who could tell by smelling anything given to him who had last handled it. The guides who accompany trav elers in the route from Aleppo to Babylon will tell by smelling the desert sand how near they are to the latter place. Nathaniel Wauley, in his "Wonders of the Little World," a famous old book, gives a particularly full account of a man, called Johu of Liege, who, while a boy, flying in terror of soldiers in time of war, passed many a year alone in the depths of the forest of Ardennes, where he lived upon roots and wild fruits, the presence of which he could at least detect from a great distance by the smell alone. In the same way he detected the presence of men long before they came in sight.

A SUDDEN CONVERSION.

Rev. F. G. Gange, speaking at Bristol, Eng., one night, said he believed in careful preparation at home of sermons for the Sunday, instead of "gadding around from house to house visitng." In his career, he was earnestly requested by a deacon to visit a member of the congregation who was ill; and it was suggested that he should call at eleven o'clock in the morning. He did so, and found the poor woman very much better, but greatly put out at his visit, as she had her hair in curl papers, her sleeves tucked up to her elbows, and was doing a bit of household sweeping and dusting. He begged her not to mind him, as he was "used to that sort of thing." He would have a short prayer, he would not be long. They knew he was never long about anything. He selected a chair, and knelt down. She selected another, and he began the prayer. He heard the door opened once. He heard it opened a second time. He concluded an earnest prayer on the poor woman's behalf, and, on

looking around-lo! a perfect transformation. While he was praying, she had slipped up to her bedroom, washed her hands and face, curled her hair, changed her attire, and there she was in her very best silk, fittingly prepared to receive company, while he had been praying among the empty chairs.-Bristol Mercury..

CHEERFULNESS.

Next to godliness there is nothing like cheerfulness for the making of a happy home. Clouds of fretfulness and fault-finding are easily dissipated by the member of the household who enters the breakfast-room with a smiling face, a cheery "Good morning," and words of wholesome mirth. Dreaded tasks look less difficult, and burdens of care press less heavily, in the presence of such people. They radiate hope as naturally as the sun sends forth his rays. To grumblers and despondent ones who complain that there is no bright side to their lot, they have the ready reply, "Then polish up the dark one." In the atmosphere of cheerful homes are found boys and girls like Clive Newcome, of whom Thackeray says, “I don't know that Clive was especially brilliant, but he was pleasant." Suppose this should be said of every member of every family in which this paper is read, during every hour of every day, this present year, what an amount of warmth and sunshine would be diffused through our land!

ACCEPT WHAT IS. Be assured that there is little to be known here, much to be borne, and something to be done. What you are and what your life means, you do not know. God only knows. You must be content with twilight, except when contrast with the darkness makes the twilight seem, as it really is in common, a blaze of light.

LET us encourage the beautiful for the useful encourages itself.-Goethe.

A DOUBTFUL doctrine is far less pernicious than a doubtful life.Lyman Abbott.

PROSPERITY is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh

friends.-Plutarch.

SOME people's whole lives are sweet poems, or grand and swelling psalms, who are utterly unable to write a rythmetical sentence.

SOME men recognize nothing in the world to be worthy of their regard if it does not conduce to their own immediate use.

Ir is an old saying but a very pretty one, that a blush is like a pretty girl, for it becomes a WO

man.

THE patter of little feet and the patter of summer rains, are the

sweetest music in the world of nature.

I HAVE lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow our energies to stagnate.-Adam Clark.

THE greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.— Lamb.

THE temperate are the most truly luxurious. By abstaining from most things, it is surprising how many things we enjoy.-Simms..

I Do not think any man of modesty or thoughtfulness will ever speak contemptuously of any religion in which God has allowed one good man to die, trusting.-John Ruskin.

LOST wealth may be replaced by industry; lost knowledge by study;

"WHAT are pauses?" asked the teacher of a primary class. "Things that grow on cats!" piped the small boy at the foot.

"On!" said the afflicted wife, weeping over his body, "he said he would take off his flannel anyway, and, poor man, he little thought how soon he would go to that place where flannels are never needed.”

Ax old rail splitter in Indiana put the quietus upon a young man who chaffed him upon his bald head, in these words: "Young man, when my head gets as soft as yours, I can raise

hair to sell."

"WHAT are you looking for?" asked one of the Widow Bedott's daughters, who were entertaning two young fellows on the piazza, rather late one night last summer, of their mother, who seemed to be hunting for something around the front yard. "The morning papers," answered the Widow. The young men left.

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MAY MEETING.

The Universalist Woman's Association of Illinois held what was called a May Meeting last year in St. Paul's church in this city. It was called a grand success, and thought to have done great good. And it was thought best to make it an annual custom. The May Meeting this year will be held in the Church of the Redeemer, and arrangements for it are already in progress. The notice of time, etc., will soon appear.

OUR GREAT CONQUEST. There are many people whose hearts are not large enough to take in the world, and who often snear at our faith in Christ's complete success as Mediator and Savior. They have no faith that the time will ever come when every knee will bow to Jesus Christ, of things in heaven, and things on earth, and things under the earth, and every tongue will confess that he is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

They call such a faith blasphemous; and such a hope foolishness. But still the pages of the Old Testament Scriptures glow with the promise of this good time

coming. We read: "All nations whom Thou hast made shall come and worship before Thee, O Lord, and shall glorify thy name." "The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose." David sings of a dominicn that shall extend from sea to sea and from the rivers to the ends of the earth." The prophets abound in allusions to the progress of Christ's kingdom. "Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low."

