The times., 1899-10-18
COUNCIL OF CHURCHNHN
Proceedings of the National Uni
tartan Conference.
DenominationaI Matters Discussed
at the Second Days SessiOn-Sen-
woman,s Alliance Meeting - Mr.
Dole on the Higher Nature of Man.

| The second session of the National Uni
tartan Conference opened yesterday morn
| ing at o'clock in All Souls Church, and
attracted a large number of delegates.
/ Three meetings were held during the day
! and many prominent speakers delivered
! addresses. The morning and afternoon
| gatherings were held at All Souls Church,
Fourteenth and L Streets northwest, while
| the meeting last night assembled at the
First Congregational Church, Tenth and
/ G Streets northwest.
The morning session was opened with
communion services, at which Rev. Rob-
ert Collyer. of New York, and Rev. Charles
G. Ames. d. D.. of Boston, officiated. SEN
ator George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, the
president of the council, then delivered the
address OF welcome The speaker review
ed the history of Unitarianism and in
cidentally expressed his sentiments in re-
gard to expansion. Senator Hoar said in
part:
The seekers of the light are one, and all
who love God and man are welcome here.
AS to the objection that Unitarianism is
undefnable. / thank God for it. The hu-
man Soul. oOu, Gle iihShAoC
indefinabie. Yet we know our own when
we see ii. Those who sooth their own sor
rows by soothing the sorrows of others;
who, when Duty says, Thou must, reply,
i cam those who prove their patriotism
| by preventing their country from going
wrong-they may not understand the theo-
logical mystery, but they prize The Ten
Commandments. II we would blot out
Unitarianism from the history Of this
| country. we must efface the names of many
great statesmen, orators, philanthropists,
soldiers, and, l may say, nearly all great
poets.
The difference between Unitarianism
and other creeds is less matter of belief
than a matter of emphasis, and they lay
special emphasis on hope. Man abideth
/ in faith. hope, and charity. Hope is the
central figure because without it faith
would be impossible and charity wasted.
| Hope believes in the final triumph of faith.
| 1t does not care for prospect in which
| the larger part of mankind is destined to
! perish The literature of free country
is hopeful, that OF despotic countries is
prone TO gloom.
4 believe that nations must work
! out their own salvation without coer-
cion: that free institutions cannot be
given by one people to another, but must
be an indigenous force; that republic is
1 greater than an empire; that Washington
was better than Napoleon; that the United
! States. when President Mckinley was in
augurated, was better and greater than
any other nation on earth; and that what
I ever clouds darken the horizon, the world
/ is growing better; that today is better than
yesterday. and tomorrow better than to-
day
DIR. Ha1e's Report.
ETuard Hale n n of
Boston. then read the report of the council,
which had been prepared by Rev. Minot
J. Savage, D. D., OF New York. The re-
| port was very lengthy and related the
/ growth OF the denomination during the
past year Rev. Samuel A. Eliot, of Bos-
ton. Secretary Of the American Unitarian
| Association, then read the report of that
/ body. which was favorably received.
The following assistant secretaries were
! appointed:
Mrs. Isabel c. Barrows, Rev James
I N. Whitson, Pm. D.: Rev Walter t.
! Salter, Rev. Walter Reid Hunt and Rev
] William Claiming Brown. The following
] committees were announced: Business COM
mittee-George A. King, Washington;
James p. Hamilton. Worcester; Charles H.
i Stearns. Brookline; Mrs. Abby A. Peter
sen, Jamaica Plain: Courtney Guild. Bos-
] NDAs J0ASC DdlttLiOIt
/ and Henry ]. Hosmer, Concord, n. H. Ac-
| counts-Enoch Lewis, Philadelphia; Dun
can Smith, New York. and Gen. w. W.
Blaekman, Boston. notwithstanding
| Bradley. Reene, N. H; Rev. Charles g. FL
/ der, Cleveland; Rev. w. c. Brown, Herbert
/ c. Parsons, Greenfield, Mass. and Rev
David Utter. Denver, Col Nominations
George II. Ellis, Boston; Rev. Charles E
St John. Pittsburg Mass; Rev. " w
HTo-
ington, and Mrs. Emily A. Fiheld, Dor
chester, Mass.
The afternoon session was opened al
1 2:30 o'clock and was given over 10 the
1 Mcman's National Alliance. After the
reading OF reports, Mrs. Kate Gannett
! Wells. Of Boston, delivered an address on
What Unitarian Women of the Nineteenth
| Century Bequeath to the Women CT the
! Twentieth Century" Mrs. Wells said that
the development Of women during the pres
ent century win rank equally with its
scientific discoveries, as the growth of the
soul is the most potent factor OF humanity.
In the history CT this development though
education and legislation have aided wo-
! mans progress, il has yet been due chief
| ly to the growth of her own self-conscious-
ness in working itself out into freedom and
service fer others, her sense OF personality
becoming mere and more the cause of heI
/ righteousness. The speaker the keynote
of whose address was joy and service. said
in closing, that woman stands co-equaI with
man, accepting responsibilities similar IL
and dissimiliar from his, but self-esatred in
God. Out Of her need she has trayessec
the circle OF love. and has found it the in.
vested capital and the personal force which
she bequeaths to the millennium. The wo
men OF that cycle viii bear all the bequest:
they have inherited into still greater full
ness of glory, service, and love.
The Power of Organization.
Miss II. Isabel NJ. Chapman, of Brook
lyn. then spoke on 'The Power of Organ
ization," saying in part:
The ideal organization toward which We
are surely moving will be composed o
both men and women-each sex the com
piement of the other, furnishing TO eact
that which the other lacks. There is
legitimately. the mans point of view, tn,
womans point of view. Not till we hay.
the qualities that make up both do We
get the perfect whole. Not till then ar,
We able TO see all sides Of a question.
In meeting any problem, We need thu
delicacy, the gentleness, the sympathy o
the woman. and the judgment, the dis
elimination, the practicality of the man
Let neither sex hesitate 10 learn of tn
other. The ideal woman would ever g
where she is spiritually led The idea
man never forgets 10 be practical. W.
must therefore, as women, strive alway
10 weigh matters in the scales of com
/ ZION sense and We viii hope that mel
viii not feel that they stoop, IL they d.
things in a delicate, refined. and sympa
thetic way. Let all foolish talk ceas
about woman's sphere or mans sphere
We must rather consider the sphere o
the individual, which is surely the doinl