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Show HEY. EN0C1IF0WELL. The Able Unitarian Divine Who Will Preach Tomorrow in the Salt Lake Theatre. HE TALKS OF UNITABIANISlfj When the Church is Established Here itf Will be a Thoroughly American Amer-ican Church. Hev. Dr. Knoch Powell of TopekaA Kansas, the Unitarian divine who will? preach in the theater tomorrow, is ua Englishman. He was born at Birmj Ingham and was graduated from the Harvard Divinity school. Dr. PowelW possesses a pleasing voice and he iri brainy and practical and very companionable. com-panionable. He said to a Times mai-tliis mai-tliis morning; " "Other churches are sect and exist ta save the individual souls of their mem' bers. Unitarinism is not a sect butf exists to push forward a moral and! spiritual education of society. Hence v it has been defined in many strange' ways; such as 'It is a 100 cents on the dollar.' One of its members said: The Unitarian church means better homes, better sewerage, better books, bettef schools.' " Historically tTottarlanlMm was at first a liberal wing of the Con gregational body, distrustful of organ ization and given to charities, reform and eduration. Under Theodore Parker Par-ker it became tho philosophical Inter pretation of religion. Later it became the religious side of the growing scien-tilic scien-tilic movement of its age and is now interpreting religion in the language of ethics to enlarge and domesticate religion re-ligion and make it a matter of character. Like Beecher it is not over anxious to Insure worthless souls, as its business ia to create insurable qualities in souk, hence its word is not believe "for devils believe aud tremble" and still remain devils. Its Mission Is To generate character for the highest religious re-ligious faith is a moral acbievment. The Unitarian convent does not cry "Lord, what good thing have you fo me to enjoy?" but "what worthy thing have you for me to do?" "The conversations I have had with the friends in this city lead me to believe be-lieve that a strong Unitarian church can be built here by that large body of earnest, progressive people who desire to worship God by living in helpful, fraternal relations with theia fellows. I have not found anywhere any-where a largo number of people who are more in earnest to do what in them lies to make this life a profit and, a delight and establish God's kingdom of righteousness. It is this moral purpose pur-pose aud unselfish spirit which is the sign and pledge of the Unitarian church to be and when it comes it will be thoroughly American church. |