The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-06-22

A party of $50 delegates, chiefly re-
cruited in the neighborhood of Boston.
will sail on July l on the Arabic from
Boston and the Teutonic from Montreal
for England and the Continent of Eu-
rope to attend the sixth international
congress of Free and Progressive Chris
tians and Other Religious Liberals. to
be held at Paris July l6-22-
This congress was organized at Bos-
ton in 1900. Its purpose is TO open COM
munication with those in all lands who
are striving to unite pure religion and
perfect liberty, and to increase fellow
ship and cooperation among them" II
seems 10 bring into closer union for
exchange of ideas, mutual service, and
the promotion OF their common aims the
historic liberal churches, the liberal ele-
ments in all churches, scattered liberal
congregations, and isolated workers for
religious freedom and progress in many
lands Some 100 religious associations in
twenty-five countries of the world are
now affiliated with the congress. send
official delegates to its meetings, and
make IT the international organ Of their
fraternal relations with each other. Its
congresses have been held at London,
Amsterdam, Geneva, Boston, and Berlin,
and its proceedings and papers have
been published in five volumes.
The organizer of the meetings at Paris,
which will be held in the halls OF the
National Horticultural Society, Rue de
GreneIle, is Rev. Charles w. Wendte,
foreign secretary of the American Uni
tartan Association. who since its incep-
ton, in 1900, has been the general secre-
tary of the congress-
The Paris meetings will be under the
presidency of the eminent French phil
osopher and member of the institute.
Prof. Emile Boutroux. Pastor Charles
Wagner, of Paris, so well known as a
preacher and author, is vice president OF
the congress There is a long list OF
honorary vice presidents, representing
many different nations, among whom
may be mentioned Profs. Adolf Harnack,
Paul Sabatier. Allan Menzies and II.
SchmiedeI, Canons Cheyne and A. l..
LilIey Revs. Stopford Brooke and r. j.
Campbell, Dean Charles r. Brown, Profs.
f. c. Moore and Daniel Evans. Rabbi
Kaufman Kohler. Claude Montefiore.
Rabindranath Tagore. Abdul BAHIA, and
others.
Eminent speakers will be heard on
themes of vital interest. among them
Prof. Rudolf Eucken and Henri Berg
son. who are TO treat OF the mutual re-
lations of philosophy and religion; Profs.
Rudolf Otto. of Goettingen: Count Cob
let d'Alviella, of Brussels, and several
Oriental scholars. who are to discuss
the question of a universal religion; Rev.
Charles F. Dole Rev. S. A. Eliot. DIR.
Lee s Forbes, of Boston: Rabbi Stephen
s. Wise. of New York. and Prof. j..
Estlin Carpenter, of oxford, on topics
of scholarly and human interest.
An interesting feature of the congress
will be its modernist aspect. dozen
prominent representatives of this phase
of opinion in Roman Catholic circles will
participate, among them Miss Maude
Petre, the biographer of Father Tyreii'
Prof Joseph Schnitzer, Of Munich; Rev.
William Sullivan, of New York; Don
Romolo Murri, of Rome; Prof. Angelo
Crespi. of Florence: Prof Paul Sabatier,
of France: Profs. Caudelier, of Brussels,
and Van Heen, of Holland, and the Old
Catholic Dean Michaud, of Berne.
Other topics are: THE Social Ideals Of
Free Christianity" THE Relations Be-
tween Christians and Non-Christians," by
European and Oriental speakers. and