
thyself merciful; with an upright man
thou wilt show thyself upright; with the
pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and
with the froward thou wilt show thy
self froward."
How God appears to us depends upon
ourselves. If we are kind, gentle and
forgiving. We will believe and think of
God as being OF like disposition. But,
on the contrary, if we are unkind and
unforgiying. we will imagine that God
10 30 also.
Blessed are the pure in heart for they
shall see God" with the pure thou
wilt show thyself pure"
Our conceptions of God are as we
make them. II, then, we would see God,
or rather il we would have true concep-
tions or ideas of Gods character, we
must be true Christians; must cultivate
the Christian graces, and continue to
grow in grace and in the knowledge of
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
whom to know is life eternal.
Christ came to make Gods true char
acter known. and there is no other way
to know God than through Christ. 1t
seems, too. that right views of God help
to build right character as we'll as that
character conduces to right views of God.
1t works both ways. To him that hath
right conceptions of God shall be given
more. God never changes. but by his
environments man changes, and then
is sometimes led to think God has
changed.
These are few OF my thoughts while
confined to my home by sickness, while
reading the Book OF Books.
JAMES X. PLEAsANTs.
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Letters to the Editor.
DIR. CRANES ARTICLE COMMENDED

DIR. CRANES ARTICLE COMMENDED.
LA PLATA. Mo, January 10. To the
Editor.l | do not know whether DIR
Crane will feel complimented but feel
that it is proper to commend mis- able
and timely article in which he points
out the lines along which a campaign of
religious education should proceed. 1t
has the Gospel melody. and no doubt it
will be the means to better conception
of Christianity and true devotion. When
we say Our Father which art in heav
en- we commune with God for ''his
spirit will bear witness with our spirit,
that we are children of God" The doc
trine of the Fatherhood of God explodes
great many dogmas both old and new.
The new" is effecting greater injury to
our faith in the Fatherhood of God and
the brotherhood Of man because it
walks right in aud takes possession of
the pulpit and elucidates with much
wisdom ~ that man is the offspring of
of an ANIMAL | read an extract of a
sermon delivered from one of our pulpits
not long since which gave canine at
tributes to Jesus Christ In view of all
this is it not time to call for cam
paign of religious education?"
L. j. SPENCER.
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ciated with the story of the Brontes, was
once the scene of like disaster. The
Rev. Patrick Bronte, the father of the
Bronte girls. preached a sermon on the
event. Two portions of the moor sunk
several yards.
...."As rule when a man clamors
for the freedom of opinion it is for free
dom to express his own opinion" re-
marks the Cumberland Presbyterian.
Our contemporary might have added
that the same man is not so particular
about having other people enjoy the
same privilege. AS general rule men
make the most noise about the particu-
lar kind of freedom in which they are
themselves interested.
The Springfield Republican. re-
ferring to recent discussion of revivals
by the Methodist ministers of Detroit,
says that the prevailing opinion seemed
to be that individual hand-to hand
work was more effective, certainly more
lasting, than the efforts to sway masses
by performances, emotional, musical or
otherwise" And the Rspu blican con-
cludes by saying sententiously: "lt will
be hard shedding for the revival if our
Methodist brethren taboo it,"
-. President Finley, of Knox Col
lege, in one Of his chapel talks defines
true courage in this wholesome way:
THE one quality which is the founda-
ton of all virtue is courage. xWhatever
gives courage gives life; so courage is an
essential element. We look for courage
on the battlefield, but it is not always
there. The coal and the diamond con-
tain the same Ingredients, but the hu-
man boulder cannot be made into dia-
mond. A selfish man cannot become a
courageous man. We are not perfect;
we must start right motives in our
bodies; to look up and not down is the
attitude of courage. We must look out
and not in our own selfish interests
... Mr.. Haweis. the well-known EGG
lish clergyman who visited the Congress
of Religions during the Colum bian Expo
sition, says in his recently published
Gravel and Talk" Clearer and clearer
every day as we listened TO the accredited
teachers of the worlds religions did we
perceive the everlastingly recurrent
ideas, pure and simple, which underlie
and vitalize all religious systems-God,
the soul. sacrifice, revelation. divine
communion-clearer every day seemed
to stand out the supremacy of the Chris
tian ideal, and the unique work and per-
sonality of Jesus. A few notes of dis
cord only served to throw up into holder
relief the predominant keynote of bro
therhood.
80. The National Armenian Relief
Committee recently forwarded to Tur-
key $4,000. They have just received a
cable message from the Internal ional
Committee at Constantinople. sof which
the British Ambassador is chairman.
acknowledging the remittance, and
stating that careful investigation has
shown that not less than 10000 children
have been made orphans by the late
massacres. These wards of Christen-
DOM can bs easily saved from starva-
ton or debasing enslavement in Moslem
homes, and can be cared for at the rate
o dollar month. Gifts can be sent
to Brown Brothers & Co, SO Wall
street. Nav York. who are the author
lied trea
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Notes of the Time.

