meetings, visited several villages, preaching the gospel.

Menomonie, Wis.-Rev. Charles F. Niles, late of West Superior, has been called to be pastor of the Memorial Church, Menomonie. The Menomonie church is to be congratulated upon its choice, and Mr. Niles is to be congratulated upon his opportunity.

Oak Park, Ill.-The degree of Doctor of Divinity has been conferred by Lombard University, Galesburg, Ill., upon Rev. Augusta J. Chapin, who was for several years pastor of the Universalist church here. This is probably the first instance in history of this degree being conferred upon a woman. It will not be the last.

Ramona Ranch, Mont. Our flourishing school at this place, which is doing such good work for the children of the Crow Indians, was the scene of a double wedding on Tuesday, July 25, when Rev. J. H. Crooker of Helena married Charles J. Mayers and Fannie M. Spencer, and also Frederick A. Spencer and Hattie Wood, son and daughter of Rev. and Mrs. A. A. Spencer, who have been at the head of this institution for three years.

Rowe, Mass.-I have been intending for some time to give you a report of the great "waking up" of the Unitarian society which had been running down these last years, the members growing less and less. Death had taken some of its most prominent members, some had moved away, others had grown slack and indifferent; but the rest wanted preaching and to go on as in former years. But there didn't seem to be any one who cared to come to the country and live or to preach in so small a society. We did not pay enough. We were too far from Boston, large libraries, public schools. Our winters were too severe, and many other reasons why the men whom we would like couldn't come; and we nearly despaired getting any one.

But a year ago Mrs. Mary T. Lyche came to us from Warwick, and preached through the summer; and she would have been glad to remain with us, as she saw our needs and felt she was doing us good. But her husband had gone back to his native home, Norway, and was engaged in business there; and she knew it was best for her to go also, for there was great work awaiting them there. It was very hard for us to give her up, and it seemed an impossibility to ever get another minister to fill her place who would feel the same interest in us; and we were so poor, so isolated, our numbers were so few! But our committee made other applications to the American Unitarian Association, and after a time their efforts were crowned with success. Mr. Wilson sent us Rev. Herman Haugerud, a

native of Norway, who had been preaching in Washington (with great success), and expected to return there; but the last year he had been taking an advanced course at Harvard. He was sent to us for one Sunday before he returned West, not thinking to settle; but the fates had ordained otherwise. We liked him. He was young, full of life and zeal, a great worker, with a love for the country, not afraid of our hard winters. He saw at once our great needs, and felt drawn to the place by our beautiful mountain scenery, our grand old hills, and pure atmosphere; and he felt full of inspiration at once. And he was sure he could draw in deep draughts of it all the time and be able to do greater work, could he remain here. He was kind enough to tell us so, hence the result. Otherwise we should be the forlorn society now that we had been. So we gave him a call, knowing full well he was beyond our means and fearing we could not get him, or, if we did, we could not keep him long.

They

To our surprise and joy, he accepted our call and came to us at once, with his sweet wife and little children; and such a change as he has wrought! The attendance at church has increased greatly. He at once started right in to help the young people, and formed a society called "The Onward Unity Club." A great many joined. They hold a meeting every Sunday night. have essays, recitations, singing, and a talk from Mr. Haugerud on the subject chosen for the evening. He is ever ready to help them, and the life and interest manifested is truly surprising. The meetings have become more and more interesting; and, although they have them once a week, it seems very often. Still, they never fail to have a nice programme and well carried

out.

All of this is due to our minister, who began in the right way by interesting the children, helping the young people, quickening their thoughts and feelings for good things. He is ever ready with a speech, an apt quotation from some noted author, or "drops into poetry" as the occasion may require. It was a grand thing to come to us here in our isolation, and make us feel it is a pleasure to do so, and that he is being benefited by it, when we are the ones that are receiving such great help, such everlasting good.

Much more I would be glad to tell of the help we are getting, but fear now I will not be granted space for all I have written. But it is so seldom Rowe speaks, I trust you will favor us this time, and will rejoice with us that we are able to report so favorably.

Valparaiso, Ind.-Rev. T. G. Milsted of Unity Church, Chicago, has been holding services here during the past two years upon alternate Sunday evenings in the

Opera House.

His has been purely a labor of love, as we are weak in numbers and purse, but strong in the faith. The crowded houses prove how strong his argument and eloquence are. We have a large floating population (about two thousand), representing nearly every State in the Union, attending the normal school located here. There is hardly such another field in our broad land for the sowing of the seed of liberal Christianity. Will not friends of the cause rally to our support? The harvest will be certain and large.

J. MCCREE.

Ware, Mass.-The Springfield Republican of July 23 contains a vigorous sermon by Rev. V. E. Southworth on "Rewards and Punishments."

