AtholUU E-Newsletter – August 24, 2016
WORSHIP SCHEDULE
All worship services begin at 10:00 AM.
Aug. 28 “Miracles Happen” by Rev. Elizabeth Strong
Universalism has our only miracle event. It involves John Murray and Thomas Potter. But, I believe there is more than one miracle in that event.
Sept. 4 Steve Wills’ TED and Response
Treating Refugees Humanely
Sept 11 “9-11, Reflections in the 15th Year” Rev. Richards
FALL FAIR – SATURDAY – SEPT 17
EVENTS
Fall Fair meeting is next Sunday, August 28, 2016 after church.
Fall Fair is Saturday, September 17, 2016– All hands on deck!
Board of Management Meeting will be Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016 after church.
Minister’s Feasibility Question — Communion
There has been a suggestion that we hold a Communion service.
How many folks would like to attend a Communion service?
Please reply to this email, if you are interested.
Holiday Fair will be Saturday, November 19, 2016
IN CLOSING
Source: On This Day In Unitarian Universalist History by Frank Schulman
August 24th
1662
“On this date, St. Bartheolomew’s Day, 2,000 ministers in England were expelled from their positions in the church of England by the Act of Uniformity, which required all clergy to subscribe to Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion. This expulsion, often called the Great Ejection, began the Dissent tradition in England. Many of the Dissenters became Unitarian Leaders.”
1820
Rev. Theodore Parker was born in Lexington, MA. Grandson of Captain John Parker, leader of the militia during the Battle of Lexington, Rev. Theodore Parker was equally devoted to liberty. In adulthood, Rev. Parker became the minister to the West Roxbury congregation, a member of the Transcendentalist club and a friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson. But, after preaching a sermon titled: “The Transient and Permanent in Christianity,” he was barred from many Unitarian pulpits in Boston for his open minded approach. Eventually, Parker started preaching again in 1845, and forming the 28th Congregational Society of Boston. Parker was an enormously popular preacher, preaching to crowds of 3,000 in the Music Hall on Sunday mornings, because it was the only hall in Boston big enough to accommodate the Society. He was a biblical scholar, theologian and a radical abolitionist, as a member of the Vigilance Committee. His sermons were published in 15 volumes which were best sellers of their day. He died of tuberculosis on May 10, 1860.
1862
Samuel Atkins Eliot was born in Cambridge, MA. Eliot was the Secretary of the American Unitarian Association (predecessor of the UUA) for 27 years, “vastly expanding the AUA’s organizational vision and public stature.”
