The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-10-16
SATURDAY. OCTOBER 16.
EDITORIAL.

ponderate in this issue of our paper.
Having fulfilled our promise to give
liberal space to this subject. preliminary
to the action OF the General Conven.
ton. we now close the discussion for the
present. After the report of the Gen.
eral Convention we hope to give the
creed question a good rest in these
columns. We have several articles
which we would have been glad to
print, but it is necessary to now shut
down our hopper on this particular dis.
cussion. Whether it is ever resumed in
The UNIvERsALIsT depends.
At the recent Michi-
The Michigan gan Convention held
Statlstlcs' at Lansing, Secretary
W. L. Gibbs reported that in the four
teen parishes which had sent reports
there is total of 1.040 mem ers, with
1910 families represented. There were
admitted to the church during the year
sixty eight members. The Sunday
school mbership is 932. The value
of property in the fourteen parishes re-
porting is S199 040; church indebtedness
$30.S50; amount paid Oh the church in
debtednese, S11,235. The amount Of
cash in the convention treasury is
S99526.
The call for the pas.
Inc fastor oon- tors Institute on the
lerence' Monday evening of
Convention week appeared in our col
umns last week. This week the pro-
gram of the Convention recognizes a
conference of pastors on that evening
and Tuesday morning. This is an en-
largement of the scope of the original
proposition. The Pastors Institute is
an informal organization of Western
ministers: the conference now called is
intended to include all pastors attending
the General Convention. Rev. F. A.
Dillingham;, of Bridgeport, Conn.,, will
be in charge along with DR.. Crum OF
Iowa. This meeting is intended solely
for ministers and pastors. 1t will be
held with closed doors to the public.
The Conference will consider the state
of the church in general and will
consider certain propositions for the
larger efficiency of the church and the
administration of its spiritual concerns
which in their present tentative form
are not adapted for discussion on the
floor of the Convention. The Confer
ence will doubtless result in helpful
interchange of thought and opinion
even though it reaches no conclusion
which can be formulated for future &C.
ton. We urge the brethren to attend
the Pastors Conference and be pre-
pared to take part in its serious deliber-
atoms.
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The dedication of the Bradley
Polytechnic in Peoria on Friday of last
week (Oct. 8th) was an occasion OF
great moment to the citizens of that
city. The Bradley, Institute was found.
ed by Mrs. Lydia Bradley the widow Of
Tobias Bradley. for whom our Peoria
Universalist church is named. The en-
dowment which is proposed by Mrs.
Bradley is variously estimated and re-
ports place it as high as $2500000. The
Institute building is very handsome
and spacious one of white stone. and
near by is another large edifice Of
the same material, which will be &C.
cupied by an Theological institute under
the control of the same Board of Trus-
tees. A number of prominent educa.
tors from abroad, including college
presidents, were in attendance. The
most notable feature on the program
was the dedicatory address by Hon.
Lyman j. Gage. Secretary of the
Treasury.
The institute was presented to the
Trustees by the founder. Mrs. Bradley,
and accepted in their behalf by their
President. Oliver j. Bailey. An address
in behalf of the Faculty was delivered
by President Harper, of the University
of Chicago, who is also President of the
Faculty or the Bradley Institute.
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1t may be remembered that ten or
twelve years ago negotiations were
opened with Mrs. Bradley by members
1.-THE Board OF Trustees OF Lombard
University, with reference to the remov-
al Of Lombard to Peoria and the change
of its name to Bradley University. The
negotiations failed. the Trustees not
being able to comply with Mrs. Bradley's
terms. What these terms were we have
never exactly learned, as the committee
we're unusually reticent. DIR. Ryder
was a member of the committee con.
Quoting these negotiations. Now her
vast estate will doubtless go to the en-.