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Show CHRISTIAN UNITY AND UNITARIANS Prominent Members of the Latter Sect Discuss Dis-cuss Discrimination. NEW YORK, Nov. 13. A sermon on "Christian I'nlty' was delivered yesterday yes-terday at All Souls church by Rev. Dr. Samuel A. Eliot, president of the American Amer-ican Unitarian association, and son of the president of Harvard university. Dr. Eliot. Rev. Edward Everett Hale and -former Secretary of the Navy John D. Long were not accepted as delegates to the Inter-Church conference for federation, fed-eration, which meets in New York this month. Dr. Eliot said in part: "The federation of Christian people cannot be secured on the basis of intellectual intel-lectual agreement. Shall we not rather try the method of fraternal good will, the acceptance of certain broad and universal principles of fellowship, tne brotherhood of mutual service? Instead of lamenting the differences among men. let us thank God for the variety and fullness of human thought and life. No one wants churches shorn of individuality. indi-viduality. Let them retain their peculiar pecu-liar traditions, but let them submit all to the alchemy of brotherly iove." Dr. Eliot, speaking to the reporters, after the service, said that the Unitarians Unitari-ans would make no effort to be seated in the conference. |