The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-18
AT UNITARIAN CONFERENCE.
Free Institutions Cannot Be Given by One
People 10 Another, He Says.
REV. EDWARD EVERETT HALE'S REPORT
Increase Of Unitarian Church Is Especially Within
Ranks Of Otter DsnomIulichs RL rr. SCer
On Church Attendance N Summer.

Washington. Oct ls.-At the National
Conference OF Unitarian and other
Christian churches in the United States
Senator Hoar OF Massachusetts, presi-
dent of the conference, delivered his
annual address and took occasion TO re-
iterate his views Of the question Of ex-
pansion. His remarks elected consider
able applause. lie said he did not be-
lieve in fatallsm or In .bini force. He
believed thde nations must work out
their own salvation without coercion,
that free institutions could not be
given by one peopl' 10 another, but
must be an indigeous growth; that a
Republic was beuter than an Empire.
and THAI Washington was better than
d Bonaparte. He concluded that what
ever clouds darkened the horizon the
world was growing better.
DR.. Edward Everett Hale Of Boston
deplored the lack OF earnestness in
church work by both ministers and
laymen.
DIR. HALES REPORT.
DR.. Hale made the report for the
council of the conference. He said the
increase OF the Unitarian, church was
especially within the ranks of other de-
nominations. and that Unitarlanism
was often ably proclaimed from Pres
byteridn and other orthodox pulp.ts.
Any church which accepted the religion
OF Jesus he announced, was entitled 20
send its del gates to this conference,
unhampered by ecclesiastical lines. lie
predicted that the extension OF ''frse
and undefiled religion" I'm the next half
century would depend ON tn public ut
terances of laymen quite as much as on
the pulpits of an ordained clergy. Or.
Hale, for the committee of ten on
changes in organizations and metho is
To extend UnMaran influences, report
ed recommendationE 70. larger contrib
utions; extension of church supervision
20 cover the whole country n the in
terest OF weak churches. The sending
out Of preachers freely and systemati-
cally 10 all parts OF ;he country 10
quicken religious life through special
religious services, and deplorng the APP
parent lack OF interest I'm the life OF the
church as a whole by many ministers
and laymen.
The following resolution vas submit
ted by the council as part Of the report:
Resolved. That " is the advice OF
the National Conference of Unitarian
and other Christian churches that
candidate for The Unitarian ministry
be ordained only 10y a church or at
the request of church, except
that whenever IL Is deemed Desirable
TO ordain a person for special service
other chan the pastorate OF a church,
then by the APPROVAL Of the fellowship
comm4ttee, the faculty Of "A divinity
school or the officers of conference
may ordan."
THE SUMMER VACATION.
Rev. Thomas r. Slicer of New York
city. in his address. said !he people OF
New York city I'D not go to church
in the summer: that the attendance was
almost stopped by the rush TO the out
skirts.
Rev. Samuel A. Eliot of Boston Sec
rotary of the American Unitarian Asso-
citation. contended that the enemies Of
religious liberty We're compactly organ
believers should similarly
orsanlzg; urging sound. healthy es-
prit du corps.
The National Alliance OF Unitarian
ana other Liberal Christian Women
held it's biennial meeting Tuesday
and elected officers as follows:
Vice president, Kate Gannett Wells.
-Ne11- England. MarN LQuisc C1tlin.
Middle states; Anton rte Danforth
Smith. Southern states: Fanny Field,
Central states: Mary w McEittrick,
Middle Western states Reb-cca j. Ut
ter. Rocky Mountains; Lucy NJ. Steb-
bins. Pacific coast, Directors. sarah
Fairheld. Hamilton. Ne; Mary \.
Downing New Hampslre Elijah tn U.
Claiming, Sarah Y. Hooper Sarah &. T.
wellington, Abbey 4 Peterson, Lillian
NJ. Cressey, Phoebe ~. Waldo. Caroline
T. Chaney. Abbic l.. stone Ella P.Jud-
kns, Elizabeth n Lombard. Sarah b.
Nr~sa 4 Tgrr
Cleveland Rhode Island; Minnie II.
Bishoprlck Mary Seward Merrt, \ IS
York; $. Margaret Loud, Canada ana
others.
UNITARIAN BOOMERS
Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells cf Boston
addressed the Alliance on Wh9t th.
Unitarian Women of the >Ninc'eenln
Century Bequeath to tn Women OF the
Twenticth Century"
Miss IT. isabelle Chapman Of Brook
lyn urged the thorough cooperation ot
both sexes as the Ideal organization IN
carrying on religious work
The tThtaIian Temperance Society az
it's meeting Tuesday had as its speakers
Dr. Charles II. Sh pard OF Brooklyn.
and Rev. ]. l. Doubt Of Shelbyvlle.
Ind. and Rev. ". G. Eliot. Jr., Of Nil
waukee.
Last nights session was devoted 20
90 dresses on The hlBhcf nature ol
Men," Rev. Charles r. Dole of Boston
was the chief speaker.
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Too late 90 cuie cold afsr con
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