IF we cannot shine ourselves, let us at least be good moons to reflect the light and happiness that beam upon us from our sunshiny friends.

THE philosophy of discontent indicates the duty of the pulpit and the social value of the glad tidings which Christ has commissioned it to proclaim.

WHEN once a man has involved himself deeply in guilt, he has no safe ground to stand upon. Every thing is unsound and rotten under his feet.

THE truly religious man and woman will not tolerate a religion

which is only a weekly parade, but

which cannot reach down to the depths of one's nature and cleanse and purify it.---Jewish Messenger.

ONE missionary who is loose in his doctrinal views, and thinks that one saystem of truth is about as good as another, can do an amount of harm which could not be repaired in a generation.--Examiner.

It is no great matter to live loving ly with good-natured, humble and meek persons; but he who can do so with the forward, wilful, ignorant, peevish and perverse hath true charity.--Thomas a Kempis.

THE whole truth of the matter is simply this, that the saloon and not the capitalist is the real enemy of workin gmen. Take the saloon out of the problem and the labor question is easily and speedily solved.Observer.

Thank God there is in the heart of every one a divine discontent, a hungering passion which will not allow us to be satisfied with present

attainments; that in every soul there is a sacred yearning for something better than the attained. For he who struggles but a step upwards, into the light, has made mankind richer.―Julia Brown.

IN LIGHTER VEIN.

WHAT is your name, little girl?" "Minnie." "Minnie what?" "Minnie Don't, mamma calls me."

"WHAT is a house without a

baby?" asked a lady, and an old bachelor replied, "It is comparatively quiet."

"I AM astonished, my dear young lady, at your sentiments; you make

me start.' "Good! I have been wanting you to start for the last hour."

A YOUNG man in California began to read a paragraph about a mine to his sweetheart, commencing: "Yuba mine "when she interrupted him with: "I don't care if I do, John.”

THE papers are making a great ado over the discovery of a mica bed. Mrs. Maloney sends us word that she discovers a Mike abed every morning when the boy ought to be up splitting wood.

"My dear, how soon can you get ready to move?"

"Move? Why, hubby, are we going away?"

"Yes, dear. I see the papers say there is $60,000,000 lying idle in the

New York banks."

“Well?"

"Well, I am going to get some of it."

"Why, how? You're not going to rob the banks, I hope."

"No. I'm going to open a hotel in Canada.”

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BILLS.

We sent out quite a number of bills last month, and shall send out more this month, to subscribers who have had our MAGAZINE for two years and a half, and have not paid us a cent. We have a question to answer that is very serious and important to us; and in order to answer

it, we must hear from these friends to whom we are sending bills.

BEHOLD THE MAN.

"There once lived a man who left behind him, as a moral testament, a life so sinless, so divinely perfect in its ideals both of fatherhood and of sonship, so allembracing in its love, so all-powerful in its moral choice, so resistless in its holy volitions, so vast and tender in its humanity, so supremè in sacrifice for the race, that the human soul must love him when ever it comes to know him, and must feel that he is its Saviour and its heavenly refuge."

Reader that man was Jesus Christ our Saviour and Lord-he was your Saviour and mine, and the Saviour of the world.

IS IT LIKE CHRIST?

Many great minds are deeply troubled, by the common Orthodox view of final destiny. The author of the biography of Dr. Norman Macleod says, that "to him it was anything but glad tidings when he visited India, to preach to the educated natives of Hindostan, that all their parents and ancestors were suffering the pains of hell because they had not believed in one of whom they had never heard. He had tried to understand the flesh and blood affinites, the prejudices, difficulties, aspirations of the Hindoo mind, and to comprehend as far as possible a humanity which had grown up under conditions so different from his own. The effect of all this was to lead him back to first principles, to oblige him to deal with the mind of the personal Saviour, as of more account than church

formularies. His theology had ever been centered in the character of God as revealed in Christ, and he instinctively now referred every doubtful question to this ultimate standard. "Do you think it would be like Christ so to act?" or "from all you know of God, do you think it would be like Him to do that?"

