New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-22
RELIGIOUS.
7yr r-NITARIANs IN TIE WEST

eads out before in tho sunlight like vast sea OF
silver Only there is 10 shining shore ON the DINER
side Canada very wisely keeping out of sight a ruri
clty with broad. clean streets, wide lawns blooming
gardens shade trees, elegant mansions set In the midst
OF tastefy Ornamentcd grounds like diamonds in gold
or precious stones, filing a NEWCOMERS heart win
vendor aud his eyes with stare. The residence ana
grounds OF j. H. Wade, esq, among the hnest ana
were opened 20 the Conference on Thursday evenings
when hundreds partook Of elegant entertainments
snl specially admired the rare exotics OF spacious CON
scgyatory
The Hon ARENAS Carter prcsidcs and with so much
unity and modcstv that Is hard 10 believe thar nc y
one OF the oldest Inhabitants OF Chicago The Kew - "
Brigham OF Ann Arbor magazine writer OF nuol io''
who has visited a hundred churches, gave 'le resu'S
is oisor, alton and thinking in an address iui % ro
and nth and hard facts many of which were uiS'E
Die and hard to get Tire churches nave not
t,ir rot cxpeetatons They rich in wants, geher
Ola i'm complaints, and abound in aches ana ANS why
don't they got on bettcri Some attribute the III success
to che ministers, of whom Is dyspePuc'
sr.tbcr radical, third fogyish, fourth stupiu,
ami a fifth with unfortunate WIFE, II
az. little society between Buffalo and
O,.,ba could have minister made 70 order, and COM
Nd NJ an the excelences of the best with none OF their
defects the wheels would longer stick IN the Hud II
a.. Ncw,Jerusalem not reached IN tweVenohth.
O.r. ind the trouble in the condition OF society at
ls-,e tie changing character of the populauoh ule
social uupOpularity OF Iibcransin te Wht VI O''"'
Tie want Of rich men who willing TO contribute OF
cir abundance and other things of the sort But other
churches are as badly off, and complain quite as much
RELIGIONS institutions are not sustained as rule with the
spontaneous respect and vgOr OF other days OrihO-
d1vv in many places has grown exceedingly liberal ana
made The success OF Liberalism quite independent OF or
nizatsus established to propagate it, The facts are
NOT 50 discouragng they SEEM The situation calls
no. ~ shthTsaSm Won't do tie work OF slow, quiet
steady efucaon and moral we are engaged
rrIt. Ply A ID M
lrreatiOu Of coarse, enormous BODY, win SNAIL
Sf head out of all manner OF proportion to tia Boston
he'd on backw0odman's stalwart frame. That repre-
get UutaraniSm we have had IL has heen New
England exotic u Western soil II has not got acci-
9uae but when it does great things may be expected OF
A. ID must affiliate more with Uniyersalists ana the
1,.sripJestro large Important and influential bodies.
Iber Christians must recognize each other and woIk
Robert Laird Collier wanted a revival. The Holy
G1,t alone can save Church and put life into
our auguid heart and limp limbs. The Rev. Mr.. Bah
cot " Sludusky, formerly an Orthodox Minister bad
~ faith IN Holy Ghost religion. He had seen too
nuch That Of thing, which went with superstition,
lad seen good deal the UnhOy Ghost religion which
~ did not believe in would, but had all faith in the
Holy Ghost-that sublime, renewing, al-eonquerng
energy which takes possession OF those fitted to receive
IT, snd works nightly I'm and through them. He was
eufe must have the Holy Ghost, ard missionary to
81 his mole time 70 the work. so thought W. h &.
