The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-07-10
SATURDAY, JULY 10.
EDITORIAL.

Our columns embrace
Iowa Convention this week an outline
heports' of the business pro-
ceedings Of the recent Iowa Convention
st Bloomfield, from Secretary Hatswell,
and review of the various services from
the pen of our regular correspon dent,
Mr. Dotter. The UNIvERsALIsT has a
large Iowa constituency who will find
in these reports considerable interest
ing matter relating to the progress of
our churches in Iowa during the year.
Notwithstanding the thar d times" Iowa
Universalism makes an encouraging re-
port for the year and is prepared for
good work in the future. The move
ment looking to enlarged and aggressive
missionary work in the State, is full of
promise, and is substantial indication
OF enterprise on the part of those who
have the interests of our church in
charge.
OUR brother, the edi-
Prayer and Oon torial Brief" writer of
i0ion0o' the Banner, REV. G..
L. Waite) has some judicious remarks
on the Prayer and Conference meeting
which we reproduce: Prayer aud con-
ference meetings. provided they are of
the right kind. are excellent aids to the
religious culture of the church, or the
community, where they are established;
for the right kind of prayer and confer
ence meeting will deepen religious feeling
and strengthen and educate religious
principle and thus increase the right
eousness, both in the Godward and man.
ward direction of their lives, of those
who come under their influence. Church
membership if it is entered into intelli-
gently and with the right motives. will
pledge to righteousness the lives of
these entering into that relation, and SO
an increase of the right kind of church
membership means an increase in right
BUSINESS. But there may be fashion in
these matters; and variety of motives,
not always the highest, may enter into
things that are mockery if they are
not means to the promotion of right
eousness. The increase of such instru-
mentalities are cause for rejoicing only
only as they show the fruits that pro.
claim them as being means to righteous.
ness."
800
Rev. Stephen Hull veterans of the Cross
RAISES away for two generations
identified with the Universalist Church.
passes away from earthly scenes in the
demise of Rev. STEPHEN HULL, of Kan
sas City, on Sunday, July 4. His illness
was of long duration and involved much
suffering. For the last year and half
he has been confined to his bed. Bro.
Hull was one of the sufferers by the
allure Of the Kansas City Safe Deposit
and Savings bank. and lost the &C.
cumulations of lifetime in that sad
wreck. Worry over this financial trouble
led to the illness from which ne never
recovered. He was 80 years old and has
erved our church for over fifty years.
His early ministry was in Ohio. but for
many years he has resided in Missouri.
going to Kansas City from Brookfield,
Mo-, his last settled passionate. A widow
survives him. Bro. Hull was man of
warm fraternal feelings. and of high
personal character; of him it may be
truly said that he was "a good man and
full of the Holy Ghost and of faith
Universalism loses in him a revered
and beloved exponent, an "Israelite in.
deed in whom was no guile" His memo
ry will be blessed. The funeral was
attended from the First Presbyterian
church, of Kansas City, on Tuesday.
Another week we shall hope to lay be-
fore our readers suitable memoir of
this beloved old servant of the Lord.
Hu;.L onon ARCHBISHOP WHATE'
WIN Vpon LY, nearly half a GEN.
Face" ,urv ago in rev;ow;n,
the mythical theory of Strauss. pointed
out the eternal freshness of the Script
ural delineation of our Lord and its
effect upon Christianity, in the following
words, which are as timely today as
when they we're first written, and as val
liable for consideration. They are
quoted by a writer in the Expositor in
reviewing Prof. Bruce's recent work, en-
titled with Open Face; or Jesus Mir.
rored in Matthew, Mark and Luke"
The Archbishop says Of the Gospels:
Exhibiting in the Life of Jesus pic
ture, varied and minute, of the perfect
Human united with the Divine. in
which the mind Of man has not been
able to find deficiency or detect
blemish-a picture copied from no
model and rivalled by no copy-it has
satisfied the moral wants of mankind;
it has accommodated itself to every