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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-04-10
Some Rambling Thoughts.
By MEMO.

BY MEMO.
Our country is so vast, and its range
OF products and of climatic conditions
so extraordinary, that the greatest safe
guard up to this time against a fatal
sectionalism has been the tendency of
both early and late immigrants to
move from one place to another, subiu-
eating new territory, and forming new
states. Nature DEGREES that the ma
terlal interests of Montana, for in
stance, shall differ from those of the
sea-board states. but the travelled
condition of many thousands OF Mon
tanians guarantees an expression OF
opinion on their part regarding pub
lie affairs, distinctly more national
than could be expected from a popu-
lation narrowed TO views purely local.
For small nation, restricted in both
space and possibilities great patriotic
results may come from inhabitants
who do not choose to wander; but for
us, not crowded by neighbors, nor
measured in any direction by less than
ten hundred miles, the best
promise.of endurance Is found in
increasing knowledge Of one another's
needs and problems.
ga
We have been subjected TO such a
md in Of n nd
children of foreigners, in the past 30
years, that we easily find another
great gain from the restlessness of our
mixed population. Notwithstanding
the fact that the inhabitants Of some
European nations, have come here by
hundreds of thousands it Is impossi
BILE to place the finger on any one por-
tion OF our country and say, "Herc
public questions are entirely settled
by voters who are more foreign than
American in their ideas" Regarding
our country as one great body, it Is
safe to assert that no condition except
this one Of mixing, would have ena-
bled 1t to digest and safely dispose of
the millions who have come to it from
every nation under Heaven. While
there is still much TO be desired In the
direction of unity, nationally we have
accomplished a task that might well
have been regarded as impossible; the
quiet, orderly, practically complete
absorption of over three times as many
immigrants as there were inhabitants
at the birth of the United States
Each wanderer has come promptly in
touch with persons who cherished the
spirit of freedom and has become so
imbued himself that we are still one
Union; inseparable forever, let..us hope
and believe.
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Real Estate Transfers.

Below is list of the transfers of
real estate admitted to record in the
county clerks Office since our last re-
port:
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But we have no means exhausted
the advantages that have arisen from
our restless spirit. Among other
things it has aided in the maintenance
of one language In general use. The
children Of immigrants in our public
schools learn the language and the
deeds OF Washington and Jefferson, Of
Webster and of Clay. The home
training In the tongue Of the foreign
Fatherland is trifle compared with
the American influence of school
books, and the play ground; for it is
hard to exaggerate the ties of LAM
guage. There have been instances In
our history where whole counties in
the Northwest are exclusively Scandi-
navian: but the condition lasts only
for time, by reason of the children's
learning our general tongue. Strange
it may sound, there are fewer def
mite dialects in our whole country than
can be found in Great Britain, king
dom that could almost be packed
away in one state, New York. In
that small country a Dorset man Of
low rank could not understand a
Scotchman, and Cornishman would
be practically a foreigner to both, but
the national life in the most remote
corner of our Texas is the same that
courses in the piney woods of Maine,
and the language is the same. A wise
and travelled Englishman who landed
in this country for the first time a
few weeks ago, stated to me that
nothing impressed him here so much
as the fact that journey Of 1900
miles overland, and 5000 miles around
brought him to the same language,
while journey Of one hour to the con-
tinent of Europe, carried him into en-
tirely strange conditions.
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The Company Not Likely to Take an
Appeal-AIl Tolls May Cease by July
1.-The Government appropriation
Available as Soon as the Proceedings
Are Concluded-Rivermen and Coal
Operators Greatly Rejoiced--What
Navigation Stockholders Say OF the
Award--Col. Schoonmaker Personal
~ Not in Favor Of Appealing.
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Nearly Every Measure Passed by the
Body Capable Of Double or Triple In
terpretation-.A Bull Discovered In
the Appropriation Bill With Regard
to Printing for State Institutions
An Extra Session May Have to be
Called to Provide for the Military Es-
adjustment and the Commissioner of
Labor.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20

