The New York herald., 1869-03-04
CONFERENCE OF UsivERsALIsTs.

Sixth OF q Series Of Conferences at washing
tom Hall, Harlem.
The sixth mass Conference Of the Unversalist
churches Of New York and vicinity was held last
evening at Washington Hall, Harlem. The hall was
about two-thirds full The exercises were opened
by the reading OF portion Of the Scriptures;
then hymn was sung, and after this Rev.
DR.. Lee offered Q prayer, which was succeeded
by reading another portion Of the Scriptures and
singing another hymn.
Rev. Mr.. Clark made q brief address. He was
pleased to see SO many present at this Conference
There were faces that beamed with generous faith
In q good God-faith In the fulflment OF
Gods promises In this life and In the life come.
II had been customary at their Conferences to agree
upon some special subject for discussion He did
not wish to limit them to any topic. Hewould have
each talk as he wished. For his own part he found
theme for saying much in the passage Of Scripture
to which they had listened. Sometimes they felt,
saw the comparative unpopularity OF their cause
0s compared 70 that OF other religious systems.
and tsc % tn ann AT ana
with them Instead OF depressing, all this, he urged,
should only stimulate them to more earnest en-
and animated them and filled them with Joy and
hope they should seek to Undue others
high and broad and magnanimous religion. There
was great field open ior their efforts. Let them
% al ahev ,1e apG ~ snem believe and
Rev. MI Pullman next made few remarks. He
said that 9 suspicion was getting about that they
tins reason this Conference had been called. He
was gratined TO know that the previous suspicion
their meetings showed their cause II they
only knew 1t there was power In their religion that
could not be estimated. Their religion was not .
mere sentiment, mere opinion. IL q
religion that called for labor, that meant some
thing for to-day and something for tomorrow.
impel them TO take their candles In their hands
aud 60 In the world and let the world know that
First let them lift the veii OF mysticism and get rad Of
The rlnd and the externais Whatever t might be,
and get at the spirit Of the whole thing There Is d.
vine intelligence that controls thing here tie has
not devIated the width of hair from his purposes.
The time would come when they would see eye to
eye and then know that the paths they took in
life, dark as many OF them are and environec with
dificulty and trouble, were the paths marked out
living as they ought to liver Did their religion
give them inspiratlonY Was this effect being pro-
duced BY these Conferencesf The evidence OF the
goodness OF this rengion has got to show Itself In
their good works ana good lives.
REV. Mr.. Emerson, VINO was the succeeding
whether the mode they had adopted in holding these
Conferences attended with the desired beneficial
subject at their last convention at Utica His own
impression was that these meetings were being fol-
lowed by good fruits. he dlsked ihe common Idea
fallen into OF comparing their members to those
OF other Churches as the Catholics, Methodists,
and other Christian denominations. How he looked
ut this subject he would explain. IL was not
numbers he looked at, but quality. He had seen
what Universaism had done for coarse men, lie
had seen IL increase the moral force OF such
thousand fold. In his view there were enough Uni
yersalists churches In New York to save the city.
Now go back TO the Ezabethan age. lie could pick
out one hair that was worth million
OF ordinary nairs--tnc hair OF Shakespeare. And
there was Bacon and many others he might name.
The Hottenots made In the Divine image, but It
would take many OF them TO make a Shakespeare.
Time was when the Christians had to flea TO the
caverns and dens for shelter and protection. Time
was when TO write the word Christian was
sidered disgrace. Where was the power OF the
corssrf Cone utterly gone. Who ruled in the Eternal
Cityodays Pope whose influence, like his life was
rapidly ebblng away. He urged that they were on
the right track The only thing was having the right
70 pursue IT,
several lay members followed each In q few re-
MARKS, which was followed by singing tue DoXoogy.
which concluded the exercises