Whate'er my God ordains is right, Here will I take my stand; "In Dr. Clarke's view, we are all children of our Heavenly Father, and have entered upon a life which shall never end; and in this world, and in all worlds, we shall always be under our Father's care and love. Evil is not finally to prevail, but good. And two chief duties rest upon us all,--first to improve ourselves, to become pure in mind and heart, to establish our own characters firmly upon right principles; secondly, to do what we can, according to our opportunities to make others happier and better, and to ́ do away with all forms of evil. These things being done or being aimed at, matters of speculative belief as to details are of comparatively small importance. "When Dr. Clarke undertook to make a formal statement of the five principal points of the new or coming theology, they were: "The fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, the leadership of Jesus, salvation by character, and the continuity of human development in all worlds, or the progress of mankind onward and upward forever."" OUR INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR INDIANS. The Montana Industrial School for Crow Indians, established July, 1886, under the auspices of the A. U. A., is slowly recovering from the disastrous effects of the outbreak of the Crows last year. The great unpopularity of the agent, who has favored the school, and compelled the Crows to send their children to it, proved a serious drawback to its success, and when the Crows at last took the war-path, they withdrew most of the pupils. Since the summary suppres Though sorrow, need, or death make earth sion of the revolt, the children have been For me a desert land," My Father's care Is around me there, He holds me that I shall not fall, And so to Him I leave it all. Samuel Rodigast. ILLUSTRATIONS OF UNITARIAN ISM. JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE'S RELIGIOUS TEACHING EPITOMIZED. At the first meeting held by Dr. Clarke's congregation in the Church of the Disciples, after their pastor's burial, Judge Charles Allen, of the Supreme Court, read a sermon, at the close of which he made a brief and impressive address concerning his old pastor and his work. Among other things he gave a statement of what seemed to him the great central truths of Dr. Clarke's preaching, as he remembered that gradually, of their own accord, returning, and at last dates there were twenty-two in attendance, with a promise of others. Mr. Bond writes: 'No one can look into our school and not take heart." "This forenoon, I had all the boys, large and small, out in the garden weeding. They work very well and cheerfully. I am delighted with the promise of the garden. The country is looking very well generally, better it seems to me than I ever saw it before. We have about twelve acres of oats, and six acres of potatoes. build a big cellar to contain them. our roots are looking well. I shall have to All "The parents of two of our girls are here with two more children which they will leave very bright appearing little ones. difficulty in getting pupils. Some women They think we shall not hereafter have any who are here, and with whom these people have been talking, say they will bring three children. May be so, may be not. We shall children. Our hearts are cheered, however, believe what they say when they bring the notwithstanding a little skepticism arising from past experience. We are having success with a small number already. I have great confidence that we shall succeed with a large number by and by. I am impa-, tient for the workshop, and await anxiously the authority to build it. We are not meeting the requirements of our contract with shop. We have boys now that ought to be instructed in the use of tools more than they can be with our present facilities." the Indian Bureau till we have the work The Indian office has contracted to pay $108, for every Crow Indian taught, fed and clothed in the school, on certain conditions, one of which is that we shall give the boys industrial training in the simpler mechanic arts. Industrial training is a very important part of Indian education, and our school has felt the need of its equipment in this respect. Having faith that Unitarians will not permit the school to be longer hampered for the want of this equipment, I have taken the responsibility of authorizing Mr. Bond to build the shop at once. The committee on Southern and Indian Educational Work have appealed to the churches of our faith to provide for the current expenses of this Indian school, and are encouraged to believe that they will do so; but for the buildings and equipment we must depend on special contributions. The estimated cost of the workshop and outfit of tools is one thousand dollars. liberal movement at Duluth was started a little more than two years ago, as disA number of our tinctly Unitarian. ministers assisted, but the leading spirit, more than any other, was Rev. Oscar Clute, then the missionary of the A. U. After A., for Iowa and Minnesota. preaching had been carried