Contents. No. 1. After Many Days. 2. Hindered Lives. 3. Autumn: Decay or Preparation. 4. Discouragements in Trying to do Good. Series on Religious Reconstruction. • 5. I. Present Conditions of Religious Thought. "6. II. Religion and Theology. 7. The Scriptures. 18. Opportunity, Here and Stereafter. By A. M. Knapp. -9. Society and Crime. 10.IZ. Cosmology and Theology *//I. Ideas of God, Old and New: "/2 II. The Fall of Man. 13. Religion, Christianity and Unitarianism By R.R. Shippen, 114 III - Redemption or Education. "15. Christmas Sermon and Poem. "/6. Passing and Permanence. 1-17.7/17. Jesus. •18. 1x The Old Church and the New, 19.x. " End of the World. "20. II. "Destiny of the Soul. "21. On Some Golden Sentences. By R. Collyer No. 22. The Law of Investment. By 6. E. Hale. ·་ are 23. XII. If you with you? right, how does it every one does not agree " 24. XIII. Heresy and Heresy and Conformity. 4. 25. XIV. The Duty of Liberals. -26.XX. Loss and Gain of Religious ་་ Reconstruction. "27. Christ's Christianity According to Count Tolstoi "28. The Parable of the Vacuum. By J. G. "30. Self-Seeking and Self Firing. " 31. Earthly Immortality. " 32. Form Religion. "33. Matthew Arnold. "34. Newness of Life. "35. Of Judging Others. "36. Living in the Upper Stories. 37. The growth of Religious Thought. By Mus. L. O. Chant. NOTE. THE publisher of Unity Pulpit desires, in this first number of a new series, to call the attention of its readers to two or three facts. 1. Though more than five hundred copies a week are already sent on missionary tours through the West and South, at least twice that number are called for. To meet the demand, money is needed. 2. If those who now receive it free can afford to pay for it and will do so, this will help to widen the range of its work. 3. Any contributions to this end will be economically and faithfully applied, if sent to the publisher, GEO. H. ELLIS, 141 FRANKLIN STREET. Is it well with thee?-II. KINGS iv., 26. POVERTY, illness, unsatisfied ambitions, business reverses, the hundred experiences of common life that cloud our futures and hang heavy weights upon us so that we drag along our daily paths with weary feet,- these have about them for each heart that suffers their own peculiar pathos. But the separations of life, to me, are its most pathetic things. When those we love are nigh, when we feel the warm hand-clasp and can almost hear the heart-beat of perfect sympathy, all other things, it seems to me, can be borne. Something to do, some one to love, something to hope for," these three things, some one has said, are the essentials, and the only needed conditions, of a noble, happy life. I think the other two are contained in the phrase "some one to love," so that the rest follow as a matter of course; for he who cherishes a noble love will always have "something to do" under that love's inspiration and for its sake; and, in this world or the other, he will always have "something to hope for." Love is the central, deepest, highest thing in life. Muscle and brain are only its servants. It is this which makes heaven; and all of heaven we find on earth is revealed to us in the light of its smile. It is in this fact, therefore, that I find the pathos of life's separations. In the consciousness of standing together, of meeting them together, we can face, we can bear anything. But when the heart feels that it is alone, however stout it may be, it quickly goes down under reverses. For, since what we most love is the one grand motive force of char |