Show DISCARDED FAITHS MARK PATH Thus Declares Rev William Wilam Thurston Brown in Sermon 1 at Unity Hall Hal Rev William Thurston Brown de livered a strong sermon on the Spirit of Theodore Parker In the Twentieth Century at the evening service at at Unity church curch yesterday He Ha said In part If this world of ours Is ever really realy to believe beleve In a God it wi will not be by vir virtue virtue virtue tue of o any form of authority that can possibly be invoked Authority now or ever makes an Impression only oy on Igno Ignorance ignorance Ignorance rance Every school house that Is built every book that Is written every paper that Is published Is a proclamation of the doom of authority In the he tion ton of truth Thi world will wil cast aside al belief belef In a bod God at all an event eventually eventUally unless such belief belef can be shown to to be a Joyous emancipating Inspiring fulfillment of at our natures And the only place where mankind In the com corn ing days will wil look for a divine In Intelligence a divine power a divine providence will wil be in those larger mightier manifestations of moral pur purpose purpose purpose pose and righteous ends which the po political exemplify and social life shall be made to The vision which commands our de do devotion voton today Is i incomparably greater I than that which compelled the heroic service servie of Theodore Parker The noble human problem Is seen to be different It I is no longer a personal problem It Is Isa isa isa a social problem The age ag of individual individualIsm Ism In religion has gone by and they Who are repeating its Is watchwords are but echoing the dead voices of the past past If I this human world has any sacred meaning for tor you and me any holy task with wih which to consecrate our lives It i Is in no sense the task tast of getting men and women Into some future heaven which no one has ever seen much less the task tak of Inducing them to accept any creed or religious theory ever con conceived conceived conceived It may be tragic but It Is true nevertheless that the pathway of hu humanity humanity manity up through the ages Is marked by the empty and shattered shells of at discarded religious faiths It I may be tragic but It i is true that there is no possible advance for you and me in our personal life Ute if I we are to have anything worthy to be called cled a personal life except by the discarding of old customs and ways and forms which no longer allow alow free tree expression for the souls souls life and the adoption of new tOms forms farms and ways which will wl It I may maywell maywell well wel be t many or all al of the religious theories we cherish today will wi go as the rest have gone But If i the upward evolution of the race means that into our minds is la to come that creative consciousness which before we have imagined to tc be in some Intelligence ex ei external external to us and we are to be glorified by the sense that we ourselves are social creators may It i not be that this way lies les the pathway to the higher and better religion that thatis Is to be |