The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-11-21
CATHOLICS CAN
JOIN FEDERATl0
Changes Phrase to Exclude Uni
tarians and Uni
vcrrsaists.
DON'T ACCEPT THEIR THEORY y
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.utnavailing Plea for Those Who
Don't Believe in Divinity Of
Jesus Christ.
DON'T ACCEPT THEIR THEORY

tBy Associated Press.o
+ NEW YORK. November oo.-At its
meeting to-day the Inter- Church Con-
| ference on Federation changed tho word
lng OF the phrase Jesus Christ our Lord
and Saviour In the preamble Of the
constitution Of the Federal Council to
read Jesus Christ our Divine Lord and
| Saviour 1t is understood that this
change Will exclude from membership
in the Federal Council the Unitarians
and Universalists on the ground that
| they do not accept the theory OF the
divinity OF Jesus Christ. This body was
not Invited to attend the conference on
| federation.
A plea for Roman Catholics to join the
| federation was made by Rev. l.. G.
Barnes, of Worcester. Mass. He began
! by speaking In favor Of the Unitarians
and lfniversaists saying:
q would be glaa TO SEQ the few who
do not respond to the full divinity OF.
Jesus Christ come into the assembly.
| l have no fear that the millions Of Meth
odsts, Baptists and Prcsbyterians would
not be in the least harmed by the
thousands of Unitarlans and Universal
| lists ] should regard It as a splendid
| advance if they did como In.
But there are other bodies which
! for one should like to see have repre-
sentatives. would like TO see the door
| opened to the Roman Catholics. who
certainly believe enough"
| Rev. DIR. Roberts. the permanent chair
man, said that Roman Catholics were
| not excluded by the terms Of the propo-
| sitlon OF federation.
Judge p. S. Grosscup. Of the United
States Circuit Court Of Chicago. con-
| tributed paper at the evening session
| on THE Popular Conscience" in al5-
| cussion OF united church and the ma
tional life. He said:
Judge Grosscup's Address.
Commingled with the nations ponIcal
| commercial and industrial life. is what
may be called the benevolent side OF the
nations lie But here, too, although
the possessing thought Is the individual
home. there is at work the modern pro-
cess that draws individual entities into
common action.
Behind the nations life, moving It,
lighting 1t up, holding it together. the
primal source of everything done Is an
unseen power. Like the great force be-
behind the life OF nations has shown
itself in events. Up and down the coast
of history, like head lands, these proyI-
dental events stand out. The giving to
this world OF Lincoln was such an event.
1t was not accident that opened UP to
Lincoln the presidency. 1t was nothing
less than providence transferred TO the
affairs OF men An. the upseen life!
Bursting In upon US on every htlnd.
silently but trlumphantly. as the bud
bursts out Of tho bark. But the Church!
| united Church! What Is Its relation
to this boundless national life. seen and
unseen?
Agency of Church.
More than any other Institution. OF
civilization, the Church IS the agency
| that intects equilibrium into the national
| life. Reaching back to the primal sources
| of that life, tho Church, more than any
| other Institution known to mankind bal
| anccs and steades them
Why not take steps here, then, for the
| process going on everywhere else? Why
| not uniting Church? BY n Church
| uniting do not mean that there shall
be nlassed into ono common form. either
the polity or the beliefs OF the individ-
nal churches would leave the churches
MS they are. each tho chosen channel
| through which, men seek communion with
! their Creator But ] would so ADJUST
| and balance, and mass their Influence
| upon tho life OF the nation, mat mere
| as IN the civil side of that life, while
| nothing was taken from the strength OF
| the individual church. behind each 'fl-.-
| vidual church would be put the strength
| Of all the churches
| A year ago last February happened 10
| be In Baltimore on the night OF the Great
| fire. Tho fire had started In one oil me
| older business sections OF the city, am
| under q south wind, had crept north"aro'
/ gathering volume and fury as It's pain
way heightened, When VIC arrived u
4 had reached the vicinity of St. Pauif
/ Church and the Cardinals Cathedral, It's
| red DYES Straining toward the region of
| homes beyond, its red tongues leaIlns
! toward them as the tongues of scrpenti
| leap for their prey. But across the path
| hung the cleaning cross ms If some
poWcr In tho skies We're saying, MOI
| here, not here
! Banled, tho fire turned eastward. Here
/ architecture had built Its commercial
! asterpeces--granite and steel that stood
out like fortresses against tho invading
| foe. But one after another the fortresses
4 were oyerrun One after another the
4 fortrcsses We're overwhelmed. One after
another they Went down. And then, for
n moment the red eyes turned north
| ward again. But there still cleaned the
| CROSS the sign Of the power in the skies
| that said, Not here, not here.
/ Eastward the fires turned again, Fac
! tory after factory went down. Ware
| house after warehouse Whole blocks;
| whole streets. But to the northward still
1 cleaned the cross, and still 1t said. Not
here, not here,
And not until the baffied fires had licked
IN, the wharyes to the waters edge and
I gone out to sea did this emblem OF our
common faith cease TO stand sentinel
4 against Il common danger,
4 Under Common Emblem.
4 Men and women OF the church: We arc
\ even now under this common emblem
b 1ha r,nrld c,.er emil am that -conolu EN-.