Show I NEW NE IN 1 I RELIGION COIN I I S I Unitarian Minister Declares Church Does Docs Not Jot Know Religion PAST FAST REPEATING ITSELF Rev Thurston Brown Says Church Is Denouncing Very Essence of Religion Rev Ho William Thurston Brown Drown minIster minister min mm- ister isLet of the Unitarian church din dis cussed day The Revolutionary Nature of oC Religion lon In part hart ho said The deepest law of oC life in ili H the law of growth Thou shall grow and outgrow or thou die Is 13 s a command infinitely older and infinitely In- In finitely more sacred than nn any ever chiseled on stone stono or printed on parch parch- ment mont And what does that law mean meRn What is its moral and spiritual sig- sig This That no life anywhere anywhere any- any where has any right to root itself in things as the they are Xo No man maim or woman has an any rJ right ht to look upon ulon the beliefs of ot their fathers their or contemporaries ies es or themselves as us Neither has hus ios an any one the time rl right hl to look upon he the forms or customs or laws of cx- cx society as final hero Here Is tho the reo reason on why all progress in fn human history toward better things In religion or In social affairs has tins been cn a tm tragedy ed why the time he beginning of Christianity Inthe hithe in hi the he world was a tra tragedy ed and wh why ever every other genuine religious or moral mor- mor al movement forward ha has been a atra tra that men an and women thoughtlessly allow their lives es to stylize root In the soil of ot some sonic given reed creed or oi belief as If IC that wore were or r permanent which permanent which none ever e can I b be or bor or or In the time soil of economic or social so- so dat cial lal or political forms Corms and laws as if these heso were haul final anti and Just just which which such sueh laws aws never have hae been and never can cnn permanently bo be Iu Liberalism This principle has hns been illustrated in ill n what we call II religious religions liberalism What was the significance of a n. hundred years ago aso I suppose suppose sup sup- pose there wore were people then as there are ire now who thought its only anco carico lay In Ute the rejection of certain old religious or 01 theological ideas Nothing could bo he further from the truth ruth That was ns a mere incident B By Byas Byas as much as had an any moral or spiritual value it was sas a an uprising of or the human soul tho the fulfillment of oC both boLlt those reat great declarations declaration of Jesus Jesus- Ye shall know the truth and amI tho the truth shall make you rou free nn and I 1 am come omo that men may have hu life liCe and have it Jl moro more abundantly antl It Il was the resolution of humanity to gain In a 0 more moro abundant life Ife It was the inevitable discovery of more and larger er truth than thun the world hull hud known Nothing I lg Is more certain certIn than a new alignment In Iii the tho religious lous world a anew anew anew new birth of oC religion For so long has lias rel religion lon even h by those who call cal themselves themselves them- them selves elves free and liberal been I identified wih with beliefs or systems or with wih the fruitless rejection of boilers beliefs beIers or 01 systemS tenis that the very Yel soul of religion has haa been hoen oen well nigh lost sl sight hl of nn and what has hns ms happ happened in the past Is repeated repented before our out eyes eyeR Tho The church again toes does not know leow religion when It sues sees it I t. t and Is en engaged cl now and here herc In denouncing de de- IC- IC the the very ery vcr men and the very ver movements movement which whatever their him him- lm- lm have ho e in lii them the essence of religion lon because the they mean the up- up folding of society upward toward what Is s hl higher and anti butter better and uner un un- un- un der er the inspiration m of ot these these thes o movements of ot today life la is lt coming to mean for formen men meu and women a sacred acred task tak a holy hob mis missIon lon in ln which no price is Js too great to P pay |