Show READS RUI ft Jt j LESSON FROM BROWNS BROWN'S LIFE Lift Unitarian Minister Finds a aMoral aMoral aMoral Moral in the Fate of Man i Mrs Anna Bradley Shot I Ito to Death What hat can make Thanksgiving lla day a areal areal areal real thanksgiving Instead of a symbol of hypocrisy was the theme of an address b by tho the Rev TIO v William III lam T T. Brown In the First Unitarian church yesterday momIn mom mom- In Ing Incidentally Dr Brown referred to the life lito of at tho late Arthur Brown which he asserted was no worse than tho the common common common com com- mon grind of commercialism which preaches the same samo philosophy and points the same name moral Dr Brown said In part What Is and always alwa's has been the cen tra Inspiring question of oC religion It Itle IB le the tho question what docs does the world mean What hat high ennobling Inspiring meaning has It It If It men answer that question by M saying saying- ln The world means moans nothing at all aU save what Is IB on the sur sur- face tace of oC things thinKS It Is a more mere routine of ot aimless activity without purpose or sanction sanction sanc sanc- tion or end Human life Is s simply a form fonn of ot chemical and no more There Is no divine goal no sacred cred purpose In It or for It no It-no no divine task talk to be bc accomplished Life Lire Is mere merely a satisfaction of animal propensities propensities eating eating drinking experiencing ex experiencing ex- ex as man many pleasant sensations as 88 possible the possible the sensual dream of or Utah's litah's dead ex ex If Jf that were the true answer of the question as to the worlds world's meaning no such thing as al would have an any existence Dare you ou think how widespread today exactly such huch an Idea of life ute Is III Dare you ou honestly stop and think how true to the power motive of or our present day social and economic life ute Senator Bro Browns Brown's nl's philosophy was and Is A philosophy of ot life UCe logically deducible from this whole economic and social rou rou- tine How much more virtue Is there for tor example In this whole holc commercial system of or yours ours which elected d this man manto manto manto to the highest office In your our gift than there was In the philosophy of ot life which controlled d your our representatives representative's conduct The Tho spring cannot vcr very we well deny tho the stream which flows from It The mother cannot honestly disown her hel own off off- spring And he was vms your offspring the tho offspring of ot tho Ule American nation of or the social order In which we wo all aU live JIve In what va way are our C capitalists and laborers labor labor- ers erI our mine promoters our financiers our railroad magnates mas our successful business men men men-In In what wa way are thc they actIng actIng acting act- act Ing on a higher principle than Senator Brown 1 Senator Brown simply chose chole on one sort of ot purely physical non-moral non satisfaction satis satis- U faction Immoral faction Immoral If you OU like Ho obeyed impulses which wore ore blind to an any moral obligation to the higher ideals of human humm life ute But so o do the whole lot of ot men and women who play their part In th the drama of accumulation of speculation of ot d developing devel- devel vel- vel or exhausting tho the country's resources re resources re- re sources for tor their Ir own benefit That the they do not suffer I the th social shame chame that has hns fallen On n these two rep representative citizens simply lImp means that while In family ute life wo we have ha reached a certain level t where higher Ideals can be seen seen-Ideals seen Ideals b by which we deh determine the tho goodness or badness of unbridled sensual sensual- ism Ism Ism-In In the pit of ot commercial struggle we have hav not risen high enough to get a n glimpse e of ot an any moral or ethical standard before whose bar our sordidness and cannibalism can can- ma may be brou brought ht and expo exposed for what it is We Va think we WP ran an son see e eba ba baseness In the life of tho the Senator perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps because we WA c can n see F-ec ee dl disgrace grace Vc We can see sto no baseness a t neR In ht th common grind of ot commercialism omm because a higher and nobler Ideal Idea has not yet et come to bring to our cheeks hecks the economic blush Perhaps If It w we WA w v how widely and ami powerfully Senator Browns Brown's philosophy of life controls men and women young women young men and young oung women women how how the theer er very vary social order which we vP support and of It which we e boast hoalt produces that philosophy of ot life lite In th the minds mind of oC thousands of ot young youn men and young oun women as ns naturally as weds wt S grow In a a. ne neglected garden arden v. v we should houd feel Clel to the keenness of angul anguish h the need ned of a higher r social order with which to call forth In the soul souls of oC our children n a better r philosophy of ot life ute How Is IR that hl higher r hp-r philosophy of life lire to conic comp How ar are arc our young men and young oung women women women wom wom- en to b be- be Inspired with nobler visions and quickened to holler lives pR Let us UI not make the th mistake of supposing that mere negation IR Is 1 virtue or that it Is IR an any great gain that th you U or I or an any one OnA simply slut sim pI ply does s' not do this or that disgraceful thing Virtue must be he positive e not nega nega- tive tI How Hw do we think lit life is to tn h for tor the tl ma mass 5 s of young oun men and young oun women a m meaning that Is that makes It day b by da day a n religion Ion an en- en enthusiasm a sacrament |