Show PREACHER HITS AT ATTHE ATTHE THE CHARITY BAll M Minister Declares Organization Inspired by Religion Would I Not Hold Ball HAS NO FAITH IN CHARITY Rev William Thurston n ii Brown Advocates Some Peculiar Views From Pulpit Rev hey William Thurston Drown Brown 1 pastor tor of or the tho First Unitarian spoke yesterday on What Religion Means I and What It Seeks to Do Among othur other things he said This present week under the nus- nus plo ploos s of ot a professedly religious organIzation organization organ organ- in this city Is to be given Riven what hat I Is iii called a 1 Charity Charlt Ball The object of ot this Charity Ball Bali Is to raise a 3 fund of for what what Is called charlt charity 11 it Is foreseen that tho Iho coming winter w vill ll be bo marked by b considerable suffer suffer- Ing lug for Cor tho the necessities of life lire on the part of or A L portion of ot our out people There will be many cas cases cases Ii for Cor charity relief reHer So It Is proposed to raise a fund rund for forthe forthe the benefit of ot these cases eases of or neeL It is felt Colt probably correctly that thaL it will bo lu possible to raise ralso nn any considerable considerable con con- amount of or money mono from those who lio havo have It only by br offering the at attraction attraction attraction at- at traction of or a unique social event A large number of people who haven't the smallest personal Interest in this matter of ot charity nn and who never give a moments moment's thought to the cause causo of ot poverty will pa pay something for COl tho the privilege of or dancing and especially of or lancing dancing in tho the company of oC such Buch distinguished ills dis Un people as ns are arc expected to tobe tobe tobe be present at so Important a social event as ts the Charity Ball Tho The proceeds proceeds proceeds pro pro- are to be given for Cor the relief of the tho poor Charity end What Vhal will this giving ing of ot charity mean Has It any remote lemot relation to lo religion Granted that thal it will mean moan some som relief of ot suffering among certain people But that la Is not a religious question at nil all That has nothing to todo tb do du with human brotherhood the necessary necessary sary ary corollary of or Divine Fatherhood Wo Vo do not bring the brotherhood of lila nan one step nearer by hy giving charlt charity Indeed wo we put pill it a little farther awa away And we vo certainly do not suggest a moaning for tor tho the Fatherhood of ot God which can cnn possibly pO arouse ono one heart heartthrob heartthrob tin throb ob of or worship or reverence reverence- in an any I IFor thinking mind For charlt charity Instead of or establishing a n bond hond of brotherhood or or of kinship between the one ono who gives and the theone theono theono ono one who receives builds higher than titan before the social wall that separates tho the two Charity Charily Is a denial of or the lIr brotherhood of man There Isn't an any sn sense c of or brotherhood between th the cr giver of money for tor charity and the men mon and women who receive such money and there hero isn't an Intelligent man amon among us who does not know that to be bo the case ase Besl Besides es charity charily his has its something still loro false falso and cv evil 11 in IL H. It assumes as true truo what i Is not true at all aB what ls is a lie It JL is based on a 11 falsehood It assumes that the Immediate Immediate- anI and pressing pressing press press- ing nee need of men and women in want ant is mone money But lint that Isn't the tho immediate and pressing need of tiny any one as no rio noone OTtO one should know so well as an any one who tho knows mows the alphabet of or religious principles 8 It Isn't money that people will vill need this winter r either In Salt Lake or In Chicago o or Ne New York or London or anywhere an whore else And nd no man sensible of ethical or mural moral consIderations considerations considerations will think so What hat is needed every where is the free and fair tall chance to earn carn money to gain a living hon lion estl estly Spirit of ot Can you riot not see then that any which really contains contain th tho tim spirit of ot religion instead of oC holding hallim for tOl the sake of or charity instead of being chiefly concerned about th the tho l relief reller of suffering on the part of or a portion of or society society society-a a suffering that la is directly traceable to tu an Iniquitous and doomed economic system system instead instead of thinking about tho symptoms of a so social so- so cial disorder and treating those s symptoms mp te toms m will think or l of men and women of or brothers and Oll sisters will feel tec above all things s tho tIme need that these men and women have tho the chance to be he men and women and not mere nere objects of or charity charlt mere cases for the charity charlt worker