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Show Establishment and the American Unitarian Association 1891-1900 Collapse: paying forty-four percent of his wages. When he arrived the membership was 217.34 The Salt Lake City Unitarian society was Rev. Hudson's first church, so he was both ordained and installed on 10 November 1895. It was an impressive ceremony and seated on the stand with Hudson were Rev. Trowbridge B. Forbush of Rev. David Utter of Denver, Nat M. Brigham, Clarence T. Brown of the First Congregational Chicago, and Rev. Church. Rev. Forbush's charge to the minister touched new four points. Concerning Hudson's body, he charged Hudson to remember that "his power for good depends upon on the engine being kept in good working order." Concerning Hudson's intellect, he cautioned him to keep his steam "mind keenly alive the to developing thought Concerning Hudson's life, word that is it comes he reminded Hudson that "the life of the minister, as with other lives, is the word which the spoken through into contact remains when all his of the time." pulpit daily utterances are forgotten." cerning Hudson's doctrine, he warned him message be touched with the divine fire of a Con "let your and earnest to deep ,,35 purpose. In order to December1895 help defray the of their expenses, in sublet the hall to the some Unitarians Sunday evenings and some Friday evenings. This arrangement continued through at least 1897. At the annual congregational business meeting on 19 January 1896, Nat M. Brigham reported that the average attendance for the Sunday morning services was 250 to 300, with thirty-six new members since last October, and the Spiritualist Society 34 35 on The Salt Lake Tribune. 13 December 1897. 8. The Salt Lake Tribune. 11 November 1895. 5. Bx 40. Fd 4. a transcript of which is located in Ms 508. 35 |
