Word: unitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adlai Stevenson, Unitarian: "Religious faith remains, in my opinion, our greatest national resource ... It is our protection against the moral confusion, which is too often the moral nihilism, of this age. The blight of moral relativism has not fallen destructively upon us ... The mass of our people expect of their public servants probity and decisive distinction between right and wrong in the discharge of their public responsibilities...
Portland's Ernest Boyd MacNaughton was a man of many affairs: president of the daily Oregonian, chairman of the board of Portland's First National Bank, lay moderator of the American Unitarian Association. When he took over the presidency of Reed College in 1948, he firmly announced that he would serve only pro tempore. "I am a businessman," said he. "Any time you find an academic man qualified, I'll step aside." Last week, at a sprightly 71, "Mr. Mac" did step aside. The academic man who takes his place: Duncan Smith Ballantine, 40, associate professor...
...Unitarians assembled in Boston for their 127th annual meeting heard reports from far & near, and found the sky shiny with promise. For one thing, "federal union" of the Unitarians (membership 80,000) and the Universalists (membership 65,000) seemed to be coming along slowly but surely. So far, delegates heard, 47 Unitarian and 22 Universalist congregations have voted on the plan, have ratified it in every case-most often unanimously. Frederick May Eliot, longtime president of the Unitarian Association (and a cousin of Poet T. S. Eliot), predicted defections" from orthodox Protestant churches "on a great scale." If Unitarians...
...Frederick May Eliot, veteran (for 15 years) president of the American Unitarian Association, has his own estimate of the mood of orthodox Protestantism today: "Black reaction and black pessimism." The doctrine being emphasized, said Dr. Eliot at a Unitarian meeting in Cincinnati, "is one of absolute despair, which sets up as the only possible avenue of escape from cosmic disaster abject submission to deity, the unquestioned acceptance of religious authoritarian creeds, and the futility of human effort...
...Unitarian Eliot noted with satisfaction that many in his church (membership: 80,000) and in the like-minded Universalist Church (membership: 65,000) favor a merger. But Dr. Eliot sees this as just a beginning: "Our greatest need is to . . . unite to ourselves in fraternal spirit the lonely, isolated liberal churches and individuals [in orthodox Protestantism]who might then comprise a 'United Liberal Church of America...