Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-21

other cities, but he has steadily de-
clined them all, as he feels that he
has made a unique place for HIM
se.f in Newark, and looks upon this
as the most promising city of
America today. He is ever coup-
selling young men to stick to Newark
and prophesies that it will yet rank
with Philadelphia and Chicago in size
and in national Importance.
Universalism is the doctrine of the
universal love of God, ana, therefore
the universal salvation of mankind.
But Universalists today teach that
no one can ever be saved except by
becoming good, and their pulpits de-
vote themselves to inspiring people
10 study the character of Jesus ana
try, like st. Paul. to come up to the
measure of the stature of the fulness
of Christ. Uniyersalists have had a
church in Newark over seventy years
and have numbered among them
some of the foremost citizens of this
community. They are found ON every
board of philanthropy in the city
and are pr 1dest and happtest when
serving the general good.
Leader and Radical.
Sometimes the greatest value In a
church Is found In what the church
The other day. in Melrose, Mass, a
suburb of Boston, of whose $4,000 In
hab.tants most of the grown ups
work In Boston. a $4,000 soldiers and
sailors memorial was dedicated. In
stead of a useless shaft of stone, 1t
was In the form of a fine town hall,
with seats for 1000 persons.
On Sunday afternoons this hall is
thronged by folks who go to hear
~, 90 nfs.I
lem set forth by a speaker of note.
When the speaker gets through, the
folks ask questions. Louis d. Bran
deis has spoken there and Lincoln
Steffens and Walter Rauschenbusch.
Before the talking begins the folks
sing hymns OF democracy and hear a
prayer and a poem or some bit of
pertinent prose. There Is no theo'-
ogy, no sectarianism, no religion In
the churchly sense; but the whole
meeting is intensely religious in the
social sense, for il is instinct with
the spirit of democracy and brother
hood 1t is a getting together of hui
man beings on an equal footing to
think of their mutual relations.
The effect upon the community is
shown in more liberal thinking and
in the growth of the cooperative
spirit. Misunderstanding are not so
common as they were. Shams are
not so successful. The tone of the
neighborhood is becoming less SNUG.
People are learning their relations to
society.
This has chiefly come about
through the guidance of one man,
Harold Marshall, minister.
Called Him Demssosue.
He is a radical. Years ago, when
d h vaVafW b AN n
nomination-the Universalists-to a
holder front toward the great injus-
tees of society, he was looked upon
| by many worthy churchmen as dan
gerous. "Oh, yes, Marshall, that
demgogue," they used to call him.
Today he is the accepted leader of
the State convention of his denom-
ination, the chairman of It's social
service commission and one of the
| live wires of New England.
He started the civic forum In his
own church, using an annex build
| ing. He had to fight a goodly ee-
ment in his flock, too, for Melrose was
originally a stronghold of standpat-
tiers. The fighting wasn't exactly
! bloody; but his critics couldn't gu te
see what such mixing into secular
| concerns had to do with the job for
which they were paying him a salary.
| Some of them don't see 1t yet Luck
| lily, the great majority do; and are
proud to have a minister serve the
community as we'll as a little group
| in it.
Today, Melrose is progressive. II
has a progressive senator in the State
House. The old public service cor
poration machine has lost control OF
/ it. The town is on the way to be-
come really democratic.
One man didn't do it all, but Pastor
Marshall the radical, was helped q