Show NEW NE TO PREVAIL ON EARTH One Day in Seven Not Enough Tor for Religious Observances Says Thurston Brown MORAL TONE MUST CHANGE Mens Men's Lives Must Be Lived to I the Full in Atmosphere of Brotherhood Wiliam Thurston Brown Drown pastor of ot tho the First Unitarian church preached on Sunday on the theme Not lol to Save Savo o n but to Make Men l The Tho sermon was In ill part as ns follows 1 The Tho time Is coming and und It Is not flOt far away a when the whole picture of or orthe the tho world which religion now embodies must be bo changed It must be changed for tor tho the same reason that operated In creating tho the picture Does Docs this mean the tho ond end of religion Not at all Precisely Precisely Precisely Pre Pre- th thi same Imme human needs and IlI demands de- de mands which brought religion Into beIns being being be be- ing Ins will keep It here The Th men of ot to today today today to- to day as REI deeply need tho the two things which religion away back in tho the twIlight twilight twilight twi twi- light of at knowledge H supplied as the themen themen men of that distant time needed them thom The mind of at awakening man demands j most Insistently the unification of the facts of life liCe We 0 want to know what our life lIfo means We Te demand to see It Ita ita a a. harmony harmon And If we can not seo see It as u IL harmony on tho the plan o of a n theology theology theol theol- ogy which sprang out of human Ig Ignorance Ignorance Ig- Ig norance and fear none nODe tho less INS Is Js It necessary that wo we see It a harmony o othe on the more assuring plan of a n reconstructed recon recon- I human society And life lICo would cease to be bo worth living JI If It 1 It lacked a motive and a a. purpose capable capable capa capa- ble of at arousing enthusiasm These things religion must give O us These Thes needs are aro a surety of ot religion and only onlo that which does meet these thee needs 1 is CO The New Religion What then shall shaH be the passion ami anol purpose beating In the heart o othe ot of the religion Ion that Is to be bo that Is aready al already nl- nl nad ready rising among men It can cun not bethe bo be botho botho tho the passion to save men lOon for fOI the Idea that men a ajo lost or In danger tIang-er of ot some dread punishment Is gone sone Effort di directed directed dl- dl toward saving men ii In the old oli sense ense is wasted There Is 15 nothing In Inthe Inthe inthe the future to save them from except that which now non and here menaces their lives lIes or corrupts their characters There has been no fall CaU there has only been one ono long ascent from Crom to manTo manTo man nan nanTo To make malte men not to save men men to to create character to unfold capacities c. to develop clop and express all an that Is In a D. aman aman man rather than to rescue him from Crom a fancied danger In some somo other this will vill be bo the task o of the now new and is now the task lase o of the only thing which may Justly justl h bo he called religion reUs That task Is reflected In the whole spirit of at democracy That Is the aim and purpose of oC the public school That is the problem of childhood of or God to 10 o It is Inevitable too that under the power of ot this now vision of the world and this new consciousness of or Its real task the tho thought of oC God must suffer change chango This Tills can not mean a n loss rather must It mean a vast gain In The child who has thought of the world as flat Jat does doeR not lose loso anything when he lie learns of Its rotundity The man who rinds finds himself obliged ted to give up the idea of or a a. special divine Inspiration for tor certain favored Individuals and to ad adjust adjust ad- ad just himself to the Idea that all the tho facts and realities o of the world are as op and accessible to men and women today as they ever were ere to an any one does not lose 1080 anything of ot value Perhaps U t t would seem to many good men and women a a. fearful tearful calamity calam call it ity to be obliged to surrender the Id Idea a that the they can pray pra to a transcendent Deity elt and belle bellevo that their prayers aro ato A O hoard board and arid answered Perhaps It would seem sem s cm at first thou thought ht an tn Irreparable irreparable irre Irre- parable Jos loss los's for Cor some Honie persons persona to know that no objective Deity such as the they have Imagined exists that If It iC the they should die lie tIle tho they would never never- see a great white throne and a a. multitude of or I angels never meet a a. person whom