Show REV EDDY TALKS ON ISMS He Be Cites F Pour ur of Th Them m Which He Says Have Governed KU KUn I Iri ri m n IS THE BEST PRIESTS AND TYRANTS EV EVER R WORK IN HARMONY The Four Isms that Dominate Hu Humanity Humanity manity was the theme of Rev Frank Fy Eddy at the servIces of the First Unitarian society in Unity balI yesterday Mr Eddy began betran by defining what he meant meent by an ism as he used the terra term in inthe inthe the sermon sennon He sold said Ism Is a suffix of limitation By the use of it w Ve can mark almost any sub lar large Or er small amaH for separate consid consideration consideration Titus Thus we taken a c composite man manof manof of ancient civilization call caU him a p n nand and add an Ism to his title and we have paganism conveniently referring to his whole system of life Following universal cu tom we may take certain large phases of human activities or methods of doing things and by bJ tacking an ism upon th them m mark mork thorn thom off and distinguish them so that It will wll be easier easle to study theIr sIg can ce The Four Isms Broadly sp speaking men have naye governed and have been governed and are still governed and being governed in four wa ways S b by the strong hand of might by the guilt gulIt of by purchase or the selfish appeal and by their ir ideals or I 1 by the unselfish appeal Adding an ism mm in each case to a word expressing these concepts we have terrorism lam ism and Idealism These terms are not but their fairly well indicate certain points of view I which have human history Mr Eddy went on to show how that terror lent ism had bad b been n the blunderIng blood bloody through the centurIes of the past and that it was still much in evidence In Inthe inthe the modern modem worm world Ecclesiasticism he heS S said id was ever eyer a copartner of t terrorism the priest and the tyrant have ever worked in The autocrat rules by fear foor the priest rules tules by guIle playing upon the honest fears and superstitions of the ma masses fes of men H He continued d While both buth terrorism and ecclesiastic ism are waning in modern life a new ism that of has grown Into sud den power It is the t power Ower of or capital used with winton wanton selfishness It is a 8 new idolatry whose whore Influence we alt all feel more or less Jess Id Idealism in Rebellion Against the three isms ism mentioned is ever in rebellion And Jesus Is the great Idealist of Of the ages He feared not kings and so 50 flaunted terror ism he h had bad only unconcealed contempt for the priests and the established forms of Judaism and so scorned ecclesiastic Ism lie he cared naught for money and ver realized its power or use and ignored completely He wrote Tote no book formulated no creed and founded no church Ho He sowed his iced ed broadcast and W S content to make his appeal to the unselfish and noble qualities in the men and women who carne came within the cirela of his Influence This must be the method of idealism ever idealism is the spirit in the clod the yeast itt it the meal The idealist ether m men n m more te practical and stirs them to action Too The note of Id Idealism is ever eer tIme the note of progress in the higher sense In Mr Eddy said It Is said the great artists of Greece portrayed it in their human hurran figures something more than the mn men and wo women women men of GreecE noble In proportions as aa these were wera Th y molded and pictured th ir gods under th human semblance and so their men and women became so heroic and noble In a simIlar way we must discern the divine in the human nd appeal to it It is the appeal of Ideal J Im m an In it lies the lopE hop of the coming a ag ts s Wasteful Ways of Life wiIl not some of the corn com coming lug ing race some centuries hence look back backon on our era and wonder at our wasteful blundering ways of life our barbarism and nd strife Will Vill he not look on our armies our merciless comm commerce rt and nd our crude educational systems ms with something like Jike amused contempt But even this man of f the nobler future this being of the higher type bope would In his hour bour of reflection do well to remember that his position of vantage became pos possible possible sible bl because cAuse we in our age of were faithful to the call of ideal idealism idealism ism Unity quartette saig Jg the anthem Now how Will VIII Keep H Him m in Perfect Peace The solo Was given by Miss EmIly Larson entitled Childrens Home 0 r |