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OUR CONTRIBUTORS.
THE OLD SCHOOL AND THE NEW
BY HELEN HINsDALE RICH.

o. the world is school and we enter
qaite young,
The cradles first grade and we're one
mother tongue.
The wee infant class is all mothers de-
light,
The lessons best learned are her kisses at
night
Her ''dismissal'' the prayer that the an
gels repeat,
For they learned it at home, at their own
mothers feet.
You may pass in your grammar, be first
il the drill,
f'Ninety-nine in department, - stand high
if you will ()
In drawing in ''writing'' have mar
vellous ''spells,''
Lead off as speaker who always ex-
cells;
But the old school at home, be it cabin
Is the house of the heart and our holiest
spot.
Next, arrived at ''the little red school
house' we knew,
On knoll by the beaches, half hidden
from view,
With smudgy, square windows, and
rough sanded floor,
''Wood carvings on desks, on the benches
and door;
With 'evergreensn caught up by nails on
the wall,
And ''never green's caught by no teacher
at all
The books there was "Olney'' (not Rich
ard the Wise)!
For grammar, dear Kirkam Gt may you
surprise,
But Irving and Cooper, bright Halleck and
Beloved old authors whose volumes re-
pose
Serenely by Barrie or Kippling and H ay
Held Kirkam "the straight and the ex
cellent way"
The new school9 Ye "seats of the mighty,
How fair!
What polish, what cost, with your steam
heated airl
"The light of these days. is admitted en-
masse!
Improvements in methods mot hygiene)
-alas
For spectacles reign where the vision was
keen,
And tcramming" prevails where true
progress was seen.
All! the children of this generation trow
Can count on their fingers the things they
don't know!
Having squared the great circle'' (of Co.'S
mos,) all time
Cannot add to complaisance complete-nay
sublime.
Sic transit! the old school, the new has
arrived;
Now prove that "the fttest alone has
survived
CHICAGO, May, 1897.
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keep far from him, and may he wear
the mantle long before he knows
what day of the week." or "what
month of the year."
Bret Harte was another one of
those now known to fame who
sought and obtained the good doc
tors approval of his work, and it is
safe to say that no touch of genius
was ever overlooked in his estimate
of unknown correspondents. Do we
not all remember when this new Star
of the West, Bret Harte, dawned
upon the literary horizon, and the
loud and long continued applause
with which it was greeted?
1t was when we were all young
and our enthusiasm without any
bounds, that we greeted the poems
with the fine new flavor, and the
stories with the new atmosphere of
the Pacific slope about them. And
our enthusiasm justified itself, for
the work was unique and has never
been superseded.
If we have ceased to read his later
work--we can go back to the old with
the old pleasure, and in its labyrinths
"wander and lose our way"
But my space is filed and l have
hardly made beginning on the life
and letters. The former was un-
eventful and is well known, but there
are many precious bits in the letters,
some of which l will Gull for you.
dear readers, another day.
COLUMBUS. Wis.
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way by any organization to crush out
free thought and plain speaking.

way by any organization to crush out
free thought and plain speaking.
The Universalist Church, therefore,
needs creed, not as hindering and
restraining fence or barrier around
it, but as declaration of its pre-
dominant tendencies and spiritual
ambitions. And these should be in
large outline, not only that all the
world might know us for what we
are, but that we should ourselves
avoid internal controversy and civil
war. For our work is not different
from that of other Christian orders,
and he who looks upon our church, as
leaven to the orthodox meal, greatly
mistakes our purpose, and assigns us
a most ignominious part in the
worlds redemption. The Universal
ist faith is not a leaven, but on the
contrary it is the fullest interpreta-
tion and application of the gospel to
human life that has ever been made.
The creed of the Universaiist
Church, therefore, should be broad
enough and great enough to include
individual vagaries in noble union
of all faith in the eternal love and
the everlasting right. If man holds
to these great primal truths he is a
Universalist, whatever he may hold
about Isaiah, or Jonah, or Moses.
Our faith is profoundly theistic; we
are not afraid of the name of God,
for we can trace his guiding hand in
the affairs of the universe and the
destinies of our own lives. We be-
long to a Bible church, and the fa-
theirs came with "Thus saith the
Lord" and were mighty in the Script
ures. We are a Christian people,
and confess Christ as the light of the
world. We look beyond and see a
heaven which is opportunity for good
ness, truth and love. The creed for
the church should embody these great
thoughts in lasting form, great
thoughts in simple phrasing, easy to
understand and abiding in their i'm
preston.
Is the Winchester Profession such
a creed9 And if not, would the pro-
posed substitute more nearly meet
our needs?
confess our present declaration
of faith, considered closely, is not en-
tirelY perfect, and does not fully an
swer all the demands made upon it
by all the schools of the church. This,
however, would be true of any posi-
BILE statement of belief that could be
framed for any denomination. To
secure general uniformity, individual
variety must be conceded. A creed
can hardly be imagined large enough
and great enough to receive the de-
votion of noble souls, that would not
be open to criticism at some point by
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EXPENSES OF THE GENERAL GOV.
ERNMENT.
WooDLAwN, II.

