Show EW RELIGION IS CERTAIN TO COME Rev William T Brown In Indorses Indorses indorses Views of President Eliot of Harvard HIS IDEAS OF MARRIAGE NEEDS AND POSSIBILITIES BASIS OF NEW RELIGION The Th e New Religion Predicted by Proal Preel dInt d it Eliot of ot Harvard wa wu the theme of off f lIn p i interesting discount by the Rev Hey WU WI W 1 I lam un u Thuraton Brown at Unity church H IT explained what S i purported to be wIy it itis ItIS iti is i ib and what it will wUl mean v y 10 to the individual and to so 84 soIL It IL wil wll WI 1 Jf f i that an address addre I 1 la I L t t Bummer ummer by President Eliot ot zt 1 nJ i ml lid h Mass fass the home borne of liar Har liarI ard i is sni d I worldwide comment and andi was re d d i as a i one ne of the th most sensa ral aI rt r I f aces I ce rS on Oil religion since the theR R Corn ii i it was one nie of the most f C kins k ng i events t since the publication tion tinn fl of I 1 s Origin of the thes thed s n ldes ies d Tl i lu i Rv 1 V Brown yesterday de tie tied nod LIld d th V t nL n i address was wu most mo t lit f i id d spoke regarding It In InI 1 I frt rt a ac 1 1 IT I Iii Li t Dr Eliot Kliot said that the then n h rw w V rel rei re in n will not b be based on author t t Pit hr r spiritual or temporal that will vill iI be no personification of the thenis ther nis r nature no deification of re ic j i ika kalde la a human beings an as In m the case calM casei i Tesi s that the new religion will not notO d O Ial al il chiefly with sorrow and death but with Wilh jLiI joy and nd lif life that it will believe in inin in malignant powers and will reject the thea idea a that man is a fallen being that it ulI ill have no supernatural element but butIn In n 11 all 4 II its theory and practice will wUl be com coin completely 7 natural Its priests will be men interested in religious thought and trained ti tn t the t l best beet methods methode of Improving the so soLl dal ial Ll and Industrial conditions of human it will not attempt to reconcile men meni i 1 1 women to present Ills ilia by promises ct cf f f blessedness Such promises have 4 lone fetTle Infinite mischief by inducing men be he patient under sufferings and priva onh against which they should have In antly struggled The new religion will r T the whole subject of evil from fromI I aide that of resistance and pre Lii lOll The Meaning What in simple words is the mean meanIng it Ing I g of these statements of oft t leading hating educator of America In this th r 7 w religion men and women are no noI I going to think of any God at all allon Gm on ide side themselves A greater gain pin for fortins tins human world than that cannot be bein in This world of ours will till be bei i in 1 genuinely and nobly religion rev c i put loving Just happy strong streng tl self II If THant r godlike only when it definitely tl t i arils aids the last vestige of its Ita superstition tion Un L about some God among amo the clouds a d 1 j holds in its Ita heart the sacred con eon conF F l that in our own hands bands in our oun In 11 minds and wills lies Ilea the key ke to the then F ret net n t of life Ufe to every happiness s to free f u I rn I service Justice Joy SOy People are not going to care about th t I word God Why should hould they care caret carean an empty word when they have hae t p tu 1 i consciousness In tn awakened will willar willar ar Ill used d conscience liberated souls lOuIs of all allt t tat It God can an be They are not going golD to tore re ere a church or a priesthood any more moreA A 1 sanction or 01 sacred sacredness ness s is to at atai fah lL ai h Ii the of that new ro ic icI 1 I ginn which is as inevitable as sunrise to I anything you ou have or know must arise c Ct a of what that thing Is la and from no noc nother c ther source Think of the tremendous logic lo c of this of President ElIot Whence has hast tf the t sanction of all ail our fundamental In m Int t t lt ons come not only government and iv vii 11 law but our moral codes our dd d TI n I Ii Institutions marriage the birth of c I the home and Its Ita relations and andt Oil C t L rations For Tor every one of them we have been taught that there is a divine supernatural tural t I ZI I sanction We Ye have been taught t it human government is a divine last t tion tinn established by God getting Its minority and right by delegation from U That notion Botlon has hu as little to rest ret on ont as ast t f Ptolemaic astronomy or the idea that tl H I earth arth is flat and the stars tar are candles i government ia 18 5 in no sense sen a divine In Intimation IL It has grown out of brute tone fortt the fl brute force of ot one class co coI erring I r i another class clasa cIa Into subjection We Wd W Lave ae VEi never neer had other than class claM govern I nt Lit and never will aa as long loor ae as classes cla e exist exist f x t What we have today is 18 govern tnt ent t by the commercial class as a a cen con cent cont t t ir rv or so 80 ago we had government by a iii aj j