Word: unitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reverend Raymond B. Bragg, director of the Unitarian Service Committee, and Edward Burns, Massachusetts U.W.F. legislative director, will deliver the closing speeches Sunday. All will be held in P.B.H. and are open to the public...
Until one balmy afternoon last April, Robert Snead Williams Jr., a 46-year-old widower, led an inconspicuous life in Washington, D.C. He had a good job with a woodworking company, was a trustee of All Souls' Unitarian Church...
Died. The Rev. Samuel Atkins Eliot, 88, longtime (1900-27) president of the American Unitarian Association, son of Harvard's famed President (1869-1909) Charles William Eliot; in Boston. An old-school liberal, Eliot advocated Protestant unity, championed the underdog (e.g., American Indians, prison inmates), confidently preached the progress...
...group of "presbyters," the procedure did not seem to him quite "valid." Negotiations with the Episcopalians and with the Old Catholics in Switzerland broke down, and eventually the friendship and prompting of Philippine Civil Governor William Howard Taft led Bishop Aglipay into the fold of the American Unitarian Association, of which he became an honorary vice president...
...Unitarians (membership: 75,000) celebrated the 12 5th anniversary of the American Unitarian Association with a 998-delegate convocation in Boston that voted unanimously in favor of a "federal union" with the 53,000-member Universalist Church. The well-dressed, easygoing Unitarians enlivened their sessions with jokes instead of hymns; one suggested that the new united church be named "Uni" for Universalist and "tarian" for Unitarian. Another defined the difference between the two denominations: "The Universalist thinks that God is too good to send men to Hell, and the Unitarian thinks that men are too good to be sent there...