on for some months by Mr. Clute, Mr. Crothers of St. Paul, Mr. Effiinger, Mr. Dole and others, Mr. West, partly through the influence of some of the western Ethical brethren, went there as a candidate and succeeded in securing the place. Though the Ethical brethren continued to claim him as a Unitarian, and do still, yet he was himself honest enough to say to his congregation before long that he was not Unitarian, and to set out to do an "independent" work on a basis which in some respects was similar to that of the Agnostics and in others to that of the Ethical Culturists, having prayers in his Sunday gatherings, but addressing them not to God, but "to intelligent men and women." Being a sincere man, with some pulpit ability, and having the strong endorsement of Unity and the editor of the Unitarian Review, and a few other Unitarians, he was able to keep his place for a time. But it could be only for a time. The brilliant Free Religious leaders of the East, with a more hopeful and helpful Gospel 25 than his, failed in nearly every instance. Nearly every man that has tried the same in the West has failed. Why should it be expected that an attempt in Duluth would succeed? The sad and humiliating thing is that the management of Western Unitarianism should be so largely in the hands of men who encourage such things, who insist that our Unitarian ministry shall be open to men wishing to do Free Religious work, Ethical Culture work, Agnostic work. The impression has been abroad among our churches that the ministers most likely to draw congregations and build up large societies are extreme men, with plenty of negation and much science, but with next to no Gospel. But a mistake could not be greater. The men and the only men who draw congregations and hold them, and build up The following contributions for the school workshop are gratefully acknowledged: Mrs. Mary Hemenway... Miss Anne Wigglesworth.. $100 100 100 100 50 25 10 $510 Contributions to make up the balance of $490 are solicited. Also for the purchase of three cows and a sewing machine for the school. For the committee, J. F. B. MARSHALL. No. 25 Beacon St., Boston, July 3, 1888. HOW OUR CAUSE IS HURT. Rev. James H. West has resigned his pastorate in Duluth, Minn., and it is announced that he will go east. The collapse of the Duluth movement under Mr. West's leadership is no surprise, except in the matter of its occurring so soon. The history of the affair is an interesting one, and has in it a lesson which Unitarians ought to learn. The strong churches, are men who bring to the people great hopes, great faiths, great religious incentives. Duluth is a fine field for a Unitarian church, as is every city of its size in the West. Let now a man go there who, while broad and free, yet has a real gospel to preach, such a Gospel of love and duty and consecration to God and humanity as Channing and Parker and Starr King preached, and we shall see the waste places built up, and a new day dawn for our cause in the young metropolis of the northern lakes. EDITORIAL NOTES. The trustees of the Manchester New College, our English Unitarian Theological school, have voted to remove the institution from London, where it has been for many years, to Oxford. ligion to its lowest terms, or, as Dr. Martinean says, to "water it down," until God, prayer, immortality, all the soul's highest faiths, are gone out of it, and still to continue calling it "religion." Touching this point, Martineau says keenly of Harrison and Spencer, and their controversy two or three years ago over the relative religious value of Agnosticism and Positivism: "We have only to open a recent volume of a popular monthly review, and we are present at a memorable combat between Mr. Herbert Spencer and Mr. Frederick Harrison, for the prize of the best religion that dispenses with anything divine." It has to be confessed that this tendency was more or less present in the writings of Matthew Arnold. - It constitutes perhaps his greatest weakness as a religious teacher. Says Emerson: "A wise man advises that we should see to it that we read and speak two or three reasonable words every day, amid the crowd of affairs and noise of trifles. I should say boldly that we should astonish every day by a beam out of eternity; retire a moment to the grand secret we carry in our bosom of inspiration from heaven." Some one has written out the creed of some Evolutionists as follows: When Mrs. Chant preached for Mr. Milsted at Unity Church, Chicago, a collection amounting to $210 was taken up, which the pastor wished Mrs. Chant to use for her own work in London. But she preferred that half of the sum should go to her pastor's (Rev. Stopford A. Brooke's) children's Country Week fund. Accordingly it was thus sent, in the name of Mrs. Chant, as a heartfelt greeting from Unity Church, Chicago, to Bedford Chapel, London, 'to show that, though the world is wide, "I believe in a chaotic Nebula, self-existour human love is wider and all-em- ent Evolver of Heaven and Earth; and in bracing." Mr. Brooke, in replying to the differentiation