Honors For Dr. Crooker

HONORS FOR DR. CROOKER

Preaches Annual Unitarian Sermon in London

ONLY FIVE AMERICANS

Have Had This Honor Addresses International Congress at Amsterdam - Dr. and Mrs. Crooker Spend Summer Abroad

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Ann Arbor feels justly proud of many of her brilliant citizens, but of none of them is she more proud than of Rev. Dr. Crooker, who has proven himself one of the most interesting and stirring speakers and writers who ever added his name to the already long list of brilliant men from this city. New honors have recently been bestowed upon Dr. Crooker, these last honors coming from abroad, where his fame has already attracted attention. The International Congress of Liberal Religious Thinkers and Workers have invited Dr. Crooker to address the congress at Amsterdam next September on "'Educational Ideals in America."

A still greater honor is one bestowed upon him by the British and Foreign Unitarian association, which has asked him to preach the annual sermon in London in June. In its 80 years of the organization of this association only five Americans have ever been given this invitation. These others are Dr. Channing, Mr. Bellows, Robt. Collyer and Jas. Foreman Clarke. The sermon was preached last year by the distinguished divine and author, Dr. Spotford A. Brook. Jas. Martineau has twice preached this sermon.

The International Congress of Liberal Workers and Thinkers has been organized only a few years and is composed of distinguished clergymen and university professors in America, Great Britain and nearly all continents of Europe.

The next meeting is to be held in Amsterdam, Holland, the first week in September. The head of the program committee is Prof. B. D. Eerdman and the University of Leyden, the successor of Prof. Kuenan, the greatest biblical scholar of modern times.

Dr. and Mrs. Crooker have been appointed by the American Unitarian association as delegates to this congress and will leave for Europe about the middle of May. The pulpit will be supplied until the summer vacation. Mr. Sunderland will preach two Sundays, one before and one after commencement.

Dr. Crooker and his wife will spend the summer chiefly in Great Britain, lecturing, preaching and visiting friends. They will return directly at the close of the congress in Amsterdam.

Dr. Crooker was recently asked to prepare a treatise on "Religious Freedom in America" by Prof. Eliot, of the American Unitarian association, and he is engaged in this work and it will be published in the early fall.

A long series of articles which Dr. Crooker wrote for the Springfield Republican on the "historical Jesus" and which were printed last fall, will be published in book form in the spring.

The firends of Dr. and Mrs. Crooker heartily congratulate them upon the honors which are being bestowed upon them.