| Show SAYS RELIGION MUST IT BROADEN I Teachings of Jesus Form Uni Universal Universal Universal versal Creed Declares Rev E I Goshen LAST SERMON IN THEATRE WILL CONTINUE LIBERAL PREACHING IN HIS CHURCH WIth an exceptionally strong sermon on the teachings of Jesus and their distinctive claim as the universal religion of this and every ever other age Rev Elmer I Gosh Goshen en pastor of ot the tho First Congregational church closed his series of ot Sunday Sund morn morning mornIng mornIng ing services at the Salt SnIt Lake theatre yes yesterday yesterday yesterday morning If It I have advanced liberal doctrines here I will advance as liberal doctrines In my church you will not find one gospel preached here and another one preached there and above all everyone everone is welcome to my m services was the tho manner In which Rev Hev Mr Goshen announced his return to his church for all services beginning next Sunday morning Rev Re Mr Goshen declared before begin beginning ning his the teachings of Jesus JesUl and the claim advanced that they form the universal religion today that he preached upon that subject by b request You dont have to have a R peculiar shaped head to believe and accept the teachings of or Christ as the universal religion nor nordo nordo nordo do you have to shut your eyes to history In accepting those teachings as the creed of your life declared the speaker The religion of Jesus requires life love of liberty and courage Looking to the beginning of ot our own era we find the Romans at the height of their devel development development development affluent on a high Intellectual plane enjoying life to the fullest extent possible for them and yet living In a 1 world that was empty for their life was cold They had turned to philosophy for their religion and philosophy taught that there were no gods You cannot say aay a however that Christ came into his own In one of the dark ages His teachings were not promulgated at a time when people were not intellectually capable of receiving them had they the been willing Greek and Roman life was at its height Culture learning and elegance held their own Philosophy was everywhere ad advanced advanced and received a philosophy that satisfied the mind but made no provision for tor the man Taught Blood Atonement Even the tho early Christians failed to grasp fully tully the teachings of their master and taught the doctrine of blood atone atonement atonement atonement ment the belief beliet that Innocent blood must be shed to save mankind from the wrath of God The hold which that belief and doctrine secured on mankind was so mighty that in this day we find it crop cropping cropping cropping ping out here and there with a persistence that Is almost unbelievable He was right who sometimes said There Is much In Christianity that might better be termed There is nothing however that can ever rob the teachings te of Jesus of their distinction as the tile universal reli rell religion religion gion they so richly possess If your faith Is one in which only a little handful of ot men can believe today it will be swept away with time for truth Is js stronger than assumption Jesus did not come with teachings whose truth must be attested by some great physical phe phenomenon phenomenon phenomenon but he came with a distinct and absolute salvation for the world The world did not accept It during his life and It is slow alow today to accept him We Weare Weare Weare are too anxious to make ourselves partial and not universal Hugging the scriptures to your our breast and claiming they are In Infallible infallible fallible will never save you only universal universal sal sil love can do that The babe that was born In the manger was the most misun misunderstood misunderstood misunderstood babe ever born yet in that babe babelay babelay lay In the salvation and redemption of this world The spirit of his love has given ghen the world all alt the greatness It has ever known The religion of today toda must broaden The day that the Jewish people announced their belief that God had spoken to them alone that day saw the beginning of the death of their religion So will it be with every faith founded by b men today on the belief that all mankind must seek God through certain narrow channels |
