The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-11-03

with the use of the facts, and with the
truth which is greater than the facts,
you shall be more and more free.
Miss Jane Adams, OF the Hull House,
was greeted with enthusiastic applause,
as she came upon the platform to deliver
the last address of the evening.
She said in part, speaking of her own
work: You have to have a message to
carry. II we take Christ's own words
we hear nothing said of Christianity as
a religion but as message. Many peo--
pie are prejudiced against any religion,
80 we must throw aside all unnecessary
things and get down to first principles.
Christianity has to be thing, an idea
an emotion, before the dullest man will
notice it.s
The address was descriptive, to a con-
siderable extent, of the work of Hull
House, and summing up of results &C.
complished since its institution. 1t was
listened to with manifest attention and
interest.
THURSDAY MORNING.
Praise meeting led by Rev. A. G. Grier.
The first paper Of the morning was
read by President Orello Cone, DID,, of
Buchtel College, his subject being.
Criticism and Faith" The paper was
OF such nature that it is very difficult
to give an abstract. 1t was along the
l;pao - Tho u;oho, -
Testament, of which DR.. Cone is a we'll
known exponent.
In the discussion which followed DIR
Hanson took some exception to the re
suits of the Higher Criticism saying
that the great scholars of the church
who oppose the authenticity of the New
Testament writings can be counted on
the fingers Of one-armed man, while
there are thousands OF just as able schol.
ars who take the opposite view. We have
in the New Testament an accurate and
authentic statement of the life and work
Of Jesus; consequently we have revela.
ton. DR.. Cone does not speak for'the
great mass of Christian scholars and
thinkers.
Rev. James Gorton said that the pre-
vious speaker went too much on MAORI.
ties. We are not speaking Of maiorities
but of the truth. If his argument holds,
Christianity itself should be given up.
Jesus himself was lust such hereto as
the essayist. and encountered the same
kind OF contemplate minority.
Rev. Mr.. Yates called attention to the
fact that not one of our extreme ration.
alists has yet accounted for Christ. I
think we ought not oget beyond where
! it is safe. think Christ acted In ac-
cordance with law, and yet we have not
discovered the law by which Christ acted
in the world. We don't know how ne
died, or if he died at all, and until we Dc
we can look to the life of Jesus as being
something supernatural. There are yet
depths in the sacred volume which we
cannot fathom.
Rev. E. E. Hamand suggested that DR.,
Gone had not attempted to account for
Christianity at all.
Mrs. G. B. Marsh takes the Scriptures
just as they we're written, supernatural
and all.
Rev. III. Lewellen believes that crit.
cism does not destroy faith. We must
go to the Scriptures just as lawyer
| goes to the records,-to ascertain the
facts.
Rev. DIR. Crane, then read paper on
"Anarchism and Socialism" He began
by defining the terms and by showing
| the differences between them, describing
| the former as individualism and the lat
ter as collectivism. He said further that
Socialism plays into the hands of Anar-
chism, by showing the evils of our pres.
ent social system. The idea that labor
ers can never rise out of their present
condition is the most fatal blow at the
present system. These theories impeach
the system and not the men who profit
by it. When this sentiment grows
strong enough, it will completely over
throw the present system. On its mega
WV HiNAS OoSioiioh Pioyo iutO LILO uduNl5
Of Anarchism, by making out the pres.
emit system to he morally wrong; but its
proposed remedy is very different. 1t
would increase the power of the State;
Anarchism would destroy the State al
| together.
There are two fundamental social prin-
ciples, the individual and the social
whole. These principles must be devel-
oped together, for if either is pushed to
the detriment of the other anarchy will
be the inevitable result. The ideal so
ciety is that in which the individual and
the social whole are given equal chances
of development.
Rev. r. F. Johonnot followed with a
stirring and eloquent address on Chris
tian Socialism" He said, in part: The
church has living interest in this FORE
most question of the nineteenth century.
Socialism is an endeavor of Society to
help society. According to Prof. Schaet-
file it is "the replacing of private capital
with collective capital. 1t is the spirit
of Socialism to reform the condition Of
affairs which now exists in society. So
cialism sets itaalf IN oiva IN avaru ono