N.H.-The annual

grove

The Weirs, meeting of Unitarians held here July 30 to August 7 was a great success, more so, perhaps, than usual. It brought out especially a large number of, comparatively speaking, new men, in its programme of speakers, the rising pulpit orators of our liberal faith; and these young men brought an earnest, energetic spirit into all the deliberations of the conference that gave a deal of freshness to the ordinary discussions. There is never so large a gathering as we continue to hope for, but the attendance was good and furnished fruitful soil for the noble utterances

put forth from the platform. The variety

of subject and manner of presentation reflect great credit upon the Committee of Management, of whom Rev. F. L. Phalen of Concord, N. H., is the secretary.

Williamsport, Ind.-To the great surprise of the people of this orthodox place, Rev. A. P. Stout of the Christian Church preached a strong sermon on Sunday, July 23, in which he repudiated in the most unmistakable way the leading doctrines of Orthodoxy, and declared himself in sympathy with the main thought of liberal Christianity. He declared that as long ago as 1877 he was set to questioning the dogma of eternal punishment by the utterances of Canon Farrar and Henry Ward Beecher on this subject. With this beginning he had gone on diverging in thought from the orthodox scheme, until to-day its main features seemed to him neither reasonable nor Scriptural nor just nor true. He had not lost his faith in Christianity: on the contrary, he believed in Christianity more profoundly, if possible, than ever before; but it is the Christianity of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, which the Founder of Christianity himself taught, and not the Christianity of the creeds, which is a wide departure from Christ. He declared his belief that the Scriptures are not and nowhere profess to be infallible; that God is one, and not a trinity; that the Holy Spirit is not a separate per

son, but is simply God (this being merely one of the names or descriptive designations by which God is known); that Christ is not God, never claimed to be,-indeed, in the strongest and clearest language claimed not to be, but is the wisest and highest of created spirits, though not omnipotent or omniscient and not a proper object of worship; that there is no such thing as an endless hell; that all God's punishment of men is reformatory in its nature; that a God who teaches us to forgive our enemies will not eternally damn his; that death can have no power to lessen God's love for any soul or to weaken his power to save it; that the race is not a fallen or lost race; that salvation is not from Adam's fall or from an eternal hell, but from ignorance and selfishness and sin; that what saves men is good deeds and a right life, and not reliance on the goodness of another; that God's inspiration is perennial, -a thing of the present time as truly as of the past; and that God's revelation is too large and too rich to be confined to the Bible or to any possible single book.

Of course, such views as these were very startling to an orthodox congregation. What the result will be remains to be seen.

Mr. Stout was ordained and began preaching as a Baptist, but later joined the Christian or Disciples body. He has held pastorates in Greencastle, Ind., and in Indianapolis. He is the author of a book on

"The Chronology of Christ's Life" and another on "The Trials and Crucifixion of Christ." For several years past he has travelled, and lectured extensively on the subjects treated in his books.

International Congress of Unitarians.

To be held in Chicago, Sept. 16-23, 1893, under the Auspices of the World's Congress Auxiliary of the World's Columbian Exposition.

[The arrangement of the parts subject to revision.] THE UNITARIAN EXPOSITION IN THE PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS AT ART INSTITUTE BUILDING, REV. E. E. HALE PRESIDING.

Saturday, September 16.

THE UNITARIAN MOVEMENT.

10 A.M. Its Representative Men, Rev. Theodore C. Williams, New York. Its Theological Method, Rev. M. St. C. Wright, New York. Its Place in the Development of Christianity, *Prof. C. B. Upton, B.A., B.Sc., Oxford, England. The Church of the Spirit.

2 P.M. In Literature, Rev. Augustus M. Lord, Providence, R.I. In Philanthropy, Rev. F. G. Peabody, D.D., Cambridge. In the Growth of Democracy, Rev. Horatio Stebbins, D D., San Francisco.

Sunday, September 17.

There will be preaching by the visiting Unitarian clergy in as many of the churches of the city as can be arranged for.

*Not expected in person.

Tuesday, September 19.

THE HISTORY OF UNITARIANISM.

(a) From the Sermon on the Mount to the Nicene Creed, Rev. T. R. Slicer, Buffalo.

(b) In Poland, *Rev. Alex. Gordon, M.A., Manchester, Eng.

(c) In Hungary, *Prof. S. Boros, Transylvania.
(d) In France, Prof. G. Bonet-Maury, Paris.
(e) In Germany.

(ƒ) In Italy, Prof. Bracciforti, Milan.

(g) In Scandinavia, Prof. Carl van Bergen, Stockholm. (h) In England, Rev W. Copeland Bowie, London, Eng. (i) In Holland, Rev. F. W. N. Hugenholtz, Jr., Grand Rapids, Mich.