they have thought of as Christ never find In any un wa way the fulfilment of at their ex ex- ex An And yet et It often otten happens that we give he up old Ideas on only 1 to accept ac accept accept ac- ac better hetter ones We Va mo may give I e up our private Deities oni only onh to lo find a holler holier worship In the tile closer comrade comradeship of our fellow v men and women Wo We may give up our dr dreams ams of a future Paradise Para Pnra- disc dise only to help establish something resembling a l. l paradise right hero on en ho the the earth Inny Changes c. c Imminent You can easily foresee what tremendous tremendous tremendous tre tre- tre- tre changes in the whole hole face lace of ot arc are ensured b by the ution of oC this passion to make men to fulfil manhood and anti womanhood to give fullest and free freest t expression to life In place of oC the old passion to save men from rora an au Imaginary future perdition The older ohler religion has lias contented itself with one da day in seven teven for the accomplishment of ot Its task That is all aU UH its task ask calls caUs for It would not know I what to do with much moro more time nn and andt It t is not making demands for any more What It se seeks Ks to do Is to pt men to ac accept accept nc- nc certain doctrines When that is done dop its main ml task It Is over But the tho moment you ou see that the thereal thereal thereal I real task of religion and life Is to tomako make men to express life to unfold noble human caUl to develop the enl cal mental cal mental and moral morah nature ture symmetrically sym sym- metrically or at ot least to stimulate all aU alla a mans man's latent capacities and It give e him opportunity to unfold them that moment moment moment mo mo- mo- mo ment you cense cease to of cit one day dav In Insufficient seven as sufficient for an any purpose You YO then know that nothing short abort of or seven soven days In seven even will suf suf- fice fIo You know perfectly well that ItIs it itIs Is not at all aU the tho silent moments the rest times s. the tue withdrawing apart for Cor some sort nort of mystical communion that are arc sufficient to f feed p l and ana develop char char- acter actor You know v. that the tile thing a n man mah manIs Is doing for Cor a living so to sneak I Is far more Important than his reflection on tho the cushion of a 0 pew In church or orIn orIn orin In th the quiet bf his library or ot on his knees In s some same mo so called sanctuary New Religion Will IlI Claim All The new ne religion Is goIng golm to claim the whole man and all nU that touches him It Is going oln to claim the whole of life It is orning to insist that th the dally daily task by which a man mon gets his bread shall be lid as sacred as the service of any sanctuary has Ims been beon thought to belt be he lt n I Is III going to tn fin say ay that it Is Just as much a profanation of ot life lite that a n man should ho bo tier tied to a machino In some factory six days day in the week as that lie he should be compelled bv by pollen forte force to alte attend a certain church on Sunday ll pil ed a rOI creator profanation It will vIII declare that it is Just ns nR much a m menace nRC to tn th moral and life Ufo of m men n that they tt he by hy f 11 1 nr of nr starvation to do tasks which they f feel l to h hp ho or Hy or nr un- un just t. t as ss it was waR for fir And his hi nH l to tn cr i m mon n and wom n unit V rain nain of nf f t to I o Apt to doctrines which their souls a at 1 b 1 The will t all of with and It will Insist Mint flint all al ts It work ork ad nd a all It It t k k b h ho rr nd v to the t. t p of ot TI ho 10 Vi mn f ce the thA whole of nf lifo Mf a nA that which now iss hn lH line u- u t foU to do in A AS AI Imro A. A as 55 man n Is I isen en 11 os ns t as the unfolding nt ot hl I ble ethical nature ture a fl certain ns us th tho d do t nm m tit of r cor t th r ll In th the coming davs s shall coi moni 1 lt It f to men n nun rl wom women n a ste r rth f th 10 nn must h hs hp ono one with life It 11 t faIth will h be he cr crU tl r U r than l that nt whIch he tit he pant cast hlll hs lisa known for nr It If will AV sv eternity i li 10 nn now ond that tat no now Is tho the time and ami h he he Is IR the tho place to tn live Jive our lives INI to t tt the full fuhl not In one onema I ma mad ru h for profits such as AI now v th tho oarth hut ut In the r oln olno o to e vr v ever n rv human U lit the chance chanco to tn In th the midst within tho the atmosphere atmos almos- of n R world phere of or brot brotherhood r ho |