The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-10-30
true in principle, it ought to stand.

there were inserted in the creed
statement the words "The certainty
of just retribution for SIM"
Rev. A. G. Grier of Wisconsin, sup.
ported the plan, but thought "the
Fatherhood of God" should be made
"the universal Fatherhood of Cod"
and also that the words "the brother
hood of all men" should be added.
DIR. Adams of New York, and DIR.
Stocking of Illinois, were also heard
one in favor and one against the
proposed substitute.
DIR. Perrin of Massachusetts, said
the question was first agitated twenty
years ago, when the convention met
in Chicago and in st. Paul's church.
That was his first year in the conven-
ton, and he had listened to twenty
years of controversy. He appealed
to the convention not to send him
home once more, and perhaps to his
grave, without having witnessed a
solution of the difficulty.
Rey. L. S. McCollester, of Michigan,
said he had voted against the plan
Wednesday, but was ready to change
his vote. He thought it case in
which it was his duty to follow the
majority.
Rev. DR.. Tomlinson, of New York,
said that he did not believe in making
the creed mandatory. Even the
Church of England did not hold it's
candidates for orders strictly to the
thirty-nine articles.
Rev. DR.. J. G. Lee, of New York,
said the object of a creed was unity,
and if anything in the creed had di-
vided the church it ought to be
changed. He favored the Boston
plan, and thought the church was
nearer to perfect unity than it had
been in twenty years.
Rev. DR.. Rogers, of Pennsylvania,
said he thanked God for the Boston
plan, though there were many things
he would like to see inserted in it,
as he had come from the Presbyt-
erian church and had always been a
conservative Universalist.
Rev. F. w. Perkins, of Connecticut,
said the debate was not contest be-
tween two sets of men, but an effort
for brotherly unity. He thought the
spirit of compromise should pre-
vail.
Trustee III. A. Manning thought
the Boston plan was too cold and
formal in its commentator of the
Winchester Profession and made it a
back number. He predicted that the
plan, if adopted, would introduce dis
sension into the parishes.
Mr.. j. S. Wilcox, of Illinois, hoped
the convention would remember that
the Holy Spirit might possibly be
with the majority. The vote was,
after all, only to send the plan to the
next convention, and he thought the
time for fault-finding had about
passed.
Rev. DR.. Richard Eddy said if the
Winchester Profession remained in
the organization he could not see
what relief the Boston plan would
bring. The word restore" which
had occasioned so much trouble,
still stood. Relief could have been
got just as we'll by allowing every
body to put his own construction on
restore"
Rev. DR.. Robin, of Massachusetts,
who introduced the Boston plan, was
then allowed five minutes in which to
close the discussion. He insisted
that it retained the Winchester Pro-
fession in the same position as to
practical effect that it has stood for
nearly one hundred years.
The Boston plan as amended was
then put on its passage and the roll
was called. The secretary announced
that there were 125 members in the
convention, and that eighty three
votes were required to make the re-
quisite two-thirds majority.
As the roll-call proceeded great ex-
element prevailed, and many of the
members kept tallies. The 'Plan"
as amended was adopted by 81 votes
in the affirmative to 30 in the mega
tive. So the amendment goes to
Boston in 1890 for ratification or
rejection.
The amendments inserted make
the Boston plan more inclusive of the
faith of the Universalist church. The
words "His Son" is inserted before
Jesus Christ. Mr.. Metcalf had the
word substantially" stricken out of
the phrase "be substantially pro-
fessed." Rev. E. g. Mason secured the
insertion of the words "the certainty of
just retribution for sin." Rev. Mr.. Grier