Show UNITARIANISM Its 3 ent Dav 1111 Position Ion 1 by nev The Da Day Position Po of ot tint was wn the subject of af yester yesterdays yesterdays days das sermon by Rev Re Frank Fay Fa Eddy in tho the Unitarian church and In the course of a his remark ho hI laId Bald Is an all a aPer tam tamper tl per of t mind rather rathe than a cult Ono One Oneo of o d the spiritual experiences of at Jesus Je n was early carly fashioned Into a II legend the Ic Ie gItl of ot the temptation of ot Christ Ii in III inthis this the tho tempter Is described de an its bidding him bun hi hunger by 11 turning stones Atones Into bread But Lint Jesus scorned such suh EI h n II exercise of ot his power 1 I use turn tha the text taken from this fond ton 1 le Ie legend legend gend to t Indicate the similar nature of ot ofa otI ofa a I proposal made in to ti humanity at nt tho the present day that il turn stones Into bread to satisfy nullify their hungering hun ant and thirsting after utter righteousness s The rapid revolution of modern society with Its free speech Its It democracy Its Ita science Invention hOIl iIa swept men and vo wo men In large numbers away awn from tram tho the old moorIngs especially In III religion And Am Andow jow 1011 ow the tho prophets of ut the church of ot tho tue past are uro crying out flack Back to Christ Hack flack to a n divine and revealed religion I Ir r On the other side are arc the prophets of ot a anew anew new order of ot all kinds of ot To the man seeking to be he rational In his lii hl faith all nil of ot these sewn seem to bo be Of ot delusion who are bid bidding bidding bidding ding humanity turn Into bread It Is vain aln to ask the tho and man to turn the tho old stones of at orthodoxy Christ crucified for tar sinners sinn em the Bible Infallible tho the church inspired and all nil the rest re t Into the thO living bread of o life lite On Oi the other othel hand the prophets ts of ot new things seem see In Into to the man of at rationality and sanity In his lUs faith Catti to be visionary to overlook tho the power of o the past paRt to base their syn eYRe tens on an of ot what ought ou ht to ta bo ho rather than upon facts tacit This too Is U but another appeal to be bo credulous and an nn Invocation to turn tum stones into bread We Ve rejoice In la tho the religion of o this tho free tree spit spirit It It If we ve have put aside as useless the tue old props of ot religion we have at the tho th same time bUrst buist the bonds that restrict restricted ed tt d our actions Wo We are no longer ser sere servile servile vile In the presence of ot the past We demand something more in our aur religion than old custom and hoary antiquity It becomes Increasingly clear clem that out aut auto of o each cach era must aust spring Its own char ch r term form of ot faith alth if It It have any vital religion At the same lamo time It would be folly tolly to attempt to sever or orto orto to 10 nl the post past In planning the tho future There Is III a 11 law lall of ot continuity In Inhuman Inhuman inhuman human history his lon and we can cau have no n future that fht Is not conditioned by all tho the past The grains and fruits that are arc the tho food tood ot or civilized countries without which Indeed we lIe might almost say civilization would bo Ii Impossible are all evolved by toll anti and am pains from tram useless weeds s We 0 shall Improve them much In Inthe Inthe inthe the future But that Improvement will willbe willbe be he based Intelligently on their past Ho So with society nil our customs Institutions Ideas and Meals ideals lire arc tooted rooted firmly In the past There Them Is IB no tie l o way Wa In which we can eun begin anew Wo We can only guide gulo the th course coune of evolution We Ve can prune and ancl clip and dig we wo can destroy estro tho the worst and mate tho the better hetter But In or order order order der to do tie this we wo must neither he blind lo to the tho Imperfections of ot the th past pl st nor attempt lo to rl It II To ro do 10 either l Is to attempt to make stones turn Into loaves |