The first Ethical Culture Society meets in New York City with around 100 members.
Felix Adler, the founder of the Ethical Culture movement, delivers the first sermon in which he discusses the need for a new religion that dispenses with rituals and creeds and can unite all of humanity in moral social action.
Adler also wants to do away with theology so he can unite theists, atheists, agnostics and deists in a single religious, moral cause. Felix Adler's motto in all this is "deed, not creed" because he places the doing of good works at the center of Ethical Culture.
