| Show TRUE RELIGION I f CONFLICTS m CAll cm i Prayers and I I Following Rituals Is Not All BATTLE MUST BE WAGED WORLD TODAY IS WHAT IS HAS BEEN MADE leta s Oil Call to Conflict was the tile t tact t of m a strong d delivered l v red yesterday by the tM Rev Hav x Thurston Brown of If the tile T Unitarian church In part Art Mr Brown saM said id h hag e never been bean vital to any soul In h human as It t has beers bean a vision of such meaning m for forthe forthe forthe the the world as 8 had not dawned on the mind 8 of most mo t men and second the call callo to o conflict for the realisation of oC that vision Religion cannot come to ft A ira without placing upon him come a sense nse of oC f and af obligation so that be he knows that th t this thia one thin g must dominate life Ufe We e make a fearful tearful mistake if it we suppose CM that s a lull little thin thins thing to tJ be M satisfied by y any sort eort rt of oi ritual in any building by saying prays lra or sinking singing ln hymns or re repeating Is ting tinga a j 1 creed owed None of ot these theM things i 1111 reu reunion u glaD nion ion cr has ha anything to do with rell rolt religion 8 gion alon It U you want to find fild a man roan who w I 10 is re religious igloos you will win not look tor a man who I wear near a peculiar dress drea you will find a aman aman man who bo is ie I absorbed in and ami devoted t ta to ton a n great grest moral task to aE If you vou want to find finda a body of religious reI us people you will not look tor or people who can sing hymns hymn a d say prayers pray enyou you will win look for a 1 body ody of people who are cemented cem together r and inspired by the consciousness of a great reat moral social human himan task tack Churches na n nn 1 n a rule are nothing of ot the kind 1 In lu the time of Jesus It was H II lot lotof rf of forms and rites rite and aDd precept precepts handed own down Ii from the past as ours are none of the native demand of ot lite late then and there Men Xen could do all that that al alleged alleged alleged religion reU on demanded without chang changing changing changing ing their social relations a particle or to a nobler moral stature So today there is no moral difference be te tel bei between i l tween a Christian C business man manntI Mid nd an atheist business busine a man Mutual Brotherhood A business man who believes in is no trod 1100 at all is just as good a man in the community as the business man who sub to thE longest creed awl and gives of other peoples earnings to colleges and libraries Jesus be He beame ame religious reU s simply by y becoming cou COh jOWl ef of a wholly different kind of ot world 4 from what bat moat most of t his fellows supposed l t the he be world to be He saw that men are es essentially F brothers that only in relations of If mutual brotherhood can ean they live Jive out ut the 1 he test best that Is Ia In them that lie h cut loose from the whole order of things thin as other men knew and accepted accented it u and became the prophet pro phet of ot tu other hood even though doing so exposed him to the suspicion of being an enemy of society and and speedily brought about his hist t as such Why Rhy by was it that the sight aught ht pf of f these thesel old l ld men marching or hobbling down the main street treet of the city last laet month made Madean an impression On on most moat of us that t at no oilier uther procession would have hive done It W because thy they were ere uny better belter nun men than the rest of us They wore were wet not But Hut you get Ket any such neb crowd crowl to sP st ef a procession of ordinary ordinal eri tian ministers or teachers We Ve pay PItY a tribute to tn the Grand Grant Army veterans tt Ua tha a ve veay v e elay eIa lay ay Ia to no others You cannot look lonk for forward forward w ward nt to a time fifty years n from TW new 1 W when your sons will be by lilt Hit na ni nanon nit ion non T as those tho e veterans were hailed i i ilu hJ h a voting oung men of today ate aie Just as 9 capable of Hr manly y sacrifice or achievement as sa were the young men of fifty years ago ace Hut But no such call can comes from the nation to the he 1 young men of today as camp came to Uio those v who ho now make up the Grand Arm Army Why does noes not the nation do for every ewry generation gen pm ration what it did for that one IEn g n ration Why should it not in time of am eMle afford an inspiring fa opportunity for f r devotion sacrifice honor as it in Ip time of war Because the teal eal baa has not yet been n born has baa not noti i ome orne to mature con oss The cail call of f an awakened nation fifty years ago was wu the tile call of f religion in a m insure f S re reTt 1 Tt it was wu the call to a great task to nobl noble to thought of others beside r f Lesson Not Learned But Rut why wh was it rece recess sary ry that a mil million million million lion men In in the prime of 0 life fife should be sacrificed and the whole nation td into anguish an unutterable Simply because is lS had not learned the tIle lesson which genuine religion Ni teaches which it was war the first business of its Ill churches to teich tl but which they lid did not Dot teach and ami amilo lo 10 not Dot now Because they thought f ox ex y as sa the mar maM of men think today loday t that hat Justice Justi matter that it is Ia un unimportant unimportant important whether Justice Is la made uni or not Because the mass ma of men then hea l thought property more sacred acred l than men meD as the majority still Because most moat of them supposed ed that Hie r 1 he chief el ef end of ot man maD is to fill flU his stomach ach to satisfy his hi animal passions make roman oman his hi plaything use uee his fellows as asI Die I 1 he means meana of 0 enriching himself and get gets getis et etIS is s much of what ne no Ie calls pleasure in is inthe inT the he T small span of his hl existence as 8 poS nos il Ihle le Because men forget t that all aU life means growth means change mean means the of or social customs the tw o Oit it tt of governments outgrowing i of taws laws the imperative demand for new nd larger rights right for men and women u e men forget to t and their churches ail aU to remind them that life Ute has bM got cot tc to Ire i e f a struggle or else ehle it Is 18 not trot life We mistake if it we suppose some God 1 d dragging the world in spite of Itself i 1 higher h er planes of living Nothing of the Ule tind 11 1 in n J Is III true The world world goes forward f and and i only by the earnest determined effort of heroic men and H omen an effort efort which is 18 religion That is III Just as much here now no as v It was WM And It t is the only Jet jcl gle that has any honor in fa it To be rr re h Is is to be R a part art of that Kl 11 de to feel its demand demands and respond to them To be religious is to Work mak this tide struggle our ehi chief buD t s i hat That takes precedence to that by bv which we get et pur our bread and aDd butter that stands higher hi lier In our minds mind than home or r film faro i ily y or Pomona personal per onal affection or anything ese else t was an absolutely b true Instinct that made Jesus say y that If It a man mall loved ho houes lands bun father mother wife children or own wn life me mere inore than he ht loved tho tha rouse u ht he could have no part in it It is Ia only through complete devotion f your life to this sacred cause of bu hu man f freedom 0 om brotherhood rot OPP t un 1 that hat at you lOU cut can be for others maa or woman oman husband o 11 or wife Kite or Jr chUd bOd what t you ou ought to be We attempt p to hea nature when hen Wt we think Wit we Ia can be to 10 or ar for one another something 1 dear and IK immoral h ith t f first immortalizing our oar whole being by nee devotion to an give cause In this struggle said oal may yoU win every an and and Ulde It t YOU n win not one of the highest gift gif ts of of oC lif Ufe |
