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cago for an equal sum; and to the
society in Pasadena, under the lead
of Rev. DR.. Conger, which gave
$700-all things considered noble
contribution. The principal part of
the accumulated interest and cost,
ST., $50, was given by the people of
Riverside. Had any one of these
sources not responded as above it is
not likely that this grand result
would have been accomplished.
1t is impossible for me to convey to
those at a distance an adequate idea
of the great Importance of this SER
! vice TO our church in Riverside, in
California, and on the Pacific Coast.
But for Mr.. Dennis's consecrated eff
forts the foreclosure proceedings
would have been consummated and
the beautiful church would have
gone under the auctioneer's hammer.
This would have extinguished our
cause in Riverside and paralyzed it
in Southern California, and would
have broken the hearts of DR.. and
Mrs. Deere, who, in the disaster, would
have seen the sad end of the conse-
Grated hopes, efforts, self-sacrifice
and devotedness of nearly score of
laborious years. But the solid year
to which Mr.. Dennis has devoted his
waking hours, continual thought and
persistent Efforts has dispelled the
horrible cloud, and given the oil of
JOY for mourning and the garment OF
praise for the spirit of heaviness. All
honor to every contributor to this
good work-to the General Conven-
ton, to the Pasadena parish and DIR.
Conger, and last of all and most of
all to j. S. Dennis, whose generous
heart, untiring energy and consecrat-
ed spirit have accomplished this
grand result.
My own heart is so full of gratitude
and JOY that my pen cannot tell the
story as it ought to be told. But all
who love our church and desire its
prosperity will rejoice with Riverside
and California and pray that the last
days of j. S. Dennis may be his best
days. May his example be contag-
ious! May many others catch its
noble spirit.
PASADENA, CAL.
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ORDINATION SERVICES AT
GALESBURG.

Friday evening, June 4th, at o'clock
in the First Universalist Church of
Galesburg, occurred the ordination of
Edward Milton Minor. DR.. N. White
offered prayer and led in reading the
34th psalm. DIR. Charles Ellwood Nash
preached the sermon. which was very
impressive and exactly suited to the oc-
casion. DR.. Geo. B. Stocking made the
presentation of the Scriptures and ex-
tended the right hand of fellowship.
Mr.. Minor went at once to Mt. Vernon,
ILL.,, where he will continue the work Of
the Universalist ministry.
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OUR CONTRIBUTORS.
SPAIN IN HISTORY.
BY REV. MARY J. DE LONG.
SECOND PAPER.
Arehifaefure

Architecture.
SPANISH architecture is mostly of
the Mohammedan period, Soon after
the conquest of the country by the
Arabs, Abderrhaman built at Seville
a magnificent mosque. After the
capture of the city by Fernando Ill,
in 124S, it was turned into Chris
tian cathedral which ranks in size
only second after st. Peters at Rome.
The transformations began in 1403
and were finished in 1919 At the
west end is the grave of Ferdinand,
son of Columbus; in the East the
body of Ferdinand of Aragon, which
is exposed to the public three times
a year. The museum contains price
less examples of the Seville school
of painting of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. An aims
house here contains six masterpieces
by Murillo.
The cathedral of Cordova was built
originally as mosque on the site { f
an old Roman temple. The interior
is one of the most beautiful specimens
of Moorish architecture in Europe.
1t contained originally twelve hun
dred pillars, in which porphyry, jas
per and marbles of many tints are
combined in what's said to be match
less mosaic. Only seven hundred of
these pillars remain standing at the
present time. The cathedral of To
ledo was begun in 1927 and finished
in 1892. While Columbus was on his
first voyage of discovery, Antonio del
Rincon was decorating its walls. The
Moorish style reached its highest
state of perfection in the powerful
fortress of the Alhambra, built on
the precipitous rocks overlooking
Granada. DIR. Lubke in his History
of Art says: "Charles ", in a true
vandal spirit, removed large part of
the building in order to erect in its
place a palace in the heavy renais-
sance style. That which has been
spared" he says, "suffices to present
to the Imagination a picture of the
most glorious epoch of poetic and
noble chivalry, and to seem like the
realization of an enchanting Oriental
fairy tale" Washington Irving thus
describes the renowned Court of
Lions: "There is no part of the edi-
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HON. LYFORD MARSTON, OF
HOOPESTON, ILL.
