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Show Unitarianism in Utah this time Brown of the Christian Socialist, and was an editor The Social Gospel, along with Bolton Hall and was a periodical, Ernest H. Crosby. Rev. Plymouth Congregational from 1898 until he dropped Church at the "Christian" as minister at the Rochester, New York, ousted from the was socialism and became Brown served pulpit in 1902. He adjective from his previous Christian pure Socialist. William Thurston Brown is described during this period as traveling about the a "denouncing the evils of capitalism and upholding rights of labor, free speech, and free sex.?" In 1903 he Congregationalism and joined Unitarianism, being min country the left ister of the Church of Our Father in Boston from 1904 to In 1906 to 1907 he 1906. Denver, serving as field secretary of the American Unitarian Association, and at various times Salt Lake In Brown he period was a guest speaker in 1907 he became the minister in Salt Lake field secretary until 1910. Rev. ladies of the Lloyd Alliance on 1 2 still continued spoke to November 1907 I this City. September City, but i during in was forty on the as subject of "The Primitive Roots of the Christian Religions." February 1908 Rev. Brown castigated capitalists and pointed out that it is impossible to be successful in business and follow the principles of Jesus sermon on the mount. He asserted that "if Jesus lived today and attempted to act out his alleged Palestinian life, he would be arrested as a vagrant and put to work on the stone pile." He concluded his sermon with the following sentiment: On 2 , nevertheless, that the pathway of humanity up through the ages is marked by the empty and shattered It may be 42 72 New tragic, but it is true Paul Avrich, The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1980),62. in the United States (Princeton. |
