elegant furniture and finish. The Minneapolis friends have our hearty congratulations over their commodious and tasteful church home. ENGLISH NOTES, John Bright lately presided at a Sundayschool Conference in connection with the centenary meetings of the Lancashire, Cheshire and Yorkshire Baptists. He spoke hopefully of the improving education of England, and said, "We believe truly that the great bulk of the people wish to have their children taught the Scriptures." The Roman Catholic clergy in England are moving to have Mary Queen of Scots and Cardinal Beaton canonized. Rome must be terribly short of saints! A Sunday-school Field Club has just been organized by our London Sunday-schools. It will hold Saturday afternoon excursions, in which the teachers from various schools-all who can-will meet together and, after a ramble collecting specimens, will meet at some school room for tea, with a common examination and consideration of the specimens afterwards. The Christian Life illustrates the indigestibility of much of the matter which has been added on to pure Christianity, by the following apposite story: John Fiske has declared this. Now we have Mr. J. A. Symonds, in the Fortnightly Review, in an article on "The Progress of Thought in our Time," writing thus: It cannot be too emphatically insisted on that muchdreaded Darwinism leaves the theological belief in a divine spirit untouched. God is not less God, nor is creative energy less creative, because we are led to suppose that a lengthy instead of a sudden method was employed in the production of the Kosmos. I venture to assert my conviction that it is the destiny of the scientific spirit to bring these factors,-God, law, Christian morals, into a new and vital combination, which will contribute to the durability and growth of rational religion. It is understood that from the end of July our friend, Rev. P. W. Clayden, whose visit to this country some years ago, and sermon at the Saratoga Conference, will not soon be forgotten, will become the political editor of the [London] Daily News, of which he has long been one of the leader-writers. noon. A great Sunday-school gathering is that which all the Unitarian Sunday-schools in Manchester hold every Whitsunday afterIt is held in the Free Trade Hall, and has never been omitted for—we believe—more At first it was held in than 25 years. our old "Cross Street Chapel," which stands in the heart of busy Manchester much as King's Chapel does in Boston, but this was soon outgrown. Sunday afternoon, May 29, 2075 Sunday-school children and teachers assembled, and about the same number of parents, friends and old scholars, from fifteen various churches. The platform was gay with A foreign missionary, who had spent some time among savage races, tells us that one morning one of the tribe of the people among whom he labored came to him, apparently suffering much pain. The missionary had learned something of medicine, and prepared a powder he believed might do the poor fellow some good. He enclosed the powder in a piece of brown paper and said, "Go and take this." Some little time after he saw his patient again, and making an inquiry if he had taken the medicine, he informed him he had. At the same time, this poor savage expressed some hesitation of ever again attempting such a dose, for, said he, "the powder he got down his throat with little difficulty; but the brown paper in which the pow-flowers, and the music, of stirring children's der was enclosed had nearly choked him." So, the real difficulty in the acceptance of religion by educated people is not in Christianity, but in the brown paper in which it has been wrapped up. hymns, with the anthem, "God is a spirit," was well given, led by an aggregate choir from all the schools. The address was given by Rev. J. E. Odgers. The same afternoon there was a similar gathering, in all about 2000 persons, from our Unitarian Sunday-schools in and around Bury (a city eight miles north of Manchester), in the Co-operative Hall. There, the Sunday-school aggregate choirs-120 voices-sang "And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed," from the Messiah, and the "Kyrie" and "Gloria 99 from the Twelfth Mass. Those Lancashire The Birmingham Daily Times publishes a return of attendance at the various places of worship in that town on Sunday morning, May 22. Under the head "Unitarian," the following figures are given: Old Meeting Church, Bristol street, 794; Church of the Messiah, Broad street, 530; Newhall Hill Chapel, 478; three Unitarian Churches, 1802. There are, moreover, three other mission chap-folks are rare singers! els in Birmingham supported by the foregoing congregations. It is interesting to see how scientists and those who are specially interested in their conclusions are admitting what the deepest students of the spiritual side of the world have always contended for, viz.: that the theory of evolution does not really touch the basis of religion. We all know how emphatically LITERARY NOTES. In the Forum for June, Prof. Patton, of