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INDIANA.
LETTER FROM REV. d. A. PATRICK.

LETTER FROM REV. ID. A. PATRICK.
Middlefork church held its series of
meetings. with eight sccessions.
The friends there think they will be
Obliged to build larger church than the
old union church 10 which meetings are
now being held. Universalism is get
ting plenty in this region from some
cause or another. and if it's progress is
not stayed soon it will take the country.
PLEASANT VALLEY.
Pleasant Valley church held its meet
ings, beginning in dark and rainy nights
aud with some dIsaffsction among the
flock. Yetin the few nights of mud and
rain eight members were added. and we
ought to hope, whether we can or not. for
better things.
SALEM.
Salem church moves along in the
even tenor OF its way. has added eight
members during the Convention year.
The Sunday school is 10 good shape and
if the friends there can secure suitable
pastor for '97. success is assured. Bro.
Groves ministered to this church the
first Sunday 10 April.
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MICHIGAN.
THE LATE ROBERT WOODEN.

In Il LATE HUBERT WOODEN.
Rev. ROBERT WOODEN. whose death
has been noticed in The UNIvERsALIsT,
requires more than passing notice, if
for no other reason than that he was
one of Michigan's pioneer Universalist
preachers. He was glad to be known as
farmer preacher, ever ready to preach
where there was no money to pay. His
desire was to spread the joyful tidings.
He was an earnest, faithful. good man;
a good defender of our faith, and thor
oughly loyal to our church and it's work.
AS long as health permitted he attended
the sessions of the State Convention,
where the white haired veteran, whom
the Convention greeted as Father
Wooden never failed to manifest deep
interest in the work.
Those time honored ministers of our
church to whom Father Wooden be-
longed-are going-yes. about all gone
to their reward. Men who provided for
their families by working upon the farm
or in the shop, and answered calls to
preach on Sunday or weekday evenings.
We who follow them and are enjoying
the fruits of their labor do not realize
how much we are indebted to them.
The funeral services of Father Wood
en- were conducted by the Rev. E. G.
Andrus. Of Tecumseh. who has kindly
furnished the following brief outline of
his life: WIG.
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ROBERT WOODEN was born in Chill,
Monroe county, New York, June 22nd.
1872. where he resided until 1915. He
was brought up a farmer, and lived
with his father until he was twenty one.
At the age Of twenty-one his father
gave him new piece of land which he
Immediately commenced to improve,
and upon which he made living from
the first, and within few years erected
frame house and barn. and made de-
sirable farm, and in 1916 he sold it and
came to Michigan and purchased the
farm where he has since resided. He
has moved but once 10 his life, and that
was when he came to Michigan. Mr..
Wooden never had any school advant
ages beyond common district school,
but at the age of nineteen he became
convert to the Universalist faith, and
from that time, until the last few years,
he has been Jealous and earnest
worker in the cause. At the age of
about thirty he commenced preaching,
his first effort being at the funeral OF
neighbor. After he came to Michigan
he preached regularly for nearly thirty
years. and scarcely Sunday came that
he did not preach.
During the first two years of his resi-
dence in Michigan he itinerated. preach
ing wherever he could get a hearing.
but in 1S47 he organized society and
erected church at Lambertvile, Mon
roe county. and preached there four
years. He afterwards preached at Wolf
Creek. Newell, Somerset and Hudson.
Mr.. Wooden has been active and earn
est, ever ready to answer all calls. either
for preaching or funeral services and
has. perhaps, officiated at as many flu.
nerals as any man in the country.
He married Lydia A. Sickner. of
Chill, Monroe county. New York, No
vember 14th 1880, by whom he has had
eight children, four of whom are still
living.
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HENRY w. RUGG. Financial Sec'y.
PROV 'DENCE, II. l., Apr. /, 1897.
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THE
LEISURE OF GOD
AND OTHER STUDIES
IN THE
Spiritual ~
Evolution,
BY
John Coleman adams, ID. ID.

