Lehre und Wehre St. Louis, Missouri — September–Oktober 1908, Seite 469

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Kirchlich⸗Zeitgeschichtliches. 469
Of course the rector must always ask the bishop's permission, and he must
not put the bishop in an embarrassing position in refusing permission.
Such a striet construction of the rule is very nearly tantamount to its
reversal, and we can imagine it will not be agréeable to not à fe. clergy-
men, who will think their liberty of fellowship to be autocratically taken
krom chem.“ (S. 389.) Diese Stellung nimmt Bischof Burgeß nicht etwa
ein im Interesse der Schriftwahrheit, daß man mit Falschgläubigen keine
Kirchengemeinschaft pflegen darf, sondern im Interesse des romanisierenden
Irrtums von der apostolischen Succession und der römischgesinnten Kleriker
in der Episkopalkirche, von denen bereits 19 der „offenen Kanzel“ wegen
zum Papsttum übergetreten sind. Statt diesen Exodus zu befördern und ja
die Wunde offen zu halten, damit die schlechten Säfte ausscheiden können,
bemühen sich nun die törichten Bischöfe, die Wunde zu schließen und den
römischen Giftstoff im System zu halten! F. B.
American Unitarian Association. Diese Gesellschaft macht es sich zur
Aufgabe, die unitarischen Lehren zu verbreiten. Wie sie dabei zuwege geht,
davon schreibt der Interior: The publishing department for the first time
in years paid its oπn expenses. The department is devoting itself prin-
eipally to the publication and distribution of tracts. Its plan is to put
out aà new Unitarian tract every month, and the members of the church
are urged to take part in the postoffice mission,' a plan for eireulating
these tracts effectively. Last year 380,000 tracts of more than 250 titles
were cireulated freée of cost to the recipients. A seeretary of publicity has
lately been appointed, and he has worked out a plan for using advertising
space in various publications for the dissemination of Unitarian doctrine.
The space when purchased is devoted to paragraph pulpit work' — the
presentation in a coneise compass of some one Unitarian prineiple or
thought. Contracts for such advertising have been placed already with
thirty-two daily papers and twenty-one weeklies, with a combined eireula-
tion of over 600,000. The Philadelphia Publio Ledyer, the Oleveland Plain
Dealer, and the San Francisco Call are the leading dailies thus far taken
up by the system. An even more striking application of this plan is the
buying of space for the paragraph pulpit' in several student papers at
great university centers — the Dai) Cardinal at the University of Wis-
consin; the Do Sun at Cornell University; the Dad Gasette at the
University of Kansas, and the Dosν Wyrig at Queen's University in Canada.
Rev. John P. Forbes made report of his tour of the university towns of
the West where he lectured on Unitarianism at the expense of the Billings
foundation, Which is devoted to the extension of Unitarian conceptions of
religion among estudents. The wealth of the denomination and its resourees
for such aggressive movements were indicated by the report of the treas-
urer, who showed that in ten years the permanent endowment of the asso-
eiation had increased from 8282,000 to 5I, 176,000.“ Den Unitariern liegt
es nicht sowohl daran, ihre Gemeinschaft als solche durch Konvertiten
zu vergrößern, als vielmehr daran, ihrer Theologie Eingang zu ver⸗
schaffen in den sogenannten „evangelischen Denominationen“. Und welchen
Erfolg sie darin haben bei Baptisten, Methodisten, Episkopalen, Kongregatio⸗
nalisten und andern, davon hat „Lehre und Wehre“ wiederholt berichtet.

F. B.

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