We do not know of a more important, or a more appropriate question, to urge upon the attention of men, than the one here presented by Dr. Macleod. It is not like Christ, to consign men and women to an eternity of suffering, for not believing in him, when they never heard of him. And no person who loves as Christ loved, will ever believe for one moment that he will ever act in this way. When in the agonies of death upon the cross, he prayed for his murderers, saying-"Father forgive them, they know not what they do." And it is but reasonable to believe, that Christ will pray for those in eternity, who never had an opportunity to hear of him during their earthly life, saying "Father forgive them, they never had an opportunity to believe in me, for they never heard of me." If he failed to do this, we think St. Paul would rise up and ask "How could they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how could they believe in him of whom they had not heard? and how could they hear without a preacher ? and how could one preach except he were sent ?" Surely it is not, and can never be like Christ, to consign any soul to an eternity of suffering, for not believing what he never heard.

QUESTIONS.

Do you think it probable, that the disciples of Christ were sometimes mis

taken?

They were often mistaken before they were endued with power from on high -but not afterwards. For Jesus said unto them, "Ye shall receive power after that the power of the Holy Ghost has come upon you; and ye shall be witnesses

unto me both in Jeausalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the earth." We have no idea that Christ either desired or intended to send out false witnesses-and we do not think that he has, for he was the truth.

—Do you not think from the reading of the fourth chapter of First Thessalonians, that St. Paul believed in the literal coming of Christ to this earth a second time, and a day of general judgment?

We are obliged to say, in reply to this question, that we do not see any occasion for indulging the thoughts suggested in the Scripture referred to. There is certainly no allusion in the chapter to a day of general judgment. Besides the second coming of Christ to this earth, was to be during the lifetime of some of his personal followers. See Matt. 16:27, 28. This was Christ's figurative, or virtual coming, at the close of the Jewish age. Christ referred to it, when he said to Peter, in relation to the apostle John, "If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?" While 1 Thes. 4: 13, 17 is supposed to refer to a coming at the close of the Christian age, when the dead shall be raised incorruptible.

-In what respect do the Unitarians and Universalists differ?

If the lady who asked this question, had understood the true state of the case, she probably would not have put her question in this form. For the Unitarians of this country are divided. To one party God and worship are the essentials of Unitarianism-the other party say, that they are not necessary nor essential; that freedom, fellowship, and character, is all that is required. With this marked difference among themselves, it must of course be evident, that the Universalists differ from them.

-How many members would be necessary to organize an Universalist parish, or church?

The number of members required to

upon cirAs a rule increases

organize, depends a good deal cumstances and the location. influence and power for good, with numbers, especially if they are good and true. The least number that will answer is enough to claim the Savior's presence and blessing, and he says, "Where two or three are assembled in my name, there am I in the midst of them. All depends upon the love and devotion

of those who organize-whether it is pure and true. If it is, it will succeed; whether many or few are engaged in the organization.

-Did Dr. Jonathan Edwards ever use the following language when speaking of lost infants: "That God would take the little vipers in the tongs of his wrath, and hold them over the fire of hell, until they turned and spit venom in his face?"

We have no evidence that Dr. Edwards ever used such language, or wrote such a sentence. We do not think that any sane man ever did.

-How long was Moses on Mount Sinai, at the giving of the law?

Forty days and nights. See Exodus 24: 18.

-How old was Jacob when he agreed to serve his uncle, Laban, for his daughter Rachel ?

He is supposed to have been seventyseven, and eighty-four when married.

EDITORIAL JOTTINGS.

Our first article this month, is a sermon of great worth on the account of its clear. ness of statement. The doctrine of the atonement needs to be understood-for this doctrine alone, is enough to refute the entire orthodox view of destiny.

-We add some new recruits to our list of writers this month--and we have more coming. We have excellent articles in this issue, from Rev. J. C. Pattee, Rev. E. W. Whitney, Dr. Manley, Rev. B. Hunt, William Lyle, and Miss Julia Brownand an excellent sermon for next month

from Rev. M. D. Shutter, and another from Rev. J. M. Muscott.