To the Editor of THE UNIvERsALIsT:
DEAR SIR: The following, clipped
from your paper of June End, is too
reckless and stupid" to pass by, and
wonder how it got into paper like THE
UNIvERsALIsT.
At the opening of the war for the
suppression of the Southern Rebellion
in 1861, the ordinary expenses" of
the General government were $50, ,OOO,-
900. At the close of the war in 1865,
they had risen to over twelve hundred
millions. That is they had multiplied
twenty times. Such an enormous increase
was explained and excused by the neces-
sary cost and the inevitable waste of
great war, in which two and three-quar-
ters millions of troops were engaged. How
difficult it is to come down to a reasonable
and normal level of expenditure, after IA
miliarity with the use of large sums, is
shown by the fact that the ordinary ex-
penses of government have kept near the
thousand million mark and have often
gone above it since. Is it to be expected
that such an excessive drain, continued
during more than thirty years, shall be,
borne without any signs of pinch and
strain? Our recklessness is only eoualled
by our stupidity.
All the Government expenses, or an
propriations are yearly published by
the Treasury Department, and anyone
can have them. The tables are clear and
definite, both in details and totals, and
while the facts are beyond all bounds,
it is not necessary for reformers and re-
form papers to bring discredit on them.
selves by extravagant and insincere
statements. The people want to learn,
but those who attempt to teach should
at least approximate the truth.
In 1860 the net expenses Of the govern.
ment was 500. .130,59s.OO. In 1865 it was
1921, ,555, ,224.00, in 1866 it was $500 sO9..
417.00. the highest year since was 1898
which was $3S3,477, ,954OO. The lowest
year since 1860 was the year 1880.
The net expenses then were $166, ,947.-
884OO.
All of which are long way from the
Thousand million mark"
All the same we pay too much for our
form OF government, as from 1860 to
1896 inclusive, time of thirty seven
years, this people has earned and paid
in taxes to the United States Govern
ment alone over $4,000, 100000. and this
is national suicide. We are but corpse
now politically, and a corrupt one.
Yours sincerely,
JOHN X. HALLowELL,
1884 MASONIC TAMPLE, CHICAGO.
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the right place means very much in
organic effort.
The social, moral and spiritual ma
ture of the embers should be care
fully nourished through various ac-
tivities, managed by competent and
consecrated members. The funda
mental principles of the Christian
life should be earnestly and persist
emily presented on all occasions, ac-
cording to the most proper and wise
methods.
In order to cultivate the finer and
inner soul perceptions, there should
be meetings for social, spiritual in
tercourse, and for quiet, calm refec-
ton. To my mind no occasion can
better facilitate spiritual quickening,
and growth in soul and a sense of
Gods relations, as short silent SER
vice, when the minds and hearts of
all persons are centered upon the di
vine and spiritual realm of being,
and so bring about heavenly and
holy communion by means of which
all are greatly benefited.
Committees for various purposes,
such as fellowship, philanthropy, and
missions, serving under the direction
of pastor, or devoted members, or the
Ladies' Aid, can greatly aid pastoral
work. And it should be privilege, as
it is an opportunity for each and all
to speak of moral and spiritual as
well as intellectual matters in their
social intercourse.
The pastor should have several
family gatherings of the church men,
bers only during each year in which
the more private or vital interests and
methods may be presented and dis
cussed, and methods and means de-
veloped for carrying them into effect.
The church should always be re-
garded in the sense of spiritual and
religious family. 1t should ever be
remembered that the soul life is the
permanent life of the church. Sing
ing of hymns and spiritual songs with
the spirit and the understanding is
very helpful.
WOODLAND, Ill.
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and destination of man. That is our
faith, but this article fails to declare
it as a truth to the Universalist
Church.
The third article says, Salvation
is spiritual oneness with Cod
why not spiritual taconess with God7
We do not contemplate the extinc
tion of our own personality in the
experience of salvation. Always God
and man will remain two and not one.
Christian salvation is harmony with
God, and not submergence in Him.
The last clause of this same article
is also open to criticism. 1t affirms
that "Christ will gather in one the
whole family of mankind" We ask
in one what7 The creed is not clear
thinking, and cannot in any sense be
accepted as satisfactory substitute
for the time honored Winchester Pro-
fession. 1t is not even good English.
It's sentences are not rounded and
sonorous. It's vocal combinations are
harsh, and it does not mouth easily.
It's adoption would be the signal for a
more desperate struggle, and great
evil might result.
Prophecy is dangerous before the
event, but 1 am very sure it will fail
of acceptance. Would that its rejec-
ton might end the controversy, and
give people and ministers time and
disposition to attend to neglected
church extension and spiritual re-
yival.
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CONTENTS.
RELIGIOUS AND FAMILY WEEKLY