of this original homoMr. Milsted, said: "If you, as you kind-geneous Mass. Its first-begotten Product, which was self-formed into separate worlds, ly say, had pleasure in sending me the divided into land and water, self-organized sum I have just received for the chil- into plants and animals, reproduced in like dren's holiday fund, imagine what pleas- species, further developed into higher orders, and finally refined, rationalized, and ure it has given me to have this gener- perfected in Man. He descended from the ous gift from sympathizers so far away Monkey, ascended to the Philosopher, and in space, but always hereafter near to sitteth down in the rights and customs of me in heart. There are none who do Civilization under the laws of a developing Sociology. From thence he shall come these things save Americans. They seem again, by the disintegration of the culminato feel the community of nations far ted Heterogeneousness, back into the origimore than we on this side of the Atlan- nal Homogeneousness of Chaos. I believe tic. They love their own race and their in the wholly impersonal Absolute, the own people; but they are able to love of the Saints, the Survival of the Fittest, wholly un-Catholic Church, the Disunion all the more the wider nation of human- the Persistence of Force, the Dispersion of ity, of which we all are citizens." the Body, and in Death Everlasting." We spoke in a recent number, of the tendency in some quarters to reduce re Really, this is as bad as the Athanasian Creed or the Westminster Confession. James Freeman Clarke accomplished an extraordinary amount of work, and worked right on up to his death at a very advanced age. When asked, once, the secret of his being able to do so much, he replied instantly: "My secret is very simple: I have never been in a hurry; I have always taken plenty of exercise; I have always tried to keep cheerful, and I have never failed to take plenty of sleep." Unquestionably one of the most enlightened, able, and humane of modern rulers is Dom Pedro II., of Brazil. He has done much for the enlightenment and progress of his empire; but now comes the noblest event of his long reignthe final and full abolition of slavery within his dominions, thus freeing the Western Continent of that foul blot on modern civilization. Brazil has been working slowly and somewhat bunglingly toward this end for some years, a law for gradual emancipation having been enacted in 1871. This law does not seem to have produced quite its desired effects, but the education of public sentiment has been going forward, and the time at last became ripe for the consummation of that which the Emperor and his family and the best people of the country had long desired. The actual signing of the act of emancipation passed by the General Assembly, was done by the Emperor's daughter, the Princess Regent, while her father was lying dangerously ill. But it was known to be in harmony with the father's earnest wish, and will be the noblest monument of the reign of the great and good emperor. The law has already gone into effect. Thus the milestones of the world's progress are set up. Two of our great and very important national organizations for philanthropy have held their annual gatherings during the past month-the National Conference of Charities and Correction, in Buffalo, and the National Prison Association, in Boston. The latter we did not attend, but the reports in the daily papers show a large meeting and much valuable work done. The attendance at the Buffalo meeting was largenearly 400 delegates-including a very considerable proportion of the men and women most active and influential in philanthrophic and charitable work in this country. in this country. Among the leadingsubjects considered were the Importance of Industrial Training in Reformatories, and also in connection with the education of the young generally; Care and Treatment of the Insane; the Education of the Feeble Minded; Reformation as an End of Prison Discipline; Charity Organization; Immigration; Methods of Caring for Dependent Children. It is hardly possible to over-estimate the importance of these gatherings. The criminals (many of them mere boys and girls), the insane, the blind, the deaf and dumb, the feeble-minded, the improvident and helpless classes in this country form a great and growing army. Deal with them we must. How to deal with them wisely-so as to cure as far as we may, but especially so as to prevent the suffering and evil and loss which we deprecate, this is one of the great problems of our time; and it is this problem that these two national organizations are doing so much to solve. One of the best things done by the Buffalo meeting was to pass resolutions asking the churches and ministers of the United States, of all denominations, to set aside two Sundays of each year for the consideration of charitable, reformatory and philanthropic subjects. very best of New England colleges. It has been fortunate in its presidents, and under the administrations of Ballou, Miner, and Capen has steadily grown in