CONTENTS.
Chap.
1. The Leisure of God,
ii. The Inevitable Conflict.
III. The Line of Least Resistance.
". The Root of all Righteousness
v. Severity In Love.
vi. The Law of Reserve
VII. Yesterday, Today and Forever.
VIII. The Victory of the Meek.
TX. Immortal Life and Eternal Life.
x. The Premature Judgment of Divine
Things.
XII Some Things Settled.
XII. The Use and Abuse of Optimism
XIII. The Christ In the Creation.
XIV. The City that is to Come
XIV. White Robes and Palm Branches.
12mo. Cloth, 233 Pages. sI.OO.
Universalist Publishing House
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Noble Living.


A Series of Studies as to the Develop
ment of the Deeper Life in Men.
EDITEDBY
CHARLES SUMNER NICKERsoN.
CONTENTS.
Walking With God.
Charles Henry EatoL
The Blessedness of Faith,
Sullivan Holman M'Collester.
Love as an Inner Force
Frank Warren Whippen.
The Riches of the Scriptures,
Edward Lowell Houghton.
Moulded by the Invisible.
Charles Sumner Nickerson.
The Upllft of Prayer.
Charles Rockwell Tenney
The Obligations of Religion.
Joseph Kimban Mason.
Saved by Christ
Gideon Isaac KERN.
Christian Peace.
Harrison Spofford Whitman.
The Immortal Life.
James Milford Payson.
A Perfected Character; The Goal of
Life. Fred Augustine Dillingham;.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
the Eighth they should be
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AN EXCUSE THAT FAILED.

THIS Woman Heard &c just Once To1
Oftcn.
"The Office has always been the ref
uge of erring husbands. Late hours
and all sorts of dissipatlons could DO
explained by that magic term. A
world of trusting wives have been nut
Off with tlIut excuse, but some of the
more modern, up-to-1ntc and enter
prising wives have exploded the old
story.
This story tells how one enterprlsing
wife pricd into tho secret of her hus-
bands "otllce."
This particular husband fell deeply
into the habit of staying up town latc
of nights and fell into the convenient
habit of explaining his ubscncc on the
score OF Office tluties.
lie wns not, strnrgc 70 SAY. entirely
truthful In these explanations. but his
good wife did not always know of this.
ns this wise lntter-tlay fowl OF hus-
hnnd had posted NIL his Office force 10
give the proper story Whenever hls wife
should ring up the oflce by telephone
and Inquire about him.
About every third night the Office
telephone would ring md n poor slave
OF nm Office clerk would go to the tcle-
phone To tell the stcrotypcd lie.
"fcs, MIR. Smiths here. but he's In
his private Office. very busy with II
gentleman"
And the trusting wife had 10 put up
with this eXcusc for ever so long time.
hut after the lapse of many months and
nftcr she hnd heard this story 40 many
times TINT she had become tired OF II.
{" = iiurally became little suspicious.
She tried little ally investigating. but
IT. avnilcd her nothing.
Iut one night her turn came. A bril-
liant thought came TO her. She rang
up her husbands Office about ten
"Yes'm, Mr.. Smiths here. hu; he's
very busy right now," was the reply
she got.
Let me spenk TO him moment.
It's very lmportapt."
"Fm afraid he can't talk To you," "sald
the clerk. trembling.
"Tcil him must spcnls to him."
"All right. Wait minute" Tho
clerk counted os right slowly nnd he'll
loed. "IIe's too busy to be disturbed
now" he said.
Are yon right sure he's thcre?"
nsked Mrs. Smith.
"Surc, mndnm? Why, I Just this mo-
mcnt spoke to him"
"You dreadful mnn-how dare you
tell me such n deliberate untrnth! Mr..
Smith is here in the sitting-room read
irg!"
Which teaches that clerk mny
sometimes be overtrnined.-Atla
Constitution.
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SWEETHEARTS ALWAKS.

