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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-11-18

majority OF Cne lnQlrecC creQlLOrs con-
sented to this proposition, but itcould
not become operative and allow those
who did not concent to get a prefer
ence by securing judgments.
The immediate cause of the assign
ment was five suits brought against
Mr.. Willard and nine other directors
of the Motor Line Improvement Co.,
of Duluth, on paper given for the
benefit of that company. This paper
aggregates $3.50 600, but only a small
portion of this sum is involved in the
suits. The most of the creditors of
the Motor Line company were willing
to wait and let it work out, but few
brought suit and nothing could be
done with them. Mr.. Willard had
previously all of his creditors that he
would not allow a suing creditor to
get an advantage by securing judg-
ment, and his promise necessitated an
assignment to prevent such a prefer
ence. These suits have been con-
tinued from to time since last July
and August with the hope and expec-
ton that the company would be able
to turn property and pay the claims
They could no longer be deferred
and the plaintiff could have taken
judgment from Nov. IL to Nov. l6.
There was no relief, and good faith to
all of his creditor compelled Mr., Will
lard to make an assignment before
these judgments we're taken, and this
he did.
The direct creditors are largely out
side of the State, including the heaviest.
Mr.. Willard owes very little to any
bank in Mankato, and what he does
owe is fully secured. He does not owe
the banks of st. Paul, Minneapolis or
Duluth to any large extent. His home
in this city is mortgaged for So 600.
About ten days ago the Willard
Live Stock Co., of which Mr.. Willard
was president, made an assignment to
J. B. Herford of Billings, Mont. A
Billings dispatch states that this
failure was due to indebtedness con-
tracted several years ago, and that the
property is considered sufficient to
more than cover all the liabilities
The assets consist of large drove OF
horses, a few cattle and big flock Of
sheep, ranging on the MusselshelI
several large tracts of land in Fergus
and Yellowstone counties, and con-
siderable personal property.
Mr.. Wizards assignment does not
come as surprise to those who have
been conversant with his affairs. How
mnch the creditors will realize it is
impossible for any one to state, as
there are SO many complex interests
involved, and so many contingencies
depending upon companies in which
he holds stock and on whose paper be
is an endorses. His interests have
been large and diverse, covering 8
wide field of business and develop
ment. These have been largely in
Duluth, and the backset which that
city received some years ago brought
financial distress to many who had
been accounted wealthy.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-11-18
Mr.. WILLARD ASSIGNS.
The We1l-knoWn Mankdto Capital
ist Forced to the Wall.

A good many people in Redwood
county will read, with regret, OF the
voluntary assignment of j. A. Willard
of Mankato, who has owned large
tracts of land in this county, and
who, up to the date of his assign
ment, was the owner of the Willard
farm, one mile west of this city, con-
Quoted by MIR. John Clark at that and
the present time. The assignee is
George H. Clark of Mankato. The
deed of assignment was filed in the
Register of Deeds Office of this county
as we'll as of all other counties, where
Mr.. Willard has property, last
Wednesday.
Speaking of the assignment the
home paper of Mr.. Willard, the
Mankato Free Press, says that Mr..
Willard estimates his direct or person
al liabilities at about $480,OO0, practic-
ally all of which is more or less secured
with what at the time the loans we're
made was supposed to be good securi-
ty. The indirect liabilities, or the
paper endorsed by Mr.. Willard for
the companies in which he has been
interested, amount to considerably
more than the direct liabilities, but
how far they will affect him cannot be
known. Some of these concerns may
meet their obligations entirely, and
others may pay portions of theirs,
and it will take time to determine
how many of this class Of liabilities
will eventually be presented to
Assignee Clark for.payment.
The assets consist largely of real
estate, especially Duluth property
and it is difficult to estimate their
values. The value of the entire assets
before the depreciation of the years
following 1892 was at least three or
four times the direct liabilities.
Mr. Wizards financial troubles be-
gan with the depreciation of values OF
every kind that followed after the year
1892. He was at that time largely
interested in land companies, manu-
featuring concerns and building com.
panies, and the drain on his resources
was very heavy. He was obliged tc
meet not only his own debts but in
some instances the debts of those
associated with him in business. The
stock of these corporations is an alb
solute loss to him, to an extent ap
proximating $4,000. Aside from
this absolute loss, was the depreciation
in value of his real estate and othe1
assets. This depreciation was partic
ularly marked at Duluth.
For several months Mr.. Willard hal
been endeavering to get his creditor
to extend their claims until 1900, be
lieving that with returning prosperit,
he could meet them all. The most o
the direct creditors and a very larg'
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-11-18

Hear DR.. Nansen, and witness the
great demonstration in his honor, at
Minneapolis. Half rates on Minneap-
oils & st. Louis Railroad Nov. 10 and
90 1t
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-11-18
For Sale,

A good, young, driving horse, well
broken; one buggy, harness and swell
body cutter Impure of w. S. South
wick. at Southwick & Angeles. 12-tf.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-11-18

Do you know that we make picture
frames and sell window curtains at
rock bottom prices?
37-t,f. BERGEN Bros.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-11-18

Wood for Sale. Inquire of John
Whlttet 52-t.f.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-23
THE REVISED VERSION.