-. Henry Ward Beecher once said
that if one were to pursue and hunt
down all the ISLANDERS emitted by idle
and vicious gossip, life would be per-
petual flea hunt. This is worth remem-
bering when we are are annoyed by
these ISLANDERS and tempted to make
reply.
Cardinal Gibbons voices the sen.
timent of many in this country in these
we'll chosen words "If had the privi-
lege of modifying the constitution of the
United States, would not expunge or
alter single paragraph, single line or
single wcrd of that immortal instru-
ment."
IA pastor in one of our largest
cities, who has been giving series of
doctrinal sermons. writes: IL find old
fashioned doctrine has not lost its hold
on the people yet. though notice this:
Because so many have consciously or
uncopsciously abandoned the Old Ortho-
doxy, they are not at all sensitive to at
tacks upon it. and no one springs to it's
defence"
III The recent huge bog slide in Ire
land has brought forth all kinds of rem
iniscences of similar occurrences. Sir
Henry Irving's manager, Bran Stok er.
made one of his stories, The Snakes
Pass" center arounda similar occurrence
in Ireland many years ago. Also, Ha-
worth in Yorkshire. so intimately 1850
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DIR. JOHN WATSON AND THE UNIvER-
SALIST."

DIR. JOHN WATSON AND THE UNIVER-
SALIST."
COLUMBUS. Ohio, Feb 81 To the Ed.
itor. IA few evenings ago the Rev.
Lolita d. Crosley visited my home, and
when leaving left number of copies of
THE UNIvERsALIsT. Though not unfa-
miliar with Universalist thought, having
enjoyed the preaching of DR.. Rexford
during the year or more that Columbus
has been my home, yet, this was the
first glimpse l had of Universalist
newspaper.
Ia parenthesis. il might be suggested
to the members of the Universalist body
that even their old religious papers may
carry many things new, if they OCCASION
ally distribute them. or loan them, to
their friends.
Among the many excellent things that
have interested the writer. the editorial
upon "Dr. John Watson on The Father
hood of God" which appeared in the is
sue of Jan. 9th, has especially delighted
him.
The recognition upon your part of the
genuine spiritual perception of the
Presbyterian author, is exceedingly
gratifying. After reading of the edi-
torial, the thought impressed itself upon
me. that to him who has clear views of
the Fathsrhood of God will come the
corresponding quality, the faculty of
recognizing the real brotherhood Of
man. 1t was this fraternal instinct that
awakened the responsive approval u
the utterance of DR.. John Watson.
While the large and comprehensive
thought of the Presbyterian divine,
awakens admiration. the loyal recog-
milton, and hearty endorsement of it by
one of another church is no less signifi
cant and entitled to the warmest praise.
You are therefore to be congratulated,
for recognizing and warmly endorsing
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The preacher had wise word in
regard TO punishment for these armies of
malefactors. Punishment" he we'll said.
sis not revenge. Retaliation is not pun
ishment. No penalty can be justified
except it be profit to the offender. To
this end work and penalty should COM
bine Give the culprit labor in the
broad light of day. He shall make and
keep the roads, Set the mark of Cain
upon him in a regulation rogue's gar
ment. and the sight of all mems eyes
will be as needles in his soul. That is
punishment. He shall earn his own
bread and send the surplus to those who
hunger because he was wicked. That is
doing good. All this too, is in harmony
with the plan of God, for he corrects
for our profit. Put the murderer un-
der tutors and governors. But make
him work. Such is righteous punish
ment."
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DR.. Thayer's comment on this state
OF things is as follows: What common
tary on American Jurisprudence! Oaly
about two in hundred of our murder
Gus criminals are convicted and pun
ished. The other SO per cent are turned
loose upon society like wild beasts to
kill at will yea, seduced into worse
state by the taste of blood and Grim
inal's victory over farcical law. The
tardy, lackadaisical courts, extortionate
and corrupt, have become accessory to
the increase of crime"
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10.
EDITORIAL.
EDITORS APPOINTMENTS.

