The times., 1899-10-20

tin S. Carver. WoTcesteE Mass; Rev. Ed
ward A. Horton. Boston. Mass; Rev. d.
w. Morehouse, New York Rev Thomas
r. Slicer, New York; Rev James T. Blk
by Phi. D.. fonkers, n. Y; Rev. c. E. St.
John, Pittsburg, Pa; Rev. William w.
Fem, Chicago; Rev. Mary A. Sanford,
Sioux City, Iowa; Rev. f. E. Southworth,
Chicago; Rev. George a. Thayer, Ctncin-
natl. Ohio; Rev. Henry A. Whitman,
Charleston S. c.; Rev. A. W. Littleheld,
Louisville, Ky; Rev Charles w. Wendte,
Oakland, Cal; Rev. Horatio Stebbins, d.
D., San Francisco; Rev Thomas L. Eliot,
d. D., Portland. Ore. and Rev. Gso.ge r.
Dobson, Alameda, Cal.
Mr.. Browns Paper.
The afternoon session began at O'Clock.
Hon. Carroll D. Wright presided ana made
a few Introductory remarks. The Uni
tartan Message to Other Branches OF the
Church in America" was he lo2ic Of
paper by the Rev. Howard n. Browa o.
Boston DR.. Brown declared that the
Church suffered because q certain philos-
ophy of religion had been proclaimel as
divine revelation, and that a complete re
organization was necessary. ReS. Edward
Everett Hale followed with the "Ul-ita-
rian Message to the Unehurched.' He de-
fined the work Of UnitaFianism to be to
"OaAiNNlA tIC FbHGA Vi lJO" & III 'StAta " --N
organizations to promulgate erroue0gs ! e.
ligious ideas He declared that people as
rule did not believe the ministers. The
members of Churches were, for the most
part, the well -to-dO and not the wage
earners. Unitarians should take as trei"
mission to the world the work OF slowing
the rank and file of men how 10 live as
children of God. He said the Pre3b7teylan
Church had become involved in he evil
of aristocracy and autocracy. 1t was nee
essary that the exercises of worship 5hOu d
be adapted to the minds of plain people.
The Message of the Unitarian Cuurch
to Our Own People was the theme of the
closing address OF the afternoon session
! 1t was delivered by the Rev. Samuel A.
Eliot, of Boston. He began with The re
mark, Our greatest effort should be TO
make the Indifferent different" 1t was
sometimes disheartenfng. he continued,
that Unitarians seemed to care SO little
for their own work. For every cne active
( ~ engaged there were 500 looking on. In
| formation should not be mistaken for obe-
! dience. An inactive familiarity with truth
leads TO contempt for truth. The largest
gift that anyone can bring is the gift OF
personal usefulness. He said that as this
was the seventy-fifth anniversary OF the
! American Unitarian Association, $l9,OOO
| ought to be raised for its work
The Evening Session.
The evening service was conducted
| Throughout by Rev. Samuel NJ. Crothers,
| d. D.. CT Cambridge, Mass.
Cleanse your conscience from dead works
! to serve the living God" was the text on
! which the closing sermon OF the conference
was based. The turning Of the soul from
the cid sin to a new form Of righteousness
was ordinarily called repentance, said Dr.
| Crothers. There was another kind of re-
! pentance, and that was the turning away
| from inactivity to a life of good work and
! new endeaVcT. There are no obstacles to
a full determination on the part of any
man to reach the highest type Of man
| hood, said the speaker. It is the limit not
of reality, but the limit OF personal thought
that was battling The fault of allowing
ones cgn dead good works to stand fol
| their character was a great mistake, Each
| day brings an entirely new opportunity
but we are oftentimes shut out By the
memory OF yesterday. from making fresh
progress. There was constant danger
! OF mistaking the forms of re-
ligion for the religion itself. Nc
doctrine. he continued, even though il
be the best doctrine, can take the place OF
the mind that thinks, and the individual
who acts A daily cleansing of mind anG
conscience were the requisites Of a new
life and led to the kingdom of heaven.