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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-30

makes the organ a power and devel-
ops its influence, not the organ the
musician. The so-called higher crit
icism has made the Bible appear in
its true light, bereft of its supersti
ton and the idolatry of verbal in
spiration. The present day Christian
of liberal belief is doing exactly
what the musician is doing for the
organ, bringing out its full capacity
and tone, and the organs of today are
better instruments on account OF the
skill of the musicians. The Bible is
more influential book by reason OF
the criticism heaped upon it. This
criticism is not destructive so much
as constructive. If the traditional
teaching of the Bible is largely ig-
nored and supplemented by reason
able exegesis, it is not the truth OF
the Bible that is dethroned, but the
past interpretations of that truth.
Probably the theology of Mr..
Moody has not changed since he
first accepted it. To all appearances
he may be proud of this and advocate
it, but it is right here that there is
weakness. Theology is science, &C
cording to Cardinal Newman, and as
such must change. There is an in
teresting story, which Mr.. Howells
tells about o. w. Holmes in a recent
article. "In the last talk | had with
him" says Mr.. Howells, "he appeared
to have no grudge left, except for the
Puritanic orthodoxy, in which he had
been bred as a child. This he was
not able to forgive" Everyone
changes his theology, not for the sake
of change, but because it is the inev-
table law in good theology to hope
and to expect something better and
higher. To ask a modern audience
to accept the story of Jonah, as it
was accepted years ago, is about
equal to asking them to believe the
world is fiat on a few passages in
Genesis; and what the genial Oliver
Wendell Holmes resented is what
hundreds of others feel, that their
theology is inherited, and that is
what makes it old-fashioned. Itwould
be strange to revive the style OF wear
ing apparel of one hundred years ago,
and the oddity of it would be very
apparent, but no more SO than to re-
vive the old teachings of that period.
Everyone wishes the crusade OF
Mr. Moody against the evils of the
day success, but if he attempts to
confine the theological atmosphere OF
Boston to the limits of mere tradi-
tionalism he has before him task Of
herculean proportions, and if ever ac-
complished may result in painful re-
actions. Let us hope rather that the
environment of Boston may this time
broaden the theology of TIE great
evangelist Boston Transcript.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-30
OLD FASHIONED THEOLOGY.

WITH the coming of Mr.. Moody to
Boston there has also come a great
deal of fashioned theology. No
one is willing to complain about its
resurrection, if it be true, and prob
ably it will be always true for some
minds. Everyone is at liberty to be
lieve as much of it as he pleases.
There is, however, type of Christian
manhood that will not be Influenced
by it. When Mr.. Moody declares
"the Bible is to the Christian what
the organ is to the musician, the
comparison will go against him and
his theology. 1t is the musician that
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-30
THE CHEMISTRY OF CHARACTER
BY LIZZIE DoTEN.

THE following poem was great favo-
rite of the late JOHN H. Huron, of Akron,
O. He quoted it frequently to Lis friends
and in time it happened to be regarded as
his own production. 1t was printeda few
years ago under his name. We give the
poem in full with the correct authorship.
John and Peter and Robert and Paul;
God in his wisdom created them all.
John was a statesman and Peter slave,
Robert preacher, and Paul was a knave.
Evil or GOOD, as the case might be,
White or colored, or bond or free;
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-30

