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Published Weekly by the CHRISTIAN REGISTER ASSOCIATION

272 Congress Street , Boston , Mass . VOLUME 85

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $ 3.00 PER YEAR NUMBER 33

SINGLE COPIES 6 CENTS THURSDAY , AUGUST 16 , 1906 GEORGE BATCHELOR

EDITOR

Entered as second - class mail matter Contents

Editorial . EDITORIAL

HE July number of the Hibbert Journal fills Notes .

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us anew with a wish that not only all our Winding the Clock

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ministers , but all our thoughtful laymen , Bigot and Scoffer

899 AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION .

year nearly a thousand pages of the best thought Collection Sunday

900 of Broad Churchmen , Anglican as well as Dissenter , CURRENT TOPICS .

American as well as English , are furnished for $ 2.50 , 900

a bargain , surely . Great changes are going on in the BREVITIES . ..

901 religious mind of the Anglo - Saxon world , probably LETTERS TO THE EDITOR .

greater than at any time since the Reformation , -if , Religious Liberty in England ; Socialism and the Pulpit ; indeed , we must make even this exception . They are First Church in Plymouth

902 gaining ground in communions still considered orthodox . ORIGINAL AND SELECTED .

He that agrees with them will watch them in these pages The Religion of Experience , V. , by George Batchelor

with pleasure . He that fears them will either become

903 The Great City in Summer , by Augusta Larned

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reconciled to them as here presented , or will at least The Lesson of the Sun - dial

905 find out what they are , and have no false fears . Rationalism and Religion , II . , by Averic S. Francis . 906 In the Same Family , yet Strangers , by Rev. J. T. Sun derland

907 THROUGH country roads as well as city streets the Letters of James Savage , by Kate Gannett Wells ; The

horn of the automobile is heard in the land . But why Nature Feeling of the Ancients , I.

912 Dr. Petrie's Discoveries

must it be so harsh ? Why , at least , need it be so alarm The Work of Hampton , by President C. W. Eliot 918 ing and arrogant ? Some are evidently very costly , Bishop Seymour on Heresy

919 like the rest of the car . There are whistles of three or Mid - summer Services in New York .

920 four pipes . Must these be so discordant ? The motor First Unitarian Church of San Francisco

921 Alliance Study Classes ; The Star Island Library ; To

car has enemies enough at best , without rousing need Friends of Chautauqua

less terror and wrath . Could not the tubes be so har

923 THE PULPIT .

monized as to send forth a musical , nay , even a reassur The Church of the Living God , by Rev. John Cuckson . 908 ing and friendly , sound ? Let us suppose some contriv

ance by which they can be made to play the suggestion SPIRITUAL LIFE .

910 of a tune . Imagine an automobile , as it whirls through GOOD NEWS .

a peaceful rural road on Sunday , breathing , though Intercourse , by Rev. E. E. Hale , D.D.

91 somewhat incongruously , a few notes from some favorite LITERATURE

hymn - tune ! How would the bucolic mind be placated ! Book Notices

913 Miscellaneous ; Books Received

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UNITARIANS are sometimes taunted by Episcopalians THE HOME

with using the latter's prayers or responses in their Dilly , by Alice E. Allen ; The Imprisonment of Winifred Mary

services . A good retort would be that Episcopalians

916 Playing the Man ; What Dorothy Sprinkled

use Unitarian doctrines in their sermons . A fair ex

917 POETRY .

change is no robbery . Another rėply might be that Two Tramps

the best of the Anglican liturgy was taken from Roman

903 To Beppo , a Spanish Poodle , by Fullerton L. Waldo

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Catholic sources , and that Unitarians are as fully en A Home Picture

titled to them , if they can sincerely use them , as Episco YOUNG PEOPLE'S RELIGIOUS UNION

palians . The Roman Catholic would certainly agree 921

to this . To him all other churches are equally out of THE UNITARIAN SUNDAY - SCHOOL SOCIETY .

the true fold and destitute of any right to use its form The Responsive Spirit

ularies . To apply the remark of Wesley that " it would RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE

922 be a pity to let the devil have all the best tunes ” would PLEASANTRIES

924 be discourteous .

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