If sweethearts were sweethearts always,
Whether as II maid or wife,
No drop would be half as pleasant
In the mingled draught of life.
But the sweetheart has smiles and
blushes
When the wife has frowns and sighs,
And the wifo's have wrathful glitter
For the glow of the sweethearts eyes.
Ii lovers were lovers always,
The same to sweetheart and wife,
Who would change for future ofEden
The joys of this checlsered life.
But husbands grow grave and silent,
And care on the anxious brow
Oft replaces the sunshine That pershed
With the words of the marriage vow.
Happy is he whose sweetheart
Is wife and sweetheart still;
Whose voice, MS of old, can charm him;
Whose kiss, as of old, can thrill.
Who has plucked the rose to fiud ever
iIs peauCy hnu fragrance increase,
AS the flush of passion is mellowed
In loves unEeasured peace.
Who sees in the step of lightness;
Who finds i'll the form grace;
Who reads an unaltered brightness
In the witchery of the face.
Uudimmed and unchangedl All, happy
Is he crowned with such n life
Who drinks the wife pledging the
sweetheart,
And toasts in the sweetheart the wife!
Daniel O'Connell.
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MASONfc.
Apprentice Pillar.

Apprentice Pillar is the SO called
and we'll known pillar in the chapel
of Rosslyn Castle, with which an old
Scottish Masonic legend has been
linked. The pillar has been describ-
as fluted shaft with floral garland
wreathed around it. The legend is
as follows, The Master Mason had
to go away, some say to Rome, for
some purpose connected with the
plans OF the building. During his
absence, which was pre- longed, u
clever apprentice. a widows sou,
either from the plans or by his own
genius, carved and completed the
pillar out of solid stone When the
master returned and found the pill
lar erected, he was so jealous of the
success of his apprentice that lie
killed him with cue blow on th,
forehead by heavy setting maui.
To prove this legend to be fact.
visitors to the spot are still shown
three carved heads in the eastern
part of the ohapel-tlie masters, the
apprentices, with mark on his
forehead, and the mothers. S,Ine.
however. believe that these three
heads are mythical and are meant to
point to a we'll known legend OF our
order, familiar to all our Master Ma
sons. Ii so. this is and undersigned
evidence to the antiquity of Free
masonry and its taditions.--Free
mason's Repository.
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again tue threads of 5rotherly love,
or keep any brother FROM briugi, q
reproach upo it by falling into evil
ways. But it rarely happens that
1t exerts no good influence at all up.
on its members; aud it has never | v
Its Influences or precepts. made n
good man bad, o. bad man worse.
1t has never made man rapacious
or cruel, tyrant or prosecutor, n
liOertii or extortioner, corrupt. or
dishonest, or false or treacherous.
No man has ever boon taught that
he can servo Freemasonry by revenge
or retaliation, or by an invasion of
the rights of other men. Whatever
its shortcomings and deficiencies, it
has never anywhere been ashamed
of its mission or afraid to avow aud
vindicate its principles and purposes.
Nowhere has it betrayed tho truth
committed to its keeping, or bot n
alse to any trust coniidcd 10 it's
hands. Everywhere it has maintain.
ed the chief landmarks planted by
the fathers. Everywhero it has
heen ontspoke on the sido of politi
cal emancipation and religious lib.
erty; everywhere aud always The
apostle of free thought and free
speech. Everywhere has it eucour.
'ged men to assert the high preroga
tive of their manhood, always to
look upward to tue sublime heights
of human endeavor aud attainment
and aspire to the achievement OF bcl
ter aud higher things. 1t hrs nev,,
exacted Of any man as the price of
It's all or protection Oh of irvesture
with it's degrees. mud putting of his
conscience into its keeping, the alb
negation ofany conviction, the sur.
render of any principle, the cession
Of any right, blind obedience, or
,ught elso that could lesson his IT'LL,
10 his own self respect Albert
Pike.
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The man who eats because he is hun
CRY is, thus far, on u level with the
brutes. The man who stops eating the
moment his hunger is appeased is the
wise man. Nature no more food than
she calls for. Continued excess brings
about indigestion or dyspepsia, with
loss of flesh strength, sleep, ambition
and mental power. and an accumulation
of aches, pains and many dangerous
local inaladies.
The stomach now can do nothing
alone We must appeal to some arti-
ficially digestcd food which can also
digest other foods That is to say. we
must use the Shaker digestive Cordial.
The effect in prompt and cheering. Tie
CHRONIC pain aid distress ceases. APP
petite presently revives. Flesh and
vigor gradually comes back, and the
sufferer RECEIVERS. But he must be
careful in future. A trial bottle for
10 cents.
LAXOL is the best medicine for chill
dren. Doctors recommend IL in place
of Castor Oil.
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Ripans Tabules cure dizziness.
Ripans Tabules cure liver troubles.
Ripans Tahmies: pleasant laxative.
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Freemasonry.

