Show REAL LEADERS ARE LIVING NOT DEAD Battlefields of Modern Life Holy Hoy Places of Today Says W. W T. T Brown The rue topic of William Thurston Brown Brownt I at t the tho Unitarian church yesterday was WI wasA A New cw Year Yc U or a New ew Life Life the tho thop spanker p tho the position that the tho incident of time is IH nothing unless it has hns ms some somo record of progress to m marl rl In human life No 0 man or woman said Mr ir Brown Drown i is going to drift on the current of thu lays days and months into a now year year year- car there thero Is no current that t hears any my soul to such stich such a n haven lu This old planet of or ours no such thing as a new year There Thero is time on the lie surface of or the tIme moon moon that that t bleak bionIc old cinder which floats silent and untenanted through the he heavenly spaces spaces spaces-as as much time as i there is anywhere But nut how much Is time worth and anti how much meaning has I It on tIne the surface of tho the moon Time has hM moaning meaning or value only ns mis R these human lives c of oC ours have meanIng meanIng meanIng mean- mean Ing and value A new year rear is not so much time it Is la now new life new now hope pow pew outlook new faith n new w moaning meaning and value alue seen to belong belon to our life lire Self mill Go God l. l Hero Here is our real roal equipment for life Ufo Self Salt this human world and r God Clod or self this thin human world and the highest Ideal we know No o occupation or ic- ic lation can be a good thing to you OU or to any anyone ono one in which this equipment docs does not come into play Nineteen hundred years carR a ago o there thero began what for centuries c has been boon called tho time Christian era em What hat did dill it I mean menn for the m men few or many who had some part rt in that be beginning Did Dill It mean meant something marvelous mar something some Rome I timing thing spectacular something blazed Across the en as ns a new end divine dispensation Nothing remotely resembling that It meant for tor tho founder r of that now new era being true trite to the thc vision of his own soul in tho the face faco of or a worlds world's unfaith being obedient nt to the deepest demand of or his own nature and cinI tho clear summons summons sum sum- I mons of the world life regardless of ot consequences It meant for the handful handful handful hand hand- ful of ot men and amid women who for 19 ecu cen- turlee turie have shared cl with Jesus the thc nf- nf and of the world a departure from tho the beaten path of e es- es tImings s meant attaching 1 themselves to an outlaw a mu LIIV man most hated by the respectable and religious people of his time time the man who vho was accused of stirring up strife and seeking the overthrow of things thinS'S as ashey the they hey were and who was executed on that hat ch charge That is exactly what it meant mant to them of Today What hat does It mean menn now for you yon on or orme orme or orme me or any anyone one roal really to enter upon a anew l new life It doesn't mean turning our faces toward tIme the past past any any past It doesn't mean moon accepting tho time established the traditional the widely revered re I I The Tho divine enl cal comes now as us ever o I from before c us 18 not from flom behind us If It tho the world needs leaders rs to pioneer it onward to better r thin things s those leaders arc are living ll not lead dead The They nr are not men inca I of the past but men of till the present present- The Messiah of today is not the man manor manor manor or tho the cause of ot tho the first century but butth th tIme tho men and tho the cause of the twentieth century We Ve are arc living far more truly in the he midst of a divine dl dispensation here and now than ever Tes Jesus us or his followers were TIe Tho holy places of the tIme tiro tre not in Palestine they palestine they are in America Amer Amer- len lea and Europe to today tolay lay They arc are where men amen arc struggling against great odds toward a li better future |