The E ltor visits Lincoln. Neb., this
week and will preach in that city next
Sunday morning at 1920. Allfriends of
the Lincoln congregation are invited to
be present.
Sunday, February 81, the Editor will
preach the dedication sermon of the new
church at Augusta, Wis. See notice on
the eighth page. =
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hicago Minister'S Meeting.

The regular monthly Universalist Min
isters' meeting will be addressed next
Monday, Feb Is, at II o'clock, by Rev r.
f. Johonnot on "Church Membership"
Ministers visiting the city are invited to
attend W. p. BURNELL, Secretary
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1t was voted to establish a Post
Office Mission Booth at the Nashville Ex-
position: also to furnish such tracts as
are at the disposal of the Union, free OF
charge. One hundred dollars from the
Mission Fund, was voted as gift to the
Knoxville church. and the Secretary was
instructed to place all gifts to the Nat
local Union for which there was no ex-
pressed direction, to the credit of the
Atlanta Building Fund. The National
Transportation Agent was authorized
TO use such sums as were necessary, up
to two hundred dollars. in working up
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Ube Wniversalist.
j. S. CANTwELL. d. d., EDITOR.

THE EDITOR il assisted by able writers in ali
departments The Interior and Western States
represented by res mar correspondents News from
the churches solicited and always welcome.
~ All articles intended for THE UIvERsALIsT
should be addressed Editor of The Universalist,
Chicago, Ill"
- TERMS: $3.50 per year: SIPS six months,
postage paid. Sample copies to any address free
annlcafinn
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Exchange Notes.
Topics of the Day Discussed.
War Sermons? No.

War Sermons? No.
diving church,
Surely Christian ministers, above all,
ought to recognize the fact that war is
monstrous evil, and never to be resorted
to until all other methods have failed. 1t
is a sad keynote for Christmastide, the
great reminder of peace and good will, to
sound the call for arms.
A Business Principally.
Boston Transcript
Men who can fill acceptably the high
places in our great railway systems are
men of fortunate endowment They are
men who, as a rule, show the beneicent
and practical side of a genuine civil SER
vice Directors, stockholders and the
public are too potent forces for mediocrity
to contend with. The merit system IS the
touchstone of promotion The great rail-
DAD system is a business principality.
Numerical strength of the Church.
christian Work.
1t is encouraging to know that it is fac
revealed by the last census that two per
sons out of every three in the whole coun-
try are adhefenIS OF some CHRISTIAN chulcn
while only one out of every twelve per-
sons can be fairly classified as an active or
passive opponent of religion. At heart
the people are profoundly influenced by
the Bible and the religion of Christ
sena ors and the Treaty.
(InteriOr.l
Nothing betokens so conspicuously the
decline in the character of the upper House
of Congress, as the paltry and partisan
motives attributed TO senators as the basis
of opposition to a measure promising such
benefcent consequences to this country
and Great Britain, and indeed to the
world 1t is scarcely conceivable, however,
that even in a body constituted as the
Senate, the treaty can be allowed to fail
of ratification.
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A.There can be no question of the
value and Importance of the work these
societies are doing. The Church has
welcomed, endorsed and encouraged
them. They have enlisted both young
and old in a mora active Christian SER
vice, and have taken hold of nearly every
branch of church endeavor with an earn
estness and energy that is always char
acteristic of the young. At the same
time, their progress has been marked by
good judgment and wise leadership, un-
til now the society is recognized every
where as one of the greatest religious
forces of the world"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-13

THE Christian Endea-
a Notable Ami vor Society of the
versary. United States recent
ly celebrated the sixteenth anniversary
of its organization, The rapid growth
of this society is one of the marvels OF
the time and is in itself an argument
that the Christian world is always re-
spopsive to we'll directed effort to make
the Christianity of Christ practical
reality in human affairs. The Socie-
ty of Christian Endeavor was started
by Rev. Francis E. Clark, Congrega-
tional clergyman of Portland Me-, with
a few members of his own church. and
in sixteen years has grown to an organi-
cation of world wide influence, with a
me mbership of over 100000 and with
over SO 600 branches. 1t has also given
rise to similar organizations in other
churches, among which may be men
toned the Epworth League OF the Meth
odists and the Christian Union OF the
Universalists, devoted to Christian
wor K along Endeavor lines. The Balti-
more American we'll says of these young
peoples organization.
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FIELD AGENT, II. 4. MOORE.

