OF THE

PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH MEETING

OF

The National Conference

OF

UNITARIAN AND OTHER CHRISTIAN CHURCHES

HELD AT SARATOGA, 'N. Y.,

SEPTEMBER 20-24, 1886.

WITH

THE CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE CONFERENCE, AND A
LIST OF THE DELEGATES.

This Report may be obtained at the following plac:s: New York, by letter addressed to
the General Secretary, Rev. Russell N. Bellows, 109 East 15th St.; Boston, The
American Unitarian Association, 25 Beacon St.; Chicago, Charles H.
Kerr & Co., 175 Dearborn St.; London, The British and For-
eign Unitarian Association, Essex Hall, Strand.

EDITED AND PUBLISHED FOR THE CONFERENCE, BY THE GENERAL SECRETARY,
REV. RUSSELL N. BELLOWS. ADDRESS, No. 109 EAST 15TH STREET,

NEW YORK, N.Y.
1886.

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v, 12-13
1886-89

GEO. H. ELLIS, PRINTER, 141 FRANKLIN ST., BOSTON.

CONTENTS.

OFFICERS AND STANDING COMMITTEES FOR 1886–88, .

PAGE

5

REPORTS.

REPORT OF THE UNITARIAN SUNDAY SCHOOL SOCIETY. By Rev. Henry G.
Spaulding, Secretary,.

REPORT OF THE WESTERN CONFERENCE. By Rev. John R. Effinger, Secretary,

REPORT OF STATE AND LOCAL CONFERENCES. By Rev. Trowbridge B. Forbush,

of Milwaukee,

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHURCH BUILDING LOAN FUND.

Howard N. Brown, Secretary,

REPORT OF THE WESTERN UNITARIAN SUNDAY SCHOOL SOCIETY. By Mrs. Ellen

T. Leonard, Secretary,

GENERAL REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH MEETING.
Samuel J. Barrows, Editor of the Christian Register,

REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. By Rev. James De Normandie, Chairman,

REPORT OF THE AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION. By Rev. Grindall Reynolds,

Secretary,.

By Rev.

By Rev.

36

39

42

RECEPTION OF FOREIGN DELEGATES.

REPORT OF ADDRESSES BY REV. GEORGE VANCE SMITH, D.D., MR. GEORGE

WILLIAM RAYNER WOOD, AND REV. STOPFORD WENTWORTH BROOKE,

DELEGATES FROM THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION;

AND BY REV. ALFRED STEINTHAL, OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND,

SERMON AND ESSAYS.

THE DIVINE SUFFICIENCY. The Opening Sermon before the Conference. By Rev.

John W. Chadwick, of Brooklyn,

THE RELATION OF RELIGIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT AT THE PRESENT Day:

OUR CHRISTIAN POSITION AS UNITARIANS. By Rev. G. Vance Smith,

D.D., of Carmarthen, Wales,

THE FULNESS OF GOD. By Rev. Samuel R. Calthrop, of Syracuse,

THE DIVINITY OF MAN. By Rev. Henry M. Simmons, of Minneapolis,

IMMORTALITY AND MODERN THOUGHT. By Rev. Minot J. Savage, of

Boston,

THE WORK AND LIFE OF THE CHURCH AT THE PRESENT DAY:

THE NEW ETHICS AND THE NEW PIETY.. By Rev. Charles F. Dole, of

Boston,

107

THE INTELLECTUAL WORK OF THE CHURCH. By Rev. Joseph H. Crooker,

of Madison,.

116