The morning call., 1894-04-09
THE UNITARIANS.
Their Conference Will
Open To-Morrow.
An Important Reunion to Be Pre-
coded by Hospitable Rites
This Evening.

Tomorrow the tenth session of the
Pacific Unitarian Conference will be for
maily opened and will continue until the
evening of the 18th inst. The first date on
the official programme of the event is q
dinner tonight.
Practically. however, the business Of the
session will commence tomorrow morn
ing. BY invitation OF the First Unitarian
Church of San Francisco, Rev. Horatio
Stebbins, d. D.. minister. and its younger
sister. the Second Unitarian Church. Rev.
l.. w. Sprague. minister. the session will
be held in their respective church edifices.
These churches will also extend hos
pitallties to all accredited delegates and the
visiting clergy.
The Womrn's Unitarian Conference of the
Pacific Coast will hold lis annual meeting at
the same time and place. Ine morning and
afternoon OF the second day "wednesday Will
be reserved for its exclusive use.
The Unitarian Sunday.scho0l Union Will meet
on Thursday afternoon.
There will be two sermons. The opening one
Will DO by Rev. DIR. Eli Fay OF Pasadena on
Tuesday evening. April 10, followed by re-
ception and sociable in the church parlors
rendered by The ladies OF the First Church.
Rev. j. s. Thomson OF Los Angeles will preach
the closing discourse on Friday evening, April
Is.
On Friday, the morning and afternoon ses-
Second Unitarian Church. corner OF Capp and
Twentieth streets. All the other meetings Of
the week will be held at the First Church, cor
ner OF franklin and Geary streets.
The Unitarian Cub of California invites all
visiting ministers and delegates to a banquet at
the Palace Hotel at o'clock tonight
The holding OF a series OF public congresses
In San Francisco In connection with the Cali
fornla Midwihter Fair, has caused 1t TO seem
advisable to the directors OF the Pacific Uni.
tartan Conference 10 make. at Its forthcoming
OF the history, principles, doctrines, methods
and aims OF the Unitarian Fellowship. A
series OF brief essays. not TO exceed In length
twenty minutes each. will be read, covering the
essential points In our UNCONVENTIONAL life ana
religious beliefs. The topics have been chosen
according TO the model by the recent Unitarian
Congress at Chicago.
The programme covers q vast amount of in
teresting work, Including the reading of papers,
sermons, receptions, reports. elections. etc.
Among The SPEAKERS viii be: Dr. SteDbins,
Or. Wendte, DR.. Spraeue, Rabbi Sonneschein,
Rev. L. j. HOrDer OF sacramento, Rev. Mrs.
Eliza upper Wilkes OF Oakland. DIR. Fay Of
Pasadena, Mrs. Horace Davis, Mrs. Sprague,
Professor Anderson, j. i. Irish. Rev. j. H.
b. Payne Of Berkeley, Rev. George r. Dodson
OF Alameda, Rev. j. III. GarneL OF San Jose, G.
A. Murdoch, Rev. Il. Nj. Wilbur OF Portland,
Rev. b. g.; Spauding, Rev. ". +; Copeland,
Jr., Rev. U q. b. Pierce OF Pomona, Rev. Samuel
Slocombe OF Cayucos, Rev. j. s. Thompson OF
Los Angeles.
Following are the officers Of the conferences:
President, Joseph Shipper of Seattle, Wash.
first vice president, Phiio Hersey Of san Jose:
second vicepresident. John d. Works OF San
Diego; secretary, Rev. L. w. Sprague OF San
Francisco; assistant secretaries-Rev. 4. M.
Wilbur OF Portland. Or. Rev. U. q. b. Pierce
OF Pomona; treasurer. Rev. G. w. Wendte OF
Oakland; directors-Rev. Horatio StebbiDs.
ID. chairman executive committee). Rev. G.
w. Wendte Rev. E. Nj. Wilbur, Walter j.
THOMPSON, George II. Hebron, Horace Davis.
Charles A. Murdoch, Lewis A. Croft, M. A.
Luce, +. H. Knight, F. j. Symmes.