The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-17
UNITARIAN

UNI Af\lAN
Unitarians of Washington and thu
country at large are centering their in
terest in the anniversary week, to b.
celebrated in Boston beginning tomor
row. Delegates who will represent AL
Souls Church are Mrs. Henry Fanquhar
Mrs. G. Grosvenor Dave, Mr.. and Mrs
J. Jerome Lightfoot and Rev. DR.. U
G. B. Pierce. the minister of the church
Mr.. H. Martin Williams, of the House
of Representatives stan, will attend ant
read a paper on THE Single Tax"
The week is mapped out according &c
the usual plan-the American Unitarian
Association and its allied organizations
holding their annual meetings and ami
Iversaries.
There is much qualification at theScom-
ing of Prof William II. Taft, LII. D..
of Yale Cthe new title sounds awkward.
but is Significantly, who will preside at
the festival on Wednesday evening, May
q, in fremont Temple. The Lend-a-
Hand Clubs CundenominatonaD the
great organization which Rev. Edward
Everett Hale established, is also an
nouncing Dr. Taft as the speaker at
their annual meeting. DR.. Hales memory
will be recalled also by the unwilling
of the statue in his memory on Thurs
day, May q, at noon, on the Charles
Street side of the Public Garden.
Each day of anniversary week, from
Monday till Friday, will open with morn
ing prayer in Kings Chapel at o'clock
The speakers on the successive mornings
will be Rev William R. Cole. of Cohas-
set; Dr. Seth c. Beach. of WATERFOWL;
Rev. Paul S. Phalen, of Augusta, Rev.
Laurence Hayward. of Newburyport.
and the ministers of the church, Rev.
Howard n. Brown and Rev. Sidney b.
Snow, who together conduct the annual
communion service on Thursday.
Other important meetings with the de-
votional purposes are the vespers at the
First Church at o'clock every day from
Monday until Friday. DR.. Augustus NJ.
Lord, of Providence; Rev. Charles Z. St
John, of Philadelphia; Rev. Robert
CoIlyer Douthit, of Petersham; Rev. Fred
R. Lewis of Hopedale, and Rev. Harold
G. Arnold, OF West FoNbury, will be the
speakers. The first meeting of the week,
and one that is sure TO provoke lively
interest, is the Sunday evening meeting
of the Unitarian Fellowship for Social
Justice. The meeting has formerly been
held in the Arlington Street Church, but
the atmosphere of Ford Hall seems more
like the native air. of such a meeting
as the Fellowship holds, and SO Ford
Hall is to be the place, and the hour is
s o'clock. Rev. Edgar S. Weirs, OF
Montclair. n. J., the president, will con- |
duct that meeting Mr.. Weirs' church |
has inaugurated more social reforms and |
experiments than any other agency in |
the city; it is church with "a religious |
center and a social circumference" The |
programme for Sunday night consists of |
three addresses: Mrs. Rose Pastor
Stokes of New York, on Socialism"
Miss Inez MilholIand. of New York, on
''woman's Suffrage" and Mr.. II. Mar
tin Williams, of Washington, D. c., on
Single Tax"
Much of the programme of the week is
True, time is given to
the past, but the principal oc-
cupation of the delegates is rorecastIngI
the future. Even the Women's Alliance
THE national organization of Unitarian
takes for the subject of its meet
ng The Spirit of Youth" and three ad-
dresses will be made at the meeting ton
at 2:30 o'clock in the South Con-
yregational church, by Rev. Edgar s.
Weirs, Miss Laura Donnell, and Mrs
Anna Garlin Spencer.
The distinctly young peoples organiza-I
ion, the national Young Peoples Rel
igious Union, will meet in the samel
hurch on Thursday afternoon and even
1g with. reception between the ses-
ions. The business will be transacted ,
n the afternoon, and in the evening !
rev. Sydney B. Snow, of Kings Chapel. ,
will speak. Friday in Kings Chapel .
here will be an all-day session of the :
organized Department of Re-
gfous Education of the American Uni =
arian Association. This will be COM
ined with the annual meeting Of the
Unitarian Sunday School Society. The r
forming will be given to the subject Y
Training the Teacher with a number \
( addresses, and ir the afternoon Re I
gious Education will be discussed. The +
rst speaker in the afternoon will be {
ev. Troward II. Marshall of Dayton, o
no did such valiant and efficient work
lring and after. the great Hood. Mrs. C
lila Lyman Cabot and DIR. Edwin u. F
tarbuck, of the State University OF c
IVA, will be the other speakers.
On Monday evening a meeting of pecu-
ir interest will be held. THE Call of
e Hour to Protestant Christianity" will Il
the subject, and three addresses will e
made by representatives of the Con- N
egational, Universalist and Unitarian
nominations. Rev. George A Gordon, II
can Lee s. McCollester of the Crane d.
ieological School Of Tufts College, and A
~. Samuel A Eliot, president of the OF
nerican Unitarian Association, will be OF
speakers. The meeting. which will bt
evitably be vital and constructive. viii
In the Arlington Street Church.
mere Is strong personal interest in of
E speaker for Tuesday. evening at the 70
me church. He Is Rev. William .SuiIf. | oc
n minister OF the Unitarian Church Ell