The morning call., 1894-04-11

He said such project should be carried
out by the Unitarian church Itself, and
men 10 serve on such committee should
not be sought for outside the church. Il
was bad precedent. Rev. Thomas L.
Eliot of Portland. Or, was nominated in
place of DR.. Voorsanger.
Charles A. Murdoch. editor OF the Pa
cifc Unitarian, reported that the expenses
of publication for the year were SLAP %
and receipts S905, making deficit OF
S237. The conference guaranteed origin
ally $500 toward the expenses of the pa
per. 1t was decided to continue the paper.
Superintendent C. W. Wendte of the
A. u. A. read lengthy report, In which
he enumerated the following gains from
the orthodox churches: Rev. j. Ell. Gar
nett, E. r. Dlnsmore, George T. Weaver.
ment was paid to the late superintendent
of the association on this coast, Rev.
Thomas Van Ness. and the establs hment
If Unitarian b00krO0m was character
lied as a distinct step forward. Mr.
Wendte commended the work of the
women ministers who have recently as
snmed charge OF churches on the coast.
Referring 10 the Unitarian exhibit at the
Midwinter Fair, the superintendent said
it contains some 1000 works in theological
and general literature. besides over 100
PORTRAITS and representations O; churches
and schools. Some $4,000 had been
raised during the year for church. build ing,
with the result that new churches have
been erected at Alameda. Pomona, San
Francisco and Payal!up, Wash.
Twenty-minute papers were then read,
Rabbi S. II. Sonneschein leading in o
paper on "Unitarianism as Manifested by
Jud aism."
In the course of his remarks Rabbi
Sonneschein said:
'Unitaranism. as understand it from
my Jewish standpoint, is the historical
manifestation. not only of the primitive.
unadulterated, monOtheistic God-concep-
ton in the midst of the Christian church,
rot only the practical and successful re-
volt of this primevaI mono heistic doc
triDe against the trinitarian tenet of incar-
nation, but mainly the never-ceasing en-
phatic protest of the human heart against
me cruel dogma of total depravity and all
its consequences and ramifi 'ations.
az is one of the most remarkable feats
of Jewish dogmatism in its scriptural as
we'll as prophetic and Talmudic aspect that
1t has thorough abhorrence for the false
dogmatc Interpretation of the peccatum
originals. The curse is dstinc city re-
moued in Genesis viii :21. Who is the
tempter of man? Not Satan. There is
no Satan in thu damDatIon sense OF the
church dogma. Even the fallen angel is
no room for an arch-enemv in the divine
household of eternity, and the kingdom of
God knows of no torure-chamber or an
everlasting punishment. Satan is not the
source Of all evil. The Eternal assumes
the responsibility for all the errors of
man. The ancient rab5is proclaimed that
sublimest OF all rational and comforting
Sc. tences for sinners: Death in itself
is sufficient expiation and atonement.'
The fruit of the Tree of knowledge was
forbidden only TO Adam and Eve In their
primitive and child ike existence, and not
to their offspring, and the prohibition was
intended only against the unripe charac-
ter of the fruit of knowledge"
The learned rabbi went on to say that
truth and salvation are the gifts, not of
any external source but of that Unborn
genius Of man which is called the soul,
and concluded by saying:
And while we Jews, by dint of his
torical evidence, consider ourselves as the
sponsors of hat innate universal spiritual
faith in God. in Immortality and in ethical
culture which is bound to conquer and
subdue all :he idolatry, materiaiism sm and