EVERY Universalist should possess
a copy of the Revised Version of the
Bible. Not because it is an altogether
correct and infallible rendering of the
original Scriptures; but that in many
respects it is great improvement
over the authorized version; and is a
notable example of modern learning
justifying the Universalist interpre-
tation of many points and passages.
1t will save him much trouble in re-
peated explanations, and many times
it absolutely leaves the opposite
view without foundation. 1t also
shows the trend ofthought, and gives
the prophecy that another revision
which must come, will clear the ven
Grated Book of the least semblance of
the doctrine of endless misery, which
has so long brooded like nightmare
over the Christian church.
Take for illustration the words
damned" and "damnation," which
occur fourteen times in the received
version of the New Testament.
They are not found at all in the
revised version; and in their stead we
have the words Judgment" and "con-
domination" Who can say this is
not great improvement, both in doc
trine and the real significance of the
words7 1t certainly saves much time
in showing that the passages them
selves, the original words, and their
usage in the Bible. never have the
sense or meaning of damnation in
the popular acceptance of the term.
With the departure of that horrid
word from the Bible, there comes a
conspicuous absence of the unchris-
tan idea in the message from heaven
which we rightly call good news-the
Gospel.
In the Authorized Version the word
"hell" is found thirty-one times in
the Old Testament. In the Revised
it occurs only in the l4th chapter of
Isaiah; and there The revisers explain
that it is used in its original sense as
in the Creeds, and not as a place OF
punishment. So the work of these
learned men expunges the name and
idea of place of endless punishment
from the entire Jewish Scriptures.
OF course the idea never was really
there, but to have it authoritatively
announced is much ground gained.
For if it is not in the Old Testament
it cannot be in the New, as that is a
"better covenant, established on bet
ter promises" Heb. viii.6.) That
which would be immeasurably worse
cannot by any possibility be called
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-23
WntversaIist DerSonai.

By the will of the late Charles Stand
ard, of our Auburn, Me, church, $500 is
bequeathed to the parish.
Rev. E. w. Preble, recently the finan-
cial Agert of Buchtel College, has taken
pastoral charge of the Quincy and South
Braintree parishes in Massachusetts. He
has many friends in Ohio who will be
| pleased to learn of his recovery from re-
cent illness and his settlement as pastor
in the favored region where his lines have
now been happily cast.
When one has rendered an especially
faithful service it seems meet to recognize
it. The work done by Mr., James H.
Head, Jr., as Secretary and Treasurer of
the Oak Park Sunday for the last
| four years, is of such high and faithful
order that the gratitude of all connected
with the school is due to him, and grace
full expression of this obligation is made in
the last number of Unity Church Notes.
Rev. j. j. Lewis on a flying trip East,
gave the Passion Play for the fourth time
for the Emerson College of Oratory, Sat
uruay noon, January Is, at Berkeley Hall I;
and for the third time in Wells Memorial
Hail. Washington ST., Tuesday evening
January 10Th. He also gave the new illus
trated lecture on SIN Old New England,
the Nations Childhood Name and Holiday
Abode, . in Union Hall, Boylston ST., Sat
urday evening, January 10th
The Englewood Parish Messenger says:
ic th oran,1iua nj on cura that yya shall
welcome Mrs. Croker back to her former
pulpit. She is spending few weeks Wis
iting friends before going to Troy, N. Y,
where her husband, Rev. j. II. Croker
will soon begin his pastorate. We are to
have the pleasure in the near future of
giving in the church reception to Mr..
and Mrs. Croker, when their many
friends may have the opportunity to meet
them"
At the recent annual meeting of the Miner
Charitable Society at Columbus Avenue
church, Boston, Capt. A A. Folsom told
the story of the visit of the Ancients and
Honorables to England the past summer,
of the enthusiasm and fraternal feeling,
and the reception wherever they appeared
in Liverpool, London, Windsor; of the
interest shown by the Queen and the
Prince of Wales and others of the royal
| households of the banquets and their ac-
companiments-the intention incidentally
being to attest the good feeling of Eng
land towards the United States.
The weekly bulletin of the Church of
Our Father, Detroit, says: 1.-THE Misses
Guysi, who have recently come to Detroit
from Cincinnati, o., and are connected
with the teaching force at the Detroit
Museum of Art, have had an exhibition of
their pictures at the Museum. We wish
these young al fists the best of success here
in Detroit" These young ladies are birth
right members of the Cincinnati church,
where their mother, Mrs. George w.
Guysi, still resides. They are entitled to
every aid and courtesy that can be extend
ed to themin their new home, not alone on
their own account, but for the sake of the
| loyal Universalism of the family, extending
over the years of generation in the men,
| bership of the Cincinnati parish
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-23

