Show fi LASTING EFFECT I OF NEW Pastor Pastol Tells of Great Good From Wil William lT i Ellery Elery Channing Charming BELIEVED HIS RELIGION i Rev W VV T TI Br Brown wn Calls Cals Him Jim Pioneer of Religion of V the Future The life nCe works and teachings of ot Willlam Willlam Will Will- 11 lam Ellery Elery whom ho he characterized characterized char char- clar- clar as ns the tho pioneer of or a n religion of or the future served as R the tho subject for Cor the time sermon preached b by novo Ilov Willlam Willlam Will Will- WI lam Thurston Brown Drown at nt Unitarian hall hallat hallat hal at the time morning service sor Sunda Sunday In part the preacher said About Cort forty years ago a a young Scotchman whose namo and influence were destined to be widely known for good on two continents was beginning his studies in one of ot time the universities of his nat l native country countr Ho 10 was vas horn born and reared in the tile religious atmosphere of the Presbyterian all church ni all that that faith could coul do for any young man It had done for him He lie tells us ms 9 that the tho I time camp came whon when he could no longer be believe he- he lieve in the God of ot hi his churchIn churchIn church h In hIn that state of or mind this young oung man discovered ered the tho writings R of or an nn American preacher whose faith did not rest upon tho the worthless foundations of an untenable theory of the time universe The Time result was the tho Inspiration of or this young oung man a new and satisfying belief bellet In God The young Scotchman was Henry Drummond the author of or Time The Greatest Thing in the thc World 0 rl and other addresses which have been published pub pub- in the language of ever every civilIzed civilized civil civil- nation on the earth and the author was Izel naton William Eler Cilery Channing Channing one of ot the pioneers of liberal faith In this coun cou country n tr try Says Mr Ir Drummond Before 1 I read rend Channing I doubted whether there was wasa a God at least 1 I would rather have believed 0 that there was no God After ter becoming acquainted with Channing however I could believe beleve that there was a 0 God Gorl and I was wa glad to believe e In Slim Him for I felt drawn to the good and gracious Sovereign of or all al things things No nc finer tribute can be paid h by one man to another than this especially to toa toa ton a n man whose calling is that of a a minister min min- ister of or religion Truth Ii t for fr I th lie Hie William Ellery Elery Channing ChannInG was one of or the tho pioneers In the search for an nn adequate religious faith Channing Channing when young joung saw that men were preaching preach preach- lug ing In what they did dil not themselves believe be be- lieve a a custom which does not seem leve-a leve to have died out yet yet The result was widespread h From an early moment his lila own career became an nn anest hon honest est search for tor an adequate religious faith The movement away from or- or 01 was ivas Inevitably Inc a movement away ay from rom a s system ster of belief beleC which makes maltes the Issues of or life hinge on a 0 fu future future fu- fu ture tur world worM Inevitably tho the essence of religion for Channing grew rew to bo be bl the Immediate concerns of or life In this tills world The older theolo theology had explained the life of ot Jesus purey purely on the ground round that thal ho was the only be begotten oten Son of or God GOll of or one substance with the tho Father rather and so sharing sharinG the moral task tak of ot God Gol When hen Channing affirmed the tho equal to God of ot ever every overy human soul soul soul- n not t the equal moral virtue but thes the tho s same same me relation to God God ho he was waR bound to affirm the same moral task for over every everyman everyman man as for tor Jesus Jeus It was the logic of oC his rJ religious faith I that he should become a a. a social nodal reformer As such he lie Is quite as widely known in New England as In the character character char char- acter of a preacher Religion for him Included all ni that can touch or affect the lives of men It I Is no ex exaggeration to say that he was the foremost political pol- pol poli reformer In the church of America in his time When the war of or 1812 broke out he denounced it I as uncalled for tor and unnecessary He lie resented the Idea that any ammy citizen should not be free freeto to criticize the political policy poley of his nation at any time And while never sympathizing wh w the language c coC of oC the abolitionists he never lost an opportunity of or defending them against the attacks of those who would have limited freedom of or speech or of the thc press I There was as complaint in his congre congregation congregation con con- gre which was comlos compose 1 I of nf the tho wealthy aton and aristocratic families lt i of ot Boston that he lie did ld not preach personal religion enough but preached tho tim need o of social reformation The cr cry is Ie he wrote In 1335 1835 that property i Is insecure la law a rope of ot otan sand an and the mo mob sovereign so The oc- oc C- C present evil the evih-the the evil e 1 of or that vor- vor shin slin of or property which Sl l s mill ull ul nohe sentiments Ume ts and makes maltes men property this thimi nobody sees ees the of ot approaching convulsions cO of property property- these shake e the te nerves of or men win who are willing that moral evi evils should bo be be j Tier Tier- ur- ur to the end of or tm time pro provided l l their treasures bo be e untouched The he social Industrial social status was WS for hini d frank frankly 1 impossible Impossible Important chan changes cs must take place in tho the In ing classes said he they thoy must share more largely In the fruits of or their toll toil tolland tol and in means of or Improvement Improvement- I am nit a leveler but I 1 would accomplish my object object ob oh- b by elevating the low by al I g from a a degrading Indigence and brutal Ignorance tho the laboring multitude The meaning of life ure and development Is as clear as sunlight und end It I Is this this that that a liberal faith Is u a misnomer misnomer mis- mis nomer anti and has no excuse for or being If It it does docs not not unfold unroll into the t and most Inclusive social faith It lt Is Isa Isn n a faith which demands a new now social 0 order which forbids men ever eyer to think or believe that any n social order is tolerable tolerable tol tol- toi- toi erable which docs does not grow row out of or thu moral necessities of or the hUI human soul and not out of tho ho Immoral of or exploitation of man by nis hi 1 man The religion of ot liberalism Iben I U is the religion of ot those who are finding the of or their deepest tor 1 l r e- e in tho the ceaseless struggle le forthe for lor the hl highest and noblest form of nC human human human hu hu- hu- hu man association on this earth |