Last evening, under the auspices of the Harvard Religious Union, Dr. Edward Everett Hale delivered an address on "The National Church of America." He explained that while we have here no established church, the religious thought of the whole American people unifies itself into a national church, of which the fundamental principle is the denial of the old Puritan dogma that man is by nature depraved, and a child of the devil. If Americans had believed this, they would never have allowed universal suffrage.

When the Puritans gave up their dictation in religious matters, and these were taken up by the people, the national church began. Its creed is now that of sixty-nine of the seventy millions inhabitants of the United States. Of these the great majority believe that the soul is immortal, and that God, in his love, sent Jesus Christ to save mankind; all unite in firm belief in a God who is a mighty power of law and love to his children; and the creed of the national church, whose head is the American people, is maintained by them in defiance of all theological dogmas.