People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — CHICAGO FOR A CENTER. [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO FOR A CENTER.

Unitarian Convention Discusses Church Extension in the West. Washington, Oct. 24. —Church extension and temperance reform were the themes before the national conference of Unitarians and other Christian churches yesterday. The discussion of church extension was opened by Rev. Charles W. Wendte, of Oakland, Cal., who spoke glowingly of the outlook of the church on the Pacific coast. Rev. A. W. Gould, of Chicago, said the problem to be faced in the Central West was the division in the ranks of the Unitarians themselves. He made a strong plea for support, deprecating the financial aid rendered by Eastern societies, and urging the building of a strong self-supporting Unitarian system in that section, its center to be Chicago. A meeting was held in the afternoon at All Souls’ church, at which modern methods in temperance reform were discussed.