resources, efficiency and influence. It has maintained a wise middle course in reference to the mooted points of classics and sciences, electives and required courses, and while it holds to the old traditions in favor of an "all-around" education, nevertheless affords fine facilities for specialists, particularly in physics, in chemistry, and in the mathematics. The Divinity School has furnished some of the most accomplished and successful of our young preachers, and only needs more funds to become a splendid center of theological training. Up in Northern New York, St. Lawrence University, in the face of great difficulties has for many years been an educational power, and has fully justified the efforts of its friends in the Empire State. The Theological School, formerly under Dr. Fisher of loved memory, more recently in Dr. Atwood's able hands, has been one of the most vigorous feeders of our ministry. Its graduates have almost uniformly honored and blessed the church. The retirement of Dr. Gaines from the presidency of the University is a great loss. For the sake of the College it is to be hoped that its distinguished and honored alumnus, Dr. Gunnison, may be persuaded to assume the vacant office. But we pen these words in great fear of what his Brooklyn friends may say. Crossing into Ohio, we find Buchtel College, thanks to its noble hearted founder, thriving from year to year, and waxing stronger in means and in prestige. There is a splendid atmosphere of activity about the institution, on the part of students and faculty alike. The generous gifts of John R. Buchtel have stirred many others to a rivalry in gifts, and every year sees the College enriched and strengthened for its work. Still further to the west, down in the heart of Illinois, Lombard University does its steady work, always aiming high at standards, and patiently hoping for days of larger prosperity in which the better to realize them. President White is a true scholar with a general enthusiasm for scholarly pursuits, and his spirit is always felt, lifting the ideas of the students toward the highest purposes. It is to be hoped that Dr. Ryder's gifts to Lombard may be the first fruits of new and increasing endowments which will enable her hardworked instructors to do the work that with better facilities they are so well qualified to perform. In addition to these colleges the academies and seminaries under the patronage and control of the Universalist Church are strong and flourishing. Westbrook Seminary in Maine; Goddard at Barre, Vermont; Dean at Franklin, Mass.; Clinton Liberal Institute at Fort Plain, N. Y.; Perkins Academy at S. Woodstock, Vermont; are institutions in which our people have more than a local pride, and some of which they have maintained for over 50 years. The endowments of these colleges and academies amount to more than two and a half million dollars. They are a perpetual pledge of the interest our laity and clergy have in the higher education, and their sympathy with the broadest and best culture. CO-EDUCATION. In this connection it is interesting to note the advanced stand our church has taken upon the matter of co-education. All the institutions named above receive women upon the same terms as men in their courses, with the single exception of Tufts. But so strong is the sentiment in favor of equal educational advantages in the same institutions for the boys and the girls, it is more than likely that in a few years even Tufts will open its doors to the daughters as well as to the sons of its patrons. The system works so well in all the other colleges that it is past a doubt that it would be entirely successful in Tufts as well. The air on College Hill is not so very different from that which circulates at Canton, and Akron, and Galesburg. And when once the shock of change is over, probably everybody will wonder that the reform was delayed so long. LITERARY NOTES. J. C. A. Any of James Freeman Clarke's books will be sent to persons desiring to read them, with no cost except for postage. Address Church of the Disciples, Warren Ave., Corner Brookline St., Boston. A Christian newspaper is soon to be established in Jerusalem, to be edited by a lady-Miss Delphine Baker. Says the Boston Commonwealth: "Miss Charlotte M. Yonge, the novelist, is a devoted member of the Church of England. With the proceeds of her novel, 'The Heir of Redcliffe,' she fitted out the missionary schooner, the Southern Cross, for the use of Bishop Selwyn, and ten thousand dollars from the profits of The Daisy Chain,' are said to have gone to the building of the missionary college in New Zealand." Dean Bradley, of Westminster Abbey, is writing a life of his predecessor, Dean Stanley. The total number of volumes in all the public libraries of America is reported at 21,000,000. "Uncle Tom's Tenement" is the name of a new novel by Alice Wellington Rollins. The Lippincotts announce the complete works of Shelley, in prose and verse, edited by Richard Herne Shepherd, in five vol umes. At its recent commencement Harvard University conferred the degree of Doctor |