FlsLp AGENT, T. l. MOORE.
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CHICAGO. SATURDAY. JUNE 10. 1897
Page One.

Page One.
POem-The Old School and the New.
Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Study in Creeds.
My Idea Of Church.
Expenses of the General Government.
President Nash's Report for 1867.
Ohio Reports:
Y. P. q. U. Convention.
Convention Funds.
Page Three.
The Sunday School Lesson.
Page -Four.
Editorial:
The New President of Buchtel.
The Riverside Jubilee.
The District Union Rally.
Y. p. G. U. detroit '97.''
Universalist Personal.
Pennsylvania Convention.
Page Five.
Church News and Correspondence.
The Family Page, Farm. Garden and Dairy
Page Seven.
Our Boys and Girls.
Page Eight.
Church Notices and In Memoriam.
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all who accepted it as general state
ment of their faith. The fact, there
fore, that it is possible to suggest i'm
provement in the Winchester Profess
sion is no necessary argument for its
retirement. 1t has advantages over
any possible competitor. It is en-
deared to our hearts by century of
use. All the progress that our church
has made has been under inspiration.
Sentiment is factor of value in the
church. The accents of the old are
welcome to our ears, but this is new
strange speech in which the creed of
'95 addresses US.
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Miss Emile Grace Briggs, daughter of
Professor Charles A. Briggs, of the Union
Theological Seminary faculty, is the first
woman to receive a diploma from the
Union Theological Seminary. She is a
tmember of the class which was graduated
last week. Miss Briggs is in her twenty
first year, and, before entering the semi
nary, was educated at a private school
She carried off first honors at the semi
nary, passing all the men. Miss Briggs is
the first to receive the degree of bachelor
of divinity, conferred by the seminary for
the first time last week.
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DEDICATION AT BELLVILLE, OHIO,

The dedication service of the new
church at Bellville. will take place on
Sunday, June 27. Rev. @. Ellwood Nash,
DID,, President of Lombard University.
will deliver the sermon, and Miss M. A.
Bortle, pastor ELECT, and other ministers
will assist in the services.
The church at Bellville is of ore OF
our old and substantial churches. and
we rejoice with them in the completion
of the new house of worship, which
st ands on the lot formerly occupied by
the edifice which was used for SO many
years.
Rev. John Richardson preached the
Memorial Sermon at Cuba, at 2: 80 p. M,
May 30. He was assisted in the ser,
vices by Quaker minister, named A.
w. Doan.
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A STUDY IN oREEDs.*
BY REV. L. j. DINsMoRE.

