New-York tribune., 1874-09-17
THE MASS MEETING.
SERVICES IN THE CHURCH OF THE DIVINE PATER-

Tn the evening the delegates to the UNI
versat Convention and their friends assembled In the
Church OF the Divine Paternity in mass meeting l. H.
Niles acted as Chairman Of the mass meeting, MAKING
the necessary announcements and introducing eaon
speaker with few pleasant words In the pulpit "eie
seated the Rev. Z. H. Chapin. d. d.; the rev a, a.
Miner D. D.-the Rev. r. II. Pullman, the rev.
Dr. Fisher, the Rev. Cyrus ID. Fay anu 'no
pov II n Bolles, Ph. d. The meeting was
onened with prayer By the Rev. DR.. Fisher
The Rev Mr. Pullman followed with brief story OF MS
tourney among the local Universast Conventions dur
ing the past year. and gave an assurance OF tne ia
the future successful work Of the denomination with
which his observations had inspired him. Inc rev. W
rus H. Fay Of Washington was the next introduced
and smoke OF his abors in building church in Wash
ington He had already good congregation and only
wanted church. which they desired. with the help OF
the denomination generally to dedicate In the year OF
the National Centennial,
The Rev. DR.. Miner who next addressed the meeting,
made perhaps the finest effort Of the evening" lie
spoke of the danger Of being dazzed by the visible
elories of Universaism, to the exclusion OF the up
building their souls OF the highest conceptions OF
God and the knitting together of their souls with the
very purity of heaven He urged the necessity for an
Administration of the Government which should recog
nze the value OF higher education, and not discourage
t by taxing the gifts to educational establishments
The strides of civilization were due to the influence
of Christianity, which promotes charity and the state
therefore should deprecate the gifts Of money or ts
for eevating purposes He referred 70 thS @
in Louisiana, and advised the Uniyersast church OF
New orleans to uphold the divine brotherhood OF man.
M ei 9Go as IN the agmorS and count hon
estly the ballots He spoke OF attempts mace 10 enforce
compulsory educauOn aud asked " itwas remembered
that many enterprises tolerated that were source
Of compulsory degradation. 80. -.
He devoted his remarks particularly to the contest
between science and religion. and SAID that III any
had warrant for the future II would be the one
| whose philosophy and dccp-rooted faith were most
fitted endure when compared with scientlne laHlphs
| Who would make men believe that God was undiscov-
erabe while science must be looked for WHICH, ike re-
| The Rev Dr. e II Caapin delivered characteristic
address relation OF the Unversasts asa Church
mon with all other evangelical churches the Universal
st denomination branded as hereto by the Roman
Catholic Church. be paid glowing tribute TO the unl-
form consistency OF the Catholic Church In pre-
missing that certain dormas were essential to salvation
and their practice following out those premises 10
their logical conclusions But turning 10 the Protestant
churches he found that the Universaists were placed
outside the fellowship of all OF them upon the unpfotest-
ant ground that certain dogmas essential to saliva
tox He concluded however that the CSSaeSss
upon the pTRfPies s gsIe oT IN
an eloquent apostrophe. He referred to the sacred
scriptures which had bossOmed in the best results OF
modern society expressed the belief OF the people OF
his nersuasion I'm personal living Christ the Savior
of humanity and denounced the teachings OF Iyndaii
ton Of Materaisn as su6versive Of the spiritual rea
ties which the foundation of the Cherished iaith
ChrstendOm All Christian men should reel, nc salu
that all denOminational lines should shver and break
before the Macedonian phaanx OF spiritual CONVICTIONS
which should be united TO meet this shock OF Material
ism and dash it back as the eternal rock dashes
back the angry of the ocean The great battle
against atheism and indety had tobe fought by the
Christian denominations In this generation, and he held
that their presentation of Christian truth the Unive
salists embodied those elements OF spiritual strength
which sufficient to meet successfully TINS last Iorce
OF assault that TO the Christian faith Touching
upon some Of the specific points Of Univeralsm he sand
be between unendlng misery LOT human
souls humiliation he must accept the latter sad as
was the Thought AL the close OF his address the bene
dicton was pronounced by Dr. Chaplin.