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throughout the CCOVIlce.
Some haziness appears TO exist in
many minds as TO the theological dis
tinction between Unitarians and Uni
yersaiists. The famous bon mot OF
Starr King, himself Unitarian, that
.'Uniyersalists believe God IS too good
to damn men. and UnitarianS believe.
that men are too good to be damned"
was once regarded as expressing the.
matter in a nutshell. Now, however
Mr. George Willis Cooke, whose arti-
cles ON current religion in the Boston
Evening Transcript we have recently
quoted, says that this distinction is no
longer valid. 1T is not a theological
but psychological difference that
keeps these duplicated sectss from close
aGiiation. The Unitarian, he remark ks.
looks upon religion more from the in.
tellectual side, while the Universalist
views it more from the intuitional and
evangelical standpoint. Nevertheless
there is a Well-defned party in the
former church who favor an organic
union. Among the Universalists little
disposition toward this course is tG be
discovered.
Emanuel gives. in brief the names
and dates OF Jewish congregat lions on
the Pacific Coast outside. of San Fran
. %1SC0. ht IlSDIEW bGueNOiSnt society.
Sonora, was organized IN 1852 The
hurying ground is still cared fur by
the few Jews Left in the city The
congregation in Stockton was organiz-
ed in 1852. developed from an existing
society for the care OF the Jewish In
sane. 1t is still in existence and num-
bers forty members. In 1853 religious
services We're held and an organization
perfected in 1854. In 1855 a. society
was established in Nevada CITY: In
1886 one in Jackson ard one in Fiddle
town. Eighteen hundred and fifty-sey-
en- was a good year. Marysville. Sac
ramento, Grass Valley and Shasta had
each its Hebrew society Portland fol-
lowed in 1858, Folsom in 1853. and Viz
glnia, New, in 1862. There We're be-
sides congregations or benevolent soci-
cites in. San Luis Obispo, San Jose
Mokelamne Hill, OrayiIle, Santa Rosa.
Red Bluff, Iowa Hill Jesu Maria. Mari
posa, San Andreas, Forestville and
Downisville
The American Institute of Sacred
Literature, under the prrncfpalshir4 of
PRESIDENT William r. Harper. OF the
University of Chicago, is doing excel
! lent work in directing the reading of
+, MINISTER'S everywhere along the most
! nelpful lines. Eight courses of study
L.
ment Prophecy, the Psalter, the Life
( of the Christ, the Apostolic age, and
christianity and Social Problems, faye
t been prepared, and six or, eight STAN
/ GARD books are selected and recon-
/ mended by Council of Seventy. ANY
one subscribing for the journal of The
4 ology or the Biblical World has the
4 privilege of becoming a member of the
guild, of purchasing or borrowing
DOCKS, and receiving the critical helps.
= Too generally ministers select their
DOCKS in most accidental andRdesuI-
tory way, without much planning or
real knowledge Of the value of their
purchase Instead of a symmetrical
collection of authoritative volumes
there is apt to be a miscellaneous
Jumbiing together of books of al kinds
and all merits, without system or due
i coordination The suggestions of a
large and competent committee of
scholarly men as to the books best
worth buying ought to be of untold
value to any preacher. Such an order
fy course OF study, too, ought to hold
ministers most benefieialiy to strong
books, and keep them from vagrant
ana scattering reading. President
Harper is also interested in getting
the ministers everywhere to observe
B1ble-study Sunday, presenting the
theme of bible Study in Its Relation
to the Life and Work of the Church
and of the Individual" To this most
important project over seven hundred
7 churehes-eighty being Methodist Epis.
copal-are now committed