r dita class e In the new religion the thet t I sanction for any sort of government II lie in the needs and aDd possibilities of I II Right and Wrong train gain we face the problem of right and andT IL T t i f ng ig the problem of morality The Thed i d 1 and discredited religions ns have taught ii tl t at it it knowledge of right and wrong comes bv by revelation that in the scriptures of oft J t t Old ild and New Testaments are to be b bund f 1 und and eternal standards of right and long jong LP We W know that Is not true The 01 al law never Dever was wall written on tablets Hr stone It is In eternally fresh treah and aad plain of human life and social en I II 1 the t I H tablets Men have got t to find the of ot their actions the source and ami inspiration of their moral life right re e and now flow in Irr the substance and tex tea text teaI t I 1 m re of the world as we know it ItCan ran Can 1 an you face that fact feet and not this social order r I ze Zi the necessity that J rom m which we must get our standards p t moal mouI action shall ahall be permeated and Hl lied d with highest ethical purpose that s laws shall mall be Just that all its Ita con cont t ons shall hall be equitable indeed that the mu n U social and political and economic I lI itself become a religion or 01 else elset elseI t I morality of the coming generations w U II I I inevitably iii every past peat mor din it tv lias lu II done We cannot any longer have a God ho 10 n within the shadows abdow as aswell a ai i well wrote The only God we can cani canY i Y it Ii I a God who is I out ont in the open n d i no nv lod fod can come out into the open Fae a t e a r unkind collectively by godlike dion tin tion r jiMes ilee such a deity We may v ai II an a t d the he old saying of or Micah so 80 sot soI t I at t it s Lan tu read rad What doth man w in 1 luire 1 I I o C or I it 1 but t that he do 40 Justice and 1 lv e mr and walk aUt humbly in human 11 lIE e eMan Man ar ice f is s taught by the Catholic t i hi one ne of the sacraments or OT ordained ordained M i 1 God d himself and even women f sup H Iv liberal mind are wont to toa toy a y th tb thir ir r I were sent them from land lind V V know that is folly foUy and i Tl T ere r is no excuse for tor not that no II God ever had anything t 1 do ith the th origin of marriage or the familY or c the th birth of children And as asure cure ure at lit t e arth parth turns turn on its Ita axis Just JUR JURby b hy by the I d of f knowledge we have got oj face fice i iL fact that a supernatural sane sanc sanci i t on n for fot a LUY i V of f these things Is a myth About Marriages Wl 1 jm iod hath bath Joined together let lot lott HIt nt t man men put asunder we have been be bet t t tight to t say ny in most maR of our marriage tine lid this in spite of the fact 1 1 at tt t al ont one in every five or six mar marages marges ages r I W iv hull has to be put an end to by b bI I stai tal m in jr the til interests of common de tie def f nc UY if H I justice were are done at least half halff I if r the marriages s contracted should hould be f r I never entered into If ifS a 3 S is to ti be oe found for marriage and andt andI t I birth of c hildren It must be found 1 what marriage actually is and in what ildren ma my Lay in ill this world become abeo o 1 ul Idy Iy regardless gardis r whether there be another x rid o tr or not Ill in UI conditions which shall ike ake married life he successful and deal hlf I ir Jr process of making marriage I 1 for r il dI 1 healthy persons persona and In I hid and finer purpose by b which ulra shall be found good That 1 lit purpose I cannot be found In the theiu iu re It propagation WuI of the race It has baa got gott t h be li I Il that the race is worth pro i e b frt fore it will have any moral moralS lUf S Do Dj u 1 r I t know kT w that today and for forar or ars ar s i 1 t region has lias lIS not been and aDd andI Is r Tint I it t being belg t k i f I J dont know hv i a g il d r which violates ry r t rf f f Hi 11 cli ch h t c i tr Lr i f LU i II u heroic bur burn burno n no which toward the ti future I 1 i no inspiring In ritie which h great m n ns s S t I no r ions m i it t r i k i i I IUT r rI I t It H r r ret er et a a JL ri c fJ i i L uJ J 1 ti tt fc I and that hypocrisy which is the U dry rot of character The only religion that can be taken seriously is Ia a religion all of ot whose sacred sacredness sacredness ness nese all of whose who e moral authority all allar of ar whose worth arises from the trie sense that in us men and women and nowhere elsa else is all of or God there Is all of authority there is I all of responsibility there is We cannot know such a religion with without without without out knowing that It c ivers and concerns the whole of or life every day da and hour lour every relationship every occupation without being nerved by the resolution to make nfl all we touch or handle sacred by making life Just and kind and free and 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