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Show U ni tarianism in Utah We do not mistake glibnes in haberdashery, ritual, or dogma. We of protest against religion. catechism for real appreciation is a tests of fellowship, and maintain that nt dogmatic chuch te which and emotional piety, factory for the manufacture of emotion welfare cannot is boneless and unable to stand alone. Man's eternal stand on any of ecstasy. fantasy . We .. are an organization of another toward the highest men and help to establish a Church to seek ask do not I of. you things we know lead the ideal life where you for what you can get. Help others, can look up, help up, and bring your life into union with eternal women verities The rather who will one .... speaker [Eliot] taking God for decried sanctimoniousness. Religion means our friend, walking in the right way, living for noble ends, and we should always maintain cheerfulness and a smiling face. No dogmatic tests, no secret initiation, bar the door philosophy; get face to face with supply the link between effort and success. just in purpose. Be one one in the freedom of youth, one in the soul's perennial together, bloom, in the life that makest all things new." to our communion. true realities of life. Eliot's initial Never mind Be strong enough to Be single in heart and sermon impressed the audience and "his explanation of the beliefs of Unitarians revealed at once to many that they had been Unitarians at heart for years without After the meeting about thirty people gathered knowing it. together to discuss the prospects of organizing a church in Salt Lake City. Rev. Eliot had originally planned to remain for another Sunday, but he received a telegram notifying him 1110 of the death of one of his the trustees and had to leave for Denver day. Accordingly, next Eliot asked Rev. Trowbridge B. Forbush, superintendent of the Western Missionary Field of the American Unitarian ASSOciation, to visit Salt Lake On City. 9 The Salt Lake Bx 2, Fd I. Tribune, 1 December 1890,5, a transcript of which is located in Ms 508 ' 10 8 The F' .lrSt U'mtarian Society of Salt Lake City, Utah: Constitution and Reports (Salt IrrIgation Age, 1892), 13, located in Ms 508, Bx 2, Fd 4. Lake City: Press of |