and the more there are to share them
with us the more impressive and at
tractive they seem to become.
To most of us there is power in
numbers; and even the rare5t genius
is still dependent on the inspirational
touch of a multitude. And when
worship once takes public form and
assumes social conditions, then a
large fellowship is ever in it's favor.
At least the greater part of mankind,
not self centered, must confess their
debt to the company in which they
aspire to find God and mediate on
the supreme interests of time and
eternity.
Hence in church relations the lower
form of adding to the count Of mem
bers reaches on directly to higher
issues. By an increase of numbers
around the altar of worship will many
engagements be secured. Alike to
the pulpit and to the pews will a
growing attendance insure new
zest, quickened spirit, livelier
sensibility, greater delight in every
service; new spirit in song and
prayer and a greater confidence in the
blessings of religion, and more
hearty conservation to the work of
the church.
For these reasons and more which
might be mentioned, every effort
should be made to increase our num-
bers not only of the pledged mem
bership of the church but of the aver
age congregation. 1t is we'll to pray
lord increase our faith;" it is also
well to pray, ok ord increase the num-
Der of our believers" and then to act
in such a way by all righteous enter
prise, that the prayer may be fulfilled.
For the easiest winning of the VIC
tories we seek in the church we need
to make larger the rank and file of
our army. We should seek num-
bers as well as rejoice in the blessing
always accorded to the faithful but
few worshipers.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-23

shafts principally against the sale of
indulgences. He insisted that the
church, while it had the truth within
it, had also certain vicious excres-
cences which must be removed, be-
fore the pure, simple truth could bear
its proper fruit in humanity. While
the sale of indulgences was a most
depraved use OF the church, it had
for it's basis the same foundation
idea, .. e. Gods hatred of the sinner
and torments of hell-fre, that still
occupies the "head of the corner" of
the orthodox" churches of today.
There is less harm wrought, of
course, in the modern church by this
doctrine than in the church of
Luther and Calvin's time, This is
due more to the awakening intelli
gence of the nineteenth century than
to any improvement in the doctrine
itself.
| believe it is one of the functions
of the Universalist Church to expose
these errors; and another to proclaim
the truth in such plain terms that the
common people will hear and under
stand. 1t is useless to preach over
the heads of the people. Ethics is
all right; metaphysics is all right;
the ideal is all right. But before
and beyond all this the Universalist
Church has as we'll defined duty as
had Luther. That duty is not per
formed by simply teaching the truth.
1t is necessary to expose the errors
and the blasphemies of false Chris
tianity. Sensational sermons are not
necessary; but the false should be
held up in comparison with the true.
The counterfeit will discover its man
made imperfections; the truth will
give :he true ring of its divine origin.
People come to our church to hear
universal Fatherhood and universal
brotherhood preached from Uni
versalist pulpit by Universalist
pastor, If they did not, they would
go elsewhere. We have everything
to gain by preaching our doctrines.
We lose much when we lose opportu
mites to preach them.
HARRIS A. CoRELL.
TACOMA, WASH.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-23
CORRECT DOCTRINE NEEDED

IT may be an ungrateful task to
expose noxious errors. Indeed it is
a much pleasanter thing to proclaim
wholesome truths; but when the
errors have become rooted and
grounded into the very fibre of hui
mainly. it becomes an imperative
duty to the teacher to expose the
errors. This necessity arises from a
two-fold source. First, the need of
arousing the mind to the fact that
there are errors, and second, the
greater need of inspiring the mind
thus aroused to seek the truth.
These two conditions must be met
before there can be any substantial
hope of filling the mind of humanity
with the new and wholesome truths
we would proclaim.
What good purposes would Luther
have served if he had not preached
with his greatest power against the
evils of the church he sought to re-
forml He did not dream of separat-
ing from the church when he began
his great work; but the evils he
preached against were so great that
they forced him out and followed
him to the day of his death with
hatred and persecution. He nailed his
ninety-five theses on the church door
itself as a most pointed and direct ac-
cusation of the errors into which the
church had fallen. He directed his
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-23
NUMBERS IN CHURCH RELATIONS