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It is the greatest glory of the past century, that within its enfolding years it has contained almost the entire and literal fulfillment of these ancient prophecies. There is a highway to all lands, mountains have been leveled and valleys bridged, science, art and commerce, discoveries, treaties and political events, all have contributed to bring near heathen nations of the world. The old dispensation closes and Christ comes, "Through the tender mercy of our God, the dayspring from on high." He declares that "The field is the world," and teaches us to pray "Thy kingdom come." He foretells the labors of his first missionaries, and closes his divine message with the command, "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature."

In the Acts of the Apostle we have the first missionary report; the vivid account of the great meeting at Jerusalem, of the first missionaries, their travels and the establishment of the first station; Peter's sermon containing the word of prophecy which declares, "And it shall

come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy." He declares that the coming of this long promised good, is an urgent reason for repentance; for it is the foreshadowing of a glorious conquest of souls. Hear his words: Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; and he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: whom the heaven must receive, until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets, since the world began.Acts 3: 19-21.

This language teaches the conquest of the world, the whole world, so plainly, that even the believers in a different destiny, have to admit its truth. Prof. Hackett says, "The times of the restoration of all things, i. e., to a state of primeval order, purity and happiness, such as will exist for those who have part in the kingdom of Christ. Such a restoration to holiness and happiness is the explicit or implied theme of prophecy from the beginning to the end of the Old Testament."

Dr. Adam Clark expresses the opinion that the work of restoration is to become universal and that all things will be restored in the fullest sense of the term."

These Scriptures show conclusively that the world is to be taken for Christ, for the heathen were given to him for an inheritance, and uttermost parts of the earth for a possession. To aid in gaining this grand conquest, the Universalist church exists. It has been speaking in God's behalf for many years, and urging faith, more faith in the all-conquering Christ, who is indeed to be Lord of all.

EDITORIAL JOTTINGS.

We this month complete forty years in the Universalist ministry. Thirty-five years and almost one-half have been de

voted to the promulgation of our blessed faith in the West. What hosts of memories, joyous and sad, come flocking around us, as we turn our thoughts to the way that we have come. We have done what we could, and all we could, during the years that have gone.

-It is encouraging to know that it is not the man who has been blessed with the greatest capacity, or who has labored the most years, who is entitled to the most credit for what he has done-but the man who has done the most with the least capacity and aid.

-Horace Greely once said of a popular orator: "He is a pretty man, a very pretty man, but he don't study, and no man can have permanent power unless he studies.” We wish we could convince all the ministers of the Gospel of Christ of the truth and importance of these words.

-The great duty of the minister is to preach the Gospel. To do this with acceptance and freshness from year to year he must be a diligent student.

-Demosthenes never made any oration on the sudden; yea, being called upon, he never rose up to speak except he had studied the matter; and he was wont to say that he showed how he honored and reverenced the people of Athens, because he was careful what he spoke to them.

-A recently called pastor had preached his first sermon to his new congregation since his call. As the large congregation was passing out of the church a young lady was heard to say to a person with her Was not that sermon perfectly splendid? and I am told that he is equally nice at a wedding."

-The recent visit of Rev. S. L. Perin, our recently appointed Missionary to Japan, to this city, was followed by substantial results. He spoke in St. Paul's Church, and the Church of the Redeemer. The united offering of the two churches amounts to the splendid sum of six thousand six hundred and forty-seven dollars! This offering puts Chicago ahead of all

our churches and ranges the West bravely along aside of the East in the splendid canvass in which all the churches visited by the Missionary have done so nobly and well.

-It is said to be a fact that $50,000 have been pledged to the Japan Mission by the Universalist Church.

-We are asked why we have delayed engaging in Foreign Missionary work so long? Simply because we have been in the condition of the old farmer, who said that he was an Overseer of the Poor, and that his business was all at home. We have been in a similar condition. There has been so much heathenism in the theology of the Orthodox churches for us to controvert, that we had no time to go abroad. But now, that some of these churches are discussing the question of putting the declaration that God is Love, in their Confessions of Faith, we think we may safely look after more distant fields.

-Two of the saddest secrets of the disease that affects our age are the envious hatred of those who suffer want, and the selfish forgetfulness of those who live in affluence.

-Mrs. Eliza Grubb writes us from Indiana: "I passed my eighty-first birthday December 25, 1889, and rejoice that I have the privilege of reading MANFORD'S MAGAZINE and the Universalist, to support me in my faith in my old age."

-Now that broad gauge ministers are having much to say about possibility of God's making a revelation to men, it may be well to remember that Thomas Paine said in his "Age of Reason," (page 7) "No one will deny or dispute the power of the Almighty to make such a communication if he pleases. Revelation means something communicated immediately from God to man." Are not the statements of some professed ministers less Christian than this?

-It is nearly certain, we suppose, that the World's Fair is to be held in Chicago.

The Gospel Banner, of Maine, feels moved to say: "The vote in favor of Chicago will not, we are sure, meet with hearty indorsement except in that part of the land. The increased expense of holding such a Fair in a western city, and the decrease in patronage from the same cause, should lead to a revision of the decision already recorded."

But the San Francisco Reporter does not agree with Bro. Mead, for it says: "The World's Fair was a San Francisco as well as a Chicago proposition, and Chicago's victory is really one for San Francisco."

-He is a poor advocate whose life is at variance with the requirements of the faith he is endeavoring to commend to others.

-If this life is our only day of grace, if in this life only we have hope in Christ, then death is the paralizing stroke in the operations of the divine government, that endlessly disorganizes and defeats all of God's purposes.

-It is sometimes said that the conditionality of salvation is fatal to Universalism. But our opposers should remember that it is the immutable purpose of God that Christ shall not fail-that every condition shall be complied with. That Christ shall turn and overturn till God is all in all.