Show M Of GREAT UN Delivered it at Time When Jews fews Were in Despair FALSE ORTHODOX CLAIMS REV FRANK FAY EDDY DIS DISCOURSES DISCOURSES COURSES ON J The Unitarian Example was the theme of Rev Frank Fa Pay Eddys dis disCourse Course at the servIces In UnitarIan hall Th text was as from Isaiah lv h 1 Ho that Come ye re to the waters and he that hath bath no money mone come ye e bu buy and ana eat cat YC yen come buy wine and mIlk without mone money and without price Mr Eddy spoke in part as follos Jewish history presents the strange anomaly that from the darkest hour of misfortune when the Israelites were broken and crushed captives in a mighty city eity swollen in the pride of its victories and enriched b by the spoils of the of this time that would naturally T en engender ender hopelessness and despair there arose a of tri tn triumphant prophecy In that day of evil fortune Jerusalem lay In ruins far awa away on the hills hUls he loved that Jew unknown even its as to name by us addressed his wonderful des eles to his people so lofty In diction so profound in faith and so aspiring in hope that we mAy mity say without gration that In them the literature of tile the Jew strIkes Its highest note A The Theme For Today Today 1 would brIng to you a th theme me from the heart of this gre t unknowns meSsage It Is not because I want to draw any farfetched between modern Unitarians ns Jn in the ot of the exile but that I ma may remind you OU of ci the glory glor and power of the evangel given Into our keeping We Ve need to hear some Romo voice voke that wn we may mayLe mayLe Le persuaded of its Intrinsic worth We ot of all Christans Christians ought to go forth to this modern world proud in Is its ma material conquests mad in Is Its lust for pelt pelf and place and power yet et deep in its heart crying for spiritual satisfaction tion for to this era ra we have peculiarly the broad gospel which wi will at once still the questionings of the Intellect and feed the neEds needs ot of the spirit But given the str strength ot of conviction and the passionate earnestness to match the worth of an evangel we shall go forth and upon our lips shall shaH be the cry Ho Hofve everyone one that come go to the theater waters ater Mr Ir Eddy then said that in the work of building up the church o of the tree free spirit in this cU city it wa was necessary to realize that the the thing of primary importance was that all ull the member membership membership ship should be Infused with ith this conviction conviction tion of the strength and gospel accepted character of the they The sermon sermon then continued Doctrine of Liberalism UIn In our thought thoughts of God we e f find d ira Im pied plied all aB time the rest of the doctrine the theological theological and humanitarian of which the evangel may be said to con consist consist In the modern thought of the fre free churches ot of liberalism the concept of the divine presence Is rounded out and completed In the monotheistic Idea to be discovered in the religious history of almost almo t every great people whose past history has hus been read we find the ancient history of our thought of God But chiefly we have blended the two at concepts of creating l and governing the universe from without and God fused In the uni universe verS verse and expressing himself In every manifestation of oC life liCe and being The first conception is the fit gift 0 ot the Jews T Tiey py enlarged theIr tribal deity until the they saw aw in him the master of the world and finally the governor of the universe But their Idea is ever eyer that of a deity and fade inde of the universe But the Greeks bring us us the thought ot of a spirit of reason an imminent and eternal in intelligence which abides in al all things And to this may be added the iste thou thought ht of the Orient of the dl di divine vine expressing itself in all 1 the myriad forms and forces of the uni universe verse erst Time The Jewish concept Is weak eak In It Its philosophy the Greek and oriental doctrine lacks the element of a divine personality I It Is by fusing fusing the con of the te divine innocence wih tle the J Jewish wish t thought hought Of divine being that we get the perfected ideal of God I Shortcoming of Orthodoxy Orthodoxy With this wide thought of God we I must see the the sacredness and the limi ot or al all Bibles the ChrIstology of orthodoxy orthodox seems to have about it an anI I inadequate and aid ic Invention a dishonor alke alike to the Christ i It I ald and the man it would save our view of human history becomes inclusive and andI anda I a chosen hosen people would be e an in j able able anomaly and In al all things are I round found the revelation of God The Th I whole Is an unfolding unity and in it Is 10 no discordant note The philosophic mind must look with suspicion on any doctrine that needs a special and anti arti adjustment to the facts of hu human titan man experience as doe does th the Christology sti still in ilm the creeds of Christendom I The test of doctrine is salvation Is for salvation Yes in the only wa way God has provided fOI es pe from fl by the or of character by spiritual growth in ae ac with laws of spiritual being The fostering of the delu delusion ion that di divine divine vine grace r ce e uld ibe be poured into nto an empty human soul as one pours trite into a cup han haa wrought ought measureless harm as haL has the thought that through the blod blood ot of Christ sins could be wiped out of human souls as we wipe from a state slate the we find unsolvable But b by the Unitarian evangel eangel we we may discover the way of oC widenIng truism to the perplexed soul we may point out the righteousness that Is Indestructible ible and the love that is the solution or of liTs s 0 The sermon ermon concluded wIh with a sum min up of what the Unitarian evangel signified and an appeal for devotion and and el bad based upon that significance |