Contents. No.1. Liberal Salvation: or, Our Aim as a Church. 2. Religious Issues, • 3. A Word with the Dew. *4. Religious Unrest. 5. Our Heroic Age. 1861-1854. •6. Wastes and Burdens of superstition. "7. A Winter's Leisure. If versty fifth Anniversary of Que Church Dedication. 19. A course of reading. Three Germons on 10. I. A Basis of I acts. Temperance. "11. For What Shall I Be Thankful? : 13. I. Moral Reform in General. "14. III. Temperance Reform in Particular. ~15. Christmas Sermon and Poem. 16. The New Year: What Shall We do with it? "18. I. What is Religion? 19. II. Comfort and Hope. 1 20.11. Religious and Ethical Sanctions. 1-21. IV. Personal Religion 22. K. Inner Life and Quter. 96. MI. The Growth of Secularism. 98. I. The Communion of Saints. 52. The nearer world. By E. E. Hale. 35. Church-going, 36. The Old "Old Testament!" 38. Green Pastures and Still Waters. 39. The People's Sunday. 40.Fruits. Published weekly. Price $1.50 a year, or ents single copy. Liberal Salvation: or, Our Aim as a Church. BOSTON: GEORGE H. ELLIS, 141 FRANKLIN STREET. 1884. Entered at the Post-office, Boston, Mass., as second-class mail matter. PUBLISHER'S NOTICE. This first number of Unity Pulpit, for the year 1884-85, is sent to all old subscribers. And it will continue to be sent the same as last year, unless orders are received to the contrary. GEO. H. ELLIS, 141 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass. Liberal Salvation: or, Our Aim as a Church. "An highway shall be there, . . . and it shall be called The Way of Holiness. ... The wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein."ISAIAH XXXV., 8. : TO-DAY is the opening Sunday of my eleventh year as your minister. It is also the opening Sunday of our usual church year. At the beginning of a business enterprise, the wise merchant gets definitely in mind his objective point and his means for attaining it so a ship-master, at the prospect of a voyage; a general, in case of threatened war; a political party, at the outset of a campaign. So it seems to me well that a church should now and then be recalled to self-consciousness. There is constant danger that, if things go on with tolerable smoothness, we shall allow ourselves simply to drift, to take things for granted, to assume that the harbor is just ahead of us, and that we are amply provisioned and equipped for making our port. Meantime, half the people on board are merely lounging; and, if you rouse one up suddenly, and ask him why he is on this particular ship and where he is going, he will find himself unable to give any definite answer. Such a condition as this is an unmanly and unworthy one. In a world that, whether we will or not, is one unceasing conflict in which the prizes fought for are life and happiness, we ought at least to know where we stand, and why. And we ought to be ready to take sides for something; for mere inactivity and listlessness is taking sides, and what is worse it is always taking the wrong side. I do not know a better thing we can do, then, to-day than |