Show DEM NUS OF TRE AGE AGET E I II I T Subject of Dr Thatchers Taut ink 1 at Theatre TALK TO TI UNITARIANS I PEOPLE WHO AS A I IC C I 4 C j t Rev Hev Philip S Thatcher Th pastor of o fee e F st Congregational of Need to t m n Mass Masa Who ho o is ie in Salt Lake for forthe to toor or 1 the purpose ot oe o reviving the be church here was wa encouraged in his ini Ift initial i l ti 1 by being greeted greet at t the Salt SaltI I Lake theatre tre yesterday yest morning by a good audience in III spite pite of the storm and andon aJ 4 on the other othet hand band those rhose who Attended the th meeting were well repaid r ld by W hear hW hearing ing an able address along the line of ot Unitarian religious thought thOUgh t and ancl work wor The subject If f Dr Thatcher df m I course UrMe was Th Demands of the tile Age U Aget Un t n fl the Church In opening he be ex ox extended tended to the Unitarians Uni of ot Salt Bait Like Lake the greetings of the UnItarians Unitarian of Mas MA II etts aid the assurance of their assistance whenever it was wa thought ad advisable advisable advisable I to revive the church in this thi th city Dr Thatcher is i a good speaker he has ha a strong pleasant voice a good command of language and he be is I a wear clear I and arni fearless thinker The central Mea idea of ot his discourse was liberty of ot thought in if religious matters and he pleaded eloquently for emancipation from the me i Worn OUt traditions and dogmas of ot the Ute I Other uther denominations i iThe i The age he said demands that the hurCh be the rallying point for tor the es ee ea j i of righteousness in the world The church is good only as U it makes maket men good Some use the church I like pepper or salt to keep their souls I Irom spoiling until they tiey get to heaven I church K It was ivan U argued has haa its day I they hey pass ft in endless succession but bu t there is ts tout tt t one true shepherd and andone andone one true irue fold told and spiritual truth is I un han g There must be absolute lute free freedom freedom dom of ot thought There are three stages stage 8 in tt f in ignorance people I 1 think alike when educated as aa asat i at present they differ when they rhy are fully educated they will think dike I L I again agall us u to the t e essentials of ot spiritual truth People leople Pe can no more think ake a ke kethan 1 than they can look took alike Uniformity meane m that all aU ll progress is stopped Peo Pee pie jle e are expected to look over the little fences fence of o creed cre and all an think and act alike Imitated goodness is a counter counterfeit telL feit Imitation should be left to chil children children dren then and aDd monkey Dr Thatcher thinks people are stran strati strangled strangled and intoxicated by knowing too He H it wise vise to suspend pend and hear all aJl sides side The age ae I he continued demands dema a church that E teaches reverence The of the che spirit H must be recognized recognised To look Up to nothing spiritual means to be a mental cripple To be toe without rever reverence reverence r ence once is to have ears and not hear to have eyes and not DOt see To have no con contact contact contact tact with the infinite means to kill kin the th tho o soul and keep the brute alive to save the casket and lose ose the jewel The statement was r JO e that nearly all evangelical hure are oue on the de decline derI der rI r cline dine while watte religion j on the increase and Dei it i was argued from this that the j existing churches do not satisfy the demands of the age e The spiritual ra rack rek k kand L and the thumbscrew crew are still stUl here bere and andt t Sll heresy beresy is worse in the eyes of 0 f that tt know sin BIn Mere More obstacles ob des ate re thrown In the way of the honest hone t d df ter tet than tian in the way of ot the open sinner t ner Dr I Thatcher paid a high tribute to o othe othe the Unitarian church told of at the many great thinkers tb eJI it tt tod produced and stated that K It was Wu the thC th most t potent in influence fluence flue in lit American life today dy t It of ot offers o fers to tJ L meet the demands of the age ace and satisfy y the wants of ot the heart conscience and nd soul saul ul The speaker told of his own experience as a Methodist revivalist t as a boy preacher when he jie did Uk his hili full tull share in terrifying people His childhood was blighted bli he said by bya a dark theology and be he had bad to face all the phantoms of hate when he left the church For twentysix twenty lx years h he had bad been studying the teachings of Universalism salient and found fund them good they en ennoble noble the c character comfort sorrows sorrow kill hat bat with love wYe subdue wrong by b right ring out the dark ring in the church that u t it IS to be hO Music was furnished for the tile service by a Special choir assisted isted b by Professor or Leslie Ames on the piano and Mrs Mr Lies Lea Lealie He lie Ames Ame on the violin Mrs Ames gave i a beautiful solo on the violin and Mrs rs Anna Madison Bradley rendered Con UCon Consider skier sider the Lilies as a soprano solo in a manner maimer to give great Areat pleasure to the congregation con The announcement was Wu made that services would be toe held field ain again II I on next Sunday the place to be he an announced tester er through the papers |