The Free Church of Scotland Temperance Society has 286 branches, with 30,571 members, and 376 Bands of Hope, with 43,013 members.

Dr. A. Forel, said to be one of the ablest physicians on the continent, and a leader in the "Blue Cross" movement, a temperance organization in Switzerland now numbering 6,000, "has established a prohibition organization with sections in Zürich and Basel, with a growing membership, which is both total abstinence and in favor of the prohibition of the liquor traffic."

The United Kingdom Temperance and General Provident Institution held its fiftieth annual meeting in London, May 26. It has two sections, the General Section and the Temperance Section. In the General Section, moderate drinkers, of the reputable sort, are accepted as risks; in the Temperance Section, abstainers only. In the period from 1866 to 1890 there were in the General

Section a total of 7,277 expected deaths and of 7,034 actual deaths; while in the same period, from 1866 to 1890, there were in the Temperance Section a total of 4,856 expected deaths and of actual deaths but 3,423.

That is, in the Temperance Section there were 1,433 deaths fewer than were expected, according to the basis of life insurance tables; while in the General Section the actual deaths were but 243 fewer than

were expected. The lesson of these figures is obvious, and it is a striking proof of the great advantage of total abstinence as a basis for longevity.-Temperance Advocate.

GUILD DEPARTMENT.

We read of a flourishing guild in Milford, N. H., started only a few months ago, called the "Livermore Young People's Guild." The average age is about sixteen. It meets every Sunday evening three-quarters of an hour before the regular service. It numbers over thirty. It is broadly religious, giving a pleasant assistance to the church in the furnishing of flowers for the services and in the doing of charitable works. It is expected that a confirmation class will be formed from the guild.

The Guild of St. Christopher in Revere, Mass., held its anniversary on June 28, in the evening. There was an account of what the guild had done by Mr. Spavin. Addresses were read by Rev. George M. Bodge and Rev. B. R. Bulkeley. Closing remarks were made by the pastor, Rev. E. R. Butler.

As an instance of what a guild can do, it is pleasant to record the following item: In the church at Medfield, Mass., the subject chosen for the guild meeting of June 24 was "Helping the Minister." The minister was sick; and, as token of regard and sympathy, a note was sent to him, accom

panied by some flowers. More than this, one who had been president of the guild for two years offered to take the minister's place in the regular church service. This he did, giving Mr. Savage's sermon on "Helping have brought home the sermon to many the Minister." How his example must minds! And, surely, there are many churches where this could be done. The guild is a powerful agent in developing the talent for such assistance in the church.

B. R. BULKELEY, President.

UNIVERSALIST NOTES.

DR. MINER'S GIFT TO TUFTS. We have all been thinking and talking of Dr. Miner's splendid gift announced on Commencement Day at Tufts, by which he builds a new hall for the use of the Divinity School. For many years the school has been quartered in one-half of one of the dormitories, in small, inconvenient, and altogether unsuitable rooms, which have been greatly needed by the college for the accommodations of its undergraduates. By this noble endowment from the hands of the honored expresident, the school will have a beautiful building of its own, planned with reference to its especial needs, located as the beginning of a new group, of which the second building will be a dormitory, no doubt soon to follow the new hall. The scene at the Commencement dinner when the president made public Dr. Miner's generosity and thoughtfulness was one of the most lively and enthusiastic ever seen on College Hill. Mr. James D. Perkins of Brooklyn and Hon. Charles Robinson of Boston added gifts of $1,000 each toward the new dormitory, and the gymnasium rang with the cheers and applause of the delighted assembly. Tufts is sure of the largest class in its history for next year, and the Divinity School is growing proportionately with the college.

In fact, all our educational institutions are most prosperous and efficient. Goddard and Dean graduated this year their largest classes. Clinton Liberal Institute is about to add a military department, with an army officer detailed for instruction of the cadets. Buchtel is to have a new scientific building. Lombard is rejoicing in the permanent endowment of a chair of theology by Hon. A. G. Throop, and they are even discussing the possibility of a theological chair at Akron. The good work of the last twentyfive years is bearing fruit, and we have a cluster of schools and colleges of which we feel justly proud.

