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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-17
XII.
Easter is Life,
COLUMBUS. Wis

EASTER is Life, and all life is mysteri.
GUS. Explain the mystery of the growth
of blade of grass and you have the key
which unlocks the mysteries of God, in
Guiding the resurrection. We are certain
about immortality. but can give no salts.
factory proof of our certainty. Knowl-
edge transcends reason. That is what
Emerson meant when he said that "all
serious souls have better belief in i'm
mortality than they can ivegroundsf for
OF all the gifts from loving Father, this
intuitiye knowledge is among the most
precious. Faith and Hope-mighty ele.
ments in the world-line with golden
beauty the darkest clouds, piercing them
through and through with shafts OF
light. Easter is perpetual reminder
that Life is ever Lord of DEATH"
U. S. MILBURN.
CINCINNATI o.
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MODERN BIBLICAL CRITICISM.

The April number of the Arena
contains an article by Mr.. Benjamin
F. Burnham, entitled "The Scripture
Errancy Conflict" which gives very
interesting account of modern Bibli-
cal criticism and of certain conclu-
sions which it is believed this partic-
ular criticism has established. The
article will undoubtedly be helpful
in correcting the totally unwarranted
conclusion that what is now popularity
known as the Higher Criticism" is
of recent origin. Mr.. Burnham's
article shows clearly that in no par
ticular is it a method peculiar to this
age; that it has been followed in the
past with certain definite results and
on lines almost parallel with those
followed in the modern investigation
of the Scriptures. In this respect,
again, we find that "there is nothing
new under the sun" and that what is
somewhat pompously styled 1.-The
modern method" is not exclusively
modern, but has always been more
or less followed by Biblical scholars
in the past.
Mr.. Burnham's Investigations are
presented in the historical order, and
the following paragraphs embody
enough of his article to show its gen.
eral drift and the contention which
he successfully establishes, that the
higher criticism of the present age
has its roots in the Investigations of
the past, and is in no wise peculiar to
the scholarship of this period:
The modern method of criticism of the
Bible by comparison of manuscripts is
said to have been initiated in the fifteenth
century by Lorenzo Valla, who proved
certain apocryphal writings to be for
geries. and showed that the Apostles
Greed" post-dated the Apostles by sew
eral centuries. In the twelfth century,
Aben Ezra (not relishing risk of martyr
DOM had advanced, merely as a sort of
enigma suggested by Jewish rabbi of
the preceding generation, a query as to
the Mosaic authorship of the Penta-
touch. thing clearly disproved by the
books themselves. In 1910. Spinoza de-
monstrated that all the five books we're
full of CLOSES and revisions made long
after the time OF Moses.
In 1878. Richard Simon. in his Crit
cal History Of the Old Testament"
showed from internal evidence that the
Pentateuch and other of the books had
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-17

of offering congratulations to one who has
passed the four score and tenth milestone
of life. Such was the celebration at the
fine new residence of DIR. Nash in honor
of Mrs. Maria Sawtelle, mother of Mrs.
Nash. The central figure and queen of
the occasion is well-preserved woman,
rather tall, erect, with snowy curls about
still beautiful face, affable and affection
ate, with mental powers unimpaired She
not only remembers distinctly through all
the years back to the second and third
years of her life, but relates with clear
ness stories of the Revolution as she heard
them from her grandmother, startling in
cidents showing bravery and pluck of her
ancestry. Mrs. Sawtelle was well Injured
to the vigors of the winters and six-foot
SHOWS of Maine, having been reared in the
town of Livermore, of that State. She
made beautiful tableau, as with uncon-
scious grace she sat before her guests, at
the little Wheel, used through their
lives by her mother and grandmother, and
really spun real thread from real flax
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mate outcome. The time is coming
when these bank presidents and cash
iers who make way with the peoples
money, will be made to suffer common
surate with their crime. Government
control of savings institutions in some
form cannot come too soon. The Postal
Savings Bank scheme, or some similar
plan, is one of the great needs of the
time.
AN Iowa preacher an
Lou N"on@r0n nounces the discovery
that the creed put
forth by DR.. John Watson, and illus.
trated in "The Bonnie Brier Bush" was
promulgated seventy years ago by the
Hindoo reformer. Rsiah Rammohun r ~.
Almost word for word, reads The letter
of the discoverer. Very likely this is
true. The Hindoo reformer's "Precepts
OF Jesus is compilation of the words
of our Lord apart from their historical
settings in the New Testament. 1t would
be easy to find almost the exact phrase
ology of Ian MacLaren's creed in the
words of Jesus. The discovery of the
Iowa preacher is not as important as it
might appear when the facts are under
stood
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WntversaItst DerSonal.