Princeton, has an article entitled "Is Andover Romanizing?" To this Prof. Newman Smyth, of Andover, replies in the July number of the same periodical under the title," Is Princeton Humanizing?" Rev. James H. West, of Geneva, Ill., has begun the publication of his sermons, four a year, under the title of "The Quarterly Pulpit." Subscription price, 25 cents a year. It is said that the circulation of the reprints of American monthlies in England is now greater than the circulation of all the English and Scotch monthlies and quarterlies combined. Walt Whitman is at work on a volume of poems to be published this fall. It will bear the title of "November Boughs." Houghton, Mifflin & Co. are about ready to publish a book by Rev. S. J. Barrows, editor of the Christian Register, entitled "The Shaybacks in Camp. Ten Summers under Canvass." Ex-Pres. Andrew D. White publishes in the July Popular Science Monthly the second of a series of articles, begun some time ago, under the title of "New Chapters in the Warfare of Science." The present article treats of the progress of human enlightenment in the domain of meteorology. The fourth volume of the "Franklin Square Song Collection " is ready and will be published in a few days. Like the other numbers of the series, it contains two hundred favorite songs and hymns. The editor, Mr. J. P. McCaskey, has made the selection with admirable taste and discrimination, and the new volume should have as wide a circulation as its popular predecessors. The Concord School of Philosophy holds its ninth term from July 13th to 28th. There will be twelve morning lectures on Aristotle and ten evening lectures on Dramatic Poetry. The lecturers will be W. T. Harris, Edmund Montgomery, Thomas Davidson, A. P. Peabody, F. B. Sanborn, Ellen C. Mitchell, C. A. Bartol, C. C. Shackford, Julia Ward Howe, Geo. W. Cooke and others. Messrs. J. B. Lippincott Company have arranged to publish the "Report of the Commission appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to investigate modern Spiritualism, in accordance with the request of the late Henry Seybert." Considering the high standing of the university, as well as that of the individual members of the committee, this report ought to prove something valuable. The question comes to us from a number of sources, "Who is Rev. A. N. Alcott, whose powerful pamphlet on The Problem of Fellowship in Religion is attracting so much attention? We reply: He is pastor of the Universalist Church in Elgin, Ill. He was formerly pastor of the Unitarian Church in Kalamazoo, Mich., but went over to the UniversalFree Religious tendency which he saw in so ists two or three years ago because of the much of Western Unitarianism. Many readers of the Unitarian Review will regret to learn that Mrs. Martha Perry Lowe has severed her connection with that magazine, with which she has been allishment by her husband, Rev. Charles Lowe, most continuously associated since its estabin 1874. Her name has been a familiar one in the Editor's Note Book, and her department, "Things at Home and Abroad," has been to many one of the enjoyable features of the Review. "My Creed." By Rev. M.J. Savage. Boston: Geo. H. Ellis. Price, $1.00. As usual Mr. Savage has so shaped his preaching the past winter that a dozen of his choicest sermons shall form a book. And here the book is. Its scope will be best described by giving the titles of his sermons: 1. "Outgrowing Old Beliefs;" 2. "What Light have we to Guide Us?" 3. "Religion;" 4. "God;" 5. "Revelation;" 6. "Is This a Good World?" 7. "Moral with the Infinite;" 9. "The Church;" 10. Foundations;" 8. "Communion of the Finite "Salvation;" 11. "The Debt of Religion to Science;" 12. "Immortality and Modern Savage's well-known characteristics of clearThought." These discourses have all Mr. ness, logical strength, vigor of statement, fearlessness, not quite full appreciation of the thought of those who differ from him, eral of the sermons of this volume-notably uncompromising radicalism, reverence. Sevthe last two-seem to us as able as anything their author has ever produced. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. To PUBLISHERS.-All Books sent to the UNITARIAN will be promptly acknowledged under the head of "Publications Received," with statement of publisher's price, if known. "The Appeal to Life." By Theodore T. Munger. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Pp. 339. Price, $1.50. "Temperance Services and Hymns." By the Unitarian Church Temperance Society. Boston Unitarian Sunday-school Society. Pp. 51. "The Ring and The Book." By Robert Browning. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Riverside Press, Cambridge. Pp. 477. Price, $1.75. "Christmas Eve and Easter Day;"" Men and Women;" "In a Balcony;" "Dramatis Personæ;" "Balaustion's Adventure;" "Prince Hohenstielschwangau;' "Fifine at the Fair." By Robert Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Pp. 444. Price $1.75. Browning. Religions." "Report of the Boston Young Men's Christian Union for the year ending April 13, 1887." Boston: No. 18 Boylston street. Pp. 76. "Official Report of the Proceedings of the Twelfth Meeting of the National Conference of Unitarian and other Christian Churches, held at Saratoga, N. Y., Sept. 20-24, 1886.". Edited and published for the Conference by the General Secretary, Rev. Russell Bellows. New York, N. Y. Pp. 243. "The Story of Margaret Kent." A novel. By Henry Hayes. Boston: Ticknor & Company. Pp. 444. Price, 50 cents. "Evolution and Christianity." A Study. By J. C. F. Grumbine. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co., 175 Dearborn street. Pp. 75. Price, 50 cents. Mrs. W. C. Dow, Mrs. W. G. Cutter, Mrs. G. F. Shears; Treasurer, Mrs. J. C. Hilton; Secretary, Mrs. J. R. Effinger. The Channing Club held a meeting at the Tremont House, on the evening of June 24th, Mayor Roche presiding. Rev. Robert Collyer read a paper entitled "About Ourselves." It was a delight to his old friends to see and hear him again. He was engaged to speak in Unity pulpit on the 28th. Ann Arbor, Mich.-Two more Japanese students of the university, young men of much ability, united with the Unitarian Church, on June 19. The Young People's Literary Club, Connected with the church, has given $50 the past year to assist two worthy young men in their efforts to obtain an education, one at Ann Arbor and one at Meadville. Arcadia, Wis.-The sorely needed new "My Creed." By M. J. Savage. Boston: Geo. H. parsonage has been completed, and with the Ellis, 141 Franklin street. Pp. 204. Price, $1. The Church of the Messiah, St. Louis, has contributed the past year to the American Unitarian Association $1000. The thirty-five churches supporting the Western Unitarian Conference have contributed to that body all told the past year, $1196.25. Boston.-James Freeman Clarke, who improves in health slowly, will spend the summer as usual at Magnolia. -Dr. Hedge's health will hardly allow him to leave Cambridge. -Rev. Brooke Herford will summer at his little five-acre "farm" at Wayland. -Rev. O. B. Forthingham will visit several places, Lenox, Manchester-by-the-Sea, and perhaps the hill country in the autumn. -Dr. Hale has many lecture engagements, but will spend what time he can get for literary work at his summer home, near Point Judith, on his second volume of "Franklin in France." -Dr. Holmes spends the summer with his family at Beverly Farms, as usual. -Dr. Phillips Brooks goes to Europe. Chicago. At the last meeting for the summer of the Chicago Women's Association, Mrs. S. W. Conger read a paper on "Alice and Phoebe Cary." The officers elected for next year are: President, Mrs. S. W. Conger; Vice Presidents, Mrs. Geo. A. Follansbee, generous aid of the Women's Auxiliary Conference it has been paid for, thus much encouraging Mr. Owen and strengthening him in his work. Buda, Ill. Rev. Chester Covell was seventy years old on the 18th of June. The church, organized by him thirty-two years ago, and of which he has been pastor ever since, arranged a reunion of old friends on the double anniversary day. We have not yet received a report from it, but it must have sincere and genuine a work as that which been a delightful day. It is rare to find so Bro. Covell has done on his field of labor for a third of a century. Blessed are such ministries. The Illinois Conference was held in Buda June 16-18. Clinton, Mass.-Rev J. C. Duncan spends his summer in Europe. Denver, Col.-The fine new church is nearly finished. Duluth, Wis.-The work here goes forward quietly but favorably. Rev. S. M. Crothers preached on Sunday evening, June 19, and Rev. H. M. Simmons on Sunday evening, June 26. Rev. Chas. F. Dole of Jamaica Plain, Mass., will spend the first half of July in working here. Greenfield, Mass.-Prospect Hill Seminary closed a successful year with exercises in the Unitarian Church, Tuesday, June 14th. $2954. Of this sum $1500 came from the auxiliary of the Second Church, Boston. Friends in Portsmouth and other New Hampshire societies have given generously to the building fund, in addition to this large sum from the Auxiliaries. The Loan Fund lends the society $1500. The new church will cost, exclusive of furnishing and lot, $4283. Melrose, Mass.-The Unitarian Church, which is greatly prospering under the administrations of Rev. J. H. Heywood, has paid off its $2000 debt. New York City.