Show TRACES TRUTH DOW THE ARES AGES Is the Law L w of Harmony in I Changing Environment j Says Mr Eddy GREAT SPIRITUAL HEROES I 1 ALL WERE STRIVING FOR THE ETERNAL PRINCIPLE The services of or the First Unitarian so 50 society clety clet yesterday in Unitarian halt hall were largely attended In the course of the service Sirs Mrs Irs Browning and Mrs Smith sang a beautiful duet duct and Unity Unit quartette quart tte rendered an anthem in which solo parts were taken by Mr Ir Poll and and Mr Mahan The sermon serm n by the pastor Rev Rc Frank Franl Fay Eddy Edd was as upon The Reincarnations of Truth I Mr Ir Eddy began his discourse with a number of or word pictures relating to epoch making incidents in the lives Hes of some of the great spiritual heroes hero of the race lie He described King burning the roll roli on which were written the rebuking prophecies of oC Jeremiah Socrates before his judges Buddha deserted by b his com corn companions companions under the Paul arguing with the Jewish apostles in Jerusalem Marcus Aurelius penning his meditations by the time campfires on the Danube Mohammed Mohammed med fleeing from Mecca to Medina Luth Luther er nailing his theses on the time church door at Wittenberg and Emerson reading his resignation to his congregation in Boston I I I I Spiritual Heroes All Ail these occurrences said Mr Ir Eddy Edtl were at the time of their happening mere unimportant incidents It is only inthe in tn inthe the consciousness of the ages that they th y take t kc on themselves dramatic significance en cance nc n ce Our spiritual heroes always struggle against the established the tIn ancient the tue formal the authoritative They The are protestants prot protestants protestants every ver one of them the thc Buddha rebelled against priestly Paul saved Christianity from being absorbed by b ritualistic Judaism Marcus Aurelius AureliU taught the great sg ot of otman otman valued his man as a free fre moral agent and with the tho crown as a n small thing compared integrity of his soul Mohammed led a re rebellion rebellion bellion hellion against the formalism of oC Judaism the Idolatry of oC the Arabian tribes and anel the scholasticism of the time Christians Luther waged his war on the authority of ot the church Emerson proclaimed that the free soul must not compromise A Common Motive A common motive we w can ean discern in all these seekers ekers after truth They fh and all an aspiring souls attempt to a hie an in inward Inward inward ward harmony harmon with the eternal order that is it with truth and ind righteousness Their messages may seem diverse enough but always proclaim the spiritual sustenance our human souls obtain by hr y leaning upon the time eternal lI call rail it God Go l the time Divine reason nature n or the thc th moral order or lr what wo w may ma mahat What hat we call cell truth is that Inevitable and eternal harmony harmon physical and spir spiritual spirItual which is fixed in the constitution of af the universe Because so 10 fixed it is dosi til lets less and unconquerable One great idea may have Il c a thousand rebirths in iii as many man centuries Truth will live in almost any an house hOIle ex ox except that of or authority The priests and ammO th tim scribes s say sa that is the law and the prophets ts and ami all alt the pharisees shout Yoa Y a verily erl thus saith Moses But truth has flown to be refashioned in the heart of one Jesus the heretic Truth Tr th Flits With Life The trouble is that men are always try Irv Irving tr trin trying ing in to reduce truth to its lowest lowet terms terms to exhibit it In some sonic unchangeable and anel per permanent permanent permanent manent form We V ar are all as eager to put our own owl particular tag on truth as a rancher is to rope and brand a stray I maverick I But there is where truth escapes u uIt us If It we are content to say sa there is truth In that this is a 11 phase of truth or one ont ot the forms in which truth manifests itself it itself self seU we are safe enough e ugh Authority Is seldom so cautions cautious though Authority says sas Kings rule nile by b divine right along alon comes comps your democrat and impudently kicks kleks the time throne un en under under ender der kinglet then resurrect it if itou you jou ou can this avowed principle principles As s soon as men say sa hero here is I a holy hob church a holy hol Bible or a R holy hol priesthood the spirit of oC life liCe ebbs out ont of or them Life leaves lenes them and truth flits with life liCe The Law of Harmony The I is no form of truth necessarily eternal unless it is Pm the multiplication table There is truth in the time laws las ascribed to Moses in the maxims and parables of o Jesus in time tIle epistles pis tie of Paul Panl in the time dia din dialogues of Plato the time meditations of Marcus Aurelius and In ii other volumes innumerable able There is truth in the Book of Mor Mormon Mormon mon and in Science and Health and ammO in inThe the of the time picturesque Dow Dowl Dowie IP But nowhere is there a permanent un tin unquestionable unquestionable questionable and invulnerable expression of truth Truth flows on as an eternal principle of life in the universe e It H is the law of or harmony which h ceaselessly works In a I changing environment Because Became the uni universe universe verse is in constant flux truth must in I order to produce harmony bring about I from day da to day new ne adjustments and appear ap appear appear pear In an Infinite number of new forms He who would have a long acquaint acquaintance ance with whim truth must be an adventurer and a rover Truth is l friendly to those who run with her With the time dogmatist she will stay scarce a day da |