THIS paper is not intended to cover
the entire field of theology. Such a
work would require volume for ad-
equate presentation. This paper will
concern itself with two creeds only,
the historic Winchester Profession of
Faith, and the substitute for it which
was proposed by the last General
Convention.
A creed is the platform of church,
and, like the platform of a party, must
express the convictions of its mem
bers at the time and place. A party
platform of a generation ago would
be valueless at the present time. A
creed dealing with more enduring
principles has longer life; but there
is nothing intrinsically sacred in
creed, so that it cannot be rewritten
at any time when fuller and more
complete expression can be given to
the religious activities and aspira-
tions of a denomination. Because
the Winchester Profession is now
almost hundred years old, is no bar
to it's revision. Rather it is an invi-
tation to a calm and careful consid-
Grafton of its relation to the present
life of the church, and whether it can
be improved in any vital respect.
Now this is not to be lightly gone
into. for creed -tinkering at its best, is
dangerous, and at its worst is sui
cidal. 1t diverts the energies of
church from it's proper activities, and
in our own order there has been
a positive loss in spiritual dynamics
since the agitation for creed revision
was taken up in earnest. So creed,
while true to the present life of
church, should indicate the faith of
that church in large way, and affirm
general tendencies rather than min
ute conclusions. Questions of inter
probation, tentative affirmations of
careful philosophy, and conclusions
of critical study, are continually ris-
ing to modify our judgment on par
ticular points. A church that would
undertake to fit its creed to all the
varying phases of the intellectual
life of man, would be in constant up
heaval.
In the olden days this difficulty
was approached from different direc-
tions. The Roman Catholic eccles-
iasticism assumed authority, and
undertook to solve every problem
and answer every question that might
be asked regarding man and his
home in Gods universe. 1t recites
the ancient confession, but its de-
votees are expected to believe all the
declarations of Popes and Councils.
Its history is, in fact, its creed. Other
orders have been more modest, and
have shown a willingness to leave
some few things for man to discover
for himself. But never until the
writing of the Winchester Profess
sion have doctors of theology been
willing to put into creed primary
principles alone, and give the indi
vidual believer liberty of interpreta-
ton and application. That creed
will forever have the distinction of
being the first expression of the con-
viction that men can hold together
great principles, and yet have the
utmost liberty in their understanding
and acceptance. 1t was purely re-
ligious declaration, unmixed with
any political flavor, and stands at the
beginning of the Nineteenth Century
far in advance of the life of the time.
.Read at the Ministers Oak Park Meeting.
Monday, June IA.
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1t rings like a prophetic utterance OF
the faith of the future.

The Universalist Church needed
then, and itneeds today, creed which
shall be bond of unity and source
of inspiration. 1t needs nothing to
fetter thought, nothing to hinder
free investigation and the fearless
declaration of truth, nothing to para
lyze endeavor and deaden aspiration.
1t is laid upon us and all men to
seek the truth and to frankly declare
our most solemn convictions. 1t is
simply a blasphemy against the holy
ghost for creed to be used in any
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-09-13

