| Show i UfA AND HEL HELL Rev Frank Fay Eddy Says D Dogmas Are Dissolved by Modern Thought Thought t f DEVIL IS IN DARKNESS r. r Ol Old Contract Followed In Xe o I Theory of BoUe for forI I 1 I Souls Soul At the services e of or the First Unitarian v ian society yesterday tho congregation was delighted with wih a A selection render rendered f ed by tho Liberty male Unity quartet also rendered an nn anthem lr Mr Poll Pol taking the 01 1010 solo parts The pastor nev Frank Fank Fay F Eddy discussed el theold the tho old 1 r religious phrase The Tho world the flesh fesh arid the devi devil Mr Ir 1 Eddy he hb would woul not attempt to explain the tho hl historical origin of the phrase se The world the and the thet devil hut but he was confident that the t I spirit it I breathed was to be he found in tl OC e epistles of Paul Paul He then quoted Paul Pul to show that ho regarded the 1 flesh h as ns the embodiment of the active principle of evil vI and anc as nR the tho me medium ium plastic to the tho touch of or Satan The pJ tc elaboration of the conception however I f t the work orl of th the al medieval church was a n part of the working out of oft t tho P theology theolog suggested by Paul In conception Mr Ir Eddy said The world tho lesh and the devil evi was placed In contrast t to heaven the spirit i Christ Christ By Br this view tho World was the ground battle ground whereon the tho forces of Satan and of Christ wag waged d coa conflict for the souls of ot mel men The advantage of position seem seemed ll to l Ho with wih Satan for unless a man re rt renounced this world warred l upon his f own flesh and deliberately renounced the tho seductive pleasures of oC this UC life he T remained m a hopeless sinner This power pow pow- r. r er of choice holee alone ral er him above f aho the he position of a mere mero pawn In the I gme II Ie JC J In 1 In the crucible of modern thought tho dl dissolution of such dogmas as n this t 1 IV apparent to every HY philosophic obI ob- ob I server The devil J dc lias already Ja i or Into the or o r darkness The old old- fashioned hell hel has become a n curious legend and the old fashioned ohl heaven l hea with Its is golden streets and while while- robed robee choral society Is cla classed pd with wih It I. I The J Christ who wont with this set SA of dogmas must also pass pas into the shadowy nimbus of the unreal unreal If I we wedo wedo do not tho world as us belonging to the devil devi and If we do rot not dispose our He h ns filthy rags in tact fact if we wedo do not believe heleve either in the devil or In Inthe the to essential s degradation of or the earthly earth earth- ly estate there is small smal use for the he heW W kind of or a supernatural Christ who t helped men out of their evil evi plight In a which which- was n peculiarly the kingdom king 1 dom ni of oC the devil I. de i J s Chal Changed cd Vision ilon The 1 we are henceforth to live Je with a different view point Humanity Hu Hu- mani manity will wi not be different and the te environment of ot this world l wi not be greatly changed nut But we will wi have n changed vision Indeed we already have In no small smal de degree ree begun to use now new point of view Is the world v ti growIng glowing better beter I think so on the the r. r whole Is the world growing wiser r Ye at least lent in the sense ense that the average of Intelligence has risen nut But Butt t whether the world has grown belter bele or wiser or not it I Is a. a world worle which can rn no longer loo look al nt things thing through trough the theological al spectacles of oC the past An is at An adjustment re-adjustment v hand hond There are aro those who are much V concerned at what seems Reems' to them to toi i I be e a religious l degeneration But It I Is not necessarily II degeneration It I may mar mayi bo e At rate the tho time i 1 an any tnt for a transition of or some Mme kind has ha ar alI al- al I rived In the tho nature latro of or things an antidote or a substitute will wi appear I It Is always is so f. f This world Is le H i 1 than some people H ope Imagine r I even I If the devil le 1 I is dead The theory r that HuH a n man was wa such a poor pOO sUe stick that lie te would would- never no be wed ved unless h he- he thought Christ t wa was 1 beckoning him on toward heaven n with Its is glories celestial celes celes- lal tl thu devil was prodding him i l from behind I Is fortunately giving gl away We Ve are beginning to realize that Is q H as ms natural for tor a man to h be- be virtuous a as It is to bo 11 evil wl We Weare C are 10 beginning to peo eu that It 1 Is not so o much 11 ch escape cope from this world that Is I needed as the knowledge and strength to 1 0 in tn It rightly L ne Religion Ig on Not n ln I Is not dying Rather father w we weare are today malting making a new garment fo for I Ib b religion Man Inn has hns come core a new rc ton of f himself He t Is a now new am glorified creature not perfect ct hut but fa far f e enough removed cl from flom the which grov groveled Jcl before tio the old g gods 8 1 fearing his hiE devil devi rather more than h hk loved lo his Christ k r This new man lives in a universe Truly he sees a new heaven and a new ne oarth More Important yet et he he elsi els- els i corns cern truth revealed not as an edict diet from a n personal god but revealed to lo him as law In inevitable viable and ancl unchanging law Ja We Ve are arp working our religious i problems out Into a n kind of or enno ennobled 4 stoicism To To Marcus Aurelus we add Jesus of Nazareth Ve Ve cherish with l i fine Ideal leeal of or h lf control with wih the thc stern i strength of or the stoics MoleR the thought of loving service It I cultivates the Indi- Indi but also encourages a as a pcr- pcr fe ty natural expression n un altruism q quite u He as loC lofty That hat such a religion Is not yet formulated we ma may admit But th the yeast en t of oC I HH kingdom is iH working in the modern world |
