The New York herald., 1921-09-18
UNITARIANS TO HEAR
CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT
He Will Deliver Presidents
Address at Detroit on
October s.
29TH BIENNIAL MEETING
Activity in College and Uni
versity Centres Feature Of
the Programme.
GOTH BIENNIAL MEETING

Or. william l.. Sullivan, of All Souls
Church. at Fourth avenue and Twentieth
street. IS one OF the speakers from
eighteen States and Canada, who viii
address ministers and lay delegates
from more than 400 Unitarian parishes
throughout the country at the 2sth
biennial meeting of the General Con-
ference of Unitarian and Other
Christian Churches in Detroit. October
At. DR.. Sullivan is scheduled to take
part in the triangular debate on THE
Faith Which Is In U.s." sharing the
platform. on the second evening OF the
conference. with the Rev. Dilworth
Lupton of Cleveland and the Rev. John
Dietrich of Minneapolis
The CInSsttdn Register, the official
ol gan Of the denomination, considers
this deliberatlve assembly in Detroit
will be 'the greatest conference in at
least thirty years." Its analysis of the
formal programme and the discussions
which will take place lead 1t to fore
cast that the meeting may mean one Of
the crossroads in American Unitarian
ISM" If not actually 'the scene Of a
great theological controversy"
Further interest centers around the
sessions this year as the conference is
headed by the Chief Justice OF the
United States, William Howard Taft.
who Is scheduled to give the presidents
address on Wednesday, October g.
The programme for the continuation
OF the Unitarian religious and educa-
tiona campaign of last fall, when more
than s2.500.oo0 was raised within the
denomination, has received a prominent
place on the programme. Recognizing
the part of the Unitarian Laymens S
League played in this campaign, full
session OF the conference will be devoted
to future plans OF that organization.
which has grown, in three years. to a
membership of 11.400 active churchmen.
Defects and Remedies.
Taking up at once one of the much
discussed problems of the church. the
ministers will consider the defects and
remedies Of congregational polity at the
opening session of the conference on
october 1. The Rev. II. E. B. Speight,
recently of Berkeley, Cal, soon TO be-
come an associate minister of the his
torir Kings Chapel in Boston; the Rev.
n. Z. Burns of Baltimore and the Rev.
X ;. Larlns of Milwaukee will lead the
discussion. In the afternoon the COM
mission selected at Baltimore two years
ago viii report through the Rev. C. r.
Park. minister OF the First Church OF
Boston. on Standardization Of public
worship In the Unitarian Church WILL
lam wallace Fem, ID. d., dean of Har-
vard Divinity School. and reputed the
leading theologian Of the liberal school
IN this country, will preach the confer
ence sermon that evening"
In addition to the report OF Chief
Justice Taft. the second days sessions
VIII be given over to a report OF " a
council of the conference by the Rev.
Frederick r Griffin of Philadelphia
and theological paper by the Rev. A.
M. Rihbany of Boston. known nation
ally for his Syrian Christ.
Following this meeting the minister's
representatives OF the women's Ali
snce. which represents 23.Oo0 Unitarian
women affiliated with the church. ana
the Laymens League will gather ~
luncheons. With the Rev. Augustus >,
Heccoid OF Detroit as chairman the min
lsters VIII discuss Constructive Preach-
ing from two points OF view: To hujId
UP churches, the Rev. Ulysses q n
Pierce OF Washington. D. G.: the Rev
George r. Dodson OF st. Louis and the
Kew James a. Farley or Jamaica
Plain. Mass: to build UP individuals
the Rev. Frank A. Powell of Braintreo
Mass the Rev. Frederick NJ. Eliot OF