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Show Unitarianism in Utah Orson Robert G. McNiece of the Presbyterian church, Bishop H. Crooker F. Whitney of the Mormon church, Rev. Joseph of the Unitarian church at Helena, Montana, and Rev. David Utter. After Whitney described the Mormon view of God epigram, "As man now is God once was, as man may be," Crooker replied that he stood including the God is now appalled "at the sublime audacity that dares to tell us what "25 One God is, and how he came to be God. reporter of this conference, who described Utter as a liberal minded freethinker, was worried after hearing Utter's sermon kind of a being of the age seems to be almost a universal is only another name acceptance of Unitarianism, which for infidelity, whose teachings ignore Christ as a divine being, that "the tendency ... and the idea of His apostles being inspired by the Holy Ghost." The Mormon reporter apparently felt insecure be cause Utter's Unitarianism demolished dogmatic creeds and questioned the traditions of orthodox Christianity." On 17 April 1893 the society was formally incorporated under the laws of the Territory of Utah as the First Unitarian of Salt Lake City. Its contribution to the Society religious and freedom's struggle in the State of Utah is quest sig scout nificant. In August "The Higher 1893 Rev. Utter published article entitled Criticism of the Bible," in which he cautioned that the term criticism" in this context did not refer to an .. fault-finding, since "the critical study of the Bible is simply careful conSideration, a judicial examination of the book its merits." upon He suggested that Biblical texts should be a 25 Orson F. ( Ind tney,. Though Memory's Halls: The life Story of Orson F. Whitney As Told by Himself ZlOn's Printing and 2tendence, BMissouri: Publishing Company, Y 24 Seymour 1930), Reading the Exercises of the 1892): 451-52. oung, "Some Th.oughts on C on IIerence, ..' The Young Woman's]oumal 3 (July 20+-205. Late Unitarian |
