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Apr. 14. The Life-Saving Service, and the Red Cross

Movement.

Whittier.

Associated Charities and Charity Reform.
Starr King.

Apr. 21.

Apr. 28.
May 5.

May 12.

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Work for the Negroes: Tuskagee, Hampton and other Schools.

May 24.

others.

Work for the Indians: the school at Carlisle and

June 2. Phillips Brooks.

June 9. Religion in Recent Novels: Robert Elsmere, John Ward, Sidney, An African Farm.

June 16.

Religion in Recent Art.

General Information.

The Library. The large Loaning Library connected with the church is for the use of all. The rules for its government make it practically free to all. Any person holding a pew or a sitting in the church is entitled to a free library ticket on which to draw books for home reading. Anyone else on obtaining a library ticket deposits one dollar with the librarian, the same to be refunded when the ticket is surrendered. Full card catalogue.

Thirty or forty new volumes have just been bought for the library. Suggestions are requested as to books desirable for purchase.

The regular time for drawing books for home use is on Sunday, before and after the morning service, and before the evening service. Apply to Mr. D. M. Lichty, the Librarian, at his desk in the Reading Room.

The Reading Room, The Free Reading Room is open every Sunday from 10:00 to 10:30 A. M., and from 2:00 to 6:00 P. M. It is supplied not only with a large library of choice books, but with the leading Unitarian, Universalist, Liberal Orthodox, Quaker, Liberal Jewish, temperance,

reformatory, literary and other papers, and many of the latest magazines and reviews.

Free Tracts. Free tracts and Pamphlets setting forth the principles of Liberal Christianity may usually be found on the table in the vestibule of the Church. The Pastor has also other Unitarian and Universalist pamphlet literature which he will be glad to supply to inquirers, gratis, on application.

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The College Town Pulpit." Under the above title Mr. Sunderland prints in pamphlet form a series of monthly sermons. The subscription price is 50 cents a year. Subscriptions are solicited.

Literature and Printing Fund. We need a Fund of one hundred dollars a year, to print church announcements, circulars, programs of Bible Class work, and the like; to purchase literature from abroad for distribution at the church door; to pay postage on tracts sent away by mail, etc. Also, we want to distribute free each month 1,000 copies of Mr. Sunderland's "College Town Pulpit," which will cost another one hundred dollars. It is hardly possibly to over-estimate the importance of this circulation of liberal literature in this great educational center. A special appeal will be made to the congregation in behalf of this fund on the first Sunday in December. It is hoped that every one will subscribe as liberally as their means will allow. Subscriptions will be received at any time by Mr. D. M. Lichty, the Librarian.

Annual Missionary Subscription. The church needs to raise this year for missionary purposes the sum of $100.00 -$50.00 for the American Unitarian Association, $25.00 for the Western Unitarian Conference and $25.00 for the State Conference. Subscriptions for these objects will be taken up on the first Sunday in February.

Church Officers. The Officers and Permanent Committees of the church are as follows: Board of Trustees, W. H. Pettee (chairman), W. D. Harriman, Charles E. Greene, George W. Bullis, John Allen, Joseph Whitlark;

Secretary, W. K. Childs; Treasurer, Joseph Whitlark; Library Committee, W. H. Pettee and J. T. Sunderland; Music Committee, D. Zimmerman, W. D. Harriman and George W. Bullis.

Pews and Sittings. Persons worshipping regularly with us are invited to engage Pews or Sittings. Apply for the same to Mr. W. K. Childs, the Secretary of the Society, or to Prof. W. H. Pettee, the chairman of the Board of Trustees.

The treasurer of the church, Mr. Joseph Whitlark, may always be found at his desk in the alcove of the Reading Room for half an hour after morning service.

Strangers. Will strangers in the congregation (students or others) be free to make themselves known to the pastor and his wife, who are glad to form the acquaintance of new comers.

Information to the Pastor. The pastor desires to be informed of all opportunities in which he may be of any assistance to members of the congregation.

Joining the Church. Persons in sympathy with our thought and aims are invited to unite with the church, opportunity for which will be given generally on the first Sunday morning of each month. The pastor will be glad to confer with any upon the subject.

Pastors Day at Home. Mr. and Mrs. Sunderland will be at home to receive calls on Tuesday afternoons and evenings. Residence, No. 4 North State Street, next door to church.

"The Unitarian."-Subscriptions are solicited for The Unitarian, the Monthly Magazine of Liberal Christianity, edited by Mr. Sunderland. (Office of publication, 141 Franklin Street, Boston). The price is $1.00 a year.

Says Edward Everett Hale, "I recommend the Unitarian right and left.”

Says Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, "I like the Unitarian much.”
Says Dr. H. W. Thomas, "It is most excellent."

Mr. Sunderland's Books.--Persons desiring to purchase copies of Mr. Sunderland's new book, "The Bible; Its

Origin, Growth and Character," (price $1.50), or his compilation of choice devotional poems, "One Upward Look Each Day" (price, cloth, 50 cents), can obtain them from Mr. Lichty, the Librarian, or from the book stores in the city.

What is said about Mr. Sunderland's Book on the Bible

"A volume of immense interest and value."-Arena. "Will do good in disseminating just ideas on the great subjects with which it deals "-PROF. S. R. DRIVER, Oxford.

"An excellent and valuable digest of modern critical results relating to the Bible."-PROF. SAMUEL DAVIDSON, London.

"Its reverent tone and absolute candor are greatly in its favor." -Independent.

"Abreast of the great volume of German and English Scholarship."-Philadelphia Public Ledger.

Our Faith and Our Invitation.

What is Unitarianism?—To this question, which we are so often asked, we answer:

Unitarianism is the religion believed in by Franklin, Jefferson and Lincoln; by Bryant, Longfellow and Lowell; by Calhoun, Sumner and Curtis; by Hawthorne, Bancroft and Motley; by Horace Mann, Agassiz and Presideat Eliot, of Harvard; by Mary Livermore, Helen Hunt Jackson and Julia Ward Howe; by Channing, Parker and Freeman Clarke; by Emerson, Holmes and Edward Everett Hale; and by scores more of the greatest and best men and women this country has produced. Surely the religion accepted by such minds is worthy the attention of all earnest and intelligent persons.

Our Religion Epitomized.--Faith in an Infinitely Perfect God is our Theology;

The Universe is our Divine Revelation;

Love to God and Love to Man are our Sacraments;
Increasing Personal Holiness is our Salvation.

Such we believe to be the pure, the simple, the eternal religion, taught by Jesus, and witnessed to by the deepest voices of the human soul.

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Our Invitation.-All Persons who believe in such a religion, of reason, of love, and of the good life, we earnestly invite to join us. We need you; you need us. Identify yourself with us. In our varied activities we have places for all, and work for all to do. Help us with your presence, your influence, and, as you are able, with your

means.

Especially we invite strangers and students. We believe our Liberal Faith is particularly calculated to commend itself to earnest and thinking young men and women. To all such we say: Come to our services. Make yourself known. Accept our most cordial welcome. Enter our classes for religious study; come into our young peoples organizations; join our social life; get the advantages of our reading room and valuable library. Let our church be your religious home, your place of quiet uplifting Sunday worship, your opportunity to do something for others, your moral training school for future life.

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