But few of our ministers realize how much it would help them in their work, if they practiced writing (brief pointed articles for our religious periodicals. For no man can cultivate a style noted for perspicuity, without writing--and there is nothing that a minister needs

niore.

--Dr. Sawyer has a cutting article in the Christian Leader of July 5th, upon the efforts of two or three men, to inaugurate a new departure in the Universalist church. We can mention a score of men who have been confident that they were appointed by God to inaugurate a new departure, since we entered the ministry. But it proved to be the departure of these men into moral death, and forgetfulness-that was all.

-The term Universalism can never suggest correct ideas to a mind that is not affected by what it means. It is very important, therefore, that its real meaning should be made known.

-The feeling that labor is not an honorable occupation, is but a survival of the old pagan and fudal times, when the plow was left to the slaves, and only the villains hoed the corn.

It was excellent advice that Dr. Lyman Beecher gave his son William, when he said: "Make your sermons as good as you can, not depending upon extempore readiness without careful and discrimi nating thought. Have one sermon every week that will tax your intellect and the intellect of your hearers."

-It was a lost opportunity that filled many with regret, when at a late convention, two ministers were selected to preside at the communion table, who never had pastorates over churches where the ordinances were regularly administered, and who, therefore, had no experience or fitness for the service.

-We must not be discouraged even it no immediate results follow our preach

ing, since Jesus Christ often spoke in vain, so far as immediate results are concerned.

-Plutarch tells us, that the heathen Romulus, made the drinking of wine, as well as adultery, a capital offense in women, "For" he said, "adultery opens the door to all sorts of crimes, and wine opens the door to adultery."

-The Lord's table is spread for sinners -he came to call sinners to repentance. It is the weary and heavy laden he invites to him, and to the rest he gives. Why should people refuse to come because they are sinners?

-Still water soon stagnates; running water never. We must keep our minds employed, if we would keep them vigor

ous.

-It is said that a man of twenty lives one year in five; but the man of sixty lives five years in one.

-Good men never die; they rest from their labors, but their works do follow them.

THE MANFORD MEMORIAL. The Universalist publishes the following:

The members of the Church of the Redeemer, Chicago, were most agreeably surprised on Sunday morning to find on entering the church that the large window in the north transept had been transformed into a beautiful memorial-the Manford memorial. This is the gift of Dr. and Mrs. Norman Bridge, and is a tribute worthy of their filial affection. The memorial occupies the entire window and is of the finest stained glass artistically designed, rich and beautfully varied in color. The central panel is a large and accurate representation of Millet's famous painting "The Sower." Messrs. McCully and Miles regard this as one of the best specimens of their work in Chicago, and certainly the people of the Church of the Redeemer have reason to be gratful for this new and suggestive

object of beauty in their church edifice. The services on Sunday were appropriate to the occasion. The pastor preached upon "The Sower," paying high tribute to Erasmus Manford, the earnest and beautiful sower of the Word whose field was the great West, and whose labors were so greatly blessed. The Manford memorial will insipringly remind the present generation of the labors and sacrifices that in the past were made to advance the great cause of Universalism. Rev. T. H. Tabor participated in the exercises, making an exceedingly interesting address upon Dr. Manford's life and labors.

IMPRESSED.

A judge was interrogated as to the reason of his attending church. The reply was, "I go to be impressed." Instructions of a religious nature may be derived from books, lectures, discussions, etc. The true design of pulpit effort is to impress the conscience with truths that, perhaps, are already embraced in the theory of the hearer. If the auditors are sent away unimpressed by the truths addressed to them, the effort proves a failure, to be lamented as an opportunity to benefit souls not fully embraced. The utterances of unchanging truth by a liv. ing ministry can never be superseded. The changing countenance, the tearful eye, the graceful gesture, and earnest manner of the orator cannot be printed. Through these, as the soul, all aroused by the truth, goes forth on its mission, impressions kindred to its own are made upon many hearts.

And through this instrumentality, men and women are sent forth to feel and live the truth, which otherwise, they would only believe as a theory.

THE END OF HUMAN GRANDEur.

Death put an end to the most specious titles, to the most dazzling grandeur, and to the most delicious life; and the thought of this period of human glory reminds us