Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-02-03


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in" &c" so sea. Bu' Hm ftyn it ...
c7us" T. 'vrr,s'ca ..s feelings ns q Iui.
NcrT.iis' 'owrd you tni'aeHo.. Nud /
L'h"ve II ,4Y"rr.tS The fc,i,nr. os MA
church toward yoar church.
Your church arose to combat 4 doc
ma that Is as unreasonable as It is In
explicable. our church arose TO combat q
doctrine Tint is as dreadful as fl is un-
just The two most reGoubtablo cham
pions Of tho faiths held by these two
churches. in an early dag were William
Elroy Claiming and Hosea Ballou. II
Claiming was preacher OF elooucncc
and power. Ballou was one Of apt Illus
tretion and incontrovertible logic 10
them both each denomination owes much.
ON the foundations they laid for us. and
from the impulse they gave us, we have
created for ourselves an entirely new
environment Today the ordinary hearer
discovers but little difference between
the preaching IN our churches and tina,
In other churches. This constitutes our
problem. how to adjust ourselves nj
churches to the new environment WI
have created for ourselves and Tor tn,
church a. large. In the creation Of this
new environment have we fulfilled our
mission? do not believe It. The more
r'sential part of the same work con-
fronts US todav that confronted us at
tho beginning. II Is TO help men and
women to he hettcr do better It IS to
save the world from sin and bring 4.
to the feet Of Christ. Other churches
are engaged in the same work.
They have changed this watcnword
from Salvation from hell" to salvation
from sin" That watchword they have
caught from us. We believe that every
son and daughter oe man IS Il child OF
God, and will finally experience this sal
yation. Do they? Whether they do or
not, It remains for Us to continue the
proclamation ~ our inspiring exalting,
comforting, truthful Gospel But out
main work today Is 70 help IN tho doing
to- thu very limit Of our power of thu
tn which we have always felt will b.
done. by lending our voice and our In
huence toward bringing men and womei
everywhere. all men and women int
final harmony with the one true God
the universal Father. IN trying to solv,
tho problem Of i's new environment. tn,
Liberal Christian Church is learning how
ter and better every year, Let us be
leve IN "One God. the Father" let III
believe IN universal salvation, let us
preach and teach these great doctrines
and then let us set ourselves 10 work
TO bring to pass tire great thing fol
which they stand, tho harmony of tn.
child man with his father God. by do
ing what we can to save the man at our
sin.
| No churches have been more open
minded and open-hearted toward a broad
or scholarship, new discoveries, and new
scientific facts than the liberal Christian
| churches. And hence these churches to-
day are especially fitted. II seems to me.
to do a great work toward uniryng all
| denominations. In the first place be-
cause they have faith, which. in sub
| stance must prove TO be the faith around
| which all devout souls VIII gather more
| and more. In the second place because
they occupy middle position between
two extremes, Here the truth is found and
| In it the world just finally come 10 rest
| We are between those who. on the one
| hand. hold hard and irrational faith,
and the great masses on the other, who
| hold no faith at all. only resting
| E.aCe between these extremes is fai.t
that Is wholesome. and true. and ration
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faith and that is about MS big as Il
can be.
In the name Of the Unlversalist Con
vention OF Vermont and Province OF Que
bee | congratulate this church on It.
one hundred years OF life and work
congratulate the Unitaria denominatio,
on It's splendid achievements. You hav
believed In great t..ngs Of men" w
have believed In great things OF God.
We have both come to believe In grea
things OF God and man. let us Join hand
ever time We can In the task OF gettin
others, everybody. to believe what W
believe