DR. CONE'S BOOK.

The appearance of Dr. Cone's volume on "Gospel Criticism" is an event of more than denominational significance. It is of serious interest to all students of the great issues involved in the new criticism and its

verdicts upon the nature of the Bible and its various component books. It is not a book to be skimmed, not to be dismissed in a hasty paragraph. Dr. Cone's temper is admirable, his spirit irenic, his scholarship adequate, and his conclusions honest and conscientious. His positions in the main are those to which all thoughtful men are rapidly coming. His book is a genuine contribution to the resources of those who are

anxious to know the feeling and judgment of the men who have explored the field of gospel criticism for the last quarter-century, and have made up a verdict as to the real status of affairs.

A MILITARY SCHOOL.

The enterprising principal of the Clinton Liberal Institute has accomplished an end which will be most gratifying to the young men who come within his constituency in securing the appointment by the government of an army officer as military instructor, and the establishment of military drill and the study of tactics as part of the regular curriculum for the young men. There were only one or two opportunities left within the limits of the act of Congress for the establishment of these posts under government supervision, and Mr. Pursell's success in obtaining the selection of Clinton is very creditable to his energy and skill. JOHN COLEMAN ADAMS.

LITERARY NOTES.

Mr. Geo. H. Ellis is making an effort to get some first-class religious reading into the hands of summer travellers. To this end he has published a handsome pamphlet of ninety pages, entitled "Four Great Questions," by Rev. M. J. Savage, which will be sold in the railway stations and on the news-stands at 25 cents per copy. The pamphlet contains four sermons, entitled Can We Think God? Can We Trust God? May We Pray to God? May We Worship God? We know of no nobler or more heroic life lived in this century than that of Dorothea Dix; nor do we know of any noble life the story of which has been more worthily told than that of Miss Dix. Her biography by Rev. Francis Tiffany is a work of rare interest and value. Let women read it to see what one frail woman can be and do. Let men read it to see what noble living means. We are glad to print Mr. Savage's sermon, which well epitomizes the thrilling history of her who "lived an epic and left others to sing it."

The late Charles Bradlaugh left behind him a book nearly finished entitled "Labor and Law." It is to be published soon.

We are glad to see the announcement that a biography is in preparation of Rev. W. H. Ryder, D.D., who was for so many years

Houghton, Mifflin & Co. will soon publish, under the title "Practical Morals," the two manuscripts which recently divided the prize of $1,000 offered by the American Secular Union for the best work calculated to aid teachers in the important matter of moral instruction on a scientific basis. One, "The Laws of Daily Conduct," is by Nicholas P. Gilman: the other, "Characterbuilding: A Series of Talks between a Master and his Pupils," is by Edward P. Jackson.

Intimations of Eternal Life. By Caroline C. Leighton. Boston: Lee & Shepard.This is a suggestive little book, rather scrappy, but containing many excellent thoughts upon The Reality of Things Unseen, The Indestructibility of Matter, The Convertibility of Forces, The Brain, Luminiferous Ether, The Psychic Body, Nature's Hints, The Nature of Death, Other Worlds Like Ours, Our Relations to the Dead, etc.

Its

The Pacific Magazine is a vigorous monthly published at Seattle, Wash. editor is Rev. Lee Fairchild, a Universalist minister who has written from time to time for the Unitarian. It is brimful of the youthful, hopeful spirit of the new West, and is determined that literature as well as agriculture, manufactures, and commerce shall be represented in that West. A recent number contains portraits of the more prominent members of the Seattle bar, among which we are glad to see the face of our friend, Joseph Shippen, for many years an attorney in St. Louis and Chicago, and president of the Western Unitarian Conference, but now located in the Chicago of the Pacific North-west.