Rev. F. w. Sprague has been elected
Clerk of the Universalist Publishing House
corporation.
Rev. Q. H. Shinn is spending a month
in Texas, assisting Rev. A. G. Strain and
other missionary ministers.
Rev. Miss Chaplin is to give a series of
lectures on English Literature at LON
bard University at an early date.
Rev. ]. ]. Lewis has just returned from
a southern trip. He has given the Passion
Play in several southern cities He was
absent from Chicago two weeks He gives
the Passion Play every evening this week
at ST. Paul's Church.
Rev. Samuel Mower, a supernuate of
the North Ohio Conference of the Method
list church, died in Cleveland, March oath,
aged 76. We deeply regret to record Mr..
Mowers death. He has been a faithful
reader of THE UNIvERsALIsT for many
years, and previous to the institution of
this paper, he was subscriber to seThe
Star in the West" He frequently sent
his cordial words of approval for the
paper and its teachings. Bro. Mowers
Methodism embraced Universalism.
The Galesburg Registe notes an interest
ing occasion at the residence of DIR. Nash
in that city: "March "A, 1897, dates rare
and most interesting occasion. 1t is but
seldom and but few who have the pleasure
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-17
VIII.
The Significance of Easter.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.

The hope Of Immortality might easily
degenerate into simply a selfish desire to
continue to live or fear of destruction.
But that is not the genius of the faith
which Easter and it's Christ represents.
While no one who holds to the unity of
the universe can help but feel that in
the domain of nature there is every evil
dence of life after death. yet for the
average mind to find it is an almost i'm
possible task. That message from the
other side is an essential, is evidenced
by the lack of faith of the pre- Christian
days and of the deniers of the Christ to.
day. But the value of the resurrection
is not simply the proof it offers of con-
tinued existence; but the light which
it reflects on the life that now is, is of
the utmost importance. 1t translates
all of life's experiences into terms of
spirituality; it puts all of lite's pbenom-
ena on the plane of the spiritual. Spirit,
then. becomes the explanation and the
hope of life. And further than that, the
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-17

been compiled from older sources, and
that Hebrew was not the primitive lam
guage of mankind. Bishop Bossuet de-
nounced Simon's work as "bulwark of
irreligion," and unsuccessfully ordered
the whole edition to be burned. Soon
afterward Jean Leclerc, Swiss refugee
at Amsterdam, similarly showed that in
the plural form of the word used in
Genesis for God, "Elohim," there is a
trace of the Chaldean polytheism. In
1755, Jean Astruc published his work
showing that two main narratives enter
into the composition OF Genesis, one
using the word "Elohim," the other,
"Jahveh" for Jehovah.
Early in the sixteenth century Eras-
mus proved that the seventh verse in
the fifth chapter OF the first epistle of
John was an Interpolation. But al
though Sir Isaac Newton and the nine
tenth. century revisers also rejected
this passage as to the three witnesses"
the Anglican Church still retains it in
it's Lectionary, and the Scotch Church
in the Westminster Confession, as
main support of the dogma of the Trim
ity. Luther, in averring justification by
faith and not by goods works. rejected
the epistle of James as book of
straw; and he would not concede that
Paul wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews.
In the eighteenth century. John Colt
fried Herder wrote his Esprit of He
brew Poetry" proving the Psalms to be
by different authors and of different
periods, and Solomon's Song to be sim.
ply an Oriental love poem, not an allie
CORY of Christ's love for the Church or
reconcile representation of the love of
Jehovah for Israel. In 1906. DeWette
published his Introduction to the Old
Testament" showing that Deuteronomy
is late priestly summary of the Law,
and that Chronicles is very late priest
ly recast of early history.
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Easter Observance.
CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE.)
The Worldwide Anthem of Eternal
Life