A Valuable Life Ended at Good Old Age.
PASADENA. CAL.

Once more our Hoopeston church
meets with great loss by the death OF
its senior deacon, Hon. Lyford Marston.
He was stricken with paralysis and lin
gering but two days passed away on the
afternoon of May 25th, aged eighty
years and few days.
At such an age men are expected to
die, but our dear brother retained such
good health up to his last brief sickness,
and was filling his place in the church
and society and the home with such un-
absted interest and efficiency. that his
going is sad loss to all. His has been
a most upright and helpful life.
Mr.. Marston was born in Plymouth,
N. H., May 2. 1917, son of Oliver L. and
Lavina Marston. After such schooling
as his native town afforded at that time,
he came to Cambridge. entering the
preparatory course at Harvard. and
boarding with Mr.. and Mrs. Holmes,
Oliver Wendell being at the time in
Paris pursuing his medical studies. In
after years Mr.. Marston called on DIR.
Holmes and frequently spoke of the
cordial greeting extended to him. His
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Hyde, Theo. Cuyler, Bishop Huntingdon
DIR. E. P. Goodwin, Mrs. Bottome and
DIR. Geo. A. Gordon. Three of these
seven are traditional in their view OF
what conversion is. But the Bishop, the
President, and DIR. Gordon have arrived
at what may be termed the ethico-spirit-
usl conception of conversion. Presi
dent Hyde describes the process in terms
with which most Universalists would
find themselves in hearty accord.
Touched by the love of God. attracted
by the opportunity of Christian service,
we renounce our folly, our selfishness,
our sin, and accept the love OF the Fa-
ther, the fellowship of Christ, and the
service of our brothers as the spirit Of
new and better life. This is conversion"
DR.. Gordon says: "The sense of fresh
start in life, the faith in gradual posses
sion of better righteousness under the
sovereign influence Of Christ / look
upon as conversion on it's practical
side."
The first five volumes of the new In
ternational and Critical Commentary
sustain so high standard that there is
good reason to expect the work as a
whole to be of the highest merit. We
have found much to approve and as yet
nothing of importance to condemn in
these volumes. They are the product
of special training and the best scholar
ship. Nothing in English is 30 thor
ough, so modern, so authoritative. Yet
it is conceived on scale of cost which
must severely limit it's distribution and
usefulness, besides imposing an unnec-
essary burden on the buyers, mostly
clergymen, who feel that they must have
| it. Two dollars a volume would make
the completed work cost near hundred
| dollars; but four OF the five volumes is
sued cost three dollars each. We be.
lieve it would be good business policy as
well as an indication of Biblical equity
to put the price of this necessarily costly
work third lower.
Mr.. Ridpath. the historian, uses en-
phasis with great energy and precision.
He is writing of the Senate and the
House of Representatives He finds the
former to be the national political ex-
expression of the corporations. The
latter of party despotism. He is not en-
amored of either Of these things; but OF
the two he thinks corporate power is to
be preferred. The corporation. he re-
marks, is at least rational. It's motives
are capable of being appreciated by a
human being. The corporation acts on
| principles that are often heartless
but they are at least intellectual
and reasonable. But party despotism
is devoid of both humanity and rea-
son. mo tyranny ever known among
men is comparable with the senseless
absurd and depraved tyranny of party
organization"
| CANTON THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL.
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EDITORIAL BRIEFS.
BY PRESIDENT 1. M. ATWOOD, d. d.