Mellon OF DetrClt, VINO was not uOuDied because the
BODY vas small So was Greeceand so was Palestine YET
the hrd great element Of modern civilization had come
or Hat little Greek peninsula and the root Of II was
lid IN The Syrian SOIL and had blossomed in the life OF
Jesus and dropping its rut for the food OF man
bud influence that makes body great James Freeman
Gae thought the wine that liberalism is, had been
own forns, organizations, and methods. He favored
secular administration of it, and advocated the
prayer meeting tomorrow morning az O." said the
Rev. Mr Forbush, the Cleveland minister. ado Lib
eos pray T. asked mldde-aged, finely dressed woman
Oi the friends she came with. And she was there to
and hear and satisfy herself what sort of thing Lib
b. the vernacuar with few Scripture phrases and very
e OF the nasal tOne-nOt quite such the Chicago
rf 11l flnlN IN And php GDll IL
first Methodist chapel in BrstO-the first in En-
ano-sot but ana when !hey nag Dol in0hfy 70 1 nsu
pledged TO pay each one penny week until III
Encouragement came the splendid class system
y men has done SO much to make MethGdsm
hops Tho ideas of Liberalism in the soil, shoulder
ing the stones and frosty crust aside and under the
forth in q more humane, helpful, glorious civilization
dhau have j. L. Clarke told how he went
nothing say, and Liberal church west of Pittsburgh
AM when he saw the 100 Unitarian and 200
xHnrc he was fun OF hope Tor these were te
ditL and practice OF all the rest The one thing Liberals
want Is 10 be struck 10y lightning The latest critic says
1au struck when on the way to Damascus and that
j. ha. allied him. If they could only get struck in the
fae way and TO the great endsl And he thought
tn-y would get struck pretty soon.
Blt Chicago must have Unitarian Divinity School
J. oOs Meadve and can't bear TO see the theology
Gu institution waste us sweetness on Lhat eserL ar any
longer. SO 1t has purchased the Soldiers Home,
splendid property, aud finely situated on the Douglas
grounds and proposes IL gObble up this institution
and set il down there Tie Hon NJ Carter presented the
sld tIe whole thing would have been contaminated hut
shat Meadye not quite ready to part with jewel
t eyes of her daughters who look 10 the aforesaid in
sttltOn for husbands. But Chicago put in strong
sefcvideDt that men who training to fight the
devil and his angels should through their Initiating
ey0ll in sight OF the enemy in order to learn the
and wiles of the foe they have to contend with,
an particularly that those who can't stand the aseiua
toms the fire thereof shall drop out OF the ranks be-
before the real battle begins 1t voted that the in
<ton with ts funds should DC removed to Chicago as
o Inc be was
a6e retreat OF orppes ana nyallds small DE the raying
place Of those who are to do what they can to make the
81 vel and the manned whole.
Then the Rev, Frederic rockingham Of Buffalo under
tol 20 ci what Christianity is in a fnely-wrtten, well
s5n address, not OF the hackneyed sort The question
tit asked for centuries, and would be for centuries
T. The fact of this continuous asking showed that
tler wss definite. authoritative In religion
geology and astronomy, we have to collect facts
aud get Il laws and principles from accumulated data
Ivory generation contributes 10 knowledge Of what
Chnhlayis. The creeds do not illuminate the New
5,amCnt but are dry sticks, dun and dead but for the
lg tat streams through it upon them from the soul OF
Jesus and His God. The Gospels our only recourse;
Au even they conceal more than they give OF the thought
ed character Of Him who could not say what He
thought because His hearers were not prepared to
hack Of the book the soul OF Jesus, that the
qn,er must look for answer TO the questionnOt to it
ahsi He like all men, was looking up TO the hight Of
nn1tt'ned perfection, and TO Another from whom all
fah Of Christi II Is bOth-fat in Christ teacher,
txerPaI channel Of Gods redeeming love; the faith of
NJ u man aI3 SoA end trutn-a ucep, r1cn,
ohg0 and far-reaehiDg that He could not express II
Nl casting pearls before swine, carve its divine
tnemonts
- me vocation Of the Unitarian Church In the West"
I iOith and illustrated by the Rev. A. ID. Mayo In
- -Nliss which was listened TO by his brethren with
80 alssLenent than sympathy, for its rhetoric
.o1sfiu and it meaning past their finding out. He
sh vac worst Protestant Christian Church infinitely
oei IMAM the slough Of materialsm that threatens
80 SIDE, or the speculative sentimentalism that
s Cd 70 take ts place The West had the Pope at one
al and the Devil at the other, and host Of neutras
Oitng on either side, ready to join with either party
Sllfcn Is bound to take its place in Western society
ns an institution and force and spend its power in
.vil'alLg the great common enemies OF the soul the
g1Dlc' and the human raeethe spiritual tyranny Of
NsllOic Church and the social and speculative athe