Life.
UPON the coming sixtieth anniversary
of Queen Victoria's reign, Britons pun
pose that at high noon, beginning at the
meridian of Greenwich, every subject
shall stand, and with head uncovered,
sing the nations song. God Save the
Queen" Thus will England's varied
millions on sea aud land, in home and
foreign cline, circle the globe with con-
tinuous acclaim. 1t will be testimony
of the longest reign of queen over the
greatest empire of the world, and it's
contemplation must thrill the slowest
heart. But what words can tell Of the
song that fills the hearts of millions more
than Britain's hosts, the anthem of Eter.
nal Life, which not only men but angels
and archangels sing upon each recurring
Easter day, loyal to greater than
earthly king? 1t is a song of faith in
him of whose kingdom there shall be no
end until it's rythm shall fill and thrill
the soul of every creature. ioyfully ans
wering to the Christ who was slain and
liveth again, our King forevermore.
HI. l.. f. GILLESPIE.
MANCHESTER, Iowa.
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SATURDAY, APRIL II.
EDITORIAL.
PAUL'S TESTIMONY.
L Corinthians XIV. is.


MOREOVER, brethren, l declare unto
you the gospel which preached unto
you, which also we have received, and
wherein we stand;
g BY which also We are saved, ifye keep
in memory what preached unto you, I'M
less We have believed in vain.
g. For delivered unto you first of all
that which also received, how that Christ
died for our sins according to the Script
ures;
f. And that he was buried, and that he
rose again the third day according to the
Scriptures; ~
;. And chat he was seen of Cephas, then
of the twelve;
6. After that, he was seen of above five
hundred brethren at once; of whom the
greater part remain unto this present, but
some are fallen asleep.
Z. After that, he was seen of James
then of all the Apostles.
8. And last of all he was seen of me also,
as of one born out of due time.
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XIII
The World Awaits Resurrecti on
U. s. MILBURN.
CINCINNATI, o.

Much of the thought of the Christian
world at Easter time centers upon the
life beyond the grave. 1t is time for
the quickening of those hopes of the life
to come which have such power to
brighten the life that now is. to tighten
it's burdens and to mitigate it's sorrows.
1t is we'll for US to take heart of hope,
not only at the Easter festival, but at
all times and in all seasons. There is no
time in all our lives when we do not need
the inspirations and the consultations of
hope. But We may do we'll to remember
that though prisoners of hope, there is
much of fruition possible to US even
here. There are always better earthly
conditions attainable. always room for
growth in knowledge and in grace. al
ways higher living to aspire to.
Natures Easter time is a season of up.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-17
XIV.
The Living Faith EnIarges.

EASTER should bring to US what our
Lords Gospel may be to ALA contin-
ual resurrection to those who accept it,
We fall beneath the weight of sorrow
and forget our brethren's needle; it comes
and stirs US to new life. Our burdens
seem too heavy to bear and we lag in
our duties; it speaks the word of cheer
which makes us rise unto a larger
strength.
Sins deaden our moral perceptions to
the beauty of an earthly career; it dissi-
pates the mists and leads us into free
dom. Oh, let US take hold of faith
that is ever unfolding the divine in man
into something better: living faith
which enlarges and perfects.
JAMES ALVIN CLARK.
CLINTON, Iii.
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PROF. P. R. KENDALL.
His Remains Rest in Hope Cemetery,
Galesburg, Ill.
OSHKOSH, Wis.

