The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-11
RELIGIOUS AMERICA TO
WATCH THE NATiON-WlDE
UNITARIAN CAMPAIGN

every other religion will be watching
when the $4,000 Unitarians OF the
country, forming the smallest but
most liberal denomination in the coun-
try, open their nationwide campaign .
tomorrow November ~, Ernest O. .
Adams, chairman, today called upon
every member Of the faith to stand
forth-and march,"
Mr.. Adams is chairman of the eN- |
ecutive committee, under former Presi-
dent William Howard Taft, and the
Unitarians. united denomlnationally for
practically the first time, are seek
ing $4,000, 900 from among themselves
to carry on purely 100 per cent
religious campaign during the next
five years.
The national leader of the Unitar-
ians calls attention TO the large
number of religious campaigns held
recently, and refers particularly 10
the Interchurch World campaign
which he says, accomplished a great
amount of good and showed rell-
gious need, but did not fill it. This
new lay figure in religion, pcturns
the present effort Of his own denoml-
nation as 1.-The great adventure, de-
scribes the situation briefly as tol-
lows: I'VE never have been so uni
fled before Yesterday, the largest
denominations, fought their battle;
today, we, the smallest, pass TO the
front Every Unitarian must stand
forth-and march, for every religion
watches as we face the test. Before
us is the great adventure
In facing their test" the Unitar-
ians announce that they have organ
lied in every hamlet, town ana city
in which there is a Unitarian church,
and are ready for their campaign.
which will last from November IL
to November 81, although in most
cases an effort win be made by the
congregations to raise the quotas as
signed them in one day. The dates
were selected to concur with Armis-
| tlce Day, November II and the Sign
| ing of the Pilgrim Act, November 2l.
Directing the entire campaign is
n national committee, comprising some
of the most widely-known men and
women of the country, including rail-
road presidents, publishers, bankers
and professional men. The move
ment is, incidentally, lay activity,
in which the Laymens League, which
has enrolled nearly 5000 members
in one year. will be one OF the influ-
ential forces.
The money secured among Uni
tarians themselves will be apportioned
through the young peoples, the mems
and womens organizations Of the
churches, and the American Unitarian
Association for increased salaries and
pensions for ministers and TO deliver
the Unitarian message 10 the $4,000
600 at present not identified or aflili-
lated with any church The Unitar-
ians assert, as their belief, that these
G5, 600, 900 men and women are out
side church folds because they can
not accept the creeds of the churches
which insist upon subscription TO dog
ma as the basis Of membership. In
their I'Slminary campaign, the Uni'
tarians, including Jefferson Chief
Justice John Marshall, Daniel Web
ster, Peter Cooper various prcsi
dents of the United States. states
men, poets and others We're members
of the Unitarian faith.
The slogan of the Uniiurians Is
Not campaign for money, but
money for campaign by which
they mean that the money sought
is to be- raised from among them
selves. By their own churches, fol
the purely religious purpose Of giving
their faith to America as the solvent
OF present-day troubles. Already vari
Gus churches OF the Unitarians have
announced that their quotas have beer
raised and numerous subscription
have come In from followers Of othel
faiths who are in sympathy with th'
liberality Of the Unitarian denomina
ton and the objects OF It's campaign
In his final appeal to workers, th'
national chairman prophesies indi
rectly the great spiritual reviva
which was to come out of the grea
war. His statement reads in part
To-day the smallest, but at tn
same time the most liberal religion
denomination, the Unitarian. is befor
the public with definite and a
the same time practical effort, whicl
Is 100 per cent religious. II not onl
has vision, but 1t has soluuo
SO convincingly simple in it's spiritua
appeal that II has stirred the i'm
agination of hundreds of thousand
of liberal thinkers who have bee
awaiting eagerly the proffering of
< religious something which will -four
r square with their frankly yearnln
4 desire for truly religious religion
4 In all truth. IL provides the splrl
n OF adventure which moves individ
r uals to participate In great caus,
$ May II not be that at last this de
noinination-the unitarian--is provid