Unitarians In Ann Arbor

The beautiful Unitanan church was ta8tefully adorned with flowere and autumn leaves last Sjnday. It was the tenth anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Sunderland's settlement in Ann Arbor as pastor, and the sermón wa largely devoted to a review of what the church had accomplished here during the decade. In speaking of Ann Arbor, Mr. Sunderland said: " I have always been impressed with the attractiveness of its natural situation, and feit that this fine elevated plateau, with its picturesque river scenery on one side, and its beautiful bilis and valleys all around, seem almost to have been made on purpose for a great institution of learning." In speaking of the growth of the University, he said : "Some of the best Univemty buildings have been erected this decade, including the museum, the mechanical and physical laboratories, and most important of all, the library of which President Andrew White, of Cornell, said to me soon after its completion, 'l have seen all the important library buildings of America and Enrope, and I regard yours at Ann Arbor as the most perfect.' Almost steadv prosperity seems to have attended the University, the number of students having incieased until it is now in the close neighborhood of seventeen hundred. Then the school of mugic, which has been established within the ten years, is growing into inaportauce, and the high school, which, although it has no orgnnic coonection with the University, reallv acts as a preparatory department to it, has now nearly five hundred studente, about half of whom come from a distance. Thus we see our student population already ri-ñng to coosiderably more than two tbnusand." After dwelling upon the aciivity of various denominations in etablishing lectureships and ol.her means of spreading their views in Ann Arbor, Mr. Sunderland expressed the hope that the Unitarians some day sball have a school here to teach Unitarianism. The work of tha ten years inclnded the erection of the chtircri building, the gathering of a library for the church of some 1500 volumes of near'.y Dew books, the building of a parsonage, and the saceessful establishment of the UnitariaD. The average edition of the ten numbers of this journal published this year have been over 6,000, which means that it has 25,000 readers.