Show SERMON GREW ON N A HilLS HILLSIDE I lt Rev Frank Fay Eddy Dis Discusses Discusses Discusses cusses Dominion of Man ManOver ManOver ManOver Over Rest of Creation PURE DEMOCRACY I DOMINION OF SOUL MUST RE REPLACE REPLACE RES S PLACE MATERIALISM 5 The Sermon Semon That Grew on a n Hillside was the t o theme of Rev Re Groy Frank Fay Pay Eddy at the services of the First Unitarian so yesterday ay in Unity hall ball Miss lIss Emily Larson formerly soprano in Unity quartette quartette quartette delighted her many friends in the tho congregation by taking the solo s lo Mr Eddy Edd r spoke from the text Psalms to have domin over the works of thy hands thou hast put all aU things under his feet Ceet The characteristic life of plant pant insect Inset and animal on a mountainside was sketched This Mr Eddy explained re revealed revealed an adjustment to severe conditions The scrub oak the a the bunch grass the cactus and the procession of hardy weeds all al exhibited traits of en cn endurance endurance durance They survived as the th fittest that it found The birds bIrd flitted over I or nesting places in its scarred cliffs were by b reason of wings independent of its peculiar nr conditions But Jut the life of those insects and animals that are indigenous to its is soil BPI shows like that of the plants the ugly characteristics that a severe en environment environment always produces An exception exception tion may be found in favor of the ant model ton of Industry Otherwise there Is the slinking coyote the darting lizards and an occasional rattlesnake Squirrels there thore are with burrows that have a door under un every boulder but for all aU their stupidity the pestilent mountain rats outnumber them a hundred to one be because because because cause they are so prolific Parallel in Human Life A 4 similar adjustment to conditions char characterizes our human life te AVe Wc Ve must con conform conform conform form or be broken The manifest manlest fail failures fai failure ures ure in our lives Uve is due to the blighting influences of the struggle for existence into which we are born But ut the life Ufe of man is not a hopeless and endless struggle against harsh con conditions conditions like that of the hillside To man belongs dominion He Ho has tried that that of force anc anti that of force mixed with guile guie He has nas experimented long Jong and often with witha a higher dominion based on knowledge and inspired by sympathy But the do dominion dominion dominion minion of the higher man in such a de dc degree dege gree as to condition the life Ufe of an era has ge never yet been achieved Wolfish strife strite and gross materialism condition our life Ufe and like the stunted and blighted life Ufe of the western hillside our human lives are dwarfed and made crooked When man attains a dominion of soul he ho will wi have wrought a revolution in the conditions of existence The human species doe cies Will adjust mUst Itself and the ugly and venomous wU things will wl be replaced by those of usefulness and beauty Make Way for Man ManIn In conclusion Mr Eddy said Make Mako way for man That is the tho to los les lesson lo loson losson son Way Yay for man not only with wih a sword to avenge and a heel heal to crush but man with u a BOU soul full ull ul of sympathy and with a n mind of at understanding The past has known all aU too much of or orthe the dominion of force If I that idea of rul ruling rulIng ruling ing by brute force has in some measure given way to dominion by enlightened force so much is about all nU we have at all our boasted civilization All AU government al and law is based bused in the thc last analysis upon force although some eon con conception on of righteousness and justice Is clumsily woven Into them thor lute like the crude figures woven in the blankets of the In Indians Indians Indians This is all we have hae realized all al that we are in the habit of living But we e have spiritually attained certain certain tain lain Ideals which carry us much farther In thought t in vision if i you please There grows apace a thought of domin dominion dominIon dominIon I ion of man warm apace with sympathy and ind alive with understanding The he vision Is wih thousand will not need of a time when a wU I to be n crushed that one may have opportunity opportunity opportunity to grow but a time when every everyman ever everyman conditions of ox ex existence man will under the toe very wn him himself himself himself have opportunity to realize reaUze self What is this thi but hut the farther ideal of I democracy The spiritual meaning of a Square square quare deal This rh thought is the only II original poetical idea Idoa we have produced in two centuries In its is glory Walt Whit Whitman hit hitman i iman man with his uncouth verse becomes I groat and poets with as us narrow a range as William Morris and dwin Edwin Markham 4 r ham I Iare are redeemed from mediocrity It I is ii more thought for kor it Is the far farthest farthest farthest than a poetic word of philosophy as a Emerson Ruskin and Carlyle show forth Make way for man manman man with a soul s |