Unitarian Unifier

Unitarianism is practically creedless. Its adherents usually believe in a single personality, God the Father, instead of a Trinitarian Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Over the objections of many Protestants and Catholics, Unitarians call themselves Christians because they believe in the divinity (but hot deity) and the teachings of a human Jesus Christ. Unitarianism made its appearance in the Christian world in the 16th Century, grew in the U. S. in the 18th Century, became a loosely organized faith in 1825. U. S. Unitarians are proud that Ellsworth Huntington, in The Character of Races, proved that in proportion to their small numbers (at present, 61,000) Unitarians had produced more U. S. leaders than any other sect.

Last week, at its annual meeting in Boston, the American Unitarian Association elected Sanford Bates, onetime Federal Prison Superintendent, now the executive director of the Boys' Clubs of America, to be the first Moderator in the 113 years of its history. An unpaid, honorary officer, Moderator Bates will in effect be a public relations man, traveling about the U. S. delivering speeches, unifying Unitarianism. The big Unitarian footsteps he will follow will be those of such presidents of the General Conference (an office abolished a dozen years ago) as William Howard Taft and Harvard's Charles William Eliot.

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