The Conqueror is the name of a small new monthly of the "Deva Dharma Mission" at Lahore, India, the object of which is the elevation of the moral and spiritual life of the Hindu people, somewhat in the line of the Brahmo Somaj. The Deva Dharma Mission movement seems to differ from that of the Brahmo Somaj, and yet to have a general character somewhat like it.

The number of students graduated at the University of Michigan at its last Commencement was five hundred and twenty, the largest number ever graduated from any university in America.

The Arena (July).

Oliver Wendell Stewart. Plutocracy and Snobbery in New York. By Edgar Fawcett.

Holmes. By George

The Tyranny of All the People. By Francis Bellamy.

The Negro Question. By W. S. Scarborough.

New England Magazine (July). The Municipal Threat in National Politics. By John Coleman Adams.

Schliemann's Discoveries in Hellas. By J. L. Ewell.

Emerson's Views on Reform. By W. M. Salter.

The Natural Bridge of Virginia. Katherine L. Parsons.

Scribner's Magazine (July).

By

The Morality of Nations. By W. R. Sorley. J. S. Mill's Science of Ethology. By James Ward.

Vice and Immorality. By R. W. Black. The Progress of Political Economy since Adam Smith. By Francis W. Newman.

HANNIBAL HAMLIN.

Hannibal Hamlin, Vice-President of the United States from 1861 to 1865, passed away, like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, on the 4th of July, full of years and honors. Despite his age, Mr. Hamlin had been in excellent health this year; and at the time of his death he was enjoying the society of friends at the Bangor Club. He had attended several public receptions lately, visiting the family of his youngest son, Frank Hamlin, in Chicago, some months ago, and in one or two places en route made public speeches, his last public appearance being in New York.

No American statesman has left a more exemplary record than Mr. Hamlin. The memory of his distinguished public services will be proudly cherished by his native State. Among all the illustrious sons of Maine, Hannibal Hamlin ranked with the foremost and the best.-The Graphic, Chicago.

In religious faith Mr. Hamlin was a Unitarian. For many years he had been an active and honored member of the Bangor Unitarian church; and at the time of his death he was president of the Maine Unitarian Association. The funeral was strictly private, the religious services being conducted by Rev. S. C. Beach.

NEWS FROM THE field.

[News items are solicited from all our ministers and other workers. Send them to the EDITOR OF THE UNITARIAN, 141 FRANKLIN ST., BOSTON, or ANN ARBOR, MICH., before the 18th of the month.]

Rev. Rollo Ogden of Rye, N. Y., formerly a minister of the Presbyterian Church, having asked to be admitted to the Unitarian fellowship, and having furnished satisfactory proof that he is well fitted to do good service in our ministry, and is eminently worthy of our recognition, is hereby cordially commended to the confidence of our churches and the fellowship of our minisD. W. MOREHOUSE, S. H. CAMP, GEO. L. CARY,

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Committee of Fellowship for Middle States. New York, July 10.

The Fourteenth Biennial Meeting of the National Conference of Unitarian and Other Christian Churches will be held at Saratoga Springs, September 21-24.

The Fourteenth Annual Unitarian Grove Meeting is to be held at Weirs, N. H., July 25 to August 3. The following is a condensed program:

Sunday, July 26: sermon, Rev. E. L. Rexford, D.D., of Boston; sermon in the afternoon, Rev. James E. Wright of Montpelier, Vt.

Monday, July 27: sermon, Rev. G. M. Bodge of East Boston.

Tuesday, July 28: Sunday-school session in the afternoon under the direction of the Unitarian Sunday School Society. Rev. E. A. Horton of Boston will speak on "The Sunday-school: Its Relations to Modern Life." Lecture on "Shakspere as a Moral and Religious Teacher," Rev. H. G. Spaulding.

Wednesday, July 29: lecture on "Robert Browning, the Poet of Art and Religion," Rev. John Cuckson of Springfield, Mass.

Thursday, July 30: sermon, Rev. John Cuckson of Springfield, Mass.; lecture on "Two Kinds of Christian Socialism," Rev. N. P. Gilman of West Newton, Mass.

