The morning times., 1895-10-24
ITS DOCTRINES DEFINED
Two Mastery Addresses Before
the Unitarian Conference.
DIFFERENCE OF RELIGIONS
DR.. Fiske on the Origin of Liberal
Thought in America-Dr. Everett's
Address-MeetinS of the Temper
ance Society Heid-RefOrm Methods
Discussed by Mem bers.

Discussed by Mem bers.
The prominence OF the speakers and the
nature of the topics they discussed made
last evenings session of the Unitarian con
ference one of the most interesting ever
held.
Metzerott Hall was filled with an
audience seldom equaled in character,
the great congregation being composed OF
representative men and women, while
many clergymen and educationaiists were
also present
Rev. Charles Carroll Everett, dean OF
the Harvard Theological School, in an
address on the Unitarian Theology re
verted to the definition adopted by the last
national conference, as follows:
These churches accept the religion OF
Jesus, holding IN accordance with Ills teach
ings that practical religion is summed up
in love to God and love to man." He said
that while much could be learned from
this statement IL contemplated no scheme
for salvation" such as are held by most
other religions with the object Of making
men pass for something tney We're not.
Sacrifices, for instance, were Intended
to cause men to be treated as though they
had kept the laws they had broken, the
historic salvation scheme having been
based upon certain legal fictions and
artifcialities.
DIFFERENCE OF RELIGIONS.
The difference between Christianity and
other religions was that it is revealed,
others are natural; In it God seeks nen,
and the others, men seek God. Because
IL rejected such schemes, UBitarianism has
been regarded as made up Of negations.
but as they were mainly negati0ns OF ne
cations, they We're really affirmations.
Thus, Unitarians were ready TO greet
more gladly than mcst other religions the
doctrine of evolution as IL was made real
and definite by Spencer and Davis. Uni
tarians who accepted part or all of the
New Testament stories of the miraculous
see in them manifestations OF higher avs.
instead of 4 brea king through OF all
laws.
II TO the Unitarian, Christianity is the
highest religion, it is not because il is
added to nature but because it IS the
fullest revelation OF that divine Iower
which is working through all nature and
human life. Thus the Unitarian re-
stores to the world the beauty of the Christ
life OF which. The creeds had robbed it.
Vixen the Unitarian says: Jesus was d
man." lie is Understood TO call him
mere man" as If there ever was mere
man" apart from God.
THE UNITARIAN FUTURE
Untarians like to speak of God as tl:e
Father. Influenced by the later scientific
thought they think OF him as revealing
himself in the order OF beauty of the uG,-
verse. The Unitarians believes that IN the
future life there Will open to every seul
the highest possibilities for which he is
fitted and that the companioaship that
furnished SO much or what is most pre-
cious in hunI2n lives viii not be backing.
At the business meeting yesterday after
noon Carroll ID. Wright reported i revision
of the resolutions previously proposed on
Christian unity, and they were finally
adopted by the conference as follows:
Resolved, That this Church accepts the
religion of Jesus, holding, in accordance
with His teaching, that practical religion
is summed up in love To God and love TO
man, and We cordially invite to our working
fellowship. any who, while differing from
US in belief, are in general sympathy with
our spirit and our practice.
Resolved, That the national council give
the above declaration the widest possible
publicity as a sufficient basis rot only
for Christian unity but also for The
religious unity of the world
Rev. Christopher Z. Eliot, of Boston. who
presided at the meeting of the Unitarian
Temperance Society," said that not many
years ago the temperance movement dealt
only with indv iduals, but now had enlarged
its scope to include the welfare of society
at large 1t now had TO confront the
problems of public health. crime and
poverty. and their remedy. The agencies
controlling tempera nee to-day were science,
the Church, and the law, and the speakers
OF this meeting each represented one CT
those agencies.
NORWEGIAN SYSTEM.
Rev. d. N Beach, of Cambridge, Mass,
whose address was entitled The Righteous
ness of the Norwegian Principle and Para
mount Importance OF its Application in
Temperance Reform" declared that in spite
of all that had been done in the way TO
temperance agitation, the drink evil was
greater than ever, and growing rapidly, be-
cause the campaign against 1T was misdi-
rected because the duality OF lntemperance
was not recognized. Ii was not only neces-
sary to attend TO the people who want
liquor but the more dangerous class who
wanted to get rich selling 1t.
The Norwegian principle attacked the
saloon power and in his opinion it was
the only solution especially in the form which
was proposed for Massachusetts which, he
said, had been defeated by temperance
people who did not understand it.
Prof. Francis 6. Peabody, secretary of
the cOnlIn1ttee OIL I1lly lOt Tue iuNectigdtlOu
of the liquor problem, represented the scien-
tific modern method described by the chair
man.
OTHER TEMPERANCE METHODS.
The committee, which was composed of
specialists in their professions throughout
the country, was divided up into subconmit-
tees on physiology, legislation, economics,
ETC., which were studying the question in
its various aspects and had as yet made no
announcements, desiring to accomplish a
unity of effort by a complete report when
possible.
Failure heretofore had been largely due to
q division of effort, and 1t was the hope
and exectation of the committee To point
a way which all could follow with success.
The church as modern method of tenn
perance reform was allotted to Father A. |
p. Doyle, general secretary of the Roman |
Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Amer |
lea, but he was too ill to attend ut the last |
President Eliot paid a high tribute to |
the work accomplished by Father Doyle's |
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