served also as a dancing-floor. Unitarians pride themselves upon the
high standard of morality among their people and upon the few
prisoners you find among their members, but this is due to the
character of the people they reach rather than to the restraining
influence of their teaching

My reading had given me a wrong impression as to the teaching of
Unitarianism. Like many others, I was fascinated and enticed by the
writings of conservative Unitarians, whose contention is largely
against the bad theology of human creeds; but the present-day
teaching of the vanguard of Unitarianism is an entirely different
thing. It rejects all the miraculous in the Bible, and, in many
cases, even denies the existence of a personal God. All the students
were required to conduct chapel prayers in turn. Those who did not
believe in a personal God explained that they were pronouncing an
apostrophe to the great impersonal and unknowable force working in
the universe. I had read Channing, Clark, Hale, Emerson, and other
conservative Unitarians, and found much food for my soul, but I
discovered that these were considered old "fogies" and back numbers
by most of the students in attendance.

But I must tell you of my evolution along the line of rationalism. My
rationalistic proclivities were given a free rein. And as a child,
when left to run away, will soon stop and return to its mother, so
this freedom was the natural cure for my intellectual delusion. To
the statement of the creeds, "The Father is God, and the Son is God,
and the Holy Ghost is God; and yet there are not three Gods, but one
God," my rationalism replied, that is logically inconceivable,
therefore I became a Unitarian. No sooner was I happy in this faith
than a Universalist addressed me and said, "If you want to be