Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-11-14
SENATOR GEORGE F. HOAR.


Thomas r. Slicer, Howard N. Hosmer,
Robert Collyer, ID. D., Mary A. Stafford,
Ida c. Huliin and Anna Garlin Spencer,
all Of whom will take part in the exer-
cises.
The Rev. Brooke HEREFORD, d. d., of
London, will also be present and take
part as the representative of the British
and Foreign Unitarian association. and
among these not belonging to the minis
try Professor John Fiske, DR.. G. G.
Everett, Professor t. q. Peabody and
President g. Stanley Hall will take part.
The foundation principles upon which
Unitarianism now stands are we'll set
ont in the following declaration from
the new preamble to the constitution
adopted at the last national conference,
held at Saratoga: 1.-THE national confer
ence of Unitarian and other Christian
churches accepts the religion Of Jesus,
holding, in accordance with his teach
ings, that practical religion is summed
up in love to God and love to man. !"
This declaration is believed by Uni
tarians to be one which would have Sc
cured the approval Of the lamented Lin
coin, since he said, as quoted by +. B.
Carpenter in his "Six Months In the
White House, when any church will
inscribe over its altar as its sole qualifi
cation for membership the Saviour s con-
densed statement of both law and Cos
pei, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor
as myself, that church will join with
all my heart and soul "
-Four presidents of the United States
have been members of the Unitarian
church--both the Adamses, Thomas
jefferson aud Willard Fillmore. Many
United States senators, judges and lit
erary men have also been of its mem
bership. Holmes, Lowell, Bryant and
Curtis were shining Unitarians
1t was 90 years ago that Unitarianism
began in New England. during the re-
vival conducted by Jonathan Edwards
and George Whitefield and known as the
great awakening. Those who did
not agree with the doctrines and meth
DDS of these preachers drew away from
lIt AHOIktEEatl1udlNu anu ~ NNttAG
later formally separated themselves from
the orthodox Congregationalists and
openly. avowed themselves Unitarian
Congregationalists During the three
quarters of a century that had been lead
ing mp to this step the liberals in each
parish had failed to join the churches,
and i'll some cases formed majority of
the whole, the orthodox being church
members of course The question of the
ownership of the church property then
got into the courts, and it was finally
decided by the supreme court of Massa-
chusetts that the property belonged to
the parish IN each case where division
was made the property went with the
church when the church was in the ma
iority and went with the parish with
out the church when the church was in
the minority.
Surviving from the time when ortho-
dox and Unitarian Congregationalists
belonged to the same body, there is still
in Massachusetts the Congregational
convention, which holds and administers
funds impaIiially for the benefit of both
orthodox and Unitarian Congregations
alist ministers. At the present time the
two parties are so near in agreement
that it would be impossible to create
division upon the old issues. What is
called liberal orthodoxy is almost the
same as the Unitarianism Of Boston in
1925. In other words, new orthodoxy"
is odd Jniiarianism.
In many cases the original first Con-
gregational churches of New England
are now Unitarian. This is true of the
first parish Of Plymouth, Mass, founded
at Scrooby, England, 1906; the first
church of Salem, Mass. founded ten years
later; the firsfchurch of Boston, founded
1880; first religious society of Roxbury.
Mass, founded in 1851, and dozen
others.
Since the days Of Theodore Parker
the number of Unitarian churches has
doubled. But Unstarians do not con-
slider numbers the sole proof Of success.
They feel gratificd by the fact that from
John Adams to Senator Hoar they have
included IN their membership line Ct