Show SOCIETY PLACES VALUE ON MAN Pastor Says Question Is Primary Primary Primary mary One in Re DUTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL LINK LIFE WITH THAT WHICH MAKES FOR BROTHERHOOD The TM Primary Question of or Religion What Are You Worth was the subject of or a sermon delivered Sunday by the Rev William Thurston Brown at Unity church He said in part What is it that determines what you are worth and what I am worth The fhe world we live in tn inevitably And for the thc vast majority for good or ill human so 80 society society Itself whatever its form or charac charge character character ter decides that question What we are worth in iii the minds of most people means but one thing what we are worth merely to that form of society in which we hap happen happen happen pen to live and tho the vast majority of men and women accept that estimate They Thc value themselves as the social order or orthe orthe orthe the social system under which they the live values them If It the value it puts upon them is false is small and mean and low so is the valuation they place on their own lives and it is not to be wondered at that so many man thousands of people make nothing of or themselves care nothing about themselves In any manly noble way wa when you know how sordid and false and mean is the estimate which the very conditions of this human world the only God they know because the only inex inexorable inexorable power they feel place upon their existence If multitudes live like beasts it is because the world In which they live treats them as beasts But that is not the world which may ma rightly determine any mans worth That Thatis is not the world which can give to any human life a sense of or its real worth It Itis ItIs itIs is not our relationship to any merely pass passIng passIng passing Ing phase of things any merely temporary condition that decides what we are worth or by which we ought to estimate our value It is by hy what this world is be becoming coming that our worth Is determined by b bour our relation to the unfolding growing moral and spiritual world In what then does religion for any an awakened soul In all the world consist Does it not consist in our consciousness now and here of or divine ends toward which our world Is moving in intimate personal relationship toward the process of Dr realizing those being ourselves a a part of that process becoming creative factors in creative forces in n all the upward progress of mankind If we are to be religious can we regard this human society as in any sense a fin finished finIshed shed product Are we not bound to think of It as unfinished as growing changing hanging casting aside Its outgrown gar garments garments ments of social custom and economic law lawand lawand and clothing itself In those which better fit it the growing needs of men And shall we Ye not inevitably if the spirit of religion religions Is s in us link our lives not with that which Is IB decadent not with any partisan success not with the powers of or graft not with ith successful wrong because it is sue suc successful c but with that which is facing the future with that which possesses vision of f better things with that which foresees an In good with that which makes for universal brotherhood |