CONTENTS.

I. THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS

Rev. J. Estlin Carpenter, M.A., Oxford.

Rev. James Harwood, B.A., London.

II. WELCOME TO FOREIGN Delegates

III. THE SYMPATHY OF RELIGIONS

Rev. S. M. Crothers, D.D., Cambridge, U.S.A.

IV. THE RELIGIOUS CRISIS OF OUR AGE

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Professor Otto Pfleiderer, D.D., Berlin.

V. THE SPIRITUAL FACTOR OF LIFE AND MODERN

MATERIALISM

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Rev. Jas. Drummond, M.A., LL.D., D.Litt., Oxford.

VI. RELIGIOUS THOUGHT IN ENGLAND AT THE CLOSE OF

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Rev. R. A. Armstrong, B.A., Liverpool.

VII. CHURCH AND STATE IN AMERICA

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Rev. C. W. Wendte, Boston, U.S.A.

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VIII. THE CONTRIBUTION OF FRANce to Religious PROGRESS 90

M. Ernest Fontanés, Paris.

X. THE PROTESTANT SCHOOLS OF DIVINITY IN FRANCE 121

Professor G. Bonet-Maury, D.D., Paris.

XI. THE STRUGGLE AGAINST CATHOLICISM IN BELGIUM

Rev. James Hocart, Brussels.

XII. THREE CENTURIES AFTER CALVIN: LIBERAL PROTEST-

ANTISM IN SWITZERLAND AT THE BEGINNING OF

Professor Edouard Montet, D.D., Geneva.

XIII. PRESENT-DAY RELIGIOUS PROBLEMS IN HUNGARY

Professor George Boros, D.D., Kolozsvár.

XIV. THE LIBERAL MOVEMENT IN ITALY

Rev. Tony André, Florence.

Professor B. D. Eerdmans, D.D., Leiden.

XVI. THE DUTCH MENNONITE COMMUNITY

Rev. F. C. Fleischer, Broek-op-Langendijk.

XVII. THE FREE RELIGIOUS CONGREGATIONS OF GERMANY

Rev. C. Schieler, Ph.D., Koenigsberg, Prussia.

XVIII. THE UNITARIAN MOVEMENT IN SCANDINAVIA

Rev. Kristofer Janson, Christiania.

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XIX. THE PRESENT CONDITION OF RELIGIOUS THOUGHT

AND LIFE IN AUSTRALIA

Rev. R. H. Lambley, M.A., Melbourne.

XX. THE THOUGHTS AND EXPERIENCES OF A LIBERAL

RELIGIOUS WORKER IN RUSSIA

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Mr. Vladimir Tchertkoff.

XXI. RELIGION AND EMPIRE

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Mr. Graham Wallas, M.A., London.

XXII. WORDSWORTH'S IDEALS and the NINETEENTH CENTURY 269

Rev. P. H. Wicksteed, M.A.

XXIII. THE UNITARIAN MESSAGE AND MISSION

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Rev. S. M. Crothers, D.D., Cambridge, U.S.A.

Rev. Stopford A. Brooke, M.A., LL.D., D.Litt.

XXV. REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL

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Rev. C. W. Wendte, Boston, U.S.A.

XXVI. RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN LONDON, 1901

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List of Illustrations.

1. Group of Officers and Foreign Delegates

2. Prof. Otto Pfleiderer, D.D.

3. Rev. James Drummond, M.A., LL.D., D.Litt.

4. Prof. George Boros, D.D.

5. Rev. Kristofer Janson

7. Rev. P. H. Wicksteed, M.A.

8. Rev. Stopford A. Brooke, M.A., LL.D., D.Litt

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THE object of the International Council of Unitarian and other Liberal Religious Thinkers and Workers is 'to open communications with those who, in all lands, are striving to unite pure religion and perfect liberty.'-Statement of Purpose.

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF UNITARIAN AND OTHER LIBERAL RELIGIOUS

THINKERS AND WORKERS.

THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS.

BY THE REV. J. ESTLIN CARPENTER, M.A., OXFORD.

RETHREN of the Liberal Faith, the 'International Council of Unitarian and other Liberal Thinkers,' which holds its first meeting to-day, was called into being a year ago at Boston, Massachusetts. My first duty is to express to its founders my gratitude for the high honour conferred upon me by appointment to this presidential chair; my next, to offer the sincerest welcome of English friends to the many distinguished representatives who have gathered from East and West, from North and South, to give us the benefit of their counsel, and to strengthen us by their sympathy.

We meet in the infancy of a new century, whose untrodden ways lie open before us, asking ourselves towards what goal we shape our course, and taking account of the difficulties and helps that may await us on the road. The movement of the last generations has carried to further issues the work which was but half effected by the Reformation four

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