Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-02-23
PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS.
''What DO Trinitarian Congregations
alists Believe?''-Rev. +. l.. Hunt.

known as the Parliament OF hellSlOns
took place in the Unitarian vestry last
Wednesday afternoon. Rev. Emerson l..
Hunt, pastor of the Union Congrega-
tional church at Ellsworth Falls, replied
to the question "What Do Trinitarian
Congregationslists Believer"
Mr.. Hunt quoted Webster's definition OF
Congregationalism as giving good idea
of one OF the first principles OF the church
TIA system OF church government which
vests all power in the assembled brother
hood Of each local church."
He traced the history Of the church
from its foundation on the teach
ings and examples of Christ and
universal brotherhood OF men. Mr..
Hunt followed the church down to
the present. AS giving the most concise
statement of the theological ideas OF the
denomination, he quoted the creed re-
ported by committee from the national
council OF the church in 1888, which
though binding on no church, WAS quite
generally accepted. 1t follows:
/. We believe In one God. the Father Al,
mighty. Maker of heaven and earth, and OF all
things visible and invisible.
And in Jesus Christ, His only son. our Lord,
who Is of one substance With the Father; by
whom all things were made,
And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giyer of
Life, who is sent from the Father and Son, and
who together with the Father and Son is wor
SHIPPED and gloriied.
IL We believe that the providence of God.
by which He executes His eternal purposes in
the government of the world, Is In and over all
events; yet SO that the freedom and response
bility of man are not impaired, and sin is the
act of the creature alone
III. We believe that man was made in the
image of God; that he might know. love, and |
obey God. and enjoy Him forever that our first
parents by disobedience fell under the right |
eous condemnation of God; and that all men |
are alienated from God that there is no saliva |
ton from the guilt and power of sin except
through Gods redeeming grace.
". We believe that God would have all men |
return to Him; that to this end He has made |
Himself known, not only through works OF ma. |
Iure, the course of His providence, and the con.
sciences of men, but also through supernatural |
revelations made especially to a chosen people. |
and above all, when the fulncss of time was
,pme through Jesus Christ His Son.
Y. We believe that the Scriptures of the Old /
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