(j) In America: Unitarianism in its Pre-Transcendental Period, Rev. J. H. Allen, D.D., Cambridge, Mass. Unitarianism in its Transcendental Period, Rev. George Batchelor, Lowell, Mass. Unitarianism in its Post-Transcendental Period, Rev. J. C. Learned, St. Louis, Mo.

Evening.

UNITARIANISM IN NON-CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT.

Protab Mozoomdar, Calcutta, India.

A Representative Jew.

A Representative Mohammedan.

Wednesday, September 20.

THE RELIGIOUS DOCTRINES OF UNITARIANISM. (a) The Human Roots of Religion, Rev. F. B. Hornbrooke, West Newton, Mass.

(b) God, Rev. S. M. Crothers, St. Paul, Minn. (c) Jesus, Rev. J. H. Crooker, Helena, Mont.

Evening.

(d) Man, Rev. H. M. Simmons, Minneapolis, Minn. (e) The Problem of Evil, Rev. S. R. Calthrop, Syracuse. (f) The Life Eternal, Rev. M. J. Savage, Boston.

Thursday, September 21.

UNITARIANISM AND MODERN THOUGHT.

(a) Scientific, *Rev. H. W. Crosskey, LL.D., F.G.S., Birmingham, Eng.

(b) Old Testament Criticism, Prof. C. H. Toy, D.D., LL.D., Cambridge.

(c) New Testament Criticism, President Geo. L. Cary, Meadville, Pa.

(d) Social Problems, *Rev. P. H. Wicksteed, M.A., London, Eng.

(e) Extra-biblical Religions, Rev. Geo. A. Thayer, Cincinnati, Ohio.

(f) The Hymns of the Church, Rev. A. P. Putnam, Concord, Mass.

Evening.

THE PROMISE OF UNITARIANISM.

Addresses by a layman, Rev. Anna Garlin Spencer. Rev. W. C. Gannett, and Rev. E. E. Hale.

Friday, September 22.

PRESENT ORGANIZED FORCES OF UNITARIANISM. 10 A.M.

American Unitarian Association, Rev. Grindall Reynolds. National Conference, Rev. W. H. Lyon. British and Foreign Unitarian Association, Rev. W.

*Not expected in person.

Bishop

Copeland Bowie, Secretary. Transylvania, Ferencz or Prof. Boros. Western Unitarian Conference, Rev. F. L. Hosmer. Unitarian Sunday School Society, Rev. E. A. Horton. Unitarian Guilds, Rev. B. R. Bulkeley, Concord. Unity Clubs, Rev. G. W. Cooke, Boston. Western Unitarian Sunday School Society, Rev. A. W. Gould, Chicago. Pacific Coast Conference, Rev. C. W. Wendte, San Francisco Southern Conference, Rev. G. L. Chaney, Atlanta, Ga. In Aus. tralia, Miss C. H. Spence.

2 P.M. Women's meeting.

Evening.

Fellowship meeting, with speakers from all branches of the liberal movement in religion. Names to be announced Congress Week.

Saturday, September 23.

8 P.M. Reception in Church of the Messiah.

CONGRESS OF EVOLUTIONISTS.

Morning Session.-PSYCHOLOGY, as related to Evolution. The Nature of Knowledge. The Doctrine of Relativity. Sense-perception. The Evolution of Mind. Afternoon Session.—SOCIOLOGY: The Science of Social Growth. Man's Relation to the Earth and to his Fellowmen. Evolution's Promise for the Settlement of Social Problems. The True Conservatism of Evolution.

Evening Session.-ECONOMICS, as related to Evolution. The Historical and Evolutionary Method as applied to Political Economy. Larger Economic Aspects of the Question.

Third Day.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29.

Morning Session.-PHILOSOPHY, as affected by Evolution. The Scientific Method in Philosophy. Spencer's Unknowable. The Philosophy of History.

Afternoon Session.-ETHICS: The Morals of Evolution. Growth of the Moral Sense. Its Relation to Prior Physical and Biological Conditions. Harmony of Intuitive and Experiential Theories.

Evening Session.-RELIGION: How it is affected by the Doctrine of Evolution. Spiritual Implications in all Progress. Materialistic Speculations Untenable. The Immanent and Transcendent Power that makes for Beauty, Order, and Righteousness.

A complete Catalogue of our publications will be sent to any address on application. We here speak of one or two important works, endeavoring to give some idea of their scope:

The New Bible and its New Uses.

By Joseph Henry Crooker, author of "Jesus Brought Back," "Problems in American Society," etc., etc.

