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Show WORDS Of WISDOM FROM THE DIVINES Dr. Eddy Pleads for Church Founded on Greatness of Man; Suggestions From Other Pulpits. The founding of a church based on "greatness in man'' and the various ways in which the ctions, deeds and thoughts of Jesus are expressed in the New Testament were talked of by the Rev. Frank Fay Eddy before the First Unitarian society yesterday in discussing discuss-ing the theme, "Church of the Holy Ghost or the Church of the Human Spirit Which?" "When we turn from John to read the other gospels we are in a different atmosphere. We now get broken and fragmentary accounts of one Jesus of Nazareth, evidently enough a man, talking talk-ing and acting as other men do. This man is strikingly different from the celestial visitant of Paul's vision, or the hero book of philosophical fiction we call the fourth gospel. "This difference is fundamental. The kind of a church we can construct with Christ the godman as the central figure must differ radically from the church we build about the life and sayings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is my purpose to point out that distinction as plainly as I may in the course of thi ssermon' The speaker then told of the various churches claiming divine origin. He continued: "But why can we not organize a church on the basis of the greatness in mant There is friendship to build upon, said by some to be the master passion. Kropotkin tells us that mutual aid is one of the prime factors in the evolutionary process. Assuming this, our effort becomes scientific if it is filled with the ideal of friendly service. ser-vice. " "So deep is this thing we call religion, re-ligion, so mighty are its influences to sway and shape life, so universal have been the marks of its emergence in the lives of all peodes that it is worse than foolish to do aught but give it place as one of the prime factors in life and history." his-tory." Such was the declaration of the Rev. Peter A. Simpkin before his congregation congrega-tion at Phillips Congregational church yesterday morning. lie took as bis text the part of Acts where is reviewed re-viewed Paul's address before the Areopagus, Areo-pagus, in which he declares the essential es-sential relationship between God and man. Continuing, Dr. Simpkin said: "How religion is inwoven with life, history speaks. How it is a part of our own very existence, we know very well. From life's first cry to its last gasp the power of religion is felt by us. Its benediction is on the joy of our appearing and the sorrow of our going, go-ing, and its nope and impulse are the earnestly besought companions of life's crises and joys. "A man may seem heedless, of religion, re-ligion, but give him that which answers an-swers to the passion of his heart, and as the zinc precipitates the gold in the mill tank, so will that precipitate the golden thing in his nature." "The trouble in the unbelieving world lies in the fact that it has no object ob-ject for its faith," declared tho Rev. D. A. Brown, pastor of the First Bap- tist church, in his evening sermon yesterday. yes-terday. Dr. Brown was assisted In the services by Prof. B. P. Stout, singing evangelist. The latter will give a special song service this afternoon at iort Douglas for the officers and their families. Continuing, Dr. Brown said: "It measures its Christianity by its own interpretation, its own knowledge and its own imperfections. When it is asked to believe, it, looks upon the Christ within instead of the Christ without. ' The Christ, within that it beholds be-holds is limited by its interpretation, knowledge and imperfection. It cannot can-not lay down its sins and take up the message of salvation the message that speaks deliverance from sin. sorrow, suffering. suf-fering. It was to meet this error that Jesus said: 'Lift me up! I, if I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me.' 'i |