National Federation of Religious Liberals Seventh Congress: At Pittsburgh, Pa., March 6, 7, and 8, 1917 : Program, Proceedings, and Papers, Volume 7The Federation, 1917 - 75 pages |
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addresses American Unitarian Association ANNA GARLIN SPENCER Baptist Church belief CHARLES CHARLES W common conception Congregational death denominations doctrine earth EDWARD JANNEY Episcopal Church eternal faith FEDERATION OF RELIGIOUS God-vision good-will heart heaven hereafter holding Holmes human ideal ILLUSTRATIVE READINGS immanent instinctive desire Jenkin Lloyd Jones JESSE H Jewish Jews Judaism and Liberal justice Leonard Levy Liberal Christianity lines of sect live look mankind Mass MCCOLLESTER Meadville Meadville Theological School mind Minister modern MORRIS JASTROW Morris Knowles mutual relations National Federation opinion Oswald Garrison Villard patriotism peace Ph.D Philadelphia Pittsburgh President Professor JESSE Protestant Episcopal Rabbis realize Reform Judaism religion of Jesus RELIGIOUS LIBERALS Secretary sect and creed session Seventh Congress Society of Friends soul spirit Swarthmore College Theological School thought tion true truth Unitarian Church United unity universal Universalist vision Voss Walter Mason WILLIAM ROSENAU Women's Peace Party worship
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Page 41 - Oppression's heart might be imbued With kindling drops of loving-kindness; And knowledge pour, From shore to shore, Light on the eyes of mental blindness. All slavery, warfare, lies, and wrongs, All vice and crime, might die together; And wine and corn, To each man born, Be free as warmth in summer weather.
Page 8 - Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree? Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried, If he kneel not before the same altar with me ? From the heretic girl of my soul should I fly, To seek somewhere else a more orthodox kiss ? No ! perish the hearts, and the laws that try Truth, valour, or love, by a standard like this...
Page 53 - All the forms are fugitive, But the substances survive. Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds.
Page 37 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 41 - All slavery, warfare, lies, and wrongs, All vice and crime, might die together ; And wine and corn, To each man born, Be free as warmth in summer weather. The meanest wretch that ever trod, The deepest sunk in guilt and sorrow, Might stand erect In self-respect, And share the teeming world to-morrow. What might be done? This might be done, And more than this, my suffering brother — More than the tongue E'er said or sung, If men were wise and loved each other, CHARLES MACKAY.
Page 17 - The pursuit of truth, the practice of virtue, the enjoyment of the beautiful, the love of our fellows, the worship of God, — these ideal interests in which the glory and hope of our race so largely consist, are not subject to the idle wrath of man or the vicissitudes of a military campaign. They are eternal verities, as firmly placed in the spirit's skies as are the lights of heaven ! Recent correspondence with eminent scholars...
Page 14 - Our Bureau of Mines ought to be equipped and empowered to render even more effectual service than it renders now in improving the conditions of mine labor and making the mines more economically productive as well as more safe. This is an all-important part of the work of conservation; and the conservation of human life and energy lies even nearer to our interest than the preservation from waste of our material resources. We owe it, in mere justice to the railway employees of the country, to provide...
Page 9 - Creeds and Confessions ! High Church or the Low? I cannot say: but you would vastly please us If with some pointed scripture you could show To which of these belonged the Saviour Jesus.
Page 17 - ... subject to the arbitrament of sword or cannon. They will remain forever the common aims of the higher kind of men and women in all nations. Therefore, when the war-drums beat no longer, the beating of the heart of humanity will again be listened to; when the gory war-flags of the nations are furled, the white flag of universal peace will receive the homage of a...
Page 37 - To be liberal, therefore, is not to hold this or that set of opinions. It is not to antagonize other people's opinions. It is not, finally, to have no opinion at all. Liberalism is a temper, an attitude of the mind, — a disposition of the heart toward truth. Liberalism is the supremacy of the spirit over the letter in religion. It is the mind in a state of growth, and is thus distinguished from orthodoxy, which is the type of a mind that has stopped growing, which accepts finalities in religion,...