Col. HIGGINsoN reports Henry Ward
Beecher as saying that in the Plymoutn
church the sexton had orders when ne
saw any one asleep in the congregation
to go right up into the pulpit and wake
up the minister. That being the etfec-
tive remedy it explains why it was that
no one in Mr.. Beecher's congregation
was ever known to sleep. The place to
apply the stimulus is the pulpit. DIR.
Dodge, we remember, told at the twenty
fifth anniversary of DR.. Chapin's settle
ment how that remorseless man" Kept
him awake one evening, when. as lad,
he went to the Broadway Church intent
on earning half dollar by taking nap.
Yet, when even a great preacher con-
tinues "far into the night" there is
precedent for falling asleep.
One of the most serious disabilities
of the liberal faith may be seen in this
contrast Here is Romanist. we will
say, not very intelligent, very supersti-
tious, centuries behind the conception
that honors God and does not degrade
man. But he is devoted to his institu-
ton, his church, and he sustains it. Here
is Methodist, with more credulity and
zeal, you say, than knowledge. But he Is
devoted to his institution. his church,
and he sustains it Loyalty. Here is
Presbyterian, perhaps heresy hunter,
and in your eyes a much belated disciple
of Christ, the reformer. But he is de-
voted to his institution, his church, and
he ntands by it with his person and pro-
perty. Here is member Of the Saliva
tion Army, noisy, crude, caricature of
a Christian. But he is devoted tc his
institution, his army. and is ready to
suffer the loss of all things for it's main
tenance. Here also is a man Of whom
you say, he is intelligent, rational. free
from cant and delusions. a good citizen,
pleasant companion. abreast of the best
thought, liberal Christian. Yes. but he
is not devoted to his institution, his
church. He attends it irregularly or not
at all; contrives not to be counted
among it's supporters. sees it decline or
die without motion or a pang.
Now while this is the situation we
may boast like the Greeks, but like the
Greeks we shall be outnumbered and
overborne. The strongest churches, as
we'll as the strongest batallions, win the
field and keep it. The reasons for our
disparity in numbers are many; the ele-
ments Of weakness are in ourselves. The
people who are in intellectual sympathy
with US and who on that account con-
stitute our natural allies are not few in
any section of the country. But the
number we can count upon to attend
and support our churches and take a
vital interest in our missions and insti-
tutions, is but fraction of the religious
ly liberal population. We do not WELD
our own forces. This man, we often
hear. is a Universalist-"in sympathy
But sympathy which never material
ICES in devotion to an institution, which
makes no attendants or communicates
or contributors, is cold comfort.
For broadside on the subject of con-
version, the CongregstionRlist asked the
opinions Of Dwight L. Moody. President
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windows are stained glass of rare ar
tistic merit, and were presented to
the church by eastern friends of DIR.
and Mrs. Deere, in recognition of their
work during the construction of this
house of worship. 1t is the only
church building of our order within
sixty miles, and the only one in River
side county, territory as large as
the State of Massachusetts. The
site and building cost $25,000, of
which $4,000 had been paid, leaving
mortgage of $4,000 which became
due May 8, 1896.
This mortgage debt resulted fiom
unforeseen caiamities. 1t was the in
tention and expectation that the re-
naming cost of the property, beyond
certain limit, would be betrayed by
gentleman of means; but financial
reverses came that rendered it ina
possible for him to fulfill his benevo-
lent intentions, and this disaster COM
PEELED the mortgage. This is stated
in justice to the Riverside pastor and
people, who intended to dedicate the
church free of debt, and who would
have done so but for the calamity
that crippled the friend who expected
to contribute the last few thousands.
And even in spite of this disaster it
is probable that the parish could have
taken care of the loan but for the
loss of the orange crop, which SO i'm
poverished the people that prosper
GUS ranchers were obliged to mort
gage their farms to defray the neces-
sary expenses of living.
So when the mortgage matured it
seemed utterly impossible for the
parish to liquidate it, or to even pay
the interest, should the loans be re-
newed. The outlook was dark, dis
couraging, hopeless.
