Word: unitarianism
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Died. Paul Revere Frothingham, 62, for the past 26 years pastor of Arlington Street Church, Boston (chief church of the New England Unitarian "Brahmins"); in Boston; of apoplexy...
...about 1806--more than a century after Yale had been founded in protest against the earlier unorthodoxy of Harvard--what was to become the Unitarian movement got the upper hand in control of the university. In the struggles of religious liberalism against orthodoxy that enlivened the beginnings of the nineteenth century the "Christ at Eclesiee" part of the motto was removed. Harvard was out for the truth no matter where...
After 1806 the Congregational church became rather a Unitarian church, but attendance was still obligatory until Charles W. Eliot became president of Harvard in 1869 and began the university's modern age. Dr. Eliot did not believe in attendance at religious services under compulsion; but here, as elsewhere, he had to labor against a powerful tradition, and it was not till the 250th anniversary of the university, in 1886, that chapel attendance was made voluntary...
...proposed conference of all the churches of Christendom, with the exception of the Roman Catholic and the Unitarian churches, which will meet at Lausanne next summer has a most interesting purpose. The object of this world conference on faith and order will be to discuss the possibility of church unity throughout the world...
...Reverend Palfrey Perkins, Minister of the First Parish. Unitarian, Weston. Mass...