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Show Many People Not Satisfied With Popular Interpretation of Religion. ESSENTIAL BELIEF A FORCE IN HUMAN LIFE Those Who Fail to Encourage Religion Lose Interest in All Save Self. At tiip morning services yesterday at the First Unitarian church," Rev. Lewis G. Wilson of Boston took for his theme, "The Further Unitarian." Tho music during tho servico was rendered by the Unity quartette and by Mrs. Browning, soloist. Mr. Wilsoif's sermon ser-mon was in part as follows: There aro thousands of people todav. especially among men. who are not sntls-. sntls-. lied with the popular Interpretations of religion, and many of them arc In doubt as to rellslon Itself; so that the first question the man of practical capacity asks lt: "fe religion itself necessary?" boine answer to this queotlon must be glvon before we can consldor any particular partic-ular Interpretation of it. Mr. Wilson then went on to show that essential religion Is a force In human life In tho same sense that electrlcltv is a force In physical life, and that commmil- tv llml folio I .r.... I. .1 ........ ... wiiwimaf,,, ii, wi-i,i-l'l - atcs; and Indivldualo who fall to nurture It gradually lose their sympathetic Interest Inter-est in anything -Copt their own personal welfaro. The speaker thon proceeded to fvplnin tho fundamental differences between be-tween I'nltnrlan Christianity nnd the interpretations in-terpretations usually given, nn follows: "As In mathematics, we have certain axiomatic ax-iomatic principles which cannot be denied de-nied because they are self-evident to tln human mind; and. as In music, we have certain fundamental laws of harmonv that. inii3t be observed In order to produce pro-duce good music; so In essential religion there are certain laws which must" be observed In order to produce tho right life. "These lows are not dependent upon any ecclesiastical authority; they do not necessitate the acceptance of any creed or ceremony or sacrament; for tiiov are eternal forces which always have and always will operate in human life. 'Some of those fundamental laws were announced by Moses, some by Tsnlnh. some by Mlcah, some by Jesus, some bv Paul, and others by other great spiritual leaders; but none of them were created by thought or power. It Is upon those fundamental laws and their observance that the Unitarian church Is based, rather rath-er than upon any of the confessions or creeds or ecclesiastical authorities of Christendom." In conclusion. Dr. Wilson called attention atten-tion to the fact that the modern mind is dissatisfied with small and pettv and antiquated an-tiquated beliefs about God and tho future fu-ture of the soul. He said- "A faith that was sufficient when the earth was supposed sup-posed to be flat and the. skv a solid crystal crys-tal overhead, Is not sufficient to satisfy tho demand of modern knowledge, and It Is our groat purpose to propagate a faith which Is large and Inclusive enough to cause human beings to feel at homo In God's word without resorting to the intolerable in-tolerable Ideas of an evil deltv. a. hell, and n conception of the. universe which violates the preset teachings, of geology, biology and astronomy, to say nothing of common sense. "The church which founds II self upon the simple and eternal laws of the right llfo cannot ultimately fall. hncmiKn ihn trend of all human thought and of all future worship will bo in Its direction." The evening lecture was more in the nature of an historical study. In which the history of Unltarlnnlsm nnd Its present pres-ent organized strength was nbly presented. present-ed. The origin of Unitarlanlsm was referred re-ferred to ns follows: "Unltnrfnnism In this country had Its beginning among the Puritan churches of New England. These churches wore without creeds and their preachers gradually disengaged themselves from the older theological forms and formulas and when In IS25 the system of taxation for the support of churches was abolished some of the Puritan churches addptcd a creed and fixed themselves permanently as 'Orthodox,' 'Ortho-dox,' while the remainder of them clung to the Idea of no creed. These latter churches being free to follow Independent lines of thought and Investigation, became be-came Unitarian, and In 1S25 thev formed themselves into the American Unitarian association. Since that time churches with a similar line of Independent thought and freedom havo sprung up In all parts of the country and have Joined the association." In defining Unitarlanlsm. Mr Wilson pertinently said: "Unitarlanlsm Is a habit of mind. It consists far more in the way we have of looking at "things than It does In the bodv of the conclusions conclu-sions that we may reach. "It Is generally supposed that Unltarlnnlsm Unltar-lnnlsm consists of a group of beliefs about God and the Bible and the personality per-sonality of Je6us and so forth, but the views held upon such matters generally by Unitarians are rather the results of unitarlanlsm than tho thing Itself. "We do not appeal to any creed or other external authority for tho truth, but wc make the truth Itself our authority. author-ity. Unitarlanlsm Is a movement to reach reality in religion in the same wav that tho scientist attempts to find what Is real and true In the natural world. All down through the ages there have ben men who were governed by this habit of mind, and today we count among our members men who have had the greatest Influence In letters, Jn science, in statecraft, state-craft, In philanthropy and in every department de-partment of civilized llfo whore truth and progress have been sought." New Train Added. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, Jan. 2G. The Southern Pa-cihe- will como out with a new time card on Sunday, February 3, 1007. at 12:05 n. m., which will "put an additional addi-tional train on the lino from Reno to Goldfield, thereby just doubling the service. ser-vice. Speaking of the new card toduy. Superintendent. E. C. Manson stated that the travel to Goldfield had simply grown too big to be handled with one train, and two had been found necessary. neces-sary. There will be additional improvements improve-ments in tho new service, too, if the officials can accomplish it. Sleepers am run on tho present trains, but there will bo a dinor given to each train, which will be a great improvement to tho travel and a comfort to tho passengers. pas-sengers. Will Visit East. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN. Jim. 26. Mrs. E. II Wright, relict of the late E. H. Wright, left for the East tonight on tho Los Angeles Limited, and will visit relatives rela-tives and friends in Chicago, and the relatives of her late husband at Cleveland. Cleve-land. O. She will then proeocd to Bristol. Bris-tol. Vt., which is hor old homo, and will visit the old homestead of tho Rice family, where ahe still has some relatives. rela-tives. Conductor Fred Rice of the Oregon Ore-gon Short. Line at Pocatello is a brother broth-er of Mrs, Wright. She will bo absent ab-sent about six weeks, |
