Show DEEDS OF PARKER LIVE IN HISTORY Rev William Wilam Thurston Brown Extols Virtues of the Free Thinker V SCOFFS AT PRESENT FORMS Pastor Draws Distinction Between Be Be- teen tween Some High-Grade High Pursuits of Guilty Guity Ones Rev Re- William Thurston Drown Brown spoke In Unitarian hull hail hal yesterday on The Religion of or Theodore Parker After fter quoting from traI the Ule wor words s of f Emerson on and Wendell Vendel Phillips spoken cn at the memorial se service Ice for Theodore Parker Juno 17 1860 and showing how the verdict of time had bad Justified cr 0 every err e utterance of at these great souls Rev Ro Mr tr fr Brown Drown outlined tho the career of Parker in tho light of the called so-called religious teaching of or the middle of the tho century un and in itt the light of the social and economic institutions institutions tons upon which the civilization c of America then rested a a rd religious teaching which at its is best made e God Goda Goda a a non moral being an and at its worst a I fen fiend an nn economic nn and Industrial order order order ord ord- I er resting squarely upon the tho idea that I man may hold bold prop property in man It I was affirmed that as the religion of ot Theodore Parker had hal all Its virtue In the fact tact that he saw an and felt tel tho the fatal Infidelity of t any teaching which made It impossible Impassible to believe c bele In a good God and In his his- YI l vivid con consciousness of ot the tho terrible moral menace of the slave system regardless what the personal personal personal per per- character of or master or 01 slave slavo might be so tho the same t typo po nn and quality of religion today will bo be that which Is morally sensitive to the tle sterile sterie religious teaching teaching of ot tho the present and as ns keenly conscious of the tho latent Immorality of or orn ofa n n. social order which divides Ics 1 mankind Into nto exploiters and ond exploited ContinuIng Ing ng he sal said In part What hat Is the tho object of ot religious teaching caching What hat Is the significance of ofa ofa ofa a God add God tor H you tou ou hd gito with wih me that the tIme only use uc a God can have hn for men Is In tho the moral sphere told Napoleon that he didn't need the tho hypothesis of God In hl his science Ask scientist today and andie an any he ie will wl tell tel you ou exactly the same sate thing thins It I t Is s as a e source of moral action or moral noral satisfaction that God can alone aloneo be o ot service to tp women Playing lInying the Game Every Ever man who stays In business plays lays tho the gamE gam anH He lie Isn't there primarily primar- primar ly ily Iy for tor his health nor as ns a 1st st st. He mR may later on pose as one may mayven even ven think he Is Ig one one But if It he lie attempt attempts at- at tempts tempt In his business to put In tie ice the principles of ot tho the Sermon on the he Mount ho will wil ver very quickly be out of f business an and on the town If Jesus I esus lived Ived ed 1 toda today and at attempted to act out his ils alleged Palestinian life he le would be o arrested as a vagrant and put to work on tho the stono stone pile pUe There Thore Isn't a justness business firm on on V o oarth rth today which would have a man man In Its employ who avowed vowed his determination to act oct under all nl 11 circumstances on the tIme principles principle taught aught b by Jesus Jesue Such a man would not bo employed simply because nn any ana suno suno bu man wants wanto to keep out of or the poor house house Your bo boy is going to accept the moral morl code of ot the world worl as ns ho finds the It-the t the code dictated by the con conditions condition ot of f a fierce industrial competition or or or ho hos hoIs hois Is s going to become a useless piece picco of umber humber But he lie doesn't want to bo ho that hat It I is an RR natural and antl right for him ilm to desire the approval of society to o be look looked hooked el up to and antl honored honore by the Uc community to exercise exorcisE power to receive re- re elve honors as It is to e. e And Andic he ic finds that there thoro Is one open sesame antI and on Ol is Uc 9 OJ or Q honor onor or power or-power and power power-an and that one thing thine IH Is money noney He HE finds too that It doesn't make an any difference how ho gets this money noney If only olly he ho gets enough of It I. I If I f he ho Is so foolish as to be a 0 high grader In a Gol feld mine as some are ire he lie may fall fail tal In his hs purpose He lie Hean can an not get the mone money fast ast enough that way vay And nd besides he lie Is doomed to live liven lve In n a 0 society whoso moral code c condemns con condemns con con- n- n that kind an and degree of high grading But If It he can prove hIms himself l a hl high h grader In the stock exchanges of the tho country county like a score of men whose whoso names names names' occur to you ou at once If Ir Irhe he ic can cnn bo be a 0 high grader In the mater matter matter mat mat- ter er of stealing legislature and a seat In n the United States like Mr Ir Clark of ot Montana or 01 Mr Guggenheim of at Colorado Colorado with wih perhaps a a clerical governor thrown In for luck or a high grader in railroads lk like Mr Ir Harriman an and ind others thore I Is hardly anything In Inthe Inthe the he wn way of ot honor or 0 power which he lie may not possess A 41 DIU Difference rence How v many people In Salt Lake CI City ty or 01 Utah would receive Into their homes and ond treat with courtesy courtes those men in who havo have been guit guilty of stealing steal- steal ing ng some of the rich ore they dug dugdown dugdown ug down un under er tho the ground in ground the title Itle tte to which rests finally in force torce or fraud And nd how many of the l people eople of at this city an and state would decline an Invitation to be present at nt a 0 banqUEt banquet banquet ban ban- In honor of Senator Guggenheim or Senator Clark Clan or Mr Harriman Your boy finds that It I doesn't make an any difference how he gets geta his money If f only he gets enough Not oven his father nn and mother will wi scrutinize his lila dollars or pr ask him how or 01 where he I got them Their hearts will wi swell with over 1 And n the more lie are ie gets an rm d the thet t si std th the ha PEr uny But It is almost Inevitable that In Inthis Inthis inthis this very er process this this' boy and millions of other boys bos will lose that fine ne sense of honor that perception of ot moral morl value that broad sympathy that de devotion do- do oton to high l ideals eals which most of ofus ofus ofus us agree gree to bo be the noblest fulfilment of ot a life The vision which commands s our de devotion do- do deI I oton today today Is Incomparably greater I Ithan than that which compelled and Inspired the heroic service of Theodore Parker I The whole ahole problem Is la changed It I is no longer a 0 personal problem It Is a 0 asocial asocial social problem for we have no excuse for tor not no Jb there re IB Is no moral morl or ethical salvation except for all al The age go of individualism In ip religion is gone h by an and the they who are nrc parroting Its watchwords are but echoIng echoing echo- echo Ing InK the dead cad voices of the pastI past It I may bo be tragic but it Is true truc nevertheless nevertheless that the pathway of ot hu humanity hu- hu manity up through the ages Is marked b by the empty and ind shattered ells nh-ells of ot discarded ren religious t faiths the growing light of larger knowledge th the of ot Ignorance and n have vanished one ono by one It I may maywell well b be that many of the religious theories we cherish today will go as ns the rest have gone But nut If it the time Upward evolution evolution tion ton of ot the race raco means menns that Into our minds Is to come that creative consciousness consciousness con con- which before we imagined to bo be In some Intelligence external to tous tous tous us ai aid l' l d we are to be glorified with t the c sense that w we ourselves arc aro social creators crea tors that together we can wield higher r rand and over ever higher forces for tor tho the happiness happiness happiness happi happi- ness and spiritual enrichment of all 01 may It not be ho that the the- tho gain will in infinitely infinitely in- in finitely compensate for the tho seeming loss May ay It not be that this way lies les the tIme pathway to the higher and bettor better beter nI religion lon that IB is to be |