LONDON, Jan. Is. (SpeciaD During the
course of the ceremony at St. Mary-le-
Bow today confirming tie election of DR..
Mandell Creighton as Bishop of London,
in succession to DR.. Temple, now Arch
bishop of Canterbury, John Kensit, a lay
man, read a protest against DR.; Creigh-
TOMS election on the ground of alleged de-
sire to undo the work of the reforma,
tion by introducing the trinkets Of Rome. "
He added that Dr. Creighton had been un-
faithful to the promises made at his Or
dination, to drive out all erroneous doc
trines and punish the disobedient clergy
who are trying to introduce Romish doc
trines. 49,. -
The vicar general refused to listen TO
the protest, and Kensit, later, protested
again, twice asking why the vicar gener-
al did not call upon the directors to come
forward and why he did not hear them.
This called forth applause and stamping Of
feet mingled with cries of Hear, hear
and counter cIies of Remember TINS IS
church. etc. After the ceremony Kensit
and his friends distributed copies OF the
protest among those present.
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ures; he either made gift OF the
revenues o. converts to his favorites
and courtiers, or sold them at low
prices, or exchanged them for other
lands on very advantageous terms.
Mares is authority for the state
ment that St. Peters Westminster
had a revenue of f39,771 per annum.
large su n for those times.
whether the monastic bodies OF
England, at the time of their disso-
luton, were really in that condition
of moral corruption which is laid to
their charge in the act of parliament
by which they were dissolved, is
point which it seems hopeless to
argue. And if it were not
that truth is in all matters better than
falsehood, it would be idle to reopen
a question which cannot be justly
dealt with. No evidence can affect
convictions which have been arrived
at without evidence. /. Let it
remain, to those who are perverse
enough to insist upon it, an open
question whether the monasteries
were more corrupt under Henry VIII.
than they had been four hundred
years earlier. The dissolution would
have been equally necessity; for no
reasonable person would desire that
bodies of men should have been
maintained for the only business of
singing masses, when the efficacy of
masses was no longer believed. B..
Secure in the supposed completeness
with which Queen Mary's agents de-
stroyed the records of the visitation
under her father, Roman Catholic
writer's have taken refuge in dis
dainful deni IL; and the Anglicans,
who for the most part, while content
el to enjoy the fruits of the Reform
alton detest the means by which it
was brought about, have taken the
same view. Bishop Latimer tells us
that, when thu report of the visitors
of the abbeys was read in the Com
mons House there rose from all sides
one long cry of Down with them
"But Bishop Latimer, in the opin
ion of High Churchmen, is not to be
believed. Do we produce letters of
the visitors themselves we are told
that they are the ISLANDERS prepared
to justify a preconceived purpose of
spoliation. Behind the bull
warks of such objections the champ
ion Of the abbeys may we'll believe
himself secure. 1t is strange
that, of all extant accu atoms against
any one of the abbeys, the heaviest
is from a quarter which even Lingard
himself would scarcely call suspic-
ious. No picture left us by Henry's
visitors surpasses, even If it equals, a
description of the condition of the
abbey of St. Adams, in the last quar-
ter of the fifteenth century, drawn by
Morton, Henry Wis Minister, Car
dinal Archbishop, Legate of the
Apostolic See, in letter addressed
by him to the Abbot of st. Adams
himself. A. Froude.
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Hume says: "In order to reconcile
the people to such mighty innova-
tions, they were told that the king
would never henceforth have occasion
to levy taxes, but would be able from
the abbey lands alone, to bear, dur
ing war as well as peace, tire
whole charges of government. While
such topics were employed toappease
the populace, Henry took an effectual
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-30

Circles around the moon are some
times large and somstlmss small. be-
cause they are formed at different
heighrs in the air.
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"For long time before any notion
had been entertained of doctrinal
reform, there had existed a conviction
in peoples minds that the time had
come when the world could exist
without monkery; and we must make
some allowance for the acts of Henry
and his ministers, when we reflect
upon this growing tendency to new
life. The world was in transition
state; the day of contemplation had
gone, and the present busy life of in
tellectual and physical activity was
just manifesting its first symptoms.
The first step taken openly was
in 1886, when it was moved in the
council to suppress the monasteries,
and debated with much warmth,
Cranmer and Cromwell looking upon
it as a great step towards reforming
the church, but the bishops of Win
chester, Lincoln, and others, and the
Duke of Norfolk, opposed it. Henry,
therefore, resolved, as Cromwell had
previously advised him, upon doing
it himself gradually. He then order
ed general visitation. When
the work of devastation was COM
pIeted, there was naturally great
outcry in the country as to what was
to be done with the i'm nense wealth
suddenly turned out of its channel
towards the kings treasury. i.
The king, to quiet the awakening ap-
prension on the part OF the ecclesias-
tics, turned the Abbey of Wtstmin-
ster into bishops see, with dean
cry, twelve prebends, officers for the
cathedral. and choir. Dublin
University Magazine.
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THE SUPPRESSION OF THE M0NAS-
TERES.

JANUARY 16. 1910, the monks of
Westminster Abbey signed the deed
of surrender. 1.-THE dissolution of re-
ligious house was not such new idea
as has been represented. We must
acquit Wolsey of being the prime
cause in this case. The general rep
resentation of historians is that he
first gave the notion of dissolving
monasteries when he procured from
the king and the pope permission to
dissolve several small priories, to
build with their revenues his college
at Oxford; but from the fourteenth
century that has been repeatedly
done by others when occasion re-
quired.
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i Interesting Articles.
A SOLEMN FARCE,
Interesting Articles.