In our last issue we announced the
death of PROF. P. r. KENDALL, at Can
ton. N. Y, as having occurred April Z.
Later intelligence informs US that he
died on Sunday. April 4. The remains
were taken to Galesburg. in this State,
for burial. arriving there on Wednesday
night of last week. Special chapel exer-
cises we're held at Lombard University
on the Tuesday following his death, when.
with other exercises appropriate to the
memorial occasion. Prof. Parker. a life
long friend of the deceased professor,
read paper giving brief sketch of his
life. He paid feeling testimony to the
worth of the deceased, whom he described
as faithful worker and man OF bril-
liant mind, one who inspired the love of
study in his students.
The Galesburg Register gives the fol.
lowing account of the funeral services in
Galesburg and the early relation of the
deceased professor to Lombard Univer
sity. with some additional facts in regard
to his last days:
Professor Kendall was cousin of
Mrs. DR.. Standish, of this city. His ca
reer as an educator is an interesting and
instructive one. Prof. Kendall was born
in Phillipston. Mass. in August, 1922.
He was educated in the Norwich, Vt,
college and was classmate of Dr. Stan.
dish. He graduated from that institu-
ton. in l847. He first went to Kentucky
and took charge of an institute there. He
came to Galesburg in 1852, and took the
position of principal of the Liberal In
stitute. founded by the Universalists.
The building burned in 1855 Prof.
Kendall all along had been inspired by a
noble ambition to make college of the
institute, and after the burning of the
institute building, started out to raise
$4,000. His project was viewed with
distrust by the trustees, but he perse-
vered. A donation of $4,000 from Ben
jamin Lombard. ST., was of great assist
lance to him. By fall the 100000 was
raised. and Lombard University became
fact. Prof. Kendall was its first pres.
ident and served for a year. In 1859 he
removed to Clinton, N. Y, and for sever
al years had charge of the school there.
Some years thereafter he was Presi-
dent Of Smithson College. Indiana. He
then returned to Clinton, N. Y, and
raised $4,000 with which was estab-
lished the Clinton Institute at Fort
Plain, NY. Afterwards he settled in
New Jersey. where he engaged in gar
dening. While residing in that State he
was Frustrated by paralytic stroke.
He was removed to the home of his
daughter Abbie in Canton, where he
was given every attention.
The remains were accompanied here
by the daughter, Miss F. Marion Ken.
dali. The funeral was from the under
taking parlors of Will Horton. Rev. DR..
N. White. dean of Lombard's divinity
school. officiated. He was acquainted
with Mr.. Kendall at Canton. N. Y. The
pail bearers were: Frank p. Anderson,
George Rogers. Benjamin Downs, Guy
Weeks. Claude Warner and Simeon
Taylor, and were chosen from the senior
class by the college. The burial was in
Hope cemetery.
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demonstration of Immortality is dem
onstration Of the continuity of virtue.
the Immortality Of love. In a moment
is wiped out that fear that after all it
is not worth while to struggle for soul
growth. for the welfare of humanity. if
the cross be the end OF such struggle.
1t gives the world great and abiding
faith in the "worthwhileness" of sacri-
flee. And to me there is no greater com
fort than to feel that the tiniest atom
of love and self forgettulness is con-
served in the great economy Of God.
A. G. GRIER.
RACINE, Wis.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-17
XIX.
The Spiritual after the Mortal.
RACINE, Wis.

The experiences of the race indicate
another spiritual existence after the
mortal, Our happiest experiences are
the inspirations and sympathies which
seem to lift US above the physical SEN
sations and transport us into world of
spiritual consciousness. The emotions
of compassion, pity, sorrow, joy and love,
in their sympathetic nature, indicate
the influence of Gods spirit in the soul
and make US to feel and believe that we
are one with the eternal, everything God.
These soul STRINGS of our spiritual ma
ture, long slumbering in barbarian. for
malism and materialism, Christ labored
and died to awaken, and through his
teachings and self sacrificing example,
they were aroused in man to full con-
seriousness with life giving power.
G. w. e. Gossow.
OSHKOSH, Wis.
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graves" is spoken of, some of whom
rise to life and others to judgment or
condemnation. This resurrection or
these resurrections are clearly moral;
they are coming out of the graves of
sin into the light of the Gospel and
being approved or condemned there
by. This is evident from the fact
that no such expressions as sleeping
in the dust of the earth" or "graves"
if found where the literal resurrection
is unquestionably the matter under
consideration.
In the book of Revelation the word
resurrection is used to denote the
moral or spiritual ascent or ris-
ing condition of the church.
The suppression of heathenism for
a time was the first death, the pros
perity of the church during the same
time was the first resurrection; the
final overthrow of heathenism was
the second death and the subsequent
reign Of Christianity, the following
prosperity OF the church, was the Sec
ond resurrection. Neither of these
resurrections has anything to do
with literal death or the world be-
yond. They both belong to this
world, have long since passed, and
are both moral or spiritual risings of
the church of Christian believers.
Now, there are two things about
this moral resurrection, this rising
into the life of Christ, that are worthy
of note. First, this resurrection is of
the greatest practical Importance.
No doubt the literal resurrection is of
great importance, for it ushers us into
the life beyond; and no doubt faith
in this resurrection is of great prac-
tical value to the life that now is, for
it brings to bear upon that life the
sanctions of eternity; but the moral
resurrection brings us now into the
life of Christ. By it we enter at once
into the "life that is hid with Christ
in God" By it we are reconciled to
God and begin that eternal life which
runs on parallel with the being of
God and grows greater and greater
and more blessed through all the
endless ages.
Again, this moral resurrection de-
ponds on us. 1t comes through our
faith. With the literal resurrection
we have nothing to DO. In it we are
passive. 1t comes to us when we die
whether we will or not. The literally
dead are raised without any volition
of their own. The morally dead are
not so raised. Their volition is nee
essary to their moral resurrection.
They cannot rise into the life of
Christ until they believe in him.
They must believe in Christ and fol-
low him before they can rise into the
life of Christ and become partakers
of the infinite peace. And this no
matter where they are. They may
have experienced the literal resur-
rection and entered the life be-
yond, but they cannot rise into the
life of Christ until they believe in
Christ. Belief in Christ is the way of
the resurrection into the life of
Christ here, and hereafter, and for
ever. How vastly important, there
fore, this moral resurrection! OF what
transcendent importance is this res
direction which brings us into the
| life of the Eternal! SC.
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XVI.
XVI
Hope, Faith and Spiritual Knowl-
edge.
GALESBURG. Ill.

