| Show b PAINTS IDEAlS Alu AIO r OP OF DEMOCRACY a t J 0 r Mar Man vs rs boilers Dolli the t Case of America Says Rev F F Eddy A RELIGION OF CONSCIENCE BROAD NEW GOSPEL GOSP L TO BE WRITTEN IN LEDGERS I At the services of the First Firt Unitarian society yesterday esterday Rev Rey Frank Fay Far Eddy Edd preached pre on Ideals and Demon Democracy racy 1 u i iSome Some one on has lias well said that de democracy meant the kingdom of or God v you he lie said It means that the average man must assume responsibility responsibility for the governing of himself and his fellows All Al representative government is based on the Pegs ne of the average man manOf manor manOr or Of course the uncommon man will always lead ead lea The success of Jt a a democracy racy ray depends on the capacity of the average man to comprehend good lead leadership Otherwise the mob rules anti ant the demagogue flourishes In a democracy man dominates law lawand lawand lawand and government By public opinion he makes and unmakes laws makes them powerful or what we metaphorically tall raIL a dead letter He who makes or orI I moulds public opinion in a country like ours is often more powerful than he who makes laws or interprets them V This being true we see ce the import importance Importance importance ance of having something big and noble In the way wa of ideas IdeaR for public opinion to express Ii ir its rough andy and ready way vay wayMan ay ayMan Man vs Vi Dollars V 4 America is not as much submerged In materialism as some of our foreign critics think but hut there is no mistaking that our danger lies in that direction It is for us to prove Drove that we w can be become become become come rich without becoming weak wak and md I V wicked With every even eve other great nation J 4 j I 1 usury and degeneration have usually s c each other The same be true with wUn us unless we retain our ideals ideal That we are in the presence of a areal areal real national peril Is undeniable Judge Linsley of the juvenile court of Den Denver DenY ver var Y r tells us that he discovered that the themen themen themen men who obstructed him In his work usually did so because they valued things more than thoy they did lives The Thease tase ase of or America before the high court of heaven h aven might be describe as man mans s dollars The nation that is h II not lord of its dollars and the things dollars will ivill buy has chosen the path of degeneration degene degeneration degeneration ration Religion of Ideals 1 Every nation has hasa a religion more or orless loss less independent inde of its churches It is the religion of its Ideals Let us make mahe ma e ea a littIe study stud of this religion of Amer Amerlean lean Iran ideals In the past men have ha died dl d heroically V 1 ly mainly Mor nr two motives m for military y and or oi religious conviction Ina In Ina Inn a n democracy we for the first time re recognize cognize the heroism of the worker To the credit cr of or our American manhood I let Itt is be said that a craven tear fear nf risk or danger is nowhere re much in evidence in our national life The Tile miner in his lits dark tunnel th fisher fiher fisherman fisherman man on the th seas 5 g the engineer with hand on the throttle the tho tta chemist in his 4 the physician n nurse nurEe or mother tenderly caring Ting for tor those sick with ith malignant and infections disease all go JO about their duty lut as a matter of course ourse CU Toke the men who chose firefight firefightIng 1 V ing as a profession The fidelity and I courage they exhibit the country over Oer i 1 Is worthy of a panegyric This is in industrial industrial industrial heroism Modern I dern life abounds with opportunities for its exercise I Buccaneers of Finance Justice is another ideal unspeakably precious In our national life liCe It is in intimately intimately connected with courage as its exercise often requires moral courage u J V buccaneers of high finance finan e have been playing a merry mern gam gama hitherto They The have hac been allowed the liberty libert of license But there t are signs enough that public opinion is soon to call a ahalt ahn ahalt halt hn It That there has ha been duplicity and connivance to defraud we w have long suspected Recent Re nt inquiring com corn commissions commissions missions and anti investigations have giver given I 1 5 i the needed proof The one which ch Slit sat sats s sI sic i this city last lat week w ek added its quota bee beC opinion Is rapidly forming which f J 1 make a demand for justice so loud loudIS d politicians I as us t I clear that frightened JC ill 11 be scared into a little genuinely V t I and md restrictive activity f t I In j our American life we have an another another anI other oilier ideal that peculiarly belongs to tot toI I t I democracies It is t the Ideal of knowl knowledge knowledge edge The Ideal of knowledge In a democracy Inspires the average aera e man to toI I keep kepp informed as to t what is happening t 1 in i the world It It is i in our fur country countr and andas nil ought t tabea be a disgrace to be unable to toI I read and write But the text book o of democracy Is the newspaper for all allmen allmen allmen men tho the magazine for a 1 large larg and in lii increasing Increasing creasing number of the more thought thoughtful ful mi while the bound boum volume as ever eyer is little used e by the student Gospel in Ledgers s I Finally the Ideal IdE Ul of worship is pres present ent nt in every democracy that is any anything an No Ko sham V thing more than a painted democracy can ean last without faith ralth Its fundamental faith must be that there made is such a thing as righteousness in the many voices of truth It must have hae faith In human nature as aswell aswell well as in the eternal order of or physical nature 1 Our lOur V Unitarianism gets its meaning In Its Us aspiration to be b the voice of this broad new rie gospel which must be writ written written fit fitten ten In ledgers as s well as uI in sacred books hooks It Is a gospel which must be beat bent beat at nt all costs and incurably optimistic Unitarianism or any other form of religion which seeks to be the p f religion of f the whole people of America V needs meds must voice olce the tho ideals of f 1 racy lacy Uc Us itS it capacity C fd IT pas passion pasi passion sion slon its thirst for Cor knowledge i I and Its deep deeD faith that righteousness I f and truth are at the tue heart of things thins I Such Is the religion of or democracy |
