| Show REAL MISSION 9 v OF TRUE CHURCH I Four Essentials Which Must Be BeTaken BeTaken BeTaken Taken Into Account in Ev Every Every ery cry Religion COURAGE IS FIRST NEED LAYS CLAIM TO 10 WHOLE LIFE OF MAN At the Unitarian Unit church yesterday the Rev William Thurston Brown rown spoke on The Church for f r Today In outlining his Ideas of a church for the present day he spoke as follows What Is to give us the church of to today today day dayl What hat are the th things which are in indispensable Indispensable Indispensable dispensable to religion I name four things without which there thero can be no such thing as a true church a real min ministry minIstry mm of religion First the th clear consciousness of a di dl divine divine vine Ine roer in the world which is the meaning and ang end of our race life and in which is the fulfilment of each individual life The possession pos of such a conscious consciousness ness is the only explanation of Jesus and of Paul That consciousness shines forth from their whole life and career It is and was the secret of their t power Hav Hay Having Having Haying ing that they were In the very nature of ot things the leaders lead rs and Inspirers of their time and of ot aU all time Having that i any man or body of ot men now and here will possess the same power and exercise the In the second ond place the church of or to today today today day is that man or that body of ot men that shall shaU measure the right or wrong the truth or falsehood of every Institution and custom and law of our social life lite commercial political economic civic private private vate vats or public by the yardstick of that di dl divine divine vine order which gives give the only tolerable meaning to the universe and which alone saves parenthood from being a crime birth a misfortune Courage Is Required In the third place the church for to today today today day requires courage courage of the highest highest high highest est sort Indeed it Is the only thing that can possess courage Courage is an unknown virtue In any man or any so 50 society society clet that builds on the insecure and shifting foundation of any selfish social order Courage is possible only on to those thoe who feel eternal verities beneath their feet And finally there can bo be no such thing as a church without love and sacrifice fice love that includes all that excludes none sacrifice that is naturally the ex expression expression expression of this sense of that divine divino or order order order der that blesses the world giving mean meaning meanIng meaning ing and worth to human life as sacrifice is the blossom and ad crown of ot motherhood T To be a member of the church of Christ in the world the church of the living God cannot be a s secondary thing to any human soul it must be the main thing It will be Everything els else e must be subordinate to that everything else will find its fulfilment and justification In that The trouble with what is mis miscalled miscalled called the church today Is that it makes no such claim on men calls forth no such sacrifice is engaged in no task which requires sacrifice in no way demands that all aU other things shall be subordinated to the vision and truth of ot religion Deals With Eternal But religion has to do with the eternal the universal Its service must lay claim to the whole life of man Nothing hu human human human man can lie outside Its realm Its task is it isa ita a world task the most sweeping revolutionary revolutionary compelling a man can know The Thc scope of its vision spans the whole fu future future ture of human evolution The destinies r of men depend as our fathers never nevet nev r dreamed In their meager meag r theologies upon the apprehension and fulfilment of ot re religion religion religion ligion The worlds problem ii is not how ho hoto to save men but how to make men not how to td save the soul in some future life but how to unfold the soul in this life to make mako the divine order which pur Dur faith L discerns one with the human order which environs our life |