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The San Francisco call., 1897-06-02
OUR GRATEFUL MILLIONS.

The deep and widespread interest mani
tested IN the celebration of Memorial
day makes evident the fact that the spirit
of the day is not dying out, even though
the ranks of the Veterans are being rapidly
thinned year by year.
1t seems tnat as time glides by the
people OF the Nation appreciate more and
more the glory of the results achieved by
the heroes of the Union. The millions
who were little children or who were yet
un born when the guns of the great conflict
were booming along Potomac's tide will
continue to render tribute 10 Columbia 8
brave and loyal defenders even when the
last of those VINO participated in the war
of the rebellion has been mustered in the
immortal army above.
The companies of school children con-
stituted happy feature of the Decora-
tion day procession. The beauty and
solemn nifty of the occasion must leave its
impress on those young minds. Laden with
the most precious history of the Nation
are the lessons of such a time, and these
children will transmit the sacred story of
The day and its halowed memories to gem
erations yet o come.
The unveiling of monuments in honor
of the patriot dead is another evidence Of
the country's earnest, unceasing devo-
ton. When massy piles of marble and
granite rise in honor Of those champions
of the Republic whose bones were b ent
in the red burial Of the battlefield, it is q
sign, as one of the orators of Memorial
day observed, that "the crown of bright
est glory and the diadem most re-
splendent will be placed upon the brow
of the common soldier and sailor who died
in obscurity, an unknown sacrifice to their
country's honor"
The masses of the Nation will take pc
euIiar pride in such monuments, and it is
kind of pride that our country can afford
to
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-02
DEFENst OF A FREE PRESS.
Santa Cruz surf.

Santa Cruz surf.
A feature of the currentnunber OF the News
Letter is a postscript containing in full the
argument of Samuel NJ. Shortridge in behalf
OF Tree speech and free press, on the trial Of
Frederick Marriott, accused of libeling J. c: b.
Hebbard.
The case was one of intense local in terest in
San Francisco. but the principles involved
concern the press and the people of this en-
tire country. Hebbard was Superior Judge
in San francisco and a candidate for re-
election.
He had been accused of completely with the
wreckers of the Pacific Bank. and the acGusa-
uons were such that, ii true, he was utterly.
unfit for the bench.
During the campaign the swiudled stock
holders OF the defunet bank issued a circular
letter, setting forth the conduct of Jud dge
Hebbard as they viewed it,
This circular was published in the News
Letter as an advertisement, and the paper also
contained editorial comment based thereon
suit brought some time after the publication
but tried this month. The trial dealt more
with the merits and truth of the charges
against Judge Hebbard than with the lIbelous
publication, and the verdict of mot guilty,
by the jury is considered TO be more of an ar
reignment of-Judge Hebbard than a. vindica-
ton OF Mr.. Marriott the publisher OF the News
Letter
incidentally, the rights and relations of the
press were made the subject OF investigation
and argument, and Mr.. Shortridge deserves
the bouquets with which he has been showered
by the press.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-02
AN EXCELLENT CHOICE.

The appointment of Hon. J. J. dc
Haven to succeed Hon. w. ". Morrow as
Judge of the United States District Court
for the Northern District of California is
another demonstration of the wisdom
which is characteristic of the official acts
Of President Mckinley. The choice in
this instance will be univ tTsaily ap-
pIauded.
The merits OF Judge de Haven are
known and appreciated from one end
of the State TO the other and beyond its
borders. Strict integrity has marked his
public career as distinguishing quality,
and no breath of suspicion of any en-
tanglement with the forces of wealth has
ever been cast upon his reputation.
Reared from early childhood in Cali
fornia, educated in her schools. pcs
sessing tie sturdy strength of West
ern manhood, his splendid talents
have made him prominent among the
leading lurists of the West.
He has served his State with honor
in Senate and Assembly and in
the halls of Congress, and won the
highest encomiums on the Supreme
bench of the State, where the clear
ness and force of his opinions earned the
commendatioD of the bar, and where he
was held in the highest esteem by his fel-
low-jurists. He is a firm, fearless, rigtdly
upright man, learned in his profession,
and enjoys the full confidence OF the peo-
pie of this State. The President has ap-
pointed the right man in the right place.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-02
TWO HALE OCIOGENERIANS
Gath in Philadelphia Times.

