Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-01-10


men, him viii cOnleSS also before nv father
which Is in heaven. But whatsoever shall DENY
me before men, him will also deny before nv
father which Is in heaven.
These words seem 10 me to be lreighted down
to the very waters edge with vital import. They
contain command which demands the imme-
liatc attention of every Christian thinking
man For NV own part, during the last few
months my faith has been growing more definite
aud nv belief in the scriptures as n final an.
'hmity has been growing more explicit; not that
| have turned about and faced the other wav
bat that to-day stand TO my past IN tie rea-
ion of fruit 10 the blossom. NV brethren in
the denomination have known Of the change
have hecn Tor long time aware of its progress
and had no reason to suppose that You have
not been coguiNnt OF the fact A any rate at
.ils time il hCcnmgS my duty, and may [ rot
saw il, since | think it more luly than ever be-
.ole, nv pleasure, 10 tell you some Of the pro
crSsgS by and through which have reached my
present position. No man enteTtuns a larger
admiration or more enthusiastic respect lOr
those who have constituted as representative
men, in times gone past, in Unitarian Christi
aniiv. Their regulations have been confined to
no sect. Their influence has been limited only
by the boundaries Of civilization. 1hev have
been giants in intellect, and they have been trust
ing and couiiulng children in the Lord; they
have coumuned with God. They have initiated
Christ, and been uaptised and imbucd with the
holy spirit: and vet | nave all the better right
because | was myself born, Graded and bred in
the midst Of these influences. | was not con-
vertCd TO Them. drew them in from my moth
ers milk. Their tendency with my educational
life ran in the o'her direction. can, therefore,
speak very plainly and kindly, and wait for
criticisms and, ~WlthOut the slightest show
of personal luminosity towards anv brother,
can tell you my exact thought and
What | propose to do. | have watched the de-
nomination for a long time With increasing in
tercst. | have sat in its conventions and
| IN vhlf av.
NY rersuaS1nS, and TO acknowledge lis undi-
vdcd and its unequivO2al allegiance to Jesus,
Chti>t, the lord and viOur of the hum N soul.
have been unsuccessful, aud the denomination,
Under the influence which took it, dceterous
is growing smaller surely and gradually every
wear. | state Simply tacfS whiCh YOU can dis
oyer you selves. Now let me look back In
the be inning we find the fl st men VINO rave
method aud form TO the bOny, aud whose du9
matte theology was as unliRe that which is eX-
sting today as Oue thing can possibly be unlike
another Claiming SCARED TO the highest noun
iln peak of conceivable existence ana standing
here on the summit, looked not MAYNARD but
Coward, and saw the shining face of Jesus
Cmist whom he called the Saviour and Redeem
rr Of the human race. TIE denomination to-
lay has Got down from the mountain peak and
5 looking around among thu civilized philosu-
pliers. More than that, the peculiar dogma this
he unity of God was SIMPLY incidental and
lid not form the foundation stone upun which
l.
himself tnal lie regarded UuitarianlSm simply
a charter given for human freedom. He be-
yYed in The inspiration OF the Holy Scriptures.
lie believed that in some mysterious sense the
death Of Christ bad to do with the forgiveness
Of SIM and altOge thcr his system would be to-
day very respectable orthodoxy. Cunuuslv
enough, the whole word is changeable. To-day
there is enough freedom in any denomination
in Christendom. Tn, old rightly of fifty years
l-o has almoSl wholly faded away. The truly
Christian man can sit under the influence OF
any pulpit OF any church throughout the whole
Of Chrstendom aud feel that the minister is
eeding bis soul. The leaders in their own body
have admitted this many and many time Ia
conferences. | am stating to you no new facts.
In the second place, it became necessary in the
eOuISe OF events TO have a new issue. AT
any rate Il new issue presented itself, and
the spirit OF the demon nation became act
ually changed; and il the new issue changes
the representative issue Of the body to-day,
want 10 say plainly have no sympathy what
ever with it, and have already stated on what
grounds with generous belief that this would
DC my last ddv. We grew under the old issue,
and before heaven think we shall die under the
new. Let me free my mind. Westand to-day
TO say the least of it, with loose and diSjOnted
and diScoruan ideas Of Christ. And we stand
also with that scientific Interpretation of tue
New Testament which rObs it of its spirit and
leaves il a div tool. say his dear friends, in
no heat whatever; 1t is my unburdened cOnvic- |
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