Show UNMANS AT HOME l I I New Church Building Is I Opened to Public SERMON BY REV DR FISH First Unitarian Seciaty Entering Enter-ing Upon a New Era J 1j 1 i Special Musical Service Was a Delightful De-lightful Feature of the Dedicatory 1ghtful Iei catory Exercises I j The largest congregation which has I attended the Unitarian church in many r tI I f ii < day was present yesterday morning r it the opening service in the new church I building and those who have been fclthful members or the society through i nil the years of Its vicissitudes and 1 trials congratulated themselves and l 1 each other and said with the pastor i 1 Rev Mr Fish Today the First Unl z Sl l tarlan society enters upon a new era I Among those present yesterday were pome oC the charter members of the society so-ciety some there were who have been 1 counted as members for several years l but had gradually dropped out and I still others of different denominations who had accepted the invitation oC friends to join with them in attending Of the Jlrst service in the new church to I I which the Unitarians of Salt Lake have P H so long looked forward SPECIAL MUSIC GIVE SErTJ t A npcclal musical service was arranged l I ar-ranged In honor of the day and a very I beautiful one it was Miss Irma Watson I I Wat-son presided at the piano and during i the service pluyod e the Venetian Love r Song Kevin Xovctlelten Schu Serennde Chnml I t mann nnd the Screln c t nnde A quartette including Miss Lay li 3cn Miss Clayton Mr Mahon and Mr I NloJson sang Come Unto Me Parks 4 r MiFS sang and Mr MfiCorkle sang I f 1 a duet 1In Heavenly Love Abiding It I f ani a Miss Larson sang the lullaby from i JocHyn In addition there was a stringed orchestra including Mrs Sturgis Stur-gis Miss Sturgis and Asher Cowan I which with the piano furnished accompaniment accom-paniment for the t congregational singIng sing-Ing Rev Mr Fish took as his text We Te I arc laborers together with God and j In his sermon on Our Church Why We Have Bunt IL and What We Expect to 10 ln AVI II Mi TI snlil 111 nnrt n 0 LIBERAL RELIGION I I Is sometimes said by those who i tako t 1 a rosecolored view of the present Ji condition and tendencies o religious londlton thought that the occupation of the Llb J enl churches Unitarian and Unive wn sallKt Is gone that the whole Chris lf thin world has become or is rapidly becoming be-coming to liberal that we have no i longer a sulllclent reason for maintaining I su1cent ing a t separate existence I would be pleasant to most of us It we could share Su 4 this view A new emphasis is now placed on the I moral element In religion and the ser which it 5 inons of Unitarian ministers m was mOls once the fashion to crlllclfc and I r > vn to sneer at on the ground that 5 tiny taught mere morality might now be preached In large numbers of ortho U 1OX churrhcs without being thought Ifj I very mui > h out of the usual course In m these and other similar changes wet S we-t who have been called Liberal Chris iitf tans naturally rejoice and we believe 2 u are justlllcd in taking to ourselves J i some small portion at least of the credit of producing them But are they so I thorough and complete that there Is nothing left for us to do 1 CHANGING VIEWS As Unitarians believing In the I freest and most outspoken declaration I j of our convictions claiming the right to change them as often as our changing J chang-ing views of truth sliall dictate opposed J Inl to all concealment and all compromise 1 of principle we are able to give nor no-r I 1 countenance or support to anything which seems to us to encourage Insincerity Insin-cerity Where shall we look for honesty hon-esty if we do not find it in the church Jf the fountain be corrupted shall the stream be purified If all the people c In the United States says the Rev JMlnot Savage who in their heart or hearts believe in 1 religion of common tnso and reasonwho believe In Jesus sweet religion of love to God and I love to man and whO dont believe the creeds of the popular Christianity would but coma out candidly and fear ItdKly and say oant1 unite themselves to oHfibllKh n broad free rational pro crcHMve church does any one doubt that wo should Imvo In a years time overwhelmingly tho largest and strong I V Nit church ht I America Does anyone doubt that we should then have reached the inuchlalkcdoC church of the future s4 fu-ture J the example which Mr Savage Sav-age himself set Bore years ago for he was once himself a minister of the Congregational Con-gregational church had been followed J or would be followed today by alt insubstantial in-substantial sympathy with him Wet we-t fhould have not merely tt t large and powerful church but also a purified rG and more entirely faithful one Ef AIM OP UNITARIANS I Is such a church that we aim to trL build up here Jt In for such reasons as u those which have now been Indicated that wo have been Impelled to establish estab-lish L separate organization and to provide pro-vide a place In which and from which Its work ran bu i tarried on Illl I to l be remarked i In the first place that our alms do not differ essentially from that which Is deepest and most Itul in the objects of the older religious relig-ious organizations The great end for Which all churches which have a right to tho Christian immo exist is to make the world better To nee how much the world needs toe made better we only hiae tn open our eyes How narrow and ailL h arc the alms which most men habitually pursue how low are the Htandardc by which they are guided At least threefourths of the sorrow and g suffering o mankind and a large proportion pro-portion of all our dIMIcultlcs and perplexities 0 per-plexities arc due to a want of clearness dtc of moral vision and strength of moral will The business of the church IB to r find nnd apply I remedy for this fundamental I funda-mental evil The church Is first of all a mutual association for help In living lila I true life POWER OF THE CHURCH How great a power the church han it oxerclecd In the Pant is known to all readers of history That this power ban not always been well employed that It has been productive of evil as well an of good cannot be denied But notwithstanding not-withstanding its many past failures and mistakes the church has never wholly lost sight of the divine Idea upon up-on which It was baaed In I all periods Q fIts f-Its history it has done something to promote the practical Christianity which consists In loving God and man And If the church of the past which In some of Us branches at least continues contin-ues to exIst substantially unchanged among us is of such value to the world what benefits may we not look for from the church of the future of which our liberal organizations may be regarded as In some humble measure the forerunners fore-runners To sum up our alms now In a single sentence First to help each other and next to help those around us to think feel and act amid the trials temptations tempta-tions and difficulties of life In accordance accord-ance with the Divine light of truth and love and the Divine law of justice and rightthis is what we are to try to do this Is to be our work OFFERING A IIOMI3 4I We neither attack nor seek to undermine under-mine anyones sincere religious convictions convic-tions our appeal Is not to any who arc satisfied In the churches In which they now are But to the increasing number of the dissatisfied and to the un churched we offer 1 church home where they can breathe the air of perfect intellectual in-tellectual freedom and the fellowship of an organization which Is 1 organlmton trying to ea tabllEln as It sincerely believes a purer form of Christianity than that which widely prevails Christianity which Jesus himself summed up in love to God and love to man |