Show LIBERAL VIEWS VIEW ABOUT RELIGION Rev Elmer I Goshen Refuses I to Be Bound by y Old Dogmas INTOLERANCE IGNORANCE MEN DIFFER WIDELY IN THEIR i BELIEFS iI i I in In n a sermon which for tor Its declarations along liberal lines the broadness of ot its Ideas and the dramatic eloquence with which It was delivered was one of ot the most moat interesting its author has preached the Rev He Elmer I Goshen Gilshen pastor of ot the First Congregational church yesterday forenoon at the Salt Lake theatre dis discussed discussed discussed cussed universal tolerance of ot all religious beliefs the right of ot men of today to build new creeds for themselves and the probable effect on the world should man mankind mankind mankind kind adhere strictly to the teachings of ot the ancient theological conceptions Broad and sweeping In scope the ser sermon sermon sermon mon bristled with oratorical shafts direct directed ed against dogmas and the teachings of ot orthodox creeds that each Individual one of ot these Is the true path by which salva salvation salvation salvation tion must be sought and the only one by which It can be obtained An audience of ot fully tully 1500 IJO people heard beard the sermon Intolerance Is Ignorance Reading Heading from several chapters in the Bible bearing on the question of tolerance of ot the beliefs of ot others and speaking more directly from the verse In the ninth chapter of ot Luko and the verses following It Mr Goshen declared that religious Intolerance among men is based on egotism and ignorance In part Mr lr Goshen Gilshen said 1 I do trot not believe that Jesus taught a varying standard of religion religIon religion ion for his lila relation was the love of man mankind mankind mankind kind for God and amI of ot mankind for mankind man mall mankind kind Men nowadays s are bringing forth all sorts aorta of receipts for happiness These may or may ma not live The passing years of ot history have swept away awa the religious teachings of ot old There shall shaIl be bl nothing fashioned in this or any an other age that shall hall live through that age which Is not universal and only those things are uni universal universal versal which appeal to the motives long ons Ing and hunger of ot the human heart Dif Different Different ferent cliques of oc men Insist today that the various religions by which they wor worship worship worship ship God are the th only correct and accept accepted ed ways wa s In which h the Almighty may be revered The message that Jesus brought to earth was not this You remember when his disciples met the ancient doctor ad administering administering administering ministering to the sick and helpless and reported the tho Incident to Jesus he asked them of ot their attitude toward the healer and they answered He was net not one of ot ofus otus ofus us and Jesus rebuked them Responsible for Wars Following this line of oc thought Mr Goshen took up the history of ot ancient re religious religious religious wars the persecutions of ot the di disciples disciples disciples sciples of ot various religious sects through throughout out the world In years past and discussed at length the causes for these disturb disturbances disturbances disturbances ances The difference In the theological conceptions con conceptions conceptions accepted by men in different parts of oc the world and the shortsighted shortsightedness ness with which they were adhered to was responsible for tor those wars vars and persecutions per persecutions persecutions ho he declared The truth or falsity of the beliefs had little to do with their acceptance and strict observance and with the punish punishment punishment punishment ment of ot any an who did not observe them and it is a spirit of the same kind that today threatens the very life lite of at universal love and of the teaching of Gods Gads truth among men and women Men Ien of the world today fel all but hut unkindly toward those among their fellows who differ In religious doctrines There are men in the world today who would have us go back to the doctrines of ot old to that tragic and horrible doctrine of substitution the be belief belief belief lief advanced by the disciples of Calvin that Christ was sent to earth to be pun punished punished punished and suffer to appease the wrath of God toward man and that the elect might be saved Is Wrong Sentiment Do we not find in modern life a senti sentiment sentiment sentiment ment akin to that expressed by the dis disciples disciples disciples of Jesus when they the met the doctor who was not one of them I know that such a sentiment exists and yet et I can not understand how men can think ill III of those t who simply do not believe as they do along certain lines I dont think we know enough about dogmatism to talk very much about it nor do I think we know enough about abot philosophy to quarrel about that I am not worrying over trying to I figure out Christs relation to God rather am I trying to understand and interpret t this his message to mankind Men would be befools befools fools to contradict the belief that the I ancient creeds reeds accomplished no good in their time But those creeds are not for forthe forthe the world of ot today toda I I say sa to you ou make your own faith but do not let your our theological conceptions form the measure of ot another mans life lite I Looking at the physical side of men and women realizing the vast difference In Inthe Inthe Inthe I the lives of individuals their traits and characters and the thousand and one in individualities Individualities I of or men and women I some sometimes sometimes sometimes times wonder onder how It can be expected 1 that all aU mankind will adopt one form of If belief bellet In anything or be made to think I j alike on religion or anything else It Is 15 not their philosophical conceptions that I make men good or bad People will say that I am attacking I creeds and beliefs that I am attacking I the bulwark of religion In advocating a amore amore more liberal acceptance of the great re religious r religious truths but I believe It Is sweeping I aside the rubbish to get at the great things I |