GAIN In Philadelphia Times
Two fine, straight, white-haired, clean
shaven men, each over six ie.t high, stood near
the Arlington Hotel but yesterday, talking.
went up and said:
"Not to congratulate such youth would be
like scorning these green trees in May. How
old ere you. Colonel James?"
Eighty"
''And you, Colonel BerrettP"
''Eighty-three."
The first gen tleman, Charles James, was Lin
coins Collector of the Port OF san Francisco
and second ofAnson Buriingame in his mooted
duel with Preston 5. BROOKS. The second per-
son was James Berrett, Mayor of Washington
before the war, and intimate friend of William
Marcy. The latter IS of San Domingo French
STOCK born in Baltimore during tile war of
1914 Mr.. James was born at Sweden, Monroe
County, n. Y. The picture of their hAleness
is not overdone; their white hairs express no
more age than do the thick white horsetails in
the helmets of young dragons.
"Ah!" said l. ''you exceed in your blended
ages our old friend Parr-you are 1913 years
put together, and P0rT believed he had lived
192 years, though he was so obscure that he
couldn't find his own age with candle"
"Where can good account of Parr be had ?''
said Mr.. James, with a Lively octogenarian n
terest, adding tn at as there were trust
worthy histories of the United States he had
been writing one soon TO be finished Colonel
department clerk before the war and civil
service, when clerks were the social friends
and visitors of their ministers. H. pointe
out to ME where Marcy liyei, now included
whose guests sttll use Marcy's staircase.
may add that intelligence and concession are
the recipes for old age. Colonel Berrett says
that he was thrown into Fort Warren under
an entire misappre hension of his intentions
in 1861, but he has let ii pass, and, not striv-
ing only 20 ''get even" has got far ahead.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-02
CIRCULATION OF BOGUS COIN.

The Federal Secret Service officials are
worried over the continued increase in
circulation of counterfeit half-doIlars,
which, however, contain as much pure
silver as the genuine article, 20 which
they bear q remarkable resemblance. 1t
is estimated that nesr,y . 100000 of these
bogus half-dollar pieces are now passing
through the channels of trade in this
country. Only an expert can detect heir
spuriousness. and ,rsdespeople make no
distinction between the half-dolars of
the Government and the bogus pieces.
Even banks handle the latter freely in the
course of business. The scheme Is as
clever as it is dangerous, and two years Of
patient search on the part OF the detec-
tiveS OF the Government has failed to re-
veal tie operating ground OF the counter
feiters.
The CALL was the first publication TO
direct popular attention to this wholesale
introduction OF spurious coin into the
country's traffic. The Government is be-
ing robbed of its profits of coinage and the
counterfeiters are making g mint OF money
out of their work. Only "a cents worth
of silver bullion i, required to make a
helf-dollar, and as the cost of manuiactur.
ing the coin would be, at the outside
limir, cents, profit of at least 90 CENTS
is realized by the minter on every half
dollar placed in circulation.
1t is only when the counterfeit half
dollars fall into the sub-treasury that an
opportunity is afforded tho Government
TO destroy them, but as only about SIS in
those halves is received per month there
the work OF cancellation doesn't cut a
figure of great immediate importance.
Every effor; IS being made to run the
counierfeiters down. and all thus far TO no
avail. 1t IS hard problem, verify. for on
account of the excellent imitation, the
bogus coin daily passes from hand to
hand till. when the secret service men get
hold of il. tLey find it impossible to trace
il back to it's source
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-02
FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT.
How Court Justice of the Ancient Or
der of FOresters Entertained Its
Friends on Monday

