LIBERAL RELIGION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 257, 23 July 1908, Page 9

LIBERAL RELIGION.

' " ADDREIS B Y MISS ;M. ; RICHMOND. ■ •):! Miss Marj', Richmond, whV attended Liberal 1 ; religious conferences , at-Essex Hall, England in !May,"_of;last.year, and:at Boston, united • States, :in September, gave an interesting lectui;e>in'the Masonic Hall 011 Tuesday evening ' on j '-'.Liberal' Religions' in' Europo and ArncrJ.. AVl'Poynton-presided over a l'arg^.'atfdiendb:;''. : ■ >i- Miss' said that numerically Unitarians' would never be a large, body, but if pno lcckoned by units of power, as was dope in electricity, they were' a great and PHWZ. ? orco - ' ln tl)0 liberal wing of every • tljoro- wore; unacknowledged adherents 5f :a.'freo faith.. '.'.'One great liberal, bisbcp in ; tho ;portli was. reproached for 'toy'fig, his .oathedrat full of>Unitarians, -and. tlje broader.yio\yythe saner- mind, jmoro iliberal interpretation was gainm* ground.", .!.-.Tho:.Unitarians in the Old Coun-trX.iwpre-'training and influencing thousands ■who'; ■ never 'join - their communion. Her : iinbression' 1 of the: liberal movement in Eng'lSndHvixS 'tbat'it. was quite, irresistible; even .! the J r inost'. poiiservativo of the., churches wera ■stirrod'. in.their depths by new'element's added .to!them..whether they would or not. > Ths 'thonged standpoint .brought about' •by : the' development ot physical science had dou< mo'ro for the liberation of thought than ever the Reformation .itself, Miss Richmond gave a graphic account of ;thd Cohferenco of itoligious. Liberals in Boston, dwelling on tho elevation of' feeling, tho sobriety of purpose, tho practical energy, insight and goodwill shown in tho working .of this international gathering. Not the least !.,inifcrostiug. part of.' her,- lecture was tho impressions of; religious-leaders whom slip- met. both in America. <md England. .. . the ,Rov. Dr. Tudor Jones, in moving a .very. - heartyjyoto of . thanks to the lecturer ;s.ai(l'.,that out; of twenty universities in. Gei* many, seventeen had goiie over to the libera) religious, raovomont. :' Unitarians did ' uoi claim any. monopoly in this liberal movement in ireligion, -tliough in New .Zealand it would spqiii-.to bp .-.confined-to their church. :Ha believed tliat all.the essentials of Christianity wero ■included m this liberal religion.- - - ■ Tho motion' o£ tli; nis was carried with ao< • clamation,, and a losolutioii. of ; tliimks was' .also accordcd to thech airman"