Show IMMORTALITY IS A MEASURE OF VALUE I William WiIIiam Thurston Brown Says to Look Forward rd to It ItA ItA ItI I A sermon on Something Better Than han the Hope or Faith of Immortality ty was wa delivered in Unitarian church yesterday by the tho pastor Rev William Williami i hurston urston Brown Drown He lIe said In part parti i The question of immortality is a re religious question or a moral and spiritual question only as it is wholly wholly ly 11 with moral and ethical values with the present not the past or future with life lIte and aid not with space or time mere merely merely r ly 31 Space has nothing to do with life You do not live in proportion to your alee ige Neither has mere duration of ot time anything to do with immortality Would you be immortal If It you could live forever Would not endless exist existence existence ence once be the cruellest punishment that could be inflicted on some tomo people There are stones In the pavement of the street which we unthinkingly tread j upon which were here hero long before the therace therace therace race of man and will be here when the earth is as dead as an the moon Thy They Th y nil fill space and they endure through such sucha a period of time as the lifetime of ot the therace therace therace race race cannot begin to measure But immortality is not an attribute of stones atones Immortality is a measure of value not ot of ot time Would it not be the greatest human service to tG call men and women away from fron all thought of religion as having to do with past or future and fix their the thought on the truth that life lite and im immortality Immortality Immortality mortality have but one tense the pres pros present present ent cut Who can sound the depths of that tragedy which has led m nun mEm n and women to postpone all the sacre est things of ot ute life to a distant future led them to other world can possibly l lie be e better or higher or holler holier than thai this that any future life Ufo can hold possibilities ties greater finer dearer than this It ItIs ItIs Is Ia some som place beyond this life where according to the teaching of o the Chris Christian Christian tian church the tho fulfilments of the soul are realized It is in a heaven beyond death not here where grows gro s the tho tree i of lifo life whose leaves are aro for tor the healing i of the nations It is in some Sweet i Dye Bye and Bye that the cup of happiness shall be full for tor you and mo me It is in some other world not this that peace L and justice are to reign It is only when we have discarded this flesh and blood and can flit about like shadows that we shall think most live most fully love most truly and express j ourselves to the uttermost From nothing have hav wo we suffered so cruelly by nothing are we now so BO de defeated dei i and baffled battled as us by ly this fearful which has so BO long usurped the name of religion and made human beings blind to the truth and joy of I life and deaf deat to its holiest calls the tho su superstition superstition that immortality is a matter 1 of space and time that God Is not the most moat immediate fact of at our human life there as nowhere no here else We but de do grade crade ourselves darken our own vision profane the temple of at our own nature by reverence for tor a God whose very soul is not the dwelling place of truth If lit God means justice then where here are we men and women so surely in his presence conscious of him and how else also so well may we find tho very fulfilment of religion as when we make Justice the great reason for living Justice which includes all that reaches all that gives every last and lowest human being the cheering com comforting j forting sense of ot its protection We must m st not be content to live tho th life of any past last or any life dictated by tho the past We are feeling tee ling the stir of deeper leep r larger higher life We are areT T hearing the call of holler holier evangels than all the past has known kno n We are citi citizens citizens yi zens zeus of at a new world a world in pro process pr c cess of creation breaking the shell of confining custom and creed and tradition tradItion tradition tion and opening out into that which is to be No occupation has ever been pictured for a future paradise so BO worthy of us so SQ uplifting so rewarding re as that tl at which we may now and here know as the creators of ot a new and better civili civilization civilization |