Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-17

Mass; Mrs. Abby a. Peterson, Jamaica
ram Mass; Courtney Guild Boston;
yudGe Thomas j. Morris, Baltimore; Henry
j. Hosmer. Concord; Enoch Lewis, Phila-
delphia; Duncan Smith New York and w
W. BlaCkman. Boston.
Committee on credentials-Arthur Brad
icy, heene' n. H: Rev. Chas. B. Elder,
Mass; Herbert Parsons, Greenfield, Mass
Rev. David Utter, Denver.
Committee on nominations-George H.
P1ttsburg: Rev. w. W. Fem, Chicago; Mr.
Henry F. Blount Washington, and Mrs,
Emily A. Fifeld. Dorchester, Mass
Key. Samuel A. Eliot of Boston. secretary
OF the American Unitarian Association
read report from that organization. The
general conference, he said, is a delibera-
1--WE body; the association an executive
pouy. II Is the function of the conference
70 debate and advise: it is the function of
me association to apply. 1t is the province
OF the conference to discuss those problems
OF theology. education and philanthropy in
winch are involved the welfare OF church
ana state 1t is the province of the asso-
cation to turn acquisition into ACCOMPLISH
hent' TO transform knowledge into bower
ana 10 make aspiration eliminate in will.
a discussion of the address brought forth
t4e duopt!on OF resolution directing the
secretary of the association TO re1rest an
Unitarian parishes throughout the country
70 appoint a special committee whose dutv
II snal De to see that the parish makes
l.
tarlan Association.
FraternaI Greetings.
A resolution of salutation to the rrntver-
salists convention, which meets IN 1,,s+or,
this week. was adopted. as was also a raeo-
iutlon OF thanks to Mrs. Hackley, who had
endowed a school at Tarrytowr ms re-
ported in the council address
journed ss'oi ao-
Inc afternoon session began at 2.3O
O'Clock. being given over to the hienniai
meeting Of the Women's National AIIinrn tai
ana the order of business being as follows
report OF recording secretary, report of
treasurer, election of officers, address nv
GEorreS pg secretary, address by Mrs.
hate Hannett Wells, subject, What Uni
tartan Women of the Nineteenth Century
6eGueath TO the Women Of the Twentieth
century,; address by Miss Isabel NJ. Chap
ton"
The program for the remainder of the dav
follows; 3:3o pm. meeting of the Unitarian
temperance Society, John D. Long, WASH
ington, D. c.; Rev. William d. Sfmonds
90 pm, The Higher Nature of Nam"
|, In the Light of History" Rev. Samuel
r. CaIthrop, Syracuse, ". Y; 2, In the
Light of Idealism." Rev Charles F. Dole,
Boston, Mass.
The conference will continue through
Thursday evening.
The Initial Meeting
The conference began last evening at
the First Congregational Church, corner
OF 10th and G streets northwest. United
states Senator George F. Hoar Of Massa-
chusetts and other distinguished represent
tatives of the subordinate bodies were pres
emit Previous to the meeting there was a
session of the executive council of the or
ganizatiOn at the ArlingtonAiotel but IL
al q yAllhl attSrx.
was transacted.
The regular meeting began at o'clock,
with Rev. DIT. 5. r. Calthrop Of Syracuse,
\. Y, as presiding officer, and Rev DR. D.
w. Morehouse of New York as secretary
After devotional exercises conducted by the
chalr an address on the theme rs God Yet
Personal and Immediate" was delivered by
Rev. Or. Thomas R. Slicer of New York
Or. SIlcer was formerly a member of the
baitlmore conference of the NJ. E. Church,
and was son of Rev. DR.. Henry Sncer,
prominent among the ministers of The NJ
E. Church.
DIR. s1icer's Address.
In part DR.. Slicer said:
Geology tells us that 10000 600 years are
necessary to account for organized life on
the earth. Man IS very old, but the gods
are ever young. for the reason that the god
made must be Junior to his maker and the
making OF gods has been the chief industry
oil me human creature. Man did not at
nrSt know himself to be man He onlv
knew himself as invaded from all sides nv
impressions which flung wide the doors of
nus senses and propped them back SO that
forever afterward they stood omen To the
external world AS soon as cause was dis
covered by him as part of his mental OUTFIT.
ana because was one of his first appre-
tensions. II not one OF his earliest words,
ne looked to the further end of this long
procession Tor sense causes which should be
sufficient for all their effects in him.
Inc problem set us to solve is to de-
IA Illrt
hlnd all the shifting forms is personal and
whether since these shifting forms are real
ny always to the worshiper. they are re-
lated Immediately, or whether media must
intervene to make them real"
MI. Slicer here gave an exposition of in
div1duaHty and nationality. and the rela-
ton OF the one to the other. in which ma
uonality is defined personality, The
personality of the national life is the merp-
ing OF the individual in the national per
son." he said.
Contact With Universe
SO in the contact of the man with the
universe. He no longer stands apart to see
1t go. Whatever is, as part of its universal
life. is in him. 1t is his microcosm which
registers the tides and measures the spaces
of the stdereal heavens. All the hurrying
confusion of modern thought begins to
range Itself before the challenge of his or
dered mind He apprehends 1t ali in terms
OF mind. 1t was a tremendous discovery in
the science OF human life when 1t was de-
ciared, i am the vine; ye are the branches,
but my Father Is the husbandman.'
We have said that this appeal to con-
seriousness of the presence of material i'm
mensities is not thought, nor specula ton
| nor debate. Here we get a light thrown
/ upon the personality of God-God does not
| think. nor debate. nor devise schemes by
| which He will subdue reluctant material to
/ His will. What does this then force upon
| US as conclusion that may not be averted
"a u toll
| mind which knows; If God does not come
| because He has never departed; If the phe-
| nOmena that bloom upon the soil of real
1 fty draw their nourishment from roots deep
| set In being. then my little individual anx-
| ieties-the things l think when bend over
I the crucible IN which conflicting elements
! are to be fused-these have no share In be-
| ing that does not think, nor speculate, nor
| guess Our contact is not thus with God
| else were He not personal and immediate.
| Holy emotions, sanctities Of aspiration, the