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Show Uni tarianism in Utah to Boston, he As he traveled from the West Coast back a Sunday in Salt Lake City, and was very spent impressed with Rev. strength in the young church there." the children was During the summer a Sunday School for organized, with Chester W. Ames as the superintendent. Within six months they had an enrollment of 113 and an average attendance of fifty. Since its founding in 1891, the Unitarian society has been a center for liberal religious thought and has provided a free and open platform for presentation and discussion of un popular ideas of all kinds. Supreme authority rests in the Utter and with the congregation, and the Salt Lake Unitarian society completely autonomous. It relies, however, on the nation individual is al and times regional organizations for moral support and some financial assistance. On 10 September House, thirteen Society, which is 1891 in the same parlor of the Walker organized the Ladies Unitarian independent body. Emily M. Almy, a women an charter member and the wife of elected of the board of trustees, Four weeks later a formal one president pro tempore. constitution and bylaws were adopted and all the temporary officers were elected as the society's regular officers, with the addition of Rebecca P. Utter as a second vice president. With an annual membership fee of one dollar, it was organized was "for the purpose of promoting the welfare of the Church, good fellowship, charitable and intellectual endeavors. ,,19 They met in the Metropolitan Hotel dining room, paying a weekly rental of three and a half dollars for their Thursday afternoon meetings. 18 Arnold . Crompton. Unitarianism on Press. 1957). 140-42. 20 19 First Unitarian Society (1892). 18. the Pacific Coast: The First Sixty Years (Boston: The Beacon |
