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Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Or ganizer of Abraham Lin coin Circle Center to Lee ture Here Tuesday on Robert E. Lee

distinct pleasure of entertaining Jen- kin Lloyd Jones of Chicago, famous as lawyer, preacher, author, lecturer and soldier, who organized The Abraham Lincoln Circle Center, which is a democratic institution of great power and influence. Next Tuesday afternoon Jenkin Lloyd Jones will speak to Phoenicians on the subject, Robert E. Lee, The Man Who Conquered Defeat" The American Magazine prints the fol- lowing:
 Jenkin Lloyd Jones was transplanted from Wales to the backwOOdS of Wis consin in his early bOyhood He has lived a simple, straightforward life of constant and cheerful fighting. When "Fat ther Abraham" called for troops to save the Union. this boy found his con- science compelled to choose between chose the latter and served his coun- try's cause until the close of the civil conflict, though several times disabled
 In 1882 he organized and became the pastor of All Souls church, on the South Side of Chicago He soon perceived that the fence around d denomination is exclusive, as well as inclusive, and so dropped the word Unitarian that, even by remote implication, his church might not ex- clude anyone.
 He believed that the church was not less religious because it was civic He believed that piety could be practical and that the spirit of every church could afford to be in tensely human. He felt that too many churches maintained settlement house lover there to the neglect of the settlement work here" Out of this conception he built a great civic center. This building was not a distant attachment to his church, but one which housed his church. building which combined the &C., tivities of church and settlement work, and which became the parish clubhouse forum, institute and home.
 Abraham Lincoln once said that if he could find a church that had for it's only creed the Golden Rule he would join it. This was the church that Jenkin Lloyd Jones con- ceived, and, as a religious tribute to the great Illinoisan, this community center was christened The Abraham Lincoln Center
 Study and knowledge of men brought the realization of the essen tial universality of the canons of character and conduct and that the various creeds of the world are, after all, but varying narrow paths to par tial knowledge of God. He refused to fight against them, and found no need of recognizing them, respect fully leaving them to the individual soul. In the same way he has re- fused to be deluded by the claims of partisan politics. and while always anxious to cooperate in bettering the state, he has maintained his right to protest to the last. unmoved by the pleas of party loyalty.
 He has had the dynamic energy to blow a furrow so wide that it would have stalled a less powerful engine. He has demonstrated that an unde- nominational church can be reverent, religious. permanent and socially use full in the highest degree: that such church is the home of civics and the handmaiden of the state. Just as in the Great Parliament of Reli- gions in Chicago in 1893 he and his colleagues proved the fallacy of the lines dividing the faiths, so, in in- numerable public services in his city and state, he has proven the need of subordinating party to principle. He | has shown the need and the service of an open forum for public dis cussion.
 If Jenkin Lloyd Jones, of Chicago, | is radical, he is a constructive radi-
 cal and if justice is true conserva- tism, as he believes it to be, he | is a great conservative.
 Throughout his life he has found
 more opposition from friends with | short vision, than from open oppo- nents. He has done the things that
 couldn't be done. He has held to- | gether a working church organized | on rational lines and without bound- ary fences. He has shown the ne- | cessary relation between religion and | everyday life. and the real union | between religion and politics, the church and the state as two of the l most important phases of social life.
 In the Abraham Lincoln Center l every need is recognized. It is a cen- | ter resting on a democratic founda- | ton entirely free from any suspicion | that there are the two distinct classes donors and recipients. With afl Its complexity and with all the novelty
 incident to adapting democratic ideals, | this institution is an entire success, l providing a maximum of social Op- l portunity with a minimum of cost. l Nothing but prophetic vision and in 1 domitable courage could have created
 this monument and made provision 1 for it's permanence.
 This man who knows the philoso- | phers. the prophets, the poets, knows l the people just as well; they dontt l fool him, or shock him, or repel him.
 He is among them and of them This sage has proven himself practical success as a leader in the march of
 progress. A great university has de-
 lighted to honor his mental qualities; l his fellow citizens now and in future
 generations will ever appreciate and
 honor those human factors that make