back of it. It numbered among its followers most of the great poets,
historians and prose writers of our country. It has flooded the
country with free literature, and has furnished to thousands of
ministers its standard works without money and without price. No
movement ever seemed to have such mighty agencies back of it to
insure its rapid spread. And yet, after a century of effort, what do
we see as the result? Only a few hundred churches, most of which are
numerically weak and enlist only a certain class of people.

My conviction of the depressing, devitalizing and disintegrating
effect of Unitarianism has been intensified through my recent
experience in evangelistic work in New England. The rationalistic
liberalism of Unitarianism has largely permeated New England
Protestantism. It was not an accident that it was in New England,
where, to a large body of clergymen, a speaker declared, with
applause, that "Protestantism is decaying and will soon be displaced
by a new form of Catholicism." Here Protestantism is indeed decaying
through its contact with Unitarian teaching, and is already largely
displaced by old Catholicism and new Christian Science and other
antichristian delusions. Nowhere else did I ever see Protestant
churches so saturated with worldly pleasures and so indifferent about
the salvation of souls. It was here I had the humiliating experience
of sitting in a union Thanksgiving service where the preacher called
the Pilgrim Fathers _religious fanatics_, and spoke of words writers
of the Pentateuch put into the mouth of Moses to give them influence
with the people. Yet I never saw a sign of disapproval in the
audience or heard a word of criticism. It is true he was a
Universalist preacher, but that makes it all the worse. To think that
Protestantism has so degenerated in a New England city that a
preacher who does not believe in the divinity of Christ nor in the