Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-26
ATLANTA GIRL HEADS MOVEMENT FOR
ONE RELIGIOUS SERVICE FOR ALL CREEDS

Atlanta, Ga, July 26.-Miss Mary
Reynolds Carter, a popular and pretty
Atlanta girl, is at the head of move
ment that has for it's object the con-
version of Atlantas auditorium, with
it's great organ and choir of three hun
dred voices, for a Sunday morning re-
ligious service to embrace all peoples
and all nationalities and 20 eliminate
church distinctions of creed and tradi-
ton. Miss Carriers idea is being cham
pioned by the famous Saturday Night
club, one of the most influential organ
izations in Atlanta.
Miss Carter stresses the fact Of
Americas cosmopolitanism-th many
races and creeds gathering here to
make nation-and how divergence of
religious thought tends to separate
members of the same city, state and
national governments, SO that the best
/ results are impossible of attainment.
She believes-and the people of Attain
! Ia apparently believe with her-that a
great Catholic service once week
would go far towards breaking down
the barriers and establishing religious
unity. Miss Carter believes that il
/ this country is to be an example to
/ the world of religious and political
; freedom, old world traditions must be
wiped out.
The fatherhood of man and the
brotherhood of man lies at the basis
Of all religion" says Miss Carter.
There is evolution in religion as in
everything else. An auditorium SER
vice, with choir and organ, will assem-
BILE the unchurched of the city. Good
music and short addresses on big prin-
ciples will direct aspiration. 1t will
mean a religious and ethical uplift for
the individual, and a general advance
in civic standards. Dogmatic and rit-
ualistic religion is out of harmony
with actual life. 1t is too far removed
from human needs and practical
things. II fails to touch many who
may fail to secure religious uplift I'M
til they have come to feel human kind
ness and material encouragement. 1t
would be a Capitalization of scattered
forces for the active accomplishment
of good, and would create tolerance
and secure common cooperation.
The new religion has come. 1t has
come without blare of brass, without
fanfare of words, without shoutings,
without argument, agitation or VIC
lence. This new religion is slowly
conquering the world. II is being
preached from every pulpit in chris
tendon; it is being advocated by all
rabbits, priests. preachers and teachers.
II is so reasonable, so gentle. so sim.
pie, so obvious that it is being accept
Cd without opposition. In form the old
cceeds still remain, but their soul has
been hOneycombed by doubt.
This new religion assumes that
what is good in this life is good in an
other. 1t deals with but one world a;
time. The object of its alteration is
humanity. II does not try to make
peace with the skies; it teaches MAJ
that his success lies in making peac,
with his neighbor. 1t is a religion o.
elf-preseryation, and thus has it en-
gagged as counsel the strongest passion
Of the human heart. CuriousIy enough
the men who have done most TO brinJ
this religion about are not aware tina
they are religious in their tendencies
The new religion is not revealed re
ligiOn' in the sense that il has bee
whispered by the Infinite TO one o
TWO. IL has been born TO the mutt