The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-09-04
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OUR OWN WRITERS,
Wide Field of Action.
CHICAGO, August 22nd.

Wide Field Of Action.
Each generation is the custodian of
the moral and religious welfare of it's
successor. The field of action is es-
pecially wide, from the standpoint of
our beloved faith, which teaches Uni.
versal Fatherhood of God and conse-
quent Universal Brotherhood of Man.
Charles S. Davis
How to Work.
How are we going to work? Have
Willingness, earnestness and skill in
individual Christian work and there
will come ways enough. We must do
away with our pride and spiritual indo-
lence. We must give up selishness.
We must not be afraid to speak in the
anne of cur Christ. We must let people
know that we are not ashamed to try
to do right. When asked to indulge in
some vice, refuse. Avoid anger and
dissension, for we know that this causes
great deal of trouble and does much
more hurt than we can do good in a
long time. Work together in the spirit
of harmony and peace. Always lend a
helping hand If we can do kind deeds
to one who is trying to injure us, we
shall some day see the reward. It is
heaping Goals of fire on his head and
his heart will wax warm and then he
will see the error of his ways. We can
assist the feeble. Read to those who
are not able to do so on account of
physical infirmities. Do whatever little
deeds We can find to do that will helm
any one or cur own dear church. Req
Joseph f. Cobb.
The Village Church.
The village church ought to be, and
is at its best, hive of industries, an in
stitution in the attitude, with the pur-
pose and doing the deed of the Master.
stretching out his hand to the sinking
Peters of the community, gatherer,
unifier, administrator of the mites of
its members SO that nothing be lost, but
every fragment made useful. From il
and its services and teachings what may
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and good things should ray out to the
result that men and women shall 90
from its occasions of worship to plan
and to do for the help of the needy. the
poor in morals, spirituals as we'll as in
materials. A church fulfilling its law is
light put on lamp stand that all NAV
see; city set on hill to invite all, to
guide all to its gates; salt with power
to prevent putrefaction and foulnees
and preserve and to give pungency to
the true, right and good in all their
TO rms. Not the less because of these.
but rather the more should it be the
purpose of a church to make men and
things better in village, to attract men
to higher levels of thinking and doing.
REQ. e. A. Perry.
A Great Theological Teacher.
Ebenezer Fisher. ION whom the Fall
of Man made no impression" ;" founded
the Canton School on the theory that
we need ministry saturated with
Christian Universalism-he usually pre-.
our ministers might come short, in this
particular one there would be no failure,
no serious lack, if he could prevent it.
OF course he could not always prevent it.
1t is often impossible to determine in
a dvance what he who is now twenty will
be when he is twenty-five. The most
ungainly youth may turn out the most
symmetrical of men. The dullard of
fifteen has often shown marvellous ca
pabilities at twenty-five. DIR. Fisher
made the personal miscalculation, incl
dent to fallible intelligence. as do the
Pr obability men of the Bureau. He
was at times proud Of the minister in
reg ard to whom he was anxious when a
student; he was at times bitterly dis
appointed in the minister who when a
student seemed to him a well of prom
ise. But he never distrusted his theory
that the end of his mission was to make
Univ or salist ministers who were also
Christians and Christian ministers who
we're also Universalists, and that as re-
lated thereto, intellectual attainments
and literary discipline, however preci-
Gus, however needful were secondary.
The minister who knows Plato and
Bacon and Shakespeare and Darwin
and M atthew Arnold and also in these
days-ho wever it might have been in the
Ephesus of the Apostles--is yet to learn
whether ''there is a Holy Ghost" may
indeed take the VOWS Of minister and
wear the title, but he is an offense TO
the Almighty.-ReU. DR.. Emerson.