The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-02-14
THE UNITARIAN CLUB.
..TnE UNrTAaIAs OPPORTUNITY. 7


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Alfred snyder. n w stein, r. 3. GoninSs
Jerome CAtiin and VI. Z. Richardson. Ia
c0rua--Rey W. ri copelxnd Rev. George
n (syrer Waltor r. Thom nsOn. e. G. Nor.
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The programme q the nanquet waS most
interesting snd instructive. II vas opened
BIZ Rev. w. s. Cope3nnd on THE OppoYtu-
ritv - trnjt.rianism His paner vas a
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ege. vnen everything = questloneu. wnen the
mo@ sacred Idols are hurried from tneiF pea-
eeealss when. - never before there na revolt
nom oid ume creeos ana ceremoniess ana Nnens
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tsnoencs se.sxus msss.a.'.. !. 1I".a.S ~,
stronger. until Il seemed - though the world
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% Dusanes ana pleasure, aeeper rsa0n -
inc purely pnysseal noe q u.e anu N .snctln3
q ny osne1 MIe Inc e s. s. hsse
oeNNted ever iouucS snu tou6ess u0sn ~ sef-
mons ana edi!oriai IN relltious ne.spepen me
increasing moinefence 70 tne cnufcn. we nssc
been toid sgaan ana asaiu tnas tnc people -
wnose were lnmnerenS % 0nhslianS1, tue
churcn membership iaiied % Keep pece WIN
the increase o. popuiauon. ana the con9kA
ton grew community smaller. Inc expisnasion
IN general given was snas the age Wa mesenai-
istic-
Times have changed. Tho last decade VII.
Messed rev'Ting interest IN tne splnsuhi Ade
OF nature thfreasang IN insenaty Win every
year. Magazines and newspaper abonnd Win
articles which twenty years ago would nave
IOunu lew rennofp Vus 40 INV 9Ieeutsy w
vOured. Books devoted to discussion Of
things Of the spirit, ana even novels whose sub
stance Is from the realm Of me spirit are Inc
most easily sold Societies Of VARIOUS names
are formed for the purpose OF sudysng spiritual
phenomena In using the word spiritual use
Il In III philosophical sonse. The penduium Of
thought after SWINGING ebout as lar
possible towards the materiaiissic
side, now swings back towards
the sptdtualisttc Instead Of accepting matter
- the noumonOn ana spirit - the phenomenon
IN ever increasing number reverse the process
and insist that spirit ID the noumenon and
matter the phenomenon: instead Of vague
shadowy idea Of God o. possibility, there 10 :
universe about which there can Be no mistake
u God.
Yet with the larger inter est in spiritual things
and the stronger belief In God. there y NO
corresponding increase In attendance upon the
orthodox churches no moro general acceptance
of tho croeds Endorsed by the evangelical
denominations, NO moro general practice Of tho
ceremonies IN uno in the Catholic churches.
There il wave OF spiritual thought affecting all
Of the civi1ise0 world, but IL does not sweep
people into the churches Al have said, there
are all sorts Of societies, whose purpose 10 the
study Of the spiritual hide OF the universe and
the endeayor 70 live tie higher life. which
raises ono above the cramping bondage TO
material thin0
Yet the church Is not outgrowu. nor have
the people found any substitute for Christian
ity. only that they want = church with .
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