Multitudes of people to-day, both outside and inside the churches, are aware that the New Criticism, arisen in our age, has revealed a New

eral department of popular Biblical exposition, and show (if this may be done gracefully) how it differs from them. There is one little work in particular which will occur to the minds of some as coming more nearly into comparison with Mr. Crooker's volume than any other; yet the observant reader of both will perceive very speedily that Mr. Crooker's book, through the nature of its aim and plan, is more definite in information and more extensive in scope than the similar work had in mind. A second volume is admirable in what it endeavors; it attempts, however, as a whole, to treat only what

Mr. Crooker's volume includes in a condensed form in its Introduction alone. The former presents a fuller and more technical discussion of the problems of Biblical scholarship, but it does not dwell upon the bearing of certain lines of facts upon the new uses of scripture as Mr. Crooker's book does. A third work, more recent than the two thus far spoken of, and written from a particularly orthodox point of view, comes into comparison with "The New Bible and its New Uses" by Mr. Crooker in much the same way,-barring the fact of the great unlikeness in the two points of view. The one writer devotes himself wholly to a largely apologetic statement of the milder results of Biblical criticism; while Mr. Crooker, again, after briefly stating some general conclusions, presents the facts which must be considered in the new use of the Bible. Other works, once more, tell the "story" of the Bible more at length than Mr. Crooker does; but, as they fail to do, he re-locates the Bible, putting it in its proper place among the religious agencies of the new age in which men to-day are thinking and living.

In a word, what Mr. Crooker has done is this: He has made a little book for the intelligent reader, in which he gives the essential conclusions of modern Biblical scholarship, and, in view of the facts furnished by the Bible itself, helps his reader to determine what place it is still capable of, and should have, in his religious life. Mr. Crooker arranges for consideration those facts which must determine a "rational" use of the scriptures; and in this respect, the bearing of the discoveries by new scholarship on the world's uses of the Bible from now onward, is what is most distinctive in the book.

It will thus be concluded that the present volume succeeds in that in which so many similar works fail-it is straightforward. There is no juggling, no hesitancy in the presenting of the keenest conclusions. Yet it is earnest and reverent withal,-written wholly in the religious spirit, and with the true religious aim; and it cannot fail to be an awakener and helper whereever it goes.

"What then, is the new Bible?" asks Mr. Crooker, on page 43, at the conclusion of his Introduction. A portion of his answer we print below:

The Bible is the literary product of the religious spirit in one of its noblest manifestations. It is the reflection, rather than the source, of man's religious life; the history of one line of religious evolution. . . . The new Bible is the old Bible allowed to tell its own story, to shine in its own light, to occupy its real place in the religious history of humanity. The new Bible is the old Bible viewed in the

light of all recent discoveries, taken as a religious classic rather than as a supernatural revelation, to be used, not as a rigid rule, but as a book of human experience to impart to us hope and holiness.

The new Bible is the old Bible honored as one of the torches of truth, but not worshipped as the only luminary in our heavens. It is a pasture where the soul is to feed freely, not a prison in which to confine thought. Its chapters are not blinders to be worn to shut out visions of truth and beauty now unfolding, but lenses through which we may gain clearer views of certain great laws of the spirit. The new Bible must be put to new uses. Its texts must be used, not as hitching-posts to which thought is to be tied, but as fuel for the altar fires of the heart.

[Cloth, 286 pages, $1.00.]

Miss Cobbe's Books.

Among our advertisements we re-print, from our new Catalogue, the works, published by us, of Miss Frances Power Cobbe. There is not one of these books that is not valuable in thought and helpful in influence. They are strong, breezy, original, and, withal, earnest to the core. They are written with the purpose to brighten and better human life, bring men and women to seriousness, make them see and feel and do. Moreover, they are all modern. They are books of the present time, discussing questions of to-day. The stirring tone, the candid argument, the helpful intent of all Miss Cobbe's books, and their fearlessness, their strength, their insight, are universally recognized:

Those who have read Miss Cobbe's "Duties of Women," a hand-book of noble living that is to be ranked with the most meritorious and successful of recent publications, will scarcely need to have her work commended to them. All are marked by their author's acuteness, candor and courage.-New York World.

Miss Cobbe is a brilliant writer, . . . animated by a desire to aid in the solution of those dark problems of life and immortality with which humanity is now battling. She is especially fitted for such a task by her freedom from prejudice and by her faculty of clothing her thoughts in language attractive to the ordinary intellect.-Boston Transcript.

Miss Cobbe displays a candor by no means common in the discussion of questions mainly theological, and which is often conspicuous by its absence from public utterances. Her work is sincere and earnest.-Good Literature.

Few writers of the present day have a firmer hold on the public mind than Miss Frances Power Cobbe. She has lived among the liberal and progressive thinkers of the last forty years, and has been thoroughly conversant with their best intellectual productions. Her discussion is