We may argue from the increased joy
found in the celebration of Easter that
there is quickening, rising up of the
soul to eternal things. With the purifi-
cation of life, hope. faith and spiritual
knowledge are augmented, the souls
vision becomes clear, steady and trust
worthy. This is. the stage of spiritual
growth at which we have now arrived
through the observance of the Christian
law of love and self sacrifice. Each ad-
ditional year only serves to demonstrate
more fully the wisdom of the words of
Paul. Therefore. my beloved brethren,
be ye stsadfast, immovable. always
Astounding in the work of the Lord, for
as much as ye know that your labor is
not in vain in the Lord"
EBEN HI. CHAPLIN.
GALEsBURG, Ill.
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Tunnel to Connect Sicily and Italy.

A tunnel between tie mainland oil
Italy and the Island of Sicily is now
being actively projected. Plans and
a model complete in every detail we're
executed by the Italian civil engineer,
De Johannls, and are now on exhibi.
tion at the University of Paiua. The
principle employed by him is that OF
boring in parabolic spiral lines. After
thorough and careful studies of the
Strait of Messina, its varying depths,
the nature o.>,the ground and all other
conditions W. ,ich might assist or in
terfere with the success of the enter
prise, De Johannis decided to begin
his tunnel near San Giovanni di Sani-
tello, at the foot of the Aspromonte'
mountain range, while the mouth on
the other side will be located on the
plain "degli Inglesi." The entire
tunnel will lie nearly two miles long
and will consist of two shafts of about
10000 feet each, descending at a grade
not exceeding thirty-two feet in each
1000. Such tunnel would be much
preferable to bridge, which would
have to have span of 4500 feet, and
with the enormous strength OF the
winds in the strait such an attempt
appears to be exceedingly dangerous.
This tunnel will cost about $3.50, O,O0O,-
600, but the money has not yet been
appropriated. 3
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Bachelors Punished q Deserter.

The Old Bachelors Club, of ElWood,
Ind, was out in force on recent night,
and the latest member of that organi-
zation to desert its ranks for the mar
riage state was punished by the boys,
as is their custom when a member
breaks the rules.
Walter Record, a young business
man, was the victim, and the fun
started at noon, when he arrived in
the city with his bride. He was met
at the train by q delegation of his for
mer fellow members, who formed a
double line from the train to the cab,
between which he and his bride walked
to the cab.
At night they dressed up in old
clothes and got hay wagon and a
crockery crate and drove out to the
home of the victim, who was confined
in the crate and brought to the trial
which had been arranged for his bene.
fit. A Gury was impaneled and the
victim was granted a lawyer to look
after his interests. When the wit
nesses were all examined the jury
found him guilty of breaking the ga.
cred rules of the order, and he
was at once taken to the crate and
then followed procession around the
city. Then he was take=: home and
locked in his room.-ChIcago Times
Herald.