| Show i VEINS OF W E GH N HN Led Henry Drummond to Become Believer on a Supreme Being PRONOUNCED DEPARTURES Left heft V lath In hi of tit Sont m Thou Mev llev William Will Thurston Brown ron at UM the Unitarian church yes yest t MM JIg hi his discourse being devoted d to a radial non of the of ot William Chinning In the theo tb o course coe urse of ot his Id remarks Mr Air tr Bro n said d About AMut 40 to years ago a young oung Scotch Scotchman Scotchman man tIMI whoM nans n and influence were deMIsed 6 to be widely known for good rood goodon gooden on en two tw continents continent was waa beginning ginning hl his hIe studies In one of oC th the universities of or orb ofhie his hie b native DAtI country He was waa born horn and reared In the religions religion relt o atmosphere of the Presbyterian church all that that faith could do for tor any An young man n It had dons done for tor him II JI 1111 tells tella m fie that tin the Urn tune came when k he e ki no longer be believe beIte beIke lieve Ite in the he Oed of his church churchIn In 10 that state ulta of mind md this th young man discovered the writings of an American Amerman preacher whose whoa faith did not nott rest t upon u On the worthless foundations ot of otan nten an en untenable theory of the universe The result was a the Inspiration of this young yo line man mn with H a new MW and satisfying belief In God The TIle young oun Scotchman was w M Henry Drummond the author of ot The Th Greatest Thing In 10 the World and other which have been pub In to the language of 01 every ever nation nalton on ten n the earth and the tbt author was William Ellery Channing one ot of the pioneers pioneer of oC liberal faith In thin country Says II Mr Drummond Before I 1 real read Channing I doubted whether them was wasa u ui a nod fad at least I 1 would rather have v believed that there the was w no tied After becoming acquainted with lIh henning however 1 I could believe that there therea was a 1108 A God and I was ioU glad alad to believe In Him for J 1 felt drawn to M the Ih good and nd Sovereign of ot all things thing thin No fo finer tribute can be tf paid by h one man mn to r than this especially spa to toa toa toa a man whose holt telling In Is I that of a min minister mm Later ister of religion AWAY FROM FRO ORTHODOXY William El lory Chinning was a one of or the In the tb search h for tor an n adequate faith when young aw saw that thaI men mu wire WeN p panch ch ob chIn obIng In Ing what they thy did not th themselves m be a custom which does doea not seem to haw have 11 died dl out ct rt t The result remit f was widespread hypocrisy Prom From an early 1 moment his lit 0 oa n became becAm an hot hon honest est eat search March for un an adequate religion faith The movement nt away aay from ort doxy dory war tva 1 Inevitably a movement away a from a Il sy system t m of belief which makes makos the Issues of lit III hinge on ott a future world Inevitably th tho of ol re is religion ligion for grew gw to be the th Immediate concerns rn of life In I this Ihla world Tho The older theology had ex cx x plait d U the life late of oC Jews Jesus purely on the ground und that He no wen was we the only IMIly begotten Won lion of God or ot one substance with the Father and so en the moral task k of God When Chinning Channing the u equal efI Uti I of ot God of ot ever every human not th the equal moral virtue but the she t tome Mm ima oration to God h w wee bound to It affirm the tho same moral task talk for tor every enl nun men aa as for tor Jesus Juu JesusA A SOCIAL It was axle 18 the logic of his hi religious faith fth that he should become a It social ru former As A such Much he hI Is I quite quit as a widely known In New England as In the char character octet acter of ot a oher Religion for tor him Included all that can an touch or offset I the lives of ot men mono It IB is no exaggeration to ar say Ill that be he was the foremost poll poli political deal reformer In th t to church hurth of ot America In his hla hi time When hen the war lur of broke out he hI denounced It II as uncalled for Cor and unnecessary He resented the Idea Id a that any ab citizen should hould not be free freeto to criticise the political politic I policy of ot his hI nation at ut any aft time And while never ner nerI sympathising I with the violent language of ot th the he never ver lost lot an opportunity of ot defending dr them against the t attacks of ot those t who ho would have limited l freedom of or speech or 0 ot of the thep press p pre There was eau complaint In ht his congre congregation gallon gation which was waa composed of the wealthy and ami families lUUl of or Roston that h he e did not preach personal religion enough but preached the tM need of social odal reformation The cry Is I he h wrote HOtt In Hit 1530 I that property Is la Insecure law a rope of sand nd and the Ih mob sovereign The actual t 1101 present evil the evil of or that worship of oC property which s all II noble soli m memo and makes m men n property this nobody sees s the appearance a ran of ot ap liP approaching convulsions of ot property these tho shake the nerves of men man who woo am art willing that moral evils evil should be perpetuated to the end of Limo provid provided ed their treasures tre be untouched The status was waa for tor him frankly impossible Important clanger changes meet take place In the tbs labor laboring laborIn laboring ing In classes cl said aid Id he h they must share thaN mote more largely In the fruits fruit of ot their toll tolland tolland tolland and In means mate of ot Improvement I st a leveler but I would accomplish my ul Jeet by b elevating the th low 1011 tty hI from a degrading indigent Indigence ene sod and brutal Ignorance tl le laboring multitude d The meaning nf ot life liCe and nd development In Is as clear dear as sunlight and nd It I 1 Is tills that a liberal faith Is M a mis misnomer nomer and nd has ha no excuse u for being If It It doss not unfold Into Ino the broadest and nd most mot Inclusive social faith It Ita I 1 a faith Caleb which demands a new social order or which welch forbids forbid men ever a n 0 think or believe boll ve that any social order la Is tol tolerable erable able which do d dues a not nOI grow 10 out ut of the tho moral thota of ot the tb human soul aril aMU s not out of the th Immoral necessity of exploitation of ot men man t II ey hi lili f fellow fellowman llo man The Tb Th religion of liberalism In is I the Ib rat of tit those rose who ire are finding tile the b fulfilment of their deepest moral ue fie IY In the tM 1 hess fi ti ih I h highest Kt and nd noblest font ut Of f human t a b on this earth |
