The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-07
Rev. Moses Lowell
 Installed As Pastor
Clergy and Laty Attend Ceremonies at Second Congre
 gatiOnal Church

cause of a deep suspicion-too ofter justified, that the spiritual guides of our day are either unaware of the new knowledge Or are afraid to face the facts, fearful lest the faith of the fathers shall not be borne out by the findings of the sons.
 To-day demands that both re- ligion and morality be made to somersault until their feet are seen to be squarely on the firm ground of everyday experience, their roots strike down into the actual sub-soil of life's stark realism and their far reaching claims recast are seen to be indigenous to and normally issu ing from the natural. the experi enced, and the known. Only so as see it can religion and morality in our day and age hope to regain something of their lost appeal and hold upon the lives of thinking men and women.
 Tn the parishes l have served thus far, one in university town, the other in the nations capital, it has been my favored lot to find myself connected with groups of experiment talist Christians who, conscious of the mal-functioning of the average church in our goth century world
 
 of leadership commensurate with its best tradition and it's stupendous op- portunities. have seen fit to look on their church as q laboratory, where with the mutual consent and coun- sel of people and minister. new trails of religious discovery and ex- pression might be blaZed and opened up. In the church so minded and moved quite frankly I am truly i'm terested. And 1t is my sincere hope and confident expectation that this church. to whose ministry I have been called, shall in accordance with the major trend of its own life in recent years continue in every-in- creasing measure to be q pioneer in the realm of Christion theory and practice. Certainly it should make us humble to know that we are met here in a seething caldron of modern life.
 Waterbury repr esents an absolute epitome of all the varied aspects of our goth century American world. Here are all the problems attendant on race. nationality. industry, dem- ocracy, the inequalities of birth. priv ilege and wealth met on our very doorsteps in the inevitable clash of conflicting moods and tempers. Here are we, Cnurcn set III tneT very midst and equidistant in point of space from two of our leading theo- logical seminaries. bent on the train ing of young men for the ministry Hartford and Yale-that already have indicated that they are looking to us for further constructive and distinctive contributions through ac- tual parish life from which their students may derive much for the more effective pursuit of their chosen calling.
 '"This church is uniquely matched with the need and the hour for q truly outstanding ministry-inclusive as life-bread as human need-free and liberal as the best in the relig- ion of to-day's supreme challenge to Christ and His church, face to face with the truly acid test of religion the modern highly industrialized American community is it too much to say that as Second church fares so largely are destined to fare relig- ion and religions chief institution in our day and tomorrow. The hopes and feats of all the complex life of modern time as I see 1t are met right here in our own community
 Among the churchest represented at the ceremony were those in Der