Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-12-19
Books, Bookish People and Things
We get no good by being ungenerous even to book
E. B. Browning.

THE Carpenter Prophet" By Rev.
Or. Pearson. Clio. II. S. Stone 4
Co, Chicago. Sl.2j.
My Dear c. b.:
! did not expect that the reverend
Blank would like this book. and II is
quite like others of his cloth TO call
thing weak because ii does not agree
with older and more generally ac-
cepted beliefs. That Is the cathedral
way.
While DR.. Pearson has not advanced
any startling theories in regard to the
old, old story, he is an able expOsitor,
can state a case clearly, and for that
reason II no other deserves the great
popularity his book has had with an
intelligent public. II restates in per-
spicuous way doctrines advanced years
ago by many of the best thinkers in
New England, which, in ChanninE's
time, meant by the best thinkers OF
the world.
No intelligent man will question the
ability, knowledge or sincerity OF such
men as Claiming, freeman Clarke,
Starr King, ana many others, to. go
deeply and analytically Tito grave
question: Of the Bible, discrepancies
mrtaph0re. IuCh.
II then any one IL Ia bc called auprI-
lrial az weak il Is not the author Of
this book, but the scholars and divines
VINO uttered what DR.. Pearson so ably
voices in The Carpenter Prophet"
However. Professor Pearson is a
scholar himself; not ONLY careful and
candid student OF other mems sayings.
bnt labOrions investigator after truth.
As such he was "churched' by his mar
row denomination few months ago.
am sorry to have to say II. but the
trend OF the average Evangelical min
listers mind Is towards "A narrow con-
seryatism; Il conservatism not at all
In accord with the Advancement Of our
day. speak of the average minister:
the exceptional man is progressive aud
like DIR. Pearson is SO far in advance
Of his own church that the world be
comes cognizant that he is doing more
than getting fixed salary for wear
ing Il White Tie.
The peculiarly differentiated creed
of each sU-callcd Evangelical demon
nation, makes il almost necessary that
all who subscribe To II shOuld maintain
IN unyieldins attitude towards the UNI
orthodox; toward opponents of ideas
lmen or books that stimulate indie
pendent thought upon subjects OF
which one man can know as much as
another.
In view of the regular communicate
OF such churches as we call "Evangeli-
car all those who depart from a strict
and regulated Interpretation of Ccrip
r ture, fall" degenerate" or back
slide 1t is a way of calling names
which II more ancient church began
and which the Reformation did not en-
lircly free us from.
but whatever else may be laid 10
Vnitarianism or other phases OF rea-
sonable religion, il cannot be charged
with intolerance or cant. II accepts
everything that is demOnstrable; II
seeks only truth. That Is why il has
not remained Il fixed creed--why il has
no creed NJ all and needs none; that
Is why II has not set itself up as or
thodOX; why II has not sought numbers
or power or prominence; why IL has
gone ON abiding by the Truth as truth
Is being continually revealed to its
open, receptive mind. And that is why
the most intelligent, most cultured,
ablest and sincerest men and women
OF the world have become either nom
inally or in other less offensive ways,
Unitarians, Like the Masonic order,
Unitarianism does not seek members.
II its reasonable attitude towards God,