Show All AU MAY HE BE WRONG Rev Frank Fay Eddy Says They Should Never Be Taken at Their Word WHAT DO THEY REPRESENT PEOPLE MUST STUDY THEM IN RELATION TO LIFE That hat the religious situation is con confused contused used fused by b a plethora of 1 prophets that perhaps 8 Isaiah and Ezekiel did not know altogether what they were talk talkIng Ing about and that any ary who is right EIght is probably so accidentally accidental was the substance of a sermon on oi Acci Accidental Accidental AccIdental dental Prophets at the First Unitarian UnitarIan ian tan church yesterday morning by b the pastor Rev Rey Frank Fay Fa Eddy It is never wise to take a prophet at athis athis athis his word said s ld the pastor pastol If he h could see ee e straight he would not be a 11 prophet Thus correctly to place Isaiah and Ezekiel or Dr Jeremiah we must Dot believe they knew altogether what they were talking about Rather ther we must discern clearly what they the represented Mr Eddy Edd then referred to the various s churches churchel saying that each faith had its prophesies To determine which one of these is right however is the tho task that i confronts the th world he said Mr air Eddy Edd took his text from Isaiah 1 But they the that wIt walt upon the Lord shall renew their strength they I Ishan shall shan mount up with wings as eagles I they th y shall run and not be weary they I walk and not faint I I II Words Ring True He Ho said In part So the great greatest greatest est of Hebrew prophets There is a vein eln of ot lofty poesy In Jn this gre t pro prophet prophet prophet phet of the exile which makes his words perennially p inspiring In a spiritual sense they ring true though ages intervene But the return of Is Israel Israel Israel rael to Jerusalem Jerus em realised reaU cd meagerly the sublime vision of the prophet The rebuilt Jerusalem was thoroughly and existed in cowed sub subjection subjection to greater national powers A great prophet ho lie was not because his predictions were literally literal but i because he was a great soul and spoke the language of or the tle spirit Now we have prophecy in our time weather prophecy Ibis is the pro prophecy prophecy prophecy of science It is ta based on a systematic study of evidence From a strictly modern mern m jern standpoint of view we may study stud individuals who represent tendencies and facts in the life Ufe of to today today today day as having prophetic significance i They are not necessarily those who pose pore as prophets They may ma be purely accidental prophets Advice as to Prophecies It is never wise to take a prophet at athis athis athis his w rd If ho he could see straight he would not be he a prophet Thus to cor correctly correctly correctly place Isaiah or Ezekiel or Jere Jeremiah Jeremiah miah we wo must not believe that they knew altogether what they were talkIng talk talkIng Ing lag about Rather we must discern J clearly claar what w at thy th y represented Prophets May Be Accidents Any ago age might thus be studied Ac Accidental Accidental prophets there are sure to be beVe We Ve might see more clearly the representative figures in the past but our Interest lies more in the theS I I I S present Let then the tho present be our study stud Above bIye the clamor and din of many man sounds and certain spokes spokesmen spokesmen men make themselves heard They may maybe ma mabe maybe be forgotten tomorrow They The are only significant because b Cause they the are representative representative representative Certain tendencies and influences Influences influences embodied in ideas cast in the form of ot ideals beset besot us and make every responsive soul a conscript to their service We e can only onh realize the deeper meaning of the life of today by b tracing out its relationships to the life hue Of f to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow morrow The life lite of this present era is of seething complexity as it appears to most of us who are engrossed in Its turmoil Yet there are are accidental a pro prophets pro prophets prophets enough and to spare and prophetic prophetic prophetic facts innumerable to challenge our judgment Some of the Prophets The uThe religious situation is perhaps most confused by a plethora of prophets ets We hear Mary Baker Eddy and her Sier cohorts proclaiming Christian Science as s the conquering event ev nt of a purified and rediscovered Christianity On the other hand Mark Twain pre predicted predicted I its mighty growth because it is isa Isa isa a delusion and a snare because it has I had bad a shrewd and unscrupulous lead er and because it has the power of wealth behind its projects No less loudly from platform and press the Mormons claim the future for tor their kingdom Nor is the Catholic less modest in assuring the tIle world that the theone theone theone one holy hoh church and its faith is invincible invincible ible as well as unchangeable And I must admit that the Unitarian explains frequently that thai modern science and the pread spread of intelligence Int paves the way waylor for lor a new ness statement of religion which shall be in harmony with common commonsense commonsense sense Campbell with his new theol theology theolo theology ogy o and Crapsey Crapse and all the accidental I prophets of the new orthodoxy really stand for the same thing although though a they do not always alwa s see clearly whither they are arc tending S All May Be Wrong Which one of these is right Not Nota a blessed one of them probably Yet Tet they are all prophetic if jf accidentally so because they the are arc as straws which show which way the wind blows If we no longer hear clearly from some anointed one a Thus saith Eaith the Lord we need all the more prophetic insight t It will enable us to work as with God In this way we are saved from the prosaic and the commonplace On every side we hear then prophetic voices assuring net usi that They that walt wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength they the shall mount up with wings as eagles they shall run and not be weary wear and they shall shaIl walk and not faint |