sibly UDiversalists are apt to quote in
their favor all who in any degree show
themselves. to use Augustine's words
more merciful.' Certainly long list oi
llustrious names claim rank among
them. Origen, of course, heads the list
though earlier fathers are sometimes
called in as witnesses of the milder
creed"
Why DIR. Thomas and other noted
leaders do not ally themselves with
the church that has pioneered this
effort toward a renascence through
the wilderness for one hundred and
fifty years, is question l cannot
answer at was harder to come out
of the old churches twenty years ago,
when DIR. Thomas came out, than it
is now," good friend remarked to
me the other day. Very true, but
it was harder to come out one hun
dred years ago than it was twenty
years ago. Murray came from the
Methodists. Ballou from the Baptists,
and in day when doubt meant life
long persecution and the threat of
eternal damnation, they planted the
banner of Gods love and mans no.
bility. Murray preached in Boston
when stones were hurled at his head.
Picking one up he said, "This is in
deed weighty argument, but not
very convincing" Today there are ten
churches in Boston, including one in
stitutional church and a college in
its suburbs, where Murray was
stonedl In the State of Massachu-
sets our church stands third in point
of membership.
The tide is moving west ward with
the growth OF the highest and best
things of civilization. Thousands of
the strongest, brightest and best
men and women of our land, out
side our ranks, teach and preach and
live the doctrine we profess and de-
fend. The modern mind is humani-
tartan, practical and sensible, and the
day of the supremacy of the old
Latin system of theology is fast pass
ing away. The form remains in
powerful organizations. but the old
time spirit has departed. The cycle
of the years is bringing back again
the glory of the old days, the SIMPLE
ity and beauty of the old faith. Hap
py is he whose eyes behold it and
whose heart feels its peace and Joy.
MARsHALLTowN.I Ia.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20
THE NATURAL AND THE SUPER,
NATURAL.
BY REV. JACOB MERRIFIELD.

An able writer's. Gin THE UNIvER-
sALIsT of Jan. 80, 1897. while deploring
the great tendency in our own day to
reject the supernatural" seems to over.
look the fact that the question between
those preachers who reject the super
natural and those who still adhere to it,
is not question as to the being or
non being OF God, but only as to the
process Of the Divine manifestation.
The question is this: Is the universe
an institution or a proceedings mech
anism or an evolution-an ut.of.hand
structure or a normal development of
the eternal thought of the infinite and
inscrutable One?
The supernaturalist seems to con.
ceive OF nature as an institution, so to
speak, having once had beginning, and
thus necessitating period in being
when nature was not-when God alone
existed, with no objective manifestation
OF himself-but that at certain point,
con, or determination in his infinite ex-
istence, he willed to have universe-to
manifest his being and power through
objectivity-to construct from nothing,
by special fiat, or structural force. as it
were mechanically and exceptionally
put forth, a universe.
The naturalist, on the contrary, con.
ceives of nature as Gods normal pro-
ceeding, or mode of manifestation,
whereby from duration unbegun to
duration unending, worlds are evolved
and a universe maintained. The gist of
the difference between those ministers
who maintain the naturalness of being
and Of operation in all spheres, and
those who contend for the existence of a
sphere separate from nature, called the
supernatural, is not disagreement as
to the Divine existence or non-existence
but only as to the Divine proceeding
as to its beginning or beginning, it's
normality or naturalness, or its abnor-
mality, or supernaturalness.
In other words. the question is
whether Gods manifestation of his ex.
istence and will is through oneness of
normal proceeding, or law, or through a
duality of law distinguished as the ma.
tural and the supernatural
Those ministers who believe in the
universally of natural law, and who say
there is nothing that is not natural. I"
doubtless are just as honest in their ad-
herence to Theism as the advocates Of
experimentation can be in theirs, differ
as they may about the proceeding of
things. Therefore, very naturally, they
are unwilling, through any adverse spe-
eies of logic, to be characterized as of
necessity either atheists or fools
AS to the matter of knowing what he
is talking about" the strong probability
is that the minister who declares for the
naturalness Of all things may know quite
as much about what he speaks as the
upernaturalist knotcs Of that which he
aairms. Doubtless there is little enough
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20

knowledge on the part of both; but the
presumption is that the one who is all
the while making effort for an increase
OF knowledge is not the one to be re.
minded by the other that he knows
nothing Of what he is talking about.
The intimation that the minister who
rejects the supernatural and says there
is nothing that is not natural sis destoy-
ing his own business" depends for its
justification on what his business is.
Ii his business is to suppress convic-
ton for the sake of personal interest and
standing. and to champion certain data
anciently assumed as postulates, then.
for the time. he may be injuring his
business. But il his business is to serve
truth as he finds ito obey the divine
word speaking within him-the spirit of
truth moving him to utterance-then
though his gain in the material may be
lacking, he is not destroying or ipjuripg
his business, but faithfully about his
business; for he, as was the case with
Jesus, is about his Fathers business.
MS Fathers business being his business,
and ne is assured that his reward is Ger.
tain in things that are higher and more
enduring than the silver and gold which
are gone in the using. and the standing
with the world which vanishes with the
breath of this air.
The time for characterizing the minis
ter as an atheist for his rejection of the
supernatural. IF he knows what be ia
talking about" or for exclaiming "Thou
TOOL! II ne does not know" and for de.
manding that he "step down and out"
will be soon enough when the supernat-
uralist shall have proved his position as
beyond all question the only true one
the only position upon which alone the
minister is justified in basing an affirma-
ton concerning God and man-nature
and the universe.
I'LL then the advocate of the uniyer-
sal naturalness of things, will decline the
invitation to step down and out, and will
continue to work and pray, and make all
possible effort for a continued increase
OF light and yet greater growth in love
among all, both naturalists and super.
naturaists.
MANCHESTER, Mich.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20
OUR CONTRIBUTORS.
JOHN RUsKIN.
Second Article.
BY HATTIE TYING GRIswoLD.

