Show I MANS MAN'S RELATION TO GOD COD NOT PHYSICAL BUT MORAL SAYS PREACHER TO AGNOSTIC I I I Ono One of ot tho the most forceful answers to the tho agnostic ag delivered ed from a 3 Salt Lake pulpit pul- pul pul pul- pit phi for tor sonic time tim was that of the Rev nO Charles C E. Perkins in iii the St. St Pauls Paul's Unknown Unknown Unknown Un Un- church yesterday morning To the known Goo GodS was the thc phra phrase o on whIch the Rev Re Mr Ir Perkins built b his argument ars Mans Man's connection with God Is of Jt a moral nature based on ethereal laws Jaws he lie said paid In n answer to tho the moo modern rn philosophy Ith with I its ts tendency to Judge jude the tho unknown by y natural or physical I laws With such philosophy e we e are carried I back through the ages to the beginning or to the stone hacked backed ked with Ith here be- be space E said raid ld Mr Jr Perkins lerkins Ve We c meet neet the unknown the barrier Xu Natural tural or ph physical sl al forces pan out Nothing but buthe I he tim ethical or nr moral Is left on which to I fall fail back baek The unbeliever calls caBs this barrier bar bar- ncr rier tho the end The File moralist calls It God and feels in his hc best l moments its conn con- con n with the tile infinite Modern philosophy philos philos- ophy de denies God calling this tills barrier a n amud amud mud fence In preference The Thc Intangible ble thread of divinity the tho unseen feeling of divine lne relationship the unexplainable force orce which has held mankind to a a. god cod through all the centuries Is 13 given ghen no place in i dern Intellectual pursuits Why by Is It Is because true tnie religion religions Is III s a natural thing If It It were not what would God Cod find in man to which to make an appeal The spark of divinity in cv every everyman everyman ry ryman man responds in harmony to the light that hat every man mail In tune tuno with ho tho Infinite the practice of tho the pretence presence of or God and other expressions lons archut are arc hut but Indications of mans man's relation to the tho supreme b ln This Idea gives I es no man man- man and and no class of ot men prerogatives which all mankind ana nay may not enjoy It does awa away with priest priest- craft raft Being Gods God's child each roan man ma may a as s a natural child understand his Father as he Is Js obedient obedient- Let there be a moral contradiction In his life and his spiritual being Is not In tune with Hh the Infinite such an m Idea elevates ele the whole ma mass maes s of humanity If Our ur relation is h hs based s d on a a. amoral moral condition then religion C a s to b ba be bea a monopoly And therefore It Is that wo we speak peak of the tho gospel as S being free I |