The herald., 1898-08-27
4 MISSIONARY GOSPEL
UNIvERSALIsT MEETING AT
LONG BEACH
Rev. Rice Speaks on the Duty Of the
Church to ALI Mankind-Address
by Unitarian-Notes

LONG BEACH, Aug. 26.-At the session
Of the Universalist summer meeting this
morning the Rev. A. A. Rice, as leader,
took for his subject "a Missionary Cos
pel," giving an instructive and entertaining
address, q part of which is here presented:
1.-The subject is well framed because 1t
Is the gospel that is missionary rather
than the man who carries It; /. e. II the
gospel Is really good tidings it will in a
great measure promulgate ITSELF Who
ever carries 1t need not plead its accept
ance as has been done to excess in the last
half century. There Is a missionary gos-
pei and the whole Christian world is testi-
flying to the fact that 1t consists of the two
fundamental commandments of Jesus to
love the Lord thy God and thy neighbor as
myself which are the foundations of The
doctrines of the fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of the human race. There Is
no good tidings like these. There is no
missionary power on all the earth which is
equal to these. They move the one who
carries and breaches them. But there is
another doctrine which is the grand con-
clusion drawn from these commands and
which Is the legitimate and necessary out
come and belief in them which all Chris
tian people do not advocate. 1t Is the doc
trine Of universal salvation, light coming
from darkness, the ultimate success of
good, the triumph Of God. And this doc
trine cannot be antagonized ignored or
held simply as an eternal hope without
cutting the nerve of missionary effort No
man today can preach the fatherhood of
God and at the same time the everlasting
damnation Of some of his children, for
endless misery is entirely foreign to the
love which the word father covers No
father would bring into existence being
to be forever lost. Besides this, love being
the chief characteristic of the fatherhood,
the everlasting loss of soul would not
only mean hell for that soul, but would en-
tan worse hell for God, whose love Is
perfect and will follow his child forever.
He who loves the hardened sinner is in
greater distress than the sinner himself
The love Of God and victory for Satan to-
gether cannot be thought The latter
counteracts the former belief. SO also the
doctrine Of brotherhood Is made round,
full and effective by being held together
with universal salvation. Brotherhood Is
limited If the number Of saved is limited"
Afternoon Session
LIZ. JOueSp WHO pTeSlueO dL the AFTERNOON
session, stated that he did not think the
meetings would be complete without hear
ing from their platform some gentleman
of the Unitarian faith, and with that end in
view he very fortunately secured the serv-
icec Of DR.. Snyder of st. Louis, who Is
temporarily filling pulpit In Los Angeles,
who kindly consented to address them.
DR.. Andrus of Riverside who was billed to
preach a sermon today will be heard on
Sunday, DR.. Snyder taking his place. The
doctor spoke on ''Why Does the System We
Call Orthodoxy Grow Strong In This Land
Of Ours?' taking his text from First Cor,
KILL The address was most eloquent
one, there being large audience present
who lost not a word Of the masterful adj
dress as 1t fell from the lips of the speaker.
Miss Elizabeth Jones gave one of her
sweet vocal solos, which served as pre-
Jude to the introduction of the lecture.
Evening Session
The evening session was taken up by B.
R. Baumgardt, secretary of the academy
Of sciences, with an illustrated lecture
on 1.-THE Latest From the Heavens" with
s!xty-fve celestial Views. Mr.. Baumgardt
is we'll known to Long Beach audiences,
and his astronomical lectures are always
we'll attended and appreciated, the one de-
livered last night taking high rank among
the very best in that line, no matter by
whom or where delivered. After the lee
ture his telescope was set up outside and
scores awaited themselves of the opportun-
ity to view certain of the heavenly bodies
while the professor explained the peculiar
tiles and the wonders OF the sidereal heav-
ems
Program for Today
The program for today Saturday.:
9 a. m.-The Universalist Hour. Subject,
Christ, the Savior Of the World" Lead
eP, Rev. I. M. Andrews.
2 p. MAN address by B. R. Baumgardt
on 1.-THE Limit Of the Human Understand