-Rev. Theodore C. Williams sailed on the 28th of June for Europe, to be gone till autumn. The young women of the school sang under the direction of Misses Wardwell and Sites; and Mrs. Mary A. Livermore gave a characteristically inspiring address on the education of girls, urging that which will lead them to independence and fit them for self-help. A reception at the school in the evening was largely attended. The Alumnæ reunion, attended by many scholars of the seminary's present era, marked by the coming of Rev. J. C. Parsons as principal in 1881, was a delightful occasion, Georgiana Lewis, of Framingham, greeting the visitors, Edith Callender, of Northfield, giving a bright poem, Mabel Richmond, of Providence, R. I., reviewing wittily the recent history of the school, and Emily Hartwell, of New York, speaking a word for Vassar, whence she went from Prospect Hill. Letters were read from Northfield, Mass. The Unitarian Fannie Birge, of Keokuk, Iowa, and other Church with its new pastor, Rev. A. E. Mulformer students, and a song written by Laura lett, has taken up with renewed vigor its Jones, of Philadelphia, was sung at the close. varied work, and its congregation increases The school is in a very prosperous condi-weekly. The annual floral service held by tion, and the many applications for admission the Sunday-school, June 27th, was bright for the next year show that its capacity will with flowers, song and recitation. The annual be taxed to the utmost. The scholarship has strawberry festival occurred June 25th. been notably advanced under Mr. Parson's management, and the usefulness and wide influence of the school are ground for the prevailing pride on the part of its many friends. Hobart, Ind. Regular semi-monthly recently spent two Sundays here, preaching Richmond, Ind.-Rev. A. G. Jennings meetings are held in this place, the State mis-morning and evening in the Grand Army Hall. sionary coming about once a month, and the pulpit being supplied monthly, usually from Chicago. Iowa.-Miss Helen G. Putnam, just from the Meadville Theological School, will spend the summer preaching in Iowa and Dakota. -Miss Mila F. Tupper, who is a graduate of '87 from Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., will give some months to preaching in Iowa, and other parts of the West. She will probably begin at Eagle Grove, Iowa. La Fayette, Ind.-Mr. Albert Wilgus, one of the Meadville graduates this year in the special course, began work here the last Sunday in June. In July the missionary of the American Unitarian Association expects to visit the place, and assist in the organization of a society. La Porte, Ind.-Prof. W. N. Hailman and Dr. G. M. Dakin, with occasional helps from the State missionary, have held regular services every Sunday in the Unitarian Church. The society seems to go on about as prosperously under its lay leadership as it did under the regular ministrations of the clergy. Leicester, Mass.-The Unitarian Society is flourishing beyond its past experience, under the efficient ministry of Rev. R. F. Johonnot. Littleton, N. H.-The new church building here is rapidly approaching completion. The Woman's Auxiliaries have given has engaged with the Unitarian Church here Plymouth, Mass.-Rev. W. P. Tilden for six months. In the evening the hall was full. The local papers speak highly of Mr. Jennings' sermons, and say there are enough liberal people in the city to form a very large society if they can be induced to unite. Regular services are to be commenced September 1st. St. Johns, Ohio.-Word comes from this town saying, "There is material here for a Unitarian Church. Come over and help us." St. Paul, Minn. Rev. J. Heddaeus spent six weeks among the German people of this city, making their acquaintance, and consulting with them as to their desires in relation to a Unitarian society. He found a large number of able, educated men and women that gave to him a friendly reception, but the larger part of them were not in sympathy with any distinctively religious movement. No attempt to organize a society will be made at present. -Mr. Bjorn Petersen, the earnest Icelander with whom Miss McCaine became acquainted through her Post-office Mission, is doing good work among his countrymen in Winnipeg, and in Dakota. He finds an encouraging interest in Unitarian thought. It is hoped that he may keep at work permanently among the Icelandic and Scandinavian settlements of the northwest. Turners Falls, Mass.-The spring meeting of the Connecticut Valley Conference was held here last month. The new and pretty church was brightened with abundant floral decoration, there was a representative attendance from the churches of the valley, and the day occupied by addresses by Rev. C. E. St. John of Northampton, Rev T. E. St. John of Haverhill, and Rev. David Cronyn of Greenfield, with discussions in which Revs. J. C. Parsons of Greenfield, Edgar Buckingham of Deerfield, J. C. Kimball of Hartford, Mr. Vincent, the new pastor at Turners Falls, and others joined. John McIlvane, Esq., of Turners Falls, presided. Weston, Mass.-A correspondent writes: The Unitarian society here has commenced on its new church. It will be of common field stone with trimmings of Gloucester granite. Style of architecture, Norman Gothic. The stone is contributed by persons in town, and is mostly from unused division walls. As the division walls fall, to build up the visible temple, so must the walls of sectarianism fall to build up the true spiritual temple. Winchester, Ind. The first Unitarian service ever held in this town was that conducted by the missionary for Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, Thursday evening, June 16. A good audience was in attendance and much interest manifested. Many questions were asked the speaker at the close of the services by members of the congregation, who seemed reluctant to leave the hall. Other services will be held in this place in the near future. Winchester, Mass.