The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-09-14

Freeman Clark, e. e. Hale, H. w. Bel
lows, Thos. Starr King, Robt. Collyer,
NJ. j. Savage, II. Stebbins, G. c. Ever
EFT, s. A. Eliot, c. w. Eliot, S. M.
Crothers, c. F. Dole, John Biddle,
Theo. Lindsey and Joseph Priestly, the
ern chemistry; F. w. Newman, bro
Their of the Cardinal man of much
greater intellect; Dr. Carpenter, the
miscrocopist and physicist; James
Drummond, philosopher; John Austin,
English Jurist; DR.. Cogan, founder OF
the Royal Humane Society; John Dol
land, inventor of the aromatic tele-
scope; Dr. Tuckerman, founder of Do
nestle Missions; Henry Wheaton,
great authority on International Law;
s. A. Brooks, James Martineau.
The following names would indicate
that some Unitarians at least are en-
dowed with sympathies:
Mary Carpenter, Florence Nightin-
gale; Dorothea Dix who originated and
carried on Prison Reform: DR.. Wor-
cester, founder of the Peace Societies:
DR.. S. G. Howe, who established the
first institution for the instruction of
the blind; Samuel ]. May to whose
great work Andrew D. White refers in
his Religious Development"
H. w. Bellows, Pres. U. S. Sanitary
Commission Miss Peabody, libraries
and Kindarpa r,tap. Tobn Do,,5. Fo,,
der of Ragged Schools; Peter Cooper,
higher education of the poor; Henry
Bergh, the American Humane Socie-
ties; w. H. Baldwin, various pnilan-
thropies; Mary Hemenway, schools
Mary Livermore, Nurse; Eliz Cady
Stanton, Henry Kidder, DR.. Blackwell
and many others.
A few names only of scientists who
were Unitarians will be mentioned,
leaving out ultra-radicals like Huxley,
Spencer etc.:
Darwin and family; DR.. S. Clarke;
DR.. Lardner, Jeremy Bentham; Sir
Chas. Lyell; Josiah Wedgewood; Sir
w. Fairhairn; Maria Mitchell; Horace
Mann; John Fiske; Louis Agassiz
Benz. Pierce; Jeffries Wyman; Benja-
min Franklin. The latter was a COM
municant at DR.. Belshams church in
England. About this time he wrote:
81 believe in one God-that the most
acceptable service we render him is
doing good to his other children; that
the soul Of man is immortal and will
be treated with justice in another life
respecting its conduct in this. These
I look upon as the fundamental points
in all sound religion.
AS to Jesus of Nazareth, I think his
system of morals and religion as he
left them to us, the best the world
ever saw or is likely to see; but | ap.
prehend it has received various cor.
rupting changes, and have with mos
of the present Dissenters of England
doubts of his Divinity"
Chas. Wendte of Boston says:
American literature and art ar,
thoroughly Unitarian. Two thirds o
the eminent names on our list of au
IhOlo DSIOuS W ILlS ldllu.
Historians:
George Bancroft, j. Lothrop Motley
w. H. Prescott, Richard Hidreth
Francis Parkham, Jared Sparks, ]. e
Palfrey, John Fiske
Poets:
William Cullen Bryant, H. w. Long
fellow, James Russell Lowell, Olive
Wendell Holmes, R. w. Emerson, Hell
en- Hunt Jackson, Julia Ward Howe
Samuel Longfellow, j. G. White
(Hicksite.)"
A few more names of authors pro
Tossing the Unitarian faith:
e. P. Whipple, Jones Very, Gee
Ticknor, Chas. Sprague, Sylveste
Judd, Bayard Taylor, Louisa M. AL
colt, Bret Harte, Margaret Fuller, Ly
dia Maria Child, Chas Eliot Norton
Henry Thoreau, Miss Sedgwick, c. I
Brooks, ]. T. Fields. Nathaniel Haw
thorne, w. w. Story, j. T. Trowbridge
E. E. Hale, r. H. Stoddard, John S
Dwight and many minor writer's.
In England John Milton as show,
by his life and antitrinitarian pamph
lets, Judge Talfourd, Mark Aikensidt
Mrs. Barbauld, Leigh Hunt, Johann
Baillie, Sarah Hazlett, Sam Rogers
Mrs. Gaskell, Mrs. Humphrey Ware
Chas. Dickens.
Sir Matthew Hale was an Arian. 81
John Bowring, an eminent Unitarian
wrote I'm the Cross of Christ 1 Glory;
Mrs. Adams, another earnest member
wrote Nearer My God to Thee" S
that a Presbyterian minister has sal
1--WE owe our most precious hymns t
the Unitarians."
Now in view of these claims whic
are amply recorded and often to tn
: investigation of all, ask
Is not Mr. Taft justified in holdin
2 Unitarian doctrines if he is convint
} ed of their truth, and may he not we
t regard them as safe principles for tn
: guidance of a President Of a Christia
country? Enough American poop