Atthis juncture a friend appeared,
Joseph S. Dennis, of Chicago, for
merly one of our most eloquent, sue
cessful and popular ministers, became
deeply interested in the situation,
and though he had not the slightest
financial interest in Riverside or
Southern California, but wholly out
of his great love for our cause
he resolved that the church should
not be sacrificed. He made gen.
erous subscription; he enlisted the
aid of the General Convention, which
was SO deeply in debt, and SO bur
dened with pressing calls for help,
that at first it did not, through its
Trustees, deem it possible to contri-
butte; he journeyed to the East, and
procured subscriptions; he secured
generous gifts from business friends
and others in and out of our commun-
ion; he incculated others with the
contagion of his own enthusiasm, and
after a laborious year from the be-
ginning of his efforts, the principal,
interest and costs of the entire in
debtedness, $3.50, was raised and
paid, and the church was redeemed
and secured to the sacred purposes
topromote which its foundations were
laid, its walls were reared, and for
which it was dedicated. The title
rests with the General Convention,
and the property can never again be
in peril.
The achievement is a remarkable
one all things considered-the most
remarkable of its kind that l recall
in our church annals. Mr.. Dennis is
nearing forescore years; his health is
SO frail that much of the time, while
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pushing his enterprise, he has been
under the care of his physician; the
times have been most unpropitious,
and yet, in spite of these and other
obstacles he has rendered the church
he loves the great service of securing
to it property valued at $25 900. He
has recorded his name and service in
the grateful memories of many who
will never remember him but with
thankfulness.
A full list of donors may hereafter
be published, but it may here be re-
corded that special obligations are
due to the General Convention, which
contributes more than $1,000; to Chi
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THE RIVERSIDE CHURCH.
BY j. W. HANSON, DID,.

THERE is great rejoicing in River
side, in all California and along the
entire Pacific slope among those
who love our church and desire its
prosperity-over the redemption of
the parish property in Riverside. The
church is beautiful one, as the ac-
companying illustration will show,
and is finished and furnished ex-
ternally and internally as an ideal
house of Christian worship. The
walls are of stone, from the celebrated
Flagstaff quarries in Arizona. The
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CHICAGO. SATURDAY, JUNE 1e. 1897


Page One.
Editorial Notes.
Spain in History.
The Riverside Church.
Hon. Lyford MarstOn, of HOOpestOn, Ill.
Page Two.
sermon-The Outlook for the Church.
The Ohio Meetings.
Ohio Ministerial Association.
The Missionary Alliance.
The Sunday School Convention.
Washington.
Page Three.
The Sunday School Lesson.
Page Four.
The Ohio Universalist Convention.
Nv Commencement Visit.
Commencement at Lombard.
Page Five.
Church News and Correspondence
The Lombard Baccalaureate.
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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fuence to help others and to defend the
oppressed that he had the respect of all
and the love of many for his defence.
His "reminiscences of this period includ-
ed stories of Henry Clay, Thomas Mar
shall and other prominent men with
whom he had personal acquaintance.
In the fall OF 1863 he came north to
Grant township, in Vermilion county
this state, and purcbaee large farm
where. for some time, he made his home.
In 1878 he was elected by the Repu bill
cans to the Thirty-frst General Assem-
bly, in which he served on the Commit
tee of Municipal Affairs, Public Print
ing and Public Charities.
On January 25, 1879, occurred the
death of his wife. There had been born
to them five children. all of whom are
living. In 1880 he returned to New
Hampshire, remaining there four years.
While there he married Mrs. Marcia
Wardwell. They then came West and
lived in Hoopeston, where Mrs. Mars
ton died in 1892. On December II,
1895. he was again united in marriage
with Mrs. Emma Dingle. who survives
him. From boyhood Mr.. Marston was
staunch Universalist. At the organi-4
zation of the Hoopeston church he was,
one of the charter members and was ap-
pointed deacon. A faithful attendant
upon all the services of the ch urcb, Civ
ing most efficient aid in the prayer
meeting and frequently representing us
in tt e State Convention. At the same
time he extended most cordial fellow
ship toward all denominations and was
regarded as Christian gentlemen by all
who knew him of whatever theology.
