Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-02-18
LETTER 10 EDITOR

I'll tlle Editor of The Fronting Capif'I
SIR The recen University club
was Of special interest because 81 the
excellence Of the proceedings There
were four short addresses. as report
ed iii your Last issne- All were good,
and led 10 Lively discussions; but the
theme Of Rev Maurice White, Some
Elements OF Universal Religion,
should entitIe II to wider publicity
He started BIZ saying the great war
VIII j ended as suddenly as Il began,
vi ! likely TO give us League Ma
tions Might II not be possible Tor the
many religious sects Of the world io
GET together and found League Of
Religions. i Universal religion, SO to
speak based on tenets common 70 al
One of the first essentials, he said
would be religious tolerance. The IN
diyidual denominations would retain
their identity and would recognize
each others rights in the same respect
There would continue to be Christians, Z
or Ruddhists or Mohommedans A per
son could stu be an EpiscOpal.an.
Unitarian. Christian Scientist or any
thing else. Only, Instead of believing.
as mos persons do today that their
particular sect is the only true one
and and that others are more or less
faulty. he would come TO recognize
some good in all and realize that
truth has many aspects or viewpoints
The result of Christian missions has
been not only To show the strength of
III competition with other
religions Of the world, but also that
Chris ians have some great lessons 70
learn from these other religions The
original purpose of missions was, for
instance. to make Mohammedans into
Christians. There should be another
purpose. namely, to make Mohamme-
danism Christian
Continuing, Mr. White said: The sec
ond point Is this: Each denomiTa
ton in the future should emphasize
he great fundamental religious truths
rather than emphasize its own idiOsyn-
crasies and pecularities, as II has done
In times past. Mast sects have great
deal in common. Moreover. the more
important belief Of
any sect ii, the more likely Il Is to be
found among other sects: and the be-
liefs most widely held among men Of
all religions are the ones universally
acknowledged to be Of prime import
ance, as for example, belief III God, BIZ
whatever name you call him. the inn
portance or righteousness and saliva
ton. and the persistent belief IN the
immorfality OF the soul.
A third element in . Universal re-
ligion would be that Of progress Or
development This holds true along the
lines of science. education. govern
ment. commerce industry. every hing.
Why should it not hold good Of relig-
ious truths III is absurd to think that
any sect. or all sectsput together have
discovered all that 3 to be known of
religious truth There are great un-
discovered continents Of truth before
us. Moreover, We all have faults No
sect is perfect Let as press on pro-
gressiyely toward perfection. toward
the ideal
Ring out the false, ring IL the true
United We can do tremendously
more than We can do sfngIy We can
put down religious prosecutions. re-
ligious tyranny and hbst Of false
elements We can exalt spiritually.
morality. worship faith. prayer. love.
hope And another great union Will
take place. more important than that
Of brother hood the great drawing
together of God and men
The above are the chief points made
By Mr.. White. He might have supple
menred the FIRST essential he named
by insisting on greater liberation Of
scientific thought on the part Of 70
ngi0nists. The struggle tetween
science and religion is one 81 the
saddest events in all history as II has
Eeen 10 the great detrimenf Of both
For centuries an ignorant priesthood,
STEPPED Id the approximations az the
Middle Ages and c0lIeagued with the
state. succeeded ia suppressfng all
khOn9ht ia any way initiated against
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