p. 140 | Unitarianism by B. F. Summerbell

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 3, 1866

Unitarianism.

By B. F. Summerbell

J. H. Waggoner in his article on "The Saviour's Titles," is led by the Chicago Tribune to wrongly represent the Unitarians to the readers of the Review and Herald. Believing it not to be the intention of either the Editor of the Review or its correspondent to misrepresent the faith of others, I pen a few lines to set the matter right. That the Unitarians held the Convention referred to; that it was an imposing body of great men; and that Mr. Burley improved the occasion by making himself ridiculous is true. That the Unitarians agreed with Mr. Burley is not true. That the N. Y. Herald should misrepresent the Convention was to be expected. The Chicago Tribune doubtless drew its inspiration from the N. Y. Herald. What I want to say is,

1. Mr. Burley was not in sympathy with the Unitarian Convention.

2. He was not allowed to proceed: the Convention could not hear him.

3. The Unitarians are regarded as heretical, not that they deny that Christ is Lord, but that they deny his being Lord in the Unitarian [Trinitarian ?] sense.

B. F. SUMMERBELL.

Carlisle, Mass., March, 1866.