Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1913 — DR. ELIOT DECRIES CREEDS [ARTICLE]

DR. ELIOT DECRIES CREEDS

For University Head Says the Heathen World la Not Interested In Trinity or Atonement 0 Wmw Boston.—Dr. Charles W. Eliot, former president of Harvard, addressed the Channing club of Unitarian Ministers, telling them of the religion which be believed the world wants. He said he did not believe that man was altogether born In sin, as the English church prayer book stated It That he called "a most horrible doctrine.” “I believe In good works,” he said. “Work along the lines of the Provident Society of Boston and associated charities constitutes my belief In personal salvation. To do work along social lines is necessary. We want to

get more vigor and vitality in good works. Ido not believe in hell, or, as the Baptists are now calling it, 'the underworld.’

“You cannot go to the Chinese or Japanese with your doctrines that are mere traditions. Take the doctrine of justification by faith, or the atonement, or the doctrine of the Trinity, etc. These are not acceptable to the Chinese or Japanese minds. They find more in Confucianism or Buddhism than in this teaching. But tell the heathern Chinese that you believe In good works, and that you do not accept the inferiority of women, and he then listens to you. “The heathen world does not want a creed. The Apostles Creed is good as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough, say many Chinese and Japanese teachers.”