New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-24
uv1TARIANISM DEFINED.
.vrRs AT THE CONFERENCE TELL
u.r THE CHURCH STANDS FOR.

,-r,oxs ON CHRISTIAN UNITY ADOPTED
TEMPERANCE PROBLEM DISCUSSED
,nnREss OF PROFESSOR EVERETT.
..,,rgton. oct 2S-Ths mornings session
- unitarian National Conference was
..a with devotional meeting conducted
W ,he Rev stephen II. Camp. OF Brooklyn.
address on the character. influence and
~.,,nss OF Christ as shown in the New Tesla
-, was interpolated in the programme at
80. noint by the venerable Dr. Furness of
s,suaaelphia. who is ninetyfive years old. On
.,,on Of Carroll D. Wright. chairman OF the
,..,ness Committee. T. b. Haskell. of THE
atom Herald: Professor c. c. Everett Of
,,,rvard. and the Rev Thomas r. Slicer. of
sn6aIc. received twenty minutes to appeal to
-. conference in support Of THE New World"
=. Unitarian magazine.
The subject Of Church extension was then
..tsn up the first speaker being the Rev c. W.
u-.na,e of San Francisco. who contended that
-. growing West. with less conservatism than
-. remainder Of the country, presented the
Nc, field for missionary work The Rev r.
u Morehouse. of New-York. having charge Of
.,s work in Canada and the Middle States was
n favor OF concentrating missionary resources
IA efforts each year on a few important strate-
~ points, instead OF spreading the organza-
,,o,'s energies broadcast. Similar addresses
allowed by the Rev. d. NJ. Wilson, the Rev
George L. CLANCY. of Atlanta. Ga; the Rev
allen w Gould and the Rev. T. p. Forbush. of
Chicago
Al the business meeting subsequently Carroll
D Wright reported revision Of the resolutions
previousy offered on Christian unity. and they
we're finally adopted by the conference as fol-
lows
Resolved That this Church accepts tho religion o.
Jesus holding, in accordance with His teaching that
PRACTICAL religion is summed up in love 10 God and
ove and we cordially invite to our working
fellowship any who, while differing from us in be-
isf IN general sympathy with our spirit and
Resolved That the National Council give the
above declaration the widest possible publicity as
also for the religious unity Of the world.
TIE Rev Christopher r. Eliot. Of Boston, who
presided a, the meeting Of the Unitarian Tenn
perance Society. said that not many years ago the
temperance movement dealt only with individ-
Gals. but had now widened lis scope to include the
Welfare of society a; large. 1t now had TO con-
mont the problems Of public health, crime and
poverty and their remedy.
The Rev. D. y Beach. OF Cambridge Mass
whose address was entitled The Righteousness Of
the Norwegian Principle and Paramount I'm
portance Of Its Application in Temperance Re
FORM" declared that in spite of all that had been
done In the way of temperance agitation the
drink evil was greater than and growing
rapidly. because the campaign against 1t was mis-
directed. The Norwegian principle attacked the
saloon power. and, in his opinion it was the only
sutton He was firmly convinced that temper
anse organizations would eventually see in the
Norwegian method the only remedy and would
support 1t.
Professor Francis G. Peabody, secretary OF the
Committee Of Fifty for the Investigation of the