The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-12-31
by Rev. /. F. Fortney.

b county and recent observer OF eondi-
TONS in oarksburg, desire not only
p commend, but also TO emphasize the
vice Of Rev. \. i. Peters to the many
hung men Of claaaSsbrrg, as contained
your Christmas issue of the TelegIum.
is -words.are 50 replete with good ad.
that would not presume upon
space or the time OF Telegram
to epllrge upon THE theme, unless
" sway of emphasizing wabt lie said in
regard 10 .Fshrnnillg the saloons" For
sehey are nothing if mot the greatest
sconrage oil yoqr city, and should be lit
enrlly STARVED out by every self-re-
specting man, both young and old.
The only safe course for any young
man to pursue islbo never take the first
drink Of eliquid hcll-fre," even Though
Under the more alluring gtlise Of beer
and other Fighter drinks" which John
B. Golf, the temperance lecturer, very
appropriately called 'sthc devils kind
ling wood.
i also desire to correct the impress.
sion that our brothers aausion to trnita,
riarls must have made upon t.he minds 0.
your readers, who are probably almost
entire strangers to Unitariaits and t
their theological teaciings And sus
pect that Brother Peters alltlsion was
made more from what opponents have
said about Unitarians than from AIDE
quate personal knowledge, and mot from
and intention or desire on his part u
anisrepresept sister church or the
teachings thereof.
1t is spid that during our great ciyi
mm some Of the enemies of the Unioi
made their slaves believe that the North
en- Tor Yankee soldiers were a set d
cruel monsters with dangerous horns,
until the appearance OF Shcrman's splen
did army Of well-fed and superbly
dressed soldiers snpplanted The tlelusion
by an enthusiastic admiration.
And more than suspect that iBrobiet
Peters all,lsion to UnitariaRs as It'll,
easy prey to healthier regflions and as
mot believing" in spiritual regepera
tioh'' mu3t have impressed majority
Of the Telegram readers in regard L
Unitarians very much as the colored pco
pie were impressed when assured by
their superiors thut ''Y@pkee soldiers
have horns"
/ also believe THAT if the splendid man.
hood and womanhood sproduced by the
Unitarian Interpretation OF the Chris
tianity were to pass before the eyes OF
al into whose homes the Clarksburg
Telequm is u welcome visitor they
the loyal month. nj that procession oi
Cody men and women whose heroic and
would be as agreeably surprised us We're
Those colored people on beholding the
splendid manhood that was the pride
and glory Of THAT magnificent army Of
fruitful lives in our Masters service
make up a goodly part of His Kingdom
on earth and in heaven, could be named
along the lien Of philanthropsts, poets
and statesmen, and many OF the most
deyout and sanity ministers who have
ever adorned the Christian pulpit, not
only the Unitarian and Universalist pnl
pits but also many in the Christian
or Church of the Disciple, as we'll as
net few OF the leading pulpit lights
of churches whose out-grown rreeds still
retain the old doctrine Of the ".rrinity,"
crlthrep equal Gods in one God head"
which doctrine unitarians believe nct
only denies Christ's own claims 10 son.
ship, but conflicts also with the teach.
i1lgs of Paul and other Now Testament
writers.
1t may not DE known Ito readers of
the Telegram that the Rev. Dr. Edward
Everett Hale, one Of the leading lights
OF the UInttaEion pulpit, ana beloved by
Chr:st!ats of'eycry nlme who know him,
was recently elected chaplain OF the
United States senate, and that the Rev.
DR.. HIN. Coider an ordained minister
of the Uniyersalist church, a fellow stu
dent in the same theological school with
the writer, il the beloved chaplain in
the lower house OF our American con-
gress, which position he has held for sew
eral years, and he, too like all other
Uniyersalists, is Unitarian in regard No
the Christian doctrine of the livine Son.
ship of Christ as opposed to the creed
dogma Of the Trinity, which regards
Him as one OF three deitics in one God,
head,
From the writer's ample knowledge
OF the fruits OF the Gospel according TO
Uaitarianism, wherever it predomfnatesi
he asserts, with the utmost confidence
that il sudh were the predominant reli'
gion in Clarksburg There would not be a
liquor saloon in that city, and the streets
and homes thereof would have no need
I'll policemen TO guard Them.
The city If Cambride, Mass, The home
of Harvard college aud the stronghold
az Trnitarianism. has iIb licensed saloons