The Washington herald., 1913-10-05
UNITARIAN CHURCHES ARE
CONFERING In BUFFALO

| program
ence of Unitarian and Other Christian
lChurches" is much more nearly complete
than it was several weeks ago when
the preliminary program was announced.
The conference will meet in Buffalo next
Monday and continue till the following
q, Thursday evening.
| Each days session will open with a
service of worship. The first session will
be on Monday evening. and the Rev.
Samuel NJ CrotheTs, of Cambridge, will
preach the conference sermon. The seTv-
ice on Tuesday morning will be conduit
ed by the Rev. A. NJ. Rihbany, of the
| Church of the Disciples, Boston; on
| Wednesday morning by the Rev. Henry
! Hallam Saunderson. Cambridge, and on
Thursday morning by the Rev Joel II.
Metcan, Winchester. These morning
services will be held in the Lafayette
Hotel. Other sessions are to be held at
the First Presbyterian Church, the First
| Unitarian Church. and the Church of the
Messiah UniversalisD. On some days
there will be departmental meetings in
different places at the same hour. be-
cause of the large number of meetings
tC be held.
In these days when men are seeking
to bring all work to the highest degree
of efficiency, it is to be expected that
they will apply the test of the church
as an institution. The officers of the
conference announce that they cheer
fully face the question, and invite this
very test The session on Tuesday eve
ming in the First Presbyterian Church,
Will be given to the discussion of the
question, What May the Community
Expect of the Church, The answer is
threefold: First "As a Center of Social
Education and this is to be discussed
irE Of
York. associate secretary of the Play
ground and Recreation Association Of
America; second, las a School for Vol
unteer Social Workers" to be discussed
by Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer. New York,
and third. "As Center for ROusing the
Social Consciousness, to be discussed by
the Rev. John Haynes Holmes. formerly
president Of the Unitarian Fellowship
for Social Justice. Mr. Holmes as min
lister Of the Church of the Messiah. New
York. has done much to rouse the So
cial consciousness not only in his own
church and its community but I'm the
country. The name of Frederic Amy. of
Buffalo, appears on the preliminary pro-
gram as the first speaker at the evening
session, but illness prevents his presence;
and it is his place which is taken by
Mr.. Dickinson, Of New York.
The Wednesday morning session is to |
Faith" with addresses by the Rev. How |
ard n. Brown, Boston. senior minister of |
Kings Chapel; the Rev. Albert r. Vail !
and the Rev. John NJ. Wilson. Mr.. Vail |
is the minister of the Unitarian Church, |
Urbana, Ill, the seat of the State Uni
versity of Illinois This church has been
built up very largely through his in
fuence, and the president of the uni
versity is one of its conspicuous mem
bers. Mr.. Wilson is highly regarded
among those who know him we'll as a
profound philosophical thinker, with an
charm Of expression. He is min
lister of the old First Parish Church, Lex
inStOn.
At the session on Wednesday evening
Liberalism. the Religion of Democracy"
will be discussed by the Rev. Arthur L.
Weatherly, minister of the Unitarian
Church, Lincoln. Nebr.; the Rev. Robert
J. HutCheOn, who for several years has
been minister Of the Unitarian Church.
Toronto, Ontario, and recently accepted
L prOfessOrship in the Meadville Theo-
logical School, and the Rev. Charles F.
Dole, president of the Twentieth Cen
Jury Club, Boston, and minister of the
Unitarian Church, Jamaica Plains. who
viii return from a summer in Europe in
lime to attend the conference.
Any one who attends a national Uni |
arlan gathering may well expect to be |
stirred by that lusty organization, The
Unitarian Fellowship for Social Justice
At the May meetings in Boston in ami
'ersary week hundreds were turned
way from their session, though held in
he commodious auditorium of Ford Hail. |
vt Buffalo the new president, DIR. Will t
am NJ. Brundage. Brooklyn, will preside, $
md the speakers will be the Rev. Edwin
\. Rumbull, Rochester: the Rev. c. F. II
Dole, Boston, and DR.. Charles W. Eliot, )
Who is the president of the conference. b
The subject is, What Can Our Churches t
Do to Help Secure Social Justice?' c
1t is evident that if the Buffalo confer b