Show I I DR J CHOOSER DISCUSSES GOD Should Bring Him into Our Daily Lives as a Sus Sustaining Sustaining taming Force PERMEATES THE UNIVERSE MUST STAND THE TEST OF THE LABORATORY Rev J 1 II U Crooker of Boston Mass was as the preacher at the services of the First Unitarian society yesterday in Unity hall hail Dr Crockers sermon was a pow powerful po erful ermul utterance strong In its logic and anil am delivered with a sustained eloquence which justified the reputation the preacher has as being a pulpit orator to tobe tobe tobe be classed with the great few tew in America who are to be placed in tho first class Altogether the impression made upon the large congregation who gathered to hear him yesterday esterday was profound Ills theme a n consideration of or the rela relationship relationship relationship of men of modern minds and God God he said Is a fact a presence not to be disregarded any more than we can disregard the sun This being b so the Importance of our ou idea of God and our thought relationship to him Is easily easl seen AVe We e need a thought of God which includes the universe and a thought of the universe which includes God Above all we need a conception of or orthe the divine which has to do with our daily dall living There must be realized a close connection between our idea of God and the investigations we se e conduct under the name of science the endeavors after self and mass culture we call education and the response we are arc ever giving to the call callI I of love which is in part embraced under the term philanthropy I Education From Within True education is from within That Thatis is the way vay wa God makes a crystal it is the way he makes a n rose it is the way Wa he unfolds a human soul into understand understanding ing and power So vital religious education education education tion is developing the god within you youIt youIt ou It was conceived in the past that God and man were separated by b a great gulf which must be bo bridged by b some expedient Today Toda this is replaced with the thought of or Gods imminence for the tile religious man God permeates the th universe As 8 the realization of what true education tion means logically leads us to thinking of God as the leavening mind of the uni universe universe verse 11 by b our modern philanthropic evolution lion tion we w are constrained to assume a lov br loving 10 brIng ing attitude of God toward men It was the old thought that the chief business of God was the punishing of sinners This went with the political idea of unlimited monarchies In the spirit I of if our modern democracy we do not deem it sacrilegious to say sa that God has no right to punish sinners merely for the rake puke of his own glory glor and The duties of a father and creator limit him Stand the Test Teste We e can only give assent to a theology which does not make God out to be a capricious tyrant t rant in the light of our own nobler actions as social beings So It is hS with the scientific habit of mind becoming so widespread Science is not religion but science sweeps aside th the curtains which obscured our view and makes smooth the paths upon which re religion religion re religion ligion may ma tread We Ve must mut have a thought of God which will stand the test of the laboratory The conclusion of the tle sermon was as a moving plea for the bringing of God Into our lives as a sustaining and transform transforming ing force Dr Crooker wont went ent to Ogden last even evening evening ing to preach to the Unitarian society In that city ell He will return today toda and will give an address before the University club and their guests this evening To Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow morrow he hc is to address the students ot of the University of Utah at 4 p m On Wednesday evening the men of ot the Uni Unitarian Unitarian Unitarian society will give e him a complimentary complimentary dinner in the dining room of Unity Unit hall |