inspiration of the Bible should be appointed to represent it on such
an occasion. It is enough to make the Pilgrim Fathers turn in their
graves and groan for pain. Had present-day Protestantism of New
England a fraction of the moral and spiritual earnestness that the
Pilgrim Fathers possessed, it might have been spared the abject
humility of sprawling in weakness before the same vaunting religious
intolerance of Catholicism that through cruel and bloody persecution
drove the Pilgrim Fathers to "the bleak New England shore" for safety
and religious liberty.

When a prominent Catholic recently aped the Protestant clergymen by
declaring that Protestantism is decaying, the preacher at Tremont
Temple called it a "damnable lie." This is a hopeful sign, and
indicates that the sick man is not dead yet. It shows that at least
some think it is not true, or wish it not true; and if enough
get a strong desire that it shall not be true, it will not be true.
When we renounce rationalism and its products it will not be true.

At a meeting of one of the leading ministerial associations of New
England, at which the writer was present, the speaker of the day
declared that the church has been claiming too much for itself. The
contents of the speech indicated that he had reference to its claim
of supernatural power to transform the sinner. He also said he had
given up the effort to reconcile the first chapters of the Bible with
science. The significance is in the fact that some Protestants
acquiesce in such teaching, and that they are in harmony with the
doctrines of Unitarianism.

Although its advocates must admit that Unitarianism is a monumental
failure in organizing churches, it is their boast that it has