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Show ANEW CHUKCH. . About a year ago a prominent physician phy-sician in this city opened correspondence correspond-ence with the Unitarian association in Boston with a view to. establishing a church of that denomination in Salt Lake; but ho failed because the association associa-tion was short of ministers to fill existing exist-ing pulpits, much less new ones, lie-oently lie-oently the Rev. S. A. Eliot, son of the distinguished president of Harvard college, col-lege, as president of the Rocky Mountain Moun-tain Unitarian conference, has taken the matter in hand and it is believed that the preliminary steps for the organization or-ganization of a Unitarian church are so far advanced that Mr. Eliot is expected to come hore, and carry tho plan into practical effect. - We believe there is no city in tho union un-ion where the need of a Liberal Christian Chris-tian church is so great as in Salt Lake City and we hope Mr. Eliot will be encouraged en-couraged to go ahead with his work. Even the" orthodox ministers who are usually loth to aoknowlodge Unitarians as Christians, ought to lend a helping hand in this case, for it is surely a move calculated to raise the moral and religious relig-ious standard of the community. There are nowhere, proportionately, so many people out of fellowship with any church as here. Numbers of them having forsaken for-saken a faith that has no existonce outside out-side of Utah, flounder aimlessly in the broad sea of doubt unwilling to join any other creed that demands their unconditional un-conditional allegiance. Unltarlanism has no creed. It is the philosophy of humanity hu-manity whose fundamental principle is doing right. On this platform the widest wid-est range of thought and feeling is admissible, ad-missible, and If a church of that kind can be established and maintained here it will undoubtedly be the means of bringing people who never give a thought to religion- to a realization of their spiritual duties and in this way strengthen their hearts and prepare them for better things- - - |