The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-10-30

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and he wildly eketched the growth OF
our educational institution-and along
these lines will we walk. IL we had the
intensity of devotion which our ideas
deserve, we should possess the world.
In the bowling down of seventy OF our
ministers, upon their knees, in devout
prayer that they may keep their pledges
of loyalty is the promise of power enough
in the Universalist ministry to convert
the world. And how vast is our mission
field We are living in grand epoch,
we are facing great future, we have
the noblest faith God ever vouchsafed
to man. il we can be permeated with its
spirit we shall go forward to possess the
world.
REV. CHARLES H. EATON, d. d.
In introducing DR.. Eaton, DR.. Adams
made tender reference to the sudden
and APPALLING affection which had be-
fallen him in the death of his friend
George M. Pullman. DR.. Eaton said:
II came to give a message. but have
received message, came to this con-
vention to look upon the majesty of life,
and have gazed upon the mystery of
death. I came to hear men say, 60
forward" and / have heard Gcd cay,
Come" l came to look upon the face Of
friend, and looked on the eternal, and
if my voice is broken by emotion. and
moistened by teare, feel that through
the torn threads OF human speech
streams the light and sweetness of
Deity.
II see the youth passing along the ways
of life forever onward, forever forward
until he stands upon the summit lighted
with the sunshine of outward and in
ward success, and hear the voice call.
ing away from all the struggle, unto me.
ut is the epitome of life.
"a strong life, tender life; 1t is the
church of God based on granite founda-
tions, it is the church of God based on
eternities. The opportunities. the des
TIMES of t he Church of God. the Church
of Christ. the Univerealist Church.
my little message has shrunk before
the message of God.
Every epoch in the history IT the
world, every development Of Christianity
have been but the expressio of the di-
vine impulse in man.
"Shall not the church go forward be-
cause mans message is weak? Gods
message is strong.
There are many reasons for encour
agement for us in the existing condi-
tions of religious life. name few:
First, In the intellectual conditions of
the hour. Men have exaggerated the
differences between science and religion,
whereas the leaders in the scientific
world have recognized and utilized the
essential principles of religion.
There has been movement away
from religion. In the first flush of
science which is one Of the revelations
from God. there was tendency to dim
the glory of religion, but what is the at
titude of the world as we approach the
magnificent portals of the mir eteenth
century, There is a Renaissance of re.
ligion. Marked by remarkable growth
during the last twenty-five years, of in
ter est in religion in the great universe
tiee, and the same spirit that yesterday
brought our ministry to their needs is
the prevailing spirit of the intellectual
world. The needs of the Universalist
Church are the needs of every church.
The world is calling for a forward
movement on the part of the church
that believes in simplicity and sacred
ness of duty. that teaches the human
pulse and feels the pulse Of the almighty
and finds that they are one. This ever
lasting thirst of the human soul the Uni
versalist church can satisfy.
Another reason for encouragement is
found "In the Birth of Democracy" De.
mocracy arose out Of the God head. The
people are awakened and all monarchi-
cal Europe is impregnated with Democ-
racy. Democracy is not mobocracy; not
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| A false democracy has drunk of anarch-
ism and law has been forgotten in the
drivel Of what is base. The Universalist
church is the child Of the people; came
up out Of the soil. and industry has
crowned her il she she uld be crowned at
all.
We bslieve in the intrinsic value Of a
man. Amidst all the life of today, IL Q
development of the individual is the
work of our church, with love on one
hand and law on the other we go forth to
the people who want to find them in the
Universalst church.
Having adopted all these great princi-
plies for which we stand, let us apply
them; apply them to the deformed i'm
ages of CHRIST that walk the streets Of
sin in our great cities. II we believe in
God. Christ, man and the church go out
into the world where man waits, to
work.
The Democratic church grows in EGG
land. as the next century opens. the call
is to go forward to Democracy as our
fathers went forth to Democracy in
1903.
Next there is encouragement in the