HOW TO REMIT.-The yellow address-slip
On the paper each week shows the expiration of the
subscription. Make all checks. money and express
orders payable to A. NJ JOHNSON. Cashier, Univer
salist Publishing House, Western Branch.
B-DO not trust currency I'm the mails.
Remit by postal money Nrder registered letter. draft
check by postal cypress order payable as above
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We are informed as
Death OF Rev. NOD we go to press of the
ert Wooden. decease at Onsted,
Mich, January 30, OF Rev. Robert w ood-
en-, one of, pnr. pioneer preachers in that
State. We,are promised tribute to his
memory for early insertion. The funer
al was attended by Rev. E. G. Andrus.
our pastor at Tecumseh, Mich. Thus
one by one the old preachers pass away,
It is natures ordinance; may it be the
divine will also that others may rise up
to take their places in the great work.
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'HUNlSHM EN- IOE VI UT
Punishment for derers" was the topic
muruerers' Of DR.. Thayer's SER
mon on Sunday morning at LaGrange.
He presented some startling statistics.
giving The carefully compiled tables of
the Chicago Tribune as authority. He
said: "We have had 1884 murders and
homicides in the United States from
January l, 1886, to Novembe Is, 1896.
A statistician has figured this table to
signify about fifty-two murders to every
10000 deaths from all causes. By an
other table find that Italy has only 294
murders to every 10000 deaths. Spain
only % s, Austria 89. France 8, En-
gland but IL for the same number of
deaths.
"The decade OF murders in the United
States foots up 49,634. But the execu-
tions were only 1,030, or 81 per cent.
That is to say. only two men we're exc
cuted for every 100 murders. During
the year 1895 there we're 1900 murders
and only lib executions. or about IL
per cent. While the decade of execu-
tions footed 1O2O, the decade of lynch
ings footed 1865"
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We believe that there is one God whose nature Is
Love- revealed in one Lord Jesus Christ by one Holy
Spirit of Grace, who will finally restore the whole
family of mankind to holiness and happiness
We believe that holiness and true happiness are
separaby connected and that believers ought 10 be
caEeful to maintain order, and practice good works,
fer these things are good and profitable unto men.
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UNIvERsALIsT PROFESSION OF FAITH.
ADOPTED 1903

We believe that the Holy Scriptures Of the Old and
New Testaments contain revelation of the character
of God and of the duty, interest and final destination
of mankind.
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The date Tor openi
The National the session of I
Y. P. @. U. National Y. P. G.

1ne NaUlon@A the session or the
Y. r. U. u National Y. P. G. U.
for 1897 has been fixed for July IA.
The session will be held in Detroit.
Harry M. Fowler. of 211 Euclid avenue
Cleveland, has been appointed National
Transportation Agent. A meeting of
the Executive Board of the National
Union was held in New York city, Janu-
ary u and 13. In addition to selecting
the dates for holding the National
Union, the following items of general
interest we're transacted The National
motto is to be, "For Christ and His
Church" The official badge for the De-
troit Convention will consist of white
metal pin, bearing the inscription, DE
troit, 81" To this will be fastened white
and blue ribbon, bearing the words, ma
tional Convention of the Y. P. G. u"
To this ribbon will be appended an al
minimum medallion. bearing on one side
the picture of the Hartman church; on
the other that of Hosea Ballou. State
delegations will have the names of their
respective States printed on the ribbons.
1t was decided to have the monogram OF
the Y. P. G. U. protected by a trade
mark. The contract with the Southern
Missionary, Rev. w. H. McGlauflin, At
Ianta, Ga, was renewed.
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the interests OF the National Union. The
expenses of the National Union for the
year ending July, 1897. are estimated at
S3.400. OF this amount 81 200 lie for the
Secretarys salary. and $500 for that of
his assistant. The resources of the Ma
tioual Union, to meet these expenses. are
the per capita tax of twenty cents from
the fifteen thousand members. and the
sale OF pins aud topic cards.