The question of numbe rs in church
relations and in congregation is a
vital one and always challenges at
tention. Wemay presume the special
announcement of our Saviour, that
even to two or three the blessing
should be given, was made on the
score that SO small number of the
disciples had usually found itself
unblest in its meagre assembly, and
had come to feel there was favor only
for larger company. On general
experience was their hope in numbers
based. They had often felt the power
of crowd to awaken livelier interest,
to induce more impressive atmos-
phere, to touch the soul with fervor,
to give the greater dignity and glory
to a cause, and to furnish needed
rank and file to press the battle on
to victory. The early disciples un-
doubtedly knew the social sway of an
eager multitude. 1t was in view,
doubtless, of this general experience
that Jesus addressed the disciples,
hoping to encourage them as outcasts
from the popular gatherings, with
the promise of a blessing, even if
but two or three of them we're met to
worship in the name of the Master.
The cheering word was a fitting
one at thu time, and must never be
set aside; for evermore there may
come a duty of a little handful of
disciples to stand by their con-
sciences in heroic isolation. Over such
God ever bends in blessing, as he
did over the small groups of loyal
Puritans, hiding here and there for
worship in a cruel era, or over the
scattered Huguenots singing and
praying among the rocks, or over the
Quaker meetings, faithful and few.
Fidelity is the first of merits, and all
the more meritorious for staying
when others fly.
But while the Saviour very ten
derby and flttingly promised bless
ing on the faithful few, promise we
should none of us forget, since we
may have a call sooner or later to
prove our steadfastness, he did not
deny the obvious advantage of num-
bers to the end of the most success
full proclamation of the truth. The
kindling of the emotions and culture
of the sentiments, which are strange
ly dependent on social influence; the
securing of prestige and power to a
cause; the Turing OF the public, which
ever hastens to join a concourse, and
the making of success flowing tide
to bear to further success.
OF success, success is ever ready
source. 1t is an old compliment to
the sway of multitude, the saying
that we go with it to do evil; but
much rather would we cast our lot
with the crowd that is seeking some
form Of good; that is earnest in its
collective worship, happy in its social
greetings, or glad in its mutual pleas
ures. From association we derive a
deeper interest in all these matters;
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-23

| educational. 1t would be means OF
| Christian culture. Under its inhu-
ence we would grow strong in all the
real and essential elements of Chris
tian character and life. AS process
of religious development and spirit.
ual growth, it would greatly augment
the powers and increase the useful
ness of the church. With every sue
ceeding year our people would re-
new their strength. They would
fight greater battles, win greater vic
tories, achieve larger conquest and
accomplish more for God and human
its than ever before.
1t is no real objection to this meth
cd that it establishes routine in
Christian life. That is just what the
church needs. God observes routine
in his work. Nature and life are full
of it. We find it everywhere. Science
is builded on it. Practical life is reg
ulated by it. Day and night, seed
time and harvest, winter and spring,
summer and autumn, youth and age,
are all routine.
What would we do, how could we
live without the routine of God, ma
ture, life and man? And it is just as
necessary and important in the church
as it is in the natural and business
world. Christian work can no more
succeed without it, than that which
is purely secular; for routine is law
and order. 1t is the government of
reason, the reign of law, the unity
in variety, the permanent in the midst
of change. We need this in Chris
tian life and church work. 1t is a
ground of confidence and hope as
we'll as a basis of calculation and CO.
operation.
The results of the practical benevo-
lence of the church as seen in it's en-
larged usefulness demonstrates the
great Importance of this work. The
fact is, it is a part of Gods plan to
save the world. This is clearly re-
vealed in the history of the work of
the church from the the beginning.
All it's enterprises have been carried
on through these contributions. They
have furnished the means for build
ing churches, printing tracts, transla-
ting, publishing and circulating BIZ
bles, establishing missions and sup
porting missionaries, founding insti-
tutions of learning, and taking care
of the poor.
Benevolent contributions in small
and large sums have been. and are
still, the sole reliance of the church
for the means to carry on it's great
work. They must be continued or
this work will stop. This shows the
necessity of constant and liberal CIV
ing. 1t is only in this way and by
these means that the great enterprises
of the church can be made success.
1t is the imperative duty of all Chris
tians, then, to give literally according
to their ability and as God has pros
pered them. In no other can they
satisfy their conscience and meet
the claims of God and man upon their
beneyolence.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-23
Concentration of Religious Energy.
(NOrthwes ern.)

This world is growing exceedingly full
of people, of projects, needs, opportuni-
ties and obligations. The strongest man
must concentrate his energies if he would
make a lasting impression. The average
Christian should select his church and
proceed to do his utmost for it, as if there
were no other church in the world. If
one divides himself too much there is sure
to be no remainder of him. No man
counts for more anywhere than when he
selects and then clipgs TO his post of
duty.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-23

The Boston Transcript in an article
on the Bombay Plague says: "As to the
cause and development of this bubonic
fever the doctors disagree; some incline
to the theory that the fever arises from
bacillus which rapidly propagates in the
groin others cay thatit is owing to some
atmospheric contagion which arises from
insanitary conditions and attacks the
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-23
The Ideal Sunday School Secretary's
Report Book

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