| Show CHRISTS CHRIST'S CHRISTS HUMANITY 1 BASIS True Church Should Be of Men I IBy By Men and For Men I LEADERSHIP IS IN CHRIST I IThe The Rev Frank Frnk Eddy Would I Build Church on Homocentric Homocentric Homocentric Homo- Homo centric Plan At the thc services of the time Fir First t Unitarian Unita rian elan Ilan society yesterday Mrs Irs Smith sang samm S-I S th Iho Ii- Ii offertory solo and Unity quartet rendered th time the usual anthem m. rim The pastor tor the thc Rev H Frank Fa Fai Edl Eddy took tool for fO his theme The hC Churca ChUrl of the tile Holy Ghost or 01 the Church of o time the Human Spirit phi Which Mr 11 Eddy ElIY said sll in part pari We e e r read ad in iii John that Tec Jesus ald said to tn his hig t disciples s in the thc course of II Ills lust dl discourse to them It I is hi expedient for fOl you nu that lint I go o away for if 1 I. go not n away wa the Comforter will wi not mint come ore unto you ou And Ammi in a n later lr verse he IH assures IR them that thai When hen He lie the Iho i of Truth Is 15 come conic lie He will wi guide Rull you Oti unto nil all 11 truth Such are Te natural enough nol h for the time Chri Christ Chrit t of time thC fourth IO gospel I to UlI utter This Christ Christas wn was as a a. being who incarnated the the spit spirit it of If wisdom i dol the thc logos anti and a as Mich lh monopolized during c the time period plod of corporate cot cor or- or prate existence in the human form orm th the very principle of truth Itself Butth lint Hut th the tho Christ of or Johns John's I Is O ns as fictitious Oct i- i tom as much a ci el en caton lion of the ImA imagination im Im- A as ns Milton's Satan atan When wo Wi turn from Crom ioni Join John to cm roid the tho th other oilier three gospels p lt wi are aI in a different t a atmosphere I Wo Ve nitty got get broken anti and aHl fm fragmentary l accounts of one J Jesus Jestis l of Nazareth evidently elo enough eloh h a n man mann talking antI and actIng as other men muon do tin This nina man is strikingly different from time tho ct celestial visitant of Paul's Pauls vision or ci tho time hero hlo of nf that thit book hOlk of oC philosophical fiction we wc call tin time t. t fourth gospel Tho Jw Plain Distinction This difference is fundamental Time Tho The kind of a church we wc can caim ci t with wih Christ tho he tl godman as the e n- n figure fg must differ radically fl fro frai n lH time tho church we build bult about the lie life lre anti and saying sayin of Jesus Jelus the Nazarene It I ismy iv is m my purpose e to point out that thai thai distinction then tion lon as plainly as I may in the coin I CO so SI of this sermon We 1 are arc familiar with wih the hureh of or the first t type I It I is time th church which asserts a peculiar and anti divine origin to for foi I Usel Itsel which assume the tl Ii dispensation of all al the merit which was In this Christ God Coil and proclaim that the lie Holy Ghost resides in iii It as asa asa asa a guiding nul principle I need not tell tel you OU that thal tH the e C unfamiliar un aie n familiar a assumptions on the time part oi of the Christian Church of time thc pa Jut t. t In mihi n mi hi creeds of or Christendom the neo neo- eo- eo platonic philosophy and the theology of or Paul nr are strangely jumbled but hut they reflect not at all al the loving dem- dem oCla t. t J Jesus suR But this his type t pe of church did diJ lW not end with wih yesterday It I survives Ics sm in to toda today today to- to da day with wih all al the time outward signs of power pow pow- er or privilege lege and wealth All Al of ot the time Christian tan Church which Is to sail cl itself orthodox makes these old I assumptions still ti In creed if Ir not nt from pulpit But Hut we hear on all 31 sides laments over the prevalent religious indifference ence enc and tales of or wo woe relating to the arm army That the chuich chUch Is rapidly losing its is directing po por r because e It I has hns lost in no small smal measure meas aure a ure life H its vital vial relationship to morn modern U Useless el Definitions We e also ahw see seo on the part of or the Protestant church of dive en dl diverse rate d denominations nations an an to lo put Jut the lt new V wine into the old bottles holtes There Isa is isa isi a i vast output of lOOkS hooks of ot apologetic largely hugely concerned with wih matters matei of deli del nilon lime Tho hC purpose of the he authors author jf of these useless and soon snout to lo be forgotten forgot forgot- ten hooks books s ems to be to indicate a away away I Iway way of retaining the lie phraseology L if r rte he old doctrines and yet ret ct make them theft te can carry arry new and amid modern meanings While this lila work worl is largely largel wasted it does docs Indicate the time genel general l drift of re- re thought But wh why can caum we ice not organize a achurch achurch church hurch on the tho basis of oC the tho m In iii n man There is friendship hi lu tv build upon said all IJ b by some to be Ine no masler pas passion as r lon I tells tell u Ui u. that th l mutual mu mu- aid 1 is one of the he prino actors t 11 In n the evolutionary process s. s um- um Ing ng this our out effort t becomes I if It I is hilled with the time Ideal of f Im f service ice Mr li 1 Edl Eddy then lieu went on nn to ta t. t show that hal thele is in iii our eta humanity a warmth i of sympathy a bond baud of ot com com- and anda anti ln a capacity for or heroism nH upon which W we may found a church In conclusion I ho lie said stid Such a achurch church hurch chUch must be 10 homo centric not c This Thu-i world and anti this thiR present humanity mu must l be lie its chiSel chief conc concern rn rather rathel than timan preparation for fOl fori fora a i future estate In Iii our church hurch we are arc making just this at- at tempt to construct a church of men by jy men macit and for or men We e 0 find lC leadership leader ship In Jesus the tho man maim rather In Christ Chiist time the God We Ve e are aro arC making malin the most significant experiment In iii il m modern life the by supplanting church hurch of the lie Hol Holy Ghost with tho time church of the human spirit |
