New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-12
UNITARIANS SHUT OUT.
CHURCH AlIITY SPLIT.
DR.. Hale, DR.. S. Il. Eliot and j. d
Long Barred from Conference.

Tho officials of the church federation that is
planning to hold meetings in this city next
month il was learned yesterday have declded
to exclude all members of the Unitarian denom-
ination About seven hundred official delegates
and alternates are coming here, representing
about eighteen millions Of church members
Among the duly elected delegates were the Kew
DR. Edward Everett Hale chaplain If the United
States Senate; John D. Long, ex-Secretary OF
the Navy and Ex-Governor of Massachusett9
and the Rev. Dr. Samuel A Eliot. president OF
the American Unitarian Association and son Oh
President Eliot of Harvard. The committee IN
charge has declined to admit them as delegates
There is a National Federation of Churches
aiming to bring Christian bodies into active
support of measures on which all agree. Ihis
federation has been at work for two years on
the meeting and has succeeded in getting the
official bodies of more than twenty denoTnina-
tions to name delegates. 1t was hoped to sho"
that Professionalism was not divided, but could
work together on essential things. There IS no
purpose to obtain organic union There mas
been wide proclamation of this purpose. and the
meeting. it is hoped. will be the biggest gather
ing in the religious world since the Ecumenical
Conference of 1900. The Unitarans supposed
they were invited and named delegates The
action barring them out it is said, brings
Untarians and Trntarians into clash on
larger scale than ever before,
The Rev Thomas r. Slicer. of All Souls
Unitarian Church. spoke yesterday for the
Unitarians. the officers of his denomination be
ing in Boston. He said:
Let ME emphasize first Of all, that we feel no
here is federation without federation. When unity
is professed it is strangely lacking fundalenIAa "a
We advocate it always. We don't take exeePt1Ion n
to what has been done but il comes out in singular
contrast to the action of the New-York State Con
ference Religion, which admits TO It's plauoQiln Q
of reai al fedeTatfon m # seems hardly while
to federate and have the attempt take on 'ie
If at the beginning there are excluded from the
sons representing any religious body the CONFER
ence at once becomes absurd Illogical and inGono Con
Eth The FedeTation Of Unitarian Churches, with
headquarters in Boston. named them; and notice
of their appointment was sent 10 the rev; ~. -
Sanford. the secretary DR. Sanford sem IS,'G i
in reply stating that, upon careful conslderdtior
had been decided to restrict the inyltati2ns 20 % b
conference. There the incident rests, as tar as the
Unitarian body offciaIy is concerned 49,.
two Sundays back used it for sermon thene, i IN
which drew contrast between tnls foned
pointed that every wall erected between rigni
1foR pc g1oa 5o much Of %
waste Walls are geneTaiiX c2nslddre9 S ++e To' Wne ~
We are not going to press ourselves In we % %"oqnl
like know what the tronoIe may ot nvfta fn5
begins.
The general secretary of the National Fedora
4iop is the Rev DR.. z. B Sanford and on the
committees in charge of the meetings soon TO
be held are many of the prominent clergy and
! lavroer of Protestant bodies The Rev. DR.. san
ford said Yesterday:
took no action without first consulting our fui
| committee. The limitation was early made 10 sucn
bodies unquestionably accept JeSus CilIlst a.
| the head of the church Ours is religious move
ment It is evangelical in every sense feel sure
| that our Unitarian friends know where our nm
apd yChp
DIR Eliot I was particular 70 say that personally
few men are held in more general esteem thdh ne
| three whom the Unitarians named put ina
| matter even more strongly. so that NOBODY car
| think we objected those men. We drew tht
line on dscipleship of Jesus Christ ana 1t IS no
concern of our committee if sharp clash results
| between such disciples ana InoSe "Iio uo iio' :,
| follow the Head.
The Rev. NJ E. Dwight, chairman of the con-
ference committee on meetings said that any ac-
! ton of State federations in way binds the ma
| tional federation
There are many Unitarians who can b'
| cIassed as almost orthodox. and there are Pres
| byterians Episcopalians and Baptists who, i
| rrlnlor be true are almost heterodox,' said th
| Rev. DR.. R. S. Macarthur, Of Calvary Baptis
Church 1T is largely a question of men. Ha'
| l been present in committee, as l regret l wa
| not l should have voted to admit the Rev. Drs
| Hale and Eliot and former Secretary Long
These men are needed in the deliberations"
The executive committee Of the conference /
| to meet this afternoon. 1t was said at its Cthc
| late yesterday tnat a statement might be made
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