Evening star., 1927-10-09
UNITARIAN LEADERS.
WILL GATHER HERE.
Biennial Session of National
Association to Be Held
This Week.

Unitarian churches of the United
States and Canada will meet at AL
Souls Church here Tuesday to Thurs
day in the biennial general conference
of the American Unitarian Association
which will be the first Unitarian meet
ing to be held here in 16 years witt
the exception of the dedication of AL
Souls Church. The theme of the meet
ing will be The Distinctive Tasks he
fore Our Liberal Churches: Their
Unique Function in a New Age.
Distinguished Unitarian ministers
and laymen from all parts Of the con
tinent will attend the meetings. They
will include Rev. Louis c. Cornish
recently elected president of the as
sociation; Rev. Samuel a. Eliot, who
was president for 81 years until Sep
tember ]: Chief Justice William II
Taft. former president of the Uni
tartan General Conference, and Rev
Owen Il. Lovejoy of st. Petersburg
Fla.
Chief Justice Taft will address the
conference Wednesday evening, Octo'
her II. Tuesday evening, Rev. Horace
Westwood. chairman of the general
conference committee, who is under
commission from the Unitarian Lay
mems League to spend the next three
years in mission meetings all over the
country. will speak on The State of
Our Organized Church Life and the
Outlook for Our Cause"
Adopt Clinical Idea.
The clinical idea is to be carried out
in the conference. Wednesday and
Thursday mornings at $50, delegates
will assemble in group meetings, and
at ii o'clock the group leaders Will
report their findings and recommended
tions before the entire delegate body
for discussion.
The Wednesday morning groups
will consider the following subjects:
U 1.-THE Religion of Youth" Carl B..
Wetherell. headmaster of Proctor
Academy, Andover, n. H., and Fred
erick T. McGill. jr., vice president of
the Young Peoples Religious Union;
t2) 1.-THE Problem of Services of Wor-
ship" Rev. Laurence #. Plank,
Rochester, N Y; 50 Social Rela-
tions," DIR. Robert c. Dexter, a. M,
Ph. D., Social Relations Secl atary of
American Unitarian Association; (4)
"The Place of Pageantry and ORA
mates in Religion" DR.. Eugene r.
Shippen. Boston.
Similar groups Thursday morning
will discuss: ID Religious Education :"
ton Secretary of American Unitarian
Association. and Mrs. Robert Mayer
Oakes of Brooklyn, n. Y; (2) Reach
ing the Multitude Rev. Preston
Bradley, D. D., of Chicago, and Victor
+. Harlow of Oklahoma City, Okla;
t3) Unitarian Publications." Charles
F. Down. Toledo. Ohio; "a Parish
Management and Finance" Rev.
Edgar S. Wiers, Montclair, n. J.
conference opens Tuesday afternoon
'at 2:30 with an address of welcome
by Rev. L. G. B. Pierce, Phi. D., of
Washington. followed by the appoint
ment OF committees and other busi-
ness. Percy W. Gardner of Provi-
dence, r. l., president of the Uni
tartan Laymen's League. will make
a final report for the survey COM
mission. and Prof. James A. Tufts
OF Phillips-EX Academy. Exeter,
n. H.. will report for the Universal
ist- Unitarian Commission. The last
session. Thursday afternoon. will be
devoted TO reports of the committees
on findings. resolutions, nominations,
and the election Of the general con-
ference committee for 1929.
Sightseeing Plans.
Wednesday afternoon will be left
free for sightseeing and a reception.
Wednesday noon there will be spe-
cial luncheons for the Unitarian Min.
isterial Union and Unitarian Lay
and the general alliance of Unitarian
Women at Hotel Roosevelt. The
Young Peoples Religious Union will
have a dinner at the church that eve-
ming, with Rev. Frederick r. Griffin,
D. D., Of Philadelphia as speaker.
Percy w. Gardner will speak at the
Laynen's League luncheon, at which
DR.. H. Barrett Learned of Washing
ton will preside. The alliance
luncheon speakers will include the
national president, Mrs. Caroline S.
Atherton, Mrs. Charles E. st. John
of Boston snd Mrs. Whitman Cross
Of Washington. Miss Louise Brown
Of Boston will preside.
:. The Unitarian Sunday School Soci-
ETY. has arranged for its annual Fall
meeting at All Souls Church, Tues
day morning, October II, beginning at
9:15. Rev. George Lawrence Parker
of Toledo, Ohio, president, will preside
and the speakers will include Frank
w. Ballou, Phi. D., superintendent of
Washington schools, on citizenship
"What We Are Trying to Do in the
Cleveland Church School," Rev. Dill.
worth Lupton, Cleveland, Ohio; "Bible
Teaching in Our Unitarian Church
School," Rev. Hilary G. Richardson,
Yonkers, N. Y; discussion of 1.-THE
Beacon Course" Waitstill H. Sharp.
Boston.
Monday evening, October 10. at s
o'clock, DIR. James NJ. Doran, Federal
prohibition commissioner, will address
a public meeting at All Souls Church,
arranged by the Unitarian Temper.
ance Society, Of which Rev. Lyman
v. Rutledge of Dedham, Mass, is the
president.
The public is invited to the plat
form meetings Of the general confer
ence and to the Sunday school meet.
ings.
The Washington committee on the
general conference consists of Frederic
A. Delano, chairman; Mrs. Laurence
C.. Staples, registrations; Mrs. E. II.
Horton, luncheons; Maj A. L. Hol-
combe. finance; George A. Kicker. re.
ception; Elmer Stewart. rooms, and
Roland S. II. Dyer, sightseeing.
K. G.. TO HAVE VESPERS.