A pure, true man, who loved to do
good and to declare the truth and who
always sought for more truth. He has
now passed on to the higher life. and
sadly we make the readiustments which
such changes necessitate. and await our
turn, preparing for the higher service
by such loving service as we here can
give. T.B.T.F.
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We must allow this week an extra col
umn of space to DIR. Hanson for an ex-
preston of his rejoicing over the redemp-
tion Of the Riverside church. He simply
voices the Joy Of all Universalist hearts
in the golden State over this splendid
piece of work. The tribute which he
pays to Bro. Dennis is well deserved. II
was grand work, grandly performed.
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work at II award was cut short by i'll
health, and at the end Of year he re.
turned no me and after time of recu-
peration finished his school life by two
or three years at the Newbury Semin-
ary of Vermont One of Mr.. Marston's
reminisce noes of this period, was long
stage ride by the side Of Daniel Web
ster, for whom he ever after cherished
the profou ndest admiration, and whose
biography he recently sketched for the
Hoopeston Study Club, as his last liter
ary effort.
In 1885. Mr.. Marston emigrated to
Bourbon county. KY, where he taught
school year and a half. at the same
time eading law under an eminent
lawyer. He was admitted to the bar in
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GENERAL CONVENTION.
Report of General Missionary fer
May, 1897.
l. Sermons preached, 1s, as follows:

l. Sermons preached, IS. as follows:
Portland, ore. ...................-5
Woodstock, Ore. re........................
Tacoma, Wash. .....................2
Seattle, ......................
Spokane, .........................
Butte, Mont. .................,....,l
Minneapolis, MINI. ......................-1
st. Paul, .............,-........
Sheldon, .-..........-..-.....N2
Addresses given. z; one christening;
one Ladies' Society organized; travelled
2,910 miles.
2. Receipts. For services, $33.25; for
General Convention, $40.
3. Attended the State Convention of
Oregon and the State Conference of
Washington. Conferred with our Coast
Missionary and the Spokane church
with reference to building chapel at
Spokane. Visited our people in Seattle
and Butte. Spent several days in st.
Paul, preaching and encouraging our
people to renewed effort. Saw all the
Minneapolis pastors, and conferred with
Rev. Lars Erickson in regard to Swede
movement in Central Minnesota. Held
my first services in Sheldon, la. and or
ganized Ladies' Society, which voted
to raise $500 for a building fund,
Large audiences and much interest.
@. II. SHINE.
MONROE, Wis. June1.
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1888 and settled for the practice of
his profession in Carlisle, where,
in the same year, he married Miss
Mary Ann Amos. He was success
full in his profession, but having a
taste for journalism he accepted,
in 1843. position on the editorial
staff Of the Lexington Enquirer, a
Henry Clay organ. During the
Kansas troubles he advocated the
anti-slavery cause in the columns
of the New York Tribune. In
1856, while visiting his New Hamp-
shire home. he made campaign
speeches for Fremont. In 1860 he
was delegate to the Chicago con-
vention which nominated Lincoln
to the presidency.
On returning to his Kentucky
home he found himself in the
midst Of rebel sentiment, but he
openly and fearlesely maintained
his Union principles, being one OF
but three men in his county and
the only man in his precinct to
vote for Abraham Lincoln. He
was an elector on the republican
ticket for Kentucky. Often his
life was in danger, but so ready
had he heen alwava IN use his in.
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fee that gives more complete idea
of its original magnifcence. In the
center stands the fountain famous in
song and story. The alabaster ba-
sins still shed their diamond drops,
and the twelve lions which support
them cast forth their crystal streams
as in the days of Boabdil. The arch
itecture is characterized by ele-
gance rather than grandeur, bespeak-
ing delicate and graceful taste"