IT was seventeen years before the
fifth volume of Modern Painters" /"
was published. Ruskin had changed
much in that time, and his art opin-
ions had changed, but in the main
principle of the book, as he says
in the preface, there is no variation
from the first syllable to the last. 1t
declares the projections and eternal
beauty of the work of God; and tests
all work of man by concurrence with,
or subjection to, that, In other words
he judged of art by its truth to ma
ture, truth being the one cardinal
principle of all Ruskin's teachings
upon art or morality. In regard to
the changes time had made in his
opinions he said, "Let a man be as
sured that unless important changes
are occurring in his opinion continu-
ally, all his life long, not one of those
opinions can be, on any questionable
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20
DR.. Ubomas in MarsbaIItown.
THE NEW" THEOLOGY GOLD"
BY REV. t. E. DoTTER.

DR.. H. W. Thomas, of Chicago, began
his itinerary at Marshalltown. Ia, Jan.
10, where he delivered a mastery SER
mon in the opera house to about fifteen
hundred people. His subject was: 1.-THE
New Theology" This review was de-
livered the second Sunday evening fol.
lowing. in the Universalist church of
Marshalltown by the pastor. Rev. T. E.
Dotter. We print in divisions. s.-EDIroR.
III.
In the previous article of this series
we described the Latin system, which
Luther and Calvin launched with
new paint and flags, and which is
mistress even yet throughout Ger
many, England and America, mis-
tress yet not mistress. The renas-
cence has been remarkable of recent
years. The second reformation is in
progress, which goes back of the
Popes, back of Luther, back of Au-
gustine, back to the words and spirit
of Jesus and the Interpretation placed
on them by his immediate disciples.
Here it stands as on the rock of ages,
fearless of all attacks.
Now, the wonder of it all is that
the simple teaching of Christ as to
Fatherhood, brotherhood and the
blessedness of pure heart, ever sur
vived to emerge from the twelve CEN
turies of strife, and blood, and fire
through which it passed. 1t can be
explained only on the fact that these
are the eternal truths of God that
endure to all generations.
DR.. Thomas told us that The value
of this old Christianity was two-fold.
First it removes the difficulties that
prevent thousands of honest people
from accepting the Christian religion;
giving them faith for doubt, and Joy
for grief. 1t is a solemn fact that
very many excellent people have been
kept out of the churches because
their own hearts were too tender and
true to accept the harsher doctrines
there found. Doubling these features
of the system presented they have
thought they were rejecting Chris
tianity itself, and have given them.
selves over, and have been given over
by their friends, to the fate of unbe-
levers. To all such we say, Open
your eyes to the old, simple teachings
of Christ, and all your difficulties will
drop away; your hearts will open to
the larger, pureT, holier faith
In the second place, the practical
results of the old faith. we were told,
are to make its believers Christlike
in character. While the perversity and
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.
BY PRESIDENT I. M. ATWOOD, D. D.

If. as the Outlook contends, the fact
that some other churches "preach the
love and grace of God as absolutely and
fully as do the Universalists," warrants
the conclusion that Universalists should
surrender the field to those churches,
then by parity OF reasoning the Outlook
should take itself out Of the way of those
UNCONVENTIONAL journals whose ortho-
doxy is as new and as true as its own.
To us who read all of them, no religious
or ecclesiastical excuse appears for the
separate existence of a journal like the
Outlook. II it has no other justification
than to be an exponent of liberal ertho.
doxy it's career is superiuity and an
impertinence. Yet the Outlook is max
ing strenuous and we hope successful ef
forts to maintain and extend it's benefi.
cent influence.
But our esteemed contemporary
unwittingly remarks. "We think the
need for doctrine of Universalism no
longer exists" This reasoning is fine
instance Of the illicit major. 1t begins
by arguing that since Universalism has
become general there is no need of q
particular tribune for it; and it ends by
concluding that there is no longer need
for any Universalism! The logic might
be improved, but the humor is perfect.
We understand now why it is. that how.
ever much Universalism any writer Of
the Outlook school puts into his premis
es he never has any Universalism in his
conclusion. They are an amusing folk
these liberals. OF whom Orthodoxy is
not worthy and who are not worthy of
Universalism: they have no certain the
illogical dwelling place. yet they implore
US to burn down our house that we may
enjoy the comforts of home with them.
The completion of an undertaking
30 ambitious and vast as that which
Herbert Spencer proposed to himself in
the production of the Synthetic Phil
osophy, is an event On which his con-
temporaries may well congratulate him.
He attempted to circumnavigate the
globe of human thought. to understand
all mysteries and all knowledge, aud to
give an account of them. He has not
done some things that he intended to
do; on the other hand he has explored
some fields that he had not expected to
enter. The goodly array of ten solid
volumes stands before the now venera-
BILE author, monument at once of ex-
traordinary persistence and of one of
the most remarkable achievements in
consecutive thinking in the history of
the race. If his philosophy should come
to naught. he must himself ever rank
among the great intellectual masters.
The cardinal tenet in Mr.. Spencer's
philosophy is the same as the chief
dogma in Auguste Comte's philosophy
OF Positivism-that we know only phe.
nomena; all else is ''unknowable." Mr..
Spencer, however. does not deny the ex-
istence of things which we cannot know;
he is particular to point out that there
is an Infinite Power with which we are
everywhere in contact" But he holds
that Of this Power the human mind
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20