-The Sundayschool recently invited a company of children from the Warren street chapel, Boston, to come out and give a children's operetta in the vestry, after which Sunday-school and visitors enjoyed a pleasant picnic in an adjoining groves -The Sunday-school closes through July and August. --The W. A. Branch has recently arranged for a series of Sunday evening services which has filled the church to overflowing, and has been an inspiration to the congregation. The preachers have been Mr. Herford, Dr. Hale, Mr. Savage, and Edward Hale. culation -Two sermons by the pastor, Rev. J. L. Marsh, have recently been put into print for local cir"Our Common Salvation," and "Christianity a Way, Not an End." -June 19 was observed as children's day. The Sunday-school united with the congregation in a special service; the music a union of the quartet and a chorus from the Sundayschool and the congregation. A christening service added to the interest of the occasion. Winona Minn.-Rev. Chas. F. Dole, of Jamaica Plain, Mass., spent the month of June here. The work is making encouraging progress. Worcester, Mass.-Rev. Austin S. Garver and wife have gone to Enrope for three months. JOTTINGS. The Plymouth Church (Brooklyn) people are vigorously discussing the question as to procuring a successor to Mr. Beecher who will not feel called on "to rectify Mr. Beecher's errors and call the church back to the theology of Calvin or St. Augustine.' There are in the University of Michigan this year 265 lady students, as against 229 last year. These are found in the different departments as follows: Literary, 175; medical, 78; law, 6; pharmacy, 2; dental, 4. Bible recently. It is peculiar how much more a man Says Life: A Chicago man paid $1000 for an Indian will give for a Bible he can't read than for one he can. Rev. Dr. Mark Hopkins, president of Williams College from 1836 to 1872, died June 17, aged 85 years. He was one of the most influential educators, ablest preachers and noblest men this country has ever produced. Mr. John Ruskin objects to bicycles because they supersede human feet on God's ground. "To walk, to run, to leap, and to dance are the virtues of the human nor dangle on ropes; and nothing in the training of body, and neither to stride on stilts, wriggle on wheels, the human mind with the body will ever supersede the appointed God's ways of slow walking and hard working." What a rebuke to this nation, receiving millions of dollars annually from its revenue on liquors, is conveyed by the Queen of Madagascar, when she says in a recent proclamation, "I cannot consent, as your queen, to take a single penny of revenue from that which destroys the souls and bodies of my subjects!" -Congregationalist. There are in our own country somewhat more than 100,000 Sunday-schools, with an enrollment of 8,500,000 scholars. Mayor Roche has issued peremptory orders for the closing of the gambling houses in Chicago. The Sunday law enacted by the Missouri Legislature last winter will be rigorously enforced in St. Louis. It closes all saloons, beer-gardens, theaters and baseball parks. Says the New York Evening Post of the cathedral project: tions in this most material of Christian cities in the It We cannot help regarding Bishop Potter's appeal for the cathedral as the beginning of a great effort which will eventually unite all Protestant denominaerection of at least one religious monument that would furnish a center from which the most powerful of the influences which raise men above the stock, would necessarily be administered by the church unwheat and petroleum markets would radiate. der whose control it would be reared, or, in other words, by the only Protestant denomination whose Presbyterian, or Congregationalist, or Methodist who ritual fits it to take charge of the cathedral. But the on that account refused to aid in its construction and endowment would, in our opinion, make a great mischurches, and not religious culture only, but all culttake. It is not the Episcopal Church only, but all ure, which suffers to-day in New York from the motto which we all inscribe on our armorial bearings-" Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die." Says the New York Sun on the same subject: There arises a question whether such a cathedral, so keeping with Protestant worship, well as it might bevast and architecturally so imposing, is not out of fit the ritual and the genius of the Roman Catholic Church. All of the famous English cathedrals are legacies of the period before the reformation, and they the spirit and usages of Protestantism. seem to have little natural and logical adaptation to SELECTIONS FROM THE STANDARD Creeds of Orthodoxy. Compiled by J. T. S. Republished from the Unitarian of December, 1886. A very effective Tract. Six for 5 cents; 50 cents a hundred. Address, Office of the Unitarian. |