between lots 2 and 8. Il It, thence
south 50 degrees 13 It In to Rail-
road street, thence north on Railroad
street ATT 9A inches to place OF, begin
ming, being a. part OF lot 8, blk 2,
plat OF ne OF NV 81 20, 10 east 2.65
Commencing at point on the north
west side OF. River street, opposite
T sns Ef0s asd q ,0t Eagle Rver
thence nOrtheaSterly along northwest
side OF River street 40 IT TO a point
opposite east corner lot 8, blk !,
thence northweSterly to low-watpr
mark on Eagle river, thence south
westerly along the line OF said low
water mark opposite the point OF be-
ginning, thence southeaSterly to
place Of beginning. except sw 10 IT
of said real estate 1919
All that part of Gov. lot 4, sec. IS. 4s, 10,
described as follows:
Commencing at a point $50 It west
from center line OF main track of c.
& NV. II. Il. (rAilroadl as at pres
emit constructed, from point 315 It
south of a. point where said center
line OF said main track crosses the
state line, between the states OF Wis
cOnsin and Michigan, running thence
west at right angle with said main
track OF said railroad for 500 1T,
thence south 100 IT, thence east
parallel with said mentioned line 500
IT, thence north 100 IT to place OF
beginning, assessed TO r. O'Brien SIS
Cary's add. to Village Of Eagle River.
lot 8 blk 2 74t
Mcintyre s Browns add. to Eagle River.
lot Hs'i blk 5 i r2sj
To determine starting point run south
on section line from ne corner OF Sec
tiOn S2, town 40, range 10, 13 chains
So links, thence west parallel with
highway Is rods to certain point
to be known as northeast corner OF
the land to be described, therce west
13 rods, south &c rods, thence east
Is rods, thence north % rods to place
Of beginning, assessed to Herman
Mavis 16 49
To determine the starting point run
south on section line from northeast
corner OF section 81, town 40, range
10, Is chains SO links, thence west
parallel with highway 815 rods,
thence 10 rods for starting point,
thence west 51a rods, thence south
16 rods, thence east 81 rods. thence
north 16 rods to place OF beginning,
assessed to Thomas Mailman 7.4C
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lot IA blk % 40 10 80
lot blk % 40 10 1910
Commencing at Sc corner Of lot 2. blk
g. of c. L. Perry's 1st add. to Eagle
River. thence south to oc = lime Inrva be,
thence west on II line 155 It, thence
north $50 IT to sw corner Of lot 2,
blk 3, of Perrys add. to Eagle River,
thence east 131 IT to place or begin
ming, assessed to Maxwell MaGee $50
Ann O'Connor's I'd add. to Eagle River
Unrecorded Plat.
des. amt:
lot IS blk LTD
lot Is blk z IL. ~
lot blk 1919
Insenh nfshaws add to Eagle River In
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TAX DEED NOTICE.
Notice of the Expiration of the
Time for the Redemption Of
Lands Sold for Taxes for the
Year of 1894.
OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK,
Villas County, Wisconsin.

Villas County, Wisconsin.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Notice Is hereby given that the following
lots or tracts of land sold May Fl, In the
year of 1896, for the taxes due and un-
paid for the year of 1894, remain unre-
Stlcened in the Office of the county clerk
of Villas county, Wisconsin; that opposite
the description Of each tract or lot or part
thereof, In the following list, Is the name
Of the person, IL any, to whom assessed
and the amount OF taxes, interest and
charges calculated to the last day OF re-
dcmption, due on each.
Now, therefore, unless the taxes, interest
and charges set opposite the tracts herein
described shall be paid ION or before the
21st day OF May, 1898, the said tracts of
land shall be forfeited and will be con-
veyed to the purchaser or purchasers in
pursuance Of the statute In such. case made
and provided
Dated at Eagle River, Wis. July y
a. d. 1897. 4
:, JOHN RADCLIFFE,
deputy County Clerk Villas County, Wis.
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Everybody Says So.

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Josenh Dfshaw's add to Eagle River Tn
-oO0rdod

Commencing at NV corner of lot 3,
blk 9, running thence east 1on a line
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Hoods Pills are the favorite family
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25c.
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street bridge gave way and the water
covered the valley on that side up to the
first ditch and makes that section look
like a regular Inland sea, with a strong
current setting in that way.
The levee On the Mexican side also
broke yesterday morning and all the
soldiers, police force and the prisoners
were put to work repairing the levee.
They worked all day and succeeded in
checking the intlowing torrent, and 10
serious damage occurred.
The river rose four inches yesterday
and two inches more last night and
was still rising at 9 o'clock this morn
ing.
1t was reported this morning that
the Santa F'e track about Anthony was
submerged, but the report lacked con-
tirmatiOn at noon.
AL Lamoul said this morning that a
further rise of three inches would car
~ out part of the Stanton sire ct bridge
but the guards there hardly agree with
him. However. with the waves splash
ing up against the abuttments il did
certainly look threatening there this
morning, and on the guard house was
posted the notice, 1.-TWO inches rise las,
night" The water was rushing in a
set of rapids over the north bank over
the fats, and IN a torrent over the
watermelon field on the south bank
where the Mexican gardrer had taken
the precautions only TO put up. a small
bank. TIE entire country along the