Like every other human institution,
has its faults. its defects. imperfec-
tions, it's inefficient method. it's incon
sistencie+, its shortcomings and fail.
ures, its period OF iuaction and slug
gishness. 1t often has TO ackuowl
9 lge, lament as the churches do,
that its power to do good is not
equal to its will and desire, that it
cannot make everyone better and
wieer who knocks at the door, that
it cannot always prevent Disputes
and heal auimositics and make whole
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A Royal Arch Deqree.

10 many enthusiastic Chapter Ma.
sons those who desire to know the
origin of things Masonic, the follow.
ing comment on the royal Arch De
gree by Bro. s. Stacker Williams.
OF Ohio, will be found interesting
aud instructive:
"As with many other degrees in
Masonry, it is impossible, after all
the efforts that have been made, to
hx upon the date of the origin, or
definitely the birth place, of the Royul
Arch Degree. We have had theo
ries enough, and learned accounts
by rainbow chasers n, to origin; but
these, together with the story of it's
having been stolen from the degree
of Master Masons, have, for want
of proof, been abandoned by Masonic
students. The best efforts Of Bros.
Hugan, Gould, and others in the
old country to settle the question of
date. have been unavailingly, except
approximately and in the place
where it first appeared is in equal
doubt. In the light of recent iuyes-
tigation it is not safe to claim All
earlier date for the degree than 1740,
and while it has generally been con
sidered to be of English origin, now
the indications are very strong that
Scotland is entitled to the honor of
giving it, birth"
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Good One on the c,c,,s,.

nSo"nG american who was bicycling
In southern Francs wns puahing hIs
wheel up n steep hill. when he overlook
n peasant with II donkey cart who was
rapidly becoming stalled. though the
little donkey was doing his best. The
benevolent wheclman, putting his left
hand against the hncli OF the cart and
guiding his wheel with the other.
pushed so hnrd that the donkey, taking
frcsh courage. pulled his lond up 10
the top successfully. The summit
reached. the peasant burst into thnnka
to his bcncfnctor. III was very good
of you. monsieur" he said. II should
never In tho world have got up the hill
With only ono donkcy!"
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The PACE Thai KILLS.
Something for Eusncs5 Women 10 Rea,
md (,ousider