de drame composed one idiot, two
madmen, gentleman fool who is also
a villain, shop boy fool who is also
a blackguard, a hangman, shriveIed
virago, and a doll in ribbons
carrying this company through riot
and fire, till he hangs the hangman,
one of the madmen, his mother, and
the idiot, runs the gentleman fool
through in a bloody duel, and burns
and crushes the shop boy into shape
lessness. He cannot yet be content
notwithstanding the spare lovers leg
off, and marrying him to the doll in
wooden one, the shapeless shop boy
being finally also married in two
wooden ones. 1t is this mutilation
which is the very sign manual of the
plague" This skeleton of Barnaby
Rudge will no doubt shock the ad-
mirers of Dickens, but it is needed,
though scathing expose of much that
is unhealthy in modern literature. It
will surprise those readers also to hear
that he separates the greatest work
of Dickens, Oliver Twist, with honor,
from the loathsome mass to which it
typically belongs" THAT book" he
says "is an earnest and uncaricatured
record of states of criminal life,
written with didactic purpose, full of
the gravest instruction, nor destitute
of pathetic studies of noble passion
His detestation of those ''anatomi-
cal preparations for the general mar
ket, of novels like Poor Miss Finch,
in which the heroine is blind, the
hero epileptic, and the obnoxious
brother is found dead with his hands
dropped off in the Arctic regions" is
both violent and amusing.
His adherence of the latest fin de
steele novels is truly refreshing, and
worthy of being initiated by us all.
He says: SIT is quite curious how
often the catastrophe, or the leading
interest of modern novel, turns upon
the want, both in maid and bachelor,
of the common self-command which
was taught to their grandmothers
and grandfathers, as the first ele-
ments of ordinarily decent behavior.
But the automatic amouTs
and involuntary proposals of recent
romance acknowledge little further
law of morality than the instinct of
an insect, or the effervescence of
chemical mixture"
COLUMBUS, WIS.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20
CHICAGO. SATURDAY. FEB. 20. 1897

Page One.
Editorial Briefs.
John Ruskin-SecOnd Article.
Dr. Thomas in MarshalItOwn.
The Natural and the Supernatural.
Universalist Thought.
Page Two.l
Sermon-On the Threshold.
Christianity and the Churches.
Municipal Reform and the Churches.
Well Known Persons.
Page Three.
The Sunday School Lesson.
Page Four.
Editorial:
Give Evil But an End.
Punishment of Murderers in the World to
Come.
DR.. Barrows in India.
Noble Living.
Notes of the Time.
Special Contribution-Th Holy Places OF
the Orient.
Exchange Notes.
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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A Business MANS View.
From Hardware.


The temper of the American is to spend
as he earns: the air. SO to speak, prompts
this temper. Having no self-recognized
peasantry here, and the prevailing thought
being that one man is as good as another.
each spends to rival his neighbor. Thus
Americans are good spenders. They say
the Indian don't eat pork only when he
can't get It," SO the average American
only stops spending when the supply runs
dry.
For the past five years We have lived the
lesson of an enforced econoH3v. The wage
earners have not had their full wages: the
bondholder has not had his usual interest.
and dividends have often failed
Every day Is reported a revival of in
dustry. Wheels long idle begin to buzz.
Success besets success. Hope is father to
the fru1tioC. Soon we will forget the seven
Years OF famine and we will have seven
yeaSs OF plenty. We number now 10000
wv. with 2G.UO.Ooo wage earners Every
year 100000 are added to the population
Every year of these a new 50O,O0O are
acded TO the wage earEers; a new /, 500 600
OF people each year, plus the present num-
Der, means 100000 new houses for them to
live in, clothing and food for this new adj
dition. over and above the last years
amount of food and clothing So with
such numbers. such increases and such de-
mands the buzz Of industry in the land
must soon rise above the wall of pessimts-
tic dependency.