Court Justice No. 1908 of the Ancient Order
OF Foresters, one of the liveliest courts of the
order, entertained its friends on Monday
night at smoker in Social Hall in the For
esiers' building. There was presented an en-
IUyable programme prepared under the direc-
tion OF the committee on entertainme n con-
sisting OF the following named members of
the court: Chief Ranger Louis Berger CHAIR
man), Harry Adolph, NJ. Stsrken, T. Cavan-
augh. J. Gillard J. Nevremont, ]. B. Hem
rioulle and DR.. Louis Kenigla
The bail was started rolling by the chief
ranger, who, after drawing attention to the
principles of the order and its benefits and
what Court Justice does for its members,
Ia ked in humorous way of the programme
ana OF the deicac cies that had been prepared
1or the members and visitors. There was q
banjo duet by Messrs. Miles and Marion; char
acier i'm presentations with lightning changes
by Louis Hess, Kenneth Mcleod, a rising
young amateur, who is perfectng him self for
the Legitimate and has developed much talent
in IN that iine' gave the remorse scene from
"OtheHo" with strong dramatic effect, and so
well did he please his audience that he was
forced TO give encore.
For this he chose 'The Last Hours of O Con
demned Murderer" =" and in forcible manner
exI ressed the feelings of a man who is about
10 eXpiate his crime on the gAllows. J. Low
enthhl entertained with songs, George Miles
gave combination solo on banjo and har-
monicum. four members of the Menlo Cub
gave instrumental selections, Jackson A.
Hathwell favored with several songs Messrs.
King ley and Martin sang dialect songs and
Harry Adolph gave an illustration Of how
music eau be produced from empty cigar
boxes, broomstlck and leadpencils, and he
also gave an evidence of his skill as violin
ist. During the evening q special committee
passed around sandwiches, the extract of
malt aud iGe cigars.
The announcement was made that Griff
Thomas, past officer of the court, is danger
ousiy i'll and that under the auspices of the
court and other organizations OF which he is g.
member an entertainment and ball will be
given in Garibaldi Hall on the evening of the
l2th inst. TO rHise a fund to assist him and his
family in their hour OF need.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-02
PERSONAL

Music, a merchant of Stockton, is in the
City.
Captain schjorring of Copenhagen is at the
Palace.
F. P. Colwen of Hawaii is late arrival at
the Lick.
Dr.. seiiz of Buda-P Pesth, Hungary, is at the
Occidental.
D. Cameron of Los Angeles is staying at the
Cosmopolitan.
C. Martens of Levuka, Fiji Islands, is among
the arrivals here.
District Attorney Carl E Lindsay of Santa
Cruz IS at the Grand.
W. G. Collins of Randsburg arrived here yes
terday. He is at the Russ.
Charles e. Hollister an extensive land
owner OF Hollisier, is at the Grand.
Frank Dekum, one of the owners of the
Dekum block, Portland, is in town.
F. II. PettingelI, a wealthy resident of Colo
rado Springs, IS a recent arrival here.
P. Chsrlebois, a wealthy business man oi
Ventura, is on visit to San Francisco.
Mrs. snowden and daughter, OF West Grove
Cal, are staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel
W. II. Freeman, a prominent rsncher OF
Teller, Colo, is registered at the Cosmopol-
itan.
J. B. Harsant, mine owner of South Africa,
whose residence is at Cape Town, is il the
City.
DR.. D. T Callahan, who is developing min.
ing properties in Tuolumne County, is at the
Grand
c. E. Franks formerly of the Russ House, is
in charge of the Palace, the one frst-class
hotel OF Visalia.
H. de r Walker of England, who represents
an English mining syndicate, and Thomas
I f-nsr -ss.r-
Palace.
Everett Daggett, mining engineer of Salt
Lake, who has for some time been examining
properties for English investors, is in the City
He is accompanied by I. S. Mathis of Salt
Lake.
DR.. J. Neustsdtl, a naturalist of Vienna,
who has been for many mouths in China
and Japan collecting insects of various Sinds
and studying the habits of animals, is in the
City. He arrived on the Peru on Monday
George J. McCarty, manager of the Roths-
childs' pro lerty In Mexico, and F. r Lingham,
lumber king of South Africa, who have been
visiting together in this City for some days
past, leave for Tacoma on the Queen this
morning Both are on their way to London.
The many friends of William A. PIunkett,
the pioneer attorney, whose life was despaired
of few weeks ago. will be glad TO know that
he has so far recovered as to be able to BE-
about He left yesterday for Santa Clara
C-unty for a months rest, after which he
hopes to return and resume his practice.
Z. S. de Golyer, who with o. P. Posey az d
Mr.. Bailey of the Tomboy gold mine lately
purchased the Hidden Treasure gold properly
in Arizona, is at the Palace. accompanied by
Mr.. Posey and Dr. A. Schifman of Los Angeles.
Mr.. de Goiyer has recently visited Randsburg.
He says the Wedge aud one or two other prop
critics that have been sunk to unusual depths
are looking well. Outside of them there has
not been a great deal OF development