The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-05-09
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something new, thafvellousj and peculiarly
striking. II is Che regular organization of
4" ths liberal element of Cincinnati in u
free church, under regular preacher, for
Sabbath worship.
The Unitarian preacher of the Queen
City, Mr.. d. A. Conway, who is represented
to be about thirty years of age and who
went TO Cincinnati about two years ago, be-
gun lately to act and to preach in a manner
rather too original for some of the more pi-
Gus brethren and sisters, and a request was
made to him by some to resign, which he
very quietly declined to do, and appealed TO
the congregation TO confirm his acts and
| teachings. Two parties were formed in the
society, one against, and one for him, who'
after attacking each other with some ven-
| ON, and eleclioneering with great fury at
| sundry meetings, came, at last, to the sensi-
BILE conclusion to sell the church and divide
the fund. The church is located on the
southwest corner Of Fourth and Race streets,
in the most fashionable of the promensdes,
and will sell, it is said, for about O,O0O-
1t contains forty pews, and each pew is
worth, therefore, 81 900
Out OF this will grow two churches
Conway church and an anti-Conway
church. The latter Is Unitarian, after the
school of Charming, and the former free
church, after the school of Conway, includ-
ing what was facetiously called 4" the liberal
element of Cincinnati, who, headed 10y a
Scotch gentleman of Calvin mot John CAL
VIM, President of the Tom Paine Associa-
| ton, solemnly gave in their adherence to
the Conway division, the other day, in
meeting. All the particulars have been
given, from time to time, in the Cincinnati
papers and the Washington Union. The
New York Express furnishes the following
as their system Of operations;
Their basis of co-operation--from what
we can gathers to acknowledge no creed
whatever, but for each man or woman-we
are not informed how it is with the children
to find out for himself or herself the
truth in regard to spiritual matters. They
agree generally in rejecting the miracles,
the resurrection of Christ, and the specific
creation of man as man. They adopt the
development theory" OF the author of the
"VeStiges Of Creation which supposes
that creatures of higher organization, such
as the mammalia, are "developed by pro.
longed CESSATION in the seminaculd of lower
animals, such as birds, fishes, &c, and that
having been once developed they contin-
ne 10 propagate their own species regularly
thenceforward. Thus man originated from
the embryo of an ape, whose existence In
the fetal condition was from some cause o,
other prolonged, in the maternal receptacu
lum, beyond the usual period of CESSATION
whereby that portion Of the spinal column
which, in the ape, is usually devoted to tdsi
became absorbed into the higher regions o
the brain aud Uranium. Ii the infant APP
had less tail, il had on the other hand, NOR
brains and a bigger soul. ID was, in fact
Z human being. There is said TO be tribe Q
men now living in the centre of Africs
who have not yet parted with their cauda
appendages. Let us not, therefore, hastil
! reject Mr.. Conways development theory,
but wait for the facts. In the language G
Captain Cutie, "when found, make not
ont
We believe, however-to do the new Cir
- cinnati church justice-that they have NJ
Z" yet adopted this as a creed, but they are a
!" ter it with a keen scent, and the outer worl
=" may depend that there is game ahead.
metaphysical free church, with nothing
c begin on, win not he long without suhiec
70 of discussion.