New-York tribune., 1907-09-26
LIBER4L CONGRESS-.
4bbc Houtin Speaks of Catholic
Church Crisis.

Boston Sept &.-The international Congress Of
Religious Liberals continued to-day. and the third
session the congress was as largely attended as
either Of yesterdays meetings. To-days pro-
gramme provided for only one session OF the coii-
gress during the day This was held in the fore
noon, and was preceded by a communion service
in Kings Chapel, from which place the delegates
went to fremont Temple.
Addresses given by Professor I. G Ma
saryk of Bohemia. who told of the situation IN
Austria, and the Rev \. Jozan. OF Budapest, whose
address dealt with THE Ideals of Hungary" Pro-
fessor Groenewegen. OF Leyden. described the con-
ditions In Holland indicating striving after
the religion of the Gospel In place of theologzins
and morazing"
"A severe and serious crisis" the report Of
the Rev. Alexander Webster. OF Aberdeen. with
reference TO Scouands religious life. due to
higher criticism and the natural evolution Of
the mind"
The consciousness has como to the soul OF Scot
land.' he said. after being for two hundred and
fifty years like n fountain sealed that theology
cannot have health and truth except il is in con-
tact with spiritual energies that make for de-
velopment-"
The officers chosen for the next two years con-
stituted sixteen members of the executive COM
mittes which will administer the next session OF
tho council. The American members of the COM
mIttee the Rev. DR.. Samuel A Eliot. president
Of the American Unitarian Association; the Rev
Dr. George A. Gordon and the Rev. Charles w
Wendte. all OF Boston
A reception given the delegates uli5 alieT-
noon at the State House by Governor Guild The
rest Of the afternoon given up to department
conferences. That OF comfy and fellowship met In
Kings Chapel. and addresses were delivered by Dr.
James Wilton of New York: Henry w Wilbur,
representing the Friends DR.. J. II AsbecS. of Pitts
b1r9 and the Rev J. 3. Weston. of New York. The
department social and public service met in the
Old South Meeting House and listened TO addresses
by r Madison NJ. p, Of London; the Rev L.
Ragatz Of Switzerland. and the Rev. w g. Tar
rant OF London.
The Rev DR.. George a Gordon presided AT the
Old South Church tonight, and the opening address
was by Rev. J.. IS T. Andre, OF Florence. on Inc
Religious Situation in italy" Professor A CASTOR
Ronet- -Aiaury of the University of Paris spoke on
The Protestants OF France: Their Past and Pres
ent Condition" and he was followed by Able A
Houtin of Paris who spoke on THE Crisis In the
Catholic Church" He said. in part
crises: that Of the fifteenth century, when. as
consequence OF humanisn The reason reasset5,ed reg
itself against the Legends OF tne Mi1die after
the awakening OF the sciences. the reason oegan @
TOOK place ony & atiii yepv poWerfIi II was to
armed Az the present day the solutions OF the
nrnbieins Of Jesus are very clear and those Roman
no longer shackle the liberty Of the press Sar@Peq @
in its historical bases the Roman ChurGh G,, VIII, H.
like Other orthodoxes less marked be obliged & to
disappear adapt herself to new religious 'oh-
sons and herit9r. of the ReformeTs s Of the
sixteenth century,
OF Rome a religious struggle better instructed ana
more radical than that of Wickline, or John ffuss
Of Iutber and of Calvin Great fs our sorrow ana
our distress who crashing down uFon US tne
ancent and venerable palace in winch we hau De-
ieved ourselves TO be housed For you who have
never considered the ecclesiastical institutions OF
Pome 10 he the whole Of the Church and nave
held it's action to be often only n tyrannical op-
nression for Won there is nothing surprising IN
onr destruction our sufferinRs and the struggles
which we must encounter Your fathers ana You;
o,-on Won have known the same vfcisSltudesr ana
In the sweat OF your brow and the tears ~ your
heart have reconstructed Tor yourselves r'iISlodS
shelters where live in and full OF energy
f,r the service of God and of humanity In our
present anguish your experience remains our eil-
couragement and our nope
At tho Second Church James NJ Morton justice
of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. presided
The first address Religious Forces in
T4par" hv Sachiro Kanda. secretary of the Jap
s,asa Unitarian Association OF Toxic. Professor
q St;bba Rau. of Calcutta. spoke on The Ideals
of the Rrahrno Somaj" Other addresses were made
ALI along the line of the Brahmin thought by G n
Rutnam of Cevlon; Mr.. Raracaltullah and Mt