Something for Eus nrs6 Women 10 Road
nnd Consider.
The pnce that kills business woman
Is the work she does ut home. Good,
hnrd. faithful attention TO business
never killed anyone, man or woman.
Worry md the "scelng to things" itlpn---
these are the two nails IN the business
womnn's coffin.
The "seeing to things" idcn Is dis
tinctly feminine. No man ever hnd H..
Every womnn Is born with II, Men
SIT In streetcar and watch the driver
of truck groan and tug. and try to get
his wheels Off the trnck, and not man
will move TO help that driver or even
sigh In sympathy. Every woman In the
car Is edgirg and peering and wishing
she dared go out on the Platform and
"scc TO that truck"
That's the thing that kills women.
They try 10 carry the world on their
shoulders, and they don't realize that
the world Is great deal better Off with
out their puny strength undcri II.
business women try to do too many
kinds Of things. They are. most OF
them, "Jills OF all trades" When n
business man gets up in the morning he
takes his bnth, goes into the dining.
room md ents his breakfast, kisses his
family good-by and goes downtown 10
work. like sensible man. The busi-
ness woman-do you know her? do.
I'll tell what the business woman
does. She gets up early and goes intn
tile children's room and fusses around
for half mn hour or SO. lfyou ask her
whit she ib doing. she'll say she's "sce.
ing TO things"
She hires servant--nnd wnits upon
her. She pays dresspnkcr--nud sits
up nights studying fashion books for n
new way to have dress made. Sho
buys hat--and takes 1t home and tcara
1t NIL TO pieces and makes II over again.
She dictates TO n typewriter--nnd then
takes the copy" and corrects It her.
self. She works herself III over some
thing she can't do. and ought not to do.
and takes n riieful pleasure In mar.
tyred spell of illness.
She worries about other peoples
troubles, she frets over other peoples
children, she almost tnkes medicine for
other peoples headaches. and she puts
all her friends into nervous irritation
trying to ''see TO them"
II the business woman Is worth one
half her salary. she puts all these things
out of her mind mt the ofIice.-N. Y.
Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-03-26
HOODS PILLS euro Liver Ills,
Biiiousness, Indigestion, Headache.
A pleasant laxative. All Druggists,
COULDN'T SEE TIE NECESSITY
He DIdn't Think That the nr,dc wns
Needed.

Needed.
II is not to- Ike suppc.icd that the mis-.
slonary's lot is always the happicst in
the world, but there ore times when
there nro Incidents in II SO full OF hu-
NOR MS to make up for the tronblcs and
trials which arc more common. Among
the stories In illustration ofthis point
Is one that comes from recent British
consul to Samoa, who states that mis-
sionary there was one day visited by
gentle-looliing youth, who asked:
"Plcnsc, sir. may get marrlcd?"
day was appointed for the ccre-
mony, when, Mt the time named, ap-
reared the youthful bridegroom, look
Ing neat, shy and gullclesa; he was
asked To take n seat md did so. blush-
Ing vigorously. a quarter OF nn hour
elapsed and there we're no fresh, ,aI-
rivals; yet thcre sut the young Jmaa
without the slightest show of that
nnXlety attributed to gentlemen about
to take the fatal plunge. at Inst, the
missionary became impatient and nsked
lin where the young woman was.
who" said the youth. ea
"Why, the girl you want to mnrryis
"Oh, shes Mt Snfnta!"
WHAT" cried the minister. "1Iaye
you come here for me to marry You to
woman i6 miles or on the other side
Of the islnnd?" I,
"fca." replied the innocant; :" didn't
think YOU would wnnt hcr!"
He waa sen, nwhy to fetch her and In
the course Of week returned to TO
through the mnr,ingc ceremony in tlne
form.-llnrper's Found Table. W
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EVENING BREEZES.

Sweet breezes blow, so soft and low,
AT twilights sacred hour.
That day storms cease to calms of
peace
Beneath their SCOT; ing power.
They softly sing. and kindly bring,
As messengers of rest,
Sweet words of love, from God above,
Which calm the troubled breast.
They kindly bear the loads of care
From burdened hearts away,
While on their wings, where night
peace sings,
Rage all the storms of day.
They lull TO sleep the eyes that weep,
And gently dry their tears.
For day s deep grief they bring relief,
And hope they give for fears.
But not for all, who look and call,
Do these sweet breezes blow.
lis bat for them who day storms stem
With faith and hope aglow.
For lowering clouds, the evening
shrouds,
And'storms the silence break,
For all who spurn God s will to learn.
And ways of truth forsake.
While only they who use life's day
When twilights hour shall come
May hope to greet. its breexes sweet
To watt their spirits home.
w. IL. q.