Friday, July 31: lecture on "John Wesley and his Work," Rev. James Kay Applebee. Saturday, August 1: sermon, Rev. S. C. Beane of Newburyport, Mass.

Sunday, August 2 sermon, Rev. Joseph May of Philadelphia; sermon in the evening, Rev. James Kay Applebee.

Monday, August 3: excursion to Mount Washington.

There will be conference meetings every day, when discussions of special interest will be opened by well-known speakers.

Andover, N.H.-The Principal of Proctor Academy, Prof. T. W. White, and Mrs. White have resigned. They have rendered valuable service to the academy and to the community during the two years past. The fall term of the academy will open on September 7.

Baltimore, Md.-The First Independent Christ's Church of Baltimore is kept open as usual through the summer. Carefully selected sermons are read by different members of the congregation in the absence of the minister.

Boston and Vicinity.-An air of undisturbed tranquillity pervades the American Unitarian Association rooms. The secre

tary-in-chief has relaxed his vigilant attention, and sought for a brief period a happy retreat from interrogation. It is hoped no question-mark will find him out, either along the rail, or through the mail, or over the wires. Where is he? Ah! there he comes, you see. But no: we shall not tell. The absence of the usual merry groups of hand-shaking, news-exchanging, questioning, and congratulating brother ministers, reminds one of what a cheery centre of hearty good fellowship and encouragement "the rooms" represent through all the

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months of steady work and effort. our ministers are scattered far and wide, seeking, on ocean, mountain, lake, and stream, to fill full again the drained nervebatteries. Of our twenty-one Boston churches five only will continue services through August. Two of these are Mission Chapels, another is the old church on Meeting-house Hill, Dorchester, which always supplies its pulpit during the minister's vacation, and the other two are Union Services held at the Second Church (Copley Square) and the New South (Tremont Street).

Among ministers who are taking their vacation in Europe, we hear of Rev. S. W. Brooke and Rev. C. B. Elder.

Rev. Minot J. Savage spends the summer at North Woodstock, N.H. Rev. E. E. Hale, D.D., is buried in literary work at his summer home at Matunuck, R. I. Rev. Brooke Herford, D. D., will enjoy the perfect quiet of his thoroughly rural cottage home at Wayland, Mass. Rev. E. A. Horton stays at Centre Harbor, N. H., being announced as one of the prominent speakers at the Weirs Grove Meeting. Rev. James De Normandie is at Dublin, N. H., Rev. C. F. Dole at Mount Desert, Rev. Howard N. Brown at Cataumet, Mass., Rev. George H. Young has been the guest of Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells at her perfectly charming residence at Campobello, near Eastport. Rev. B. R. Bulkeley takes his vacation in rendering friendly services among his neighbors. We hear of him as supplying several pulpits, and also carrying on the regular summer services at Lincoln, Mass. George D. Latimer visits his old home in Chicago. Rev. W. W. Locke goes to make a personal study of the Montana Indian School.

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There is talk of a new church building for our Unitarian society at Brighton; and Rev. Albert Walkeley, the indefatigable minister there, is a likely man to conduct such an undertaking to a successful issue. It is thought the society in Harrison Square will also build a new church home, their present building needing expensive repairs, and not occupying the most desirable site. It is suggested that the church be moved toward Ashmont, where a considerable gain in membership might be confidently expected.

Brattleboro, Vt.-The Unitarian society, of which Rev. Frank L. Phalen has been the minister for three years, has just purchased a building and lot adjacent to the church. It is expected that a parish house will be the outcome of this step, in which there shall be parlors, study, Sunday-school, and work-rooms, and other needed conveniences for the work of a modern church. This movement is due to the growth and activity of the society and to the personal efforts and noble consecration of the late Miss Sarah Wells.

Kalamazoo, Mich.-Rev. Marion Murdock has resigned the pastorate of the Unitarian church, and may spend next year in advanced study at Meadville.

Lowell, Mass.-At the annual meeting of the Channing Fraternity held in the vestry of the Unitarian church, the president, Rev. George Batchelor, in a brief address, outlined the work of the society in the past and the lines on which it might hope to continue its usefulness. It was the duty of Unitarians to be foremost in all philanthropic work; and he hoped the Channing Fraternity, through its various committees, would continue, as in the past, to furnish agencies through which people of all denominations might aid those in need and mitigate suffering. He suggested as a work which the Fraternity might well undertake the opening of a place which should offer attractions rivalling those of the liquor saloons, in the hope of furnishing a safe place of resort for young men who find in the glitter and sociability of the drinkingsaloons a temptation they find it hard to withstand. The place should be large enough to give room for young men to meet socially, as they do in liquor saloons. It should supply all kinds of temperance drinks for quenching thirst and to enable men to gratify the instinct to "treat" which seems ingrained in human nature. It should furnish tea and coffee and lunch, and should be so provided that the poor and invalids could here obtain nourishing soups. The plan and scope of the undertaking might be left to the Committee on Benevolence and Hospitality.

At a subsequent stage of the meeting the suggestion was talked over and referred to the newly elected committee of the Fraternity, with instructions to report at a meeting to be held two weeks later, with the understanding that the Fraternity would back up any plan that was considered feasible. Among the various committee reports, that of the Culture Committee was the principal. The course of lectures, while not profitable financially, had been of exceptional merit, and had stimulated the intellectual activities of those who had attended, so that a mental profit might be considered certain. The Committee on Country Week reported that last season the resources of the committee had been $775, of which $190 was raised by a children's fair held at the house of Mr. Ludlam. 158 persons had been given a week or more in the country, of whom 111 were children. The expenditure was $535. Mr. Batchelor called attention to the fact that several denominations had contrib

uted to the work of this committee, showing the true spirit of charity.

The Flower Mission reported 2,026 bouquets made up and distributed among the sick in hospitals, homes, and private houses, 1,000 more than any previous

season.

Milford, N.H.-The four arms of the Unitarian church here are: (1) The Unity Club; (2) The Emerson Class; (3) Livermore Young People's Guild; (4) Pillsbury Band of Mercy. They have been the means of increasing largely the number of young people connected with the church. The

club numbers 112. The Emerson Class has been led by the pastor, Rev. A. J. Rich, and has roused a general interest in the reading of instructive and thoughtful books. The guild has conducted Sunday evening services, led by some one of the young people each week. The Band of Mercy is for philanthropic activities, at its first meeting considering "Kindness to Animals." A flower mission is to be part of

its regular work. This branching out of church work has awakened considerable interest among the townspeople, irrespective of their church relations.

Mount Pleasant, Mich.-Miss Mary A. Tucker, a student of the Meadville Theological School, is preaching here during her vacation, and is giving excellent sermons. the time of year, encouraging. While the attendance is not large, it is, for

Newburyport, Mass.-On a recent Sunday a class of twenty-one young men and women received confirmation in the Unitarian church. The class, which was the result of a spontaneous movement on the part of the members, was organized for study last January, and has from the beginning evinced a deep interest in religion.

Plainfield, N.J.-Rev. Hobart Clark preached a very able and a very timely sermon a few weeks ago on "The Heretics in the Pews." It was so much liked that it has been repeated by request, and printed in the Plainfield Press.

Salt Lake City, Utah.-The Unitarian cause here prospers. We shall print a leter from Rev. Mr. Utter in our next.

Seattle, Wash.-Mr. William G. Eliot, the son of Dr. Thomas L. Eliot of Portland, Ore., has accepted a call to the Unitarian church here for one year. He lacks one year of completing his theological studies at Harvard Divinity School, and expects to return to his studies there at the close of his year's engagement here.

Seattle is to have a Harvard Club. There are in the city about seventy-five Harvard graduates, some of them in positions of much influence. Mr. Joseph Shippen is at the head of a movement to establish the new club.