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200   NEW CHURCH LIFE.    [April,

paper; only that the Department of Correspondence and Church News will be greatly enlarged. As formerly, contributions will, for the most part, be from the young people themselves.

The NEW CHURCH LIFE is to be thoroughly and distinctively a NEW CHURCH paper, designed to promote the culture of the Young People in the doctrines and life of the Church; thus, if possible, leading them to embrace fervently the Heavenly Doctrines of the New Jerusalem as the only means of becoming true men and women.

And, finally, by bringing the Young People into closer relation with one another, the New Church Life, it is hoped, will become an ultimate of that bond of love which must always exist among those whose one great aim is to become useful members of the New Church which, in heaven and on earth, is "the Crown of all Churches."

Mr. Anshutz and Mr. Stuart were the originators of the paper, but when it became a regular printed journal, under the title of NEW CHURCH LIFE, a board of editors was organized, whose names appear in the first number, as follows: Andrew Czerny, Charles P. Stuart, E. J. E. Schreck, Geo. G. Starkey and E. P. Anshutz.

This article is not intended for a history of the LIFE, but since a man's use is the real man, it was necessary to make this review; for when we, of the older generation of Academy men, first knew Mr. Anshutz, that paper was his active love, and continued to be so for a number of years. His last contribution to the pages of LIFE was, so far as the General Index shows, in March,1888.

Up to that date Mr. Anshutz had been a frequent contributor in the way of Papers, Fables, Humorous Sketches and Stories. We find in the General Index one hundred and five titles under Mr. Anshutz's name. We think that will show that up to March, 1999, Mr. Anshutz was a more frequent contributor to NEW CHURCH LIFE than any other one person.

Mr. Anshutz had one strong peculiarity, that of doing one thing at a time to the exclusion of all others. He was a tremendous reader, and all was grist that came to his mill, but not at one time. If the impulse were on him to read history, for the time being he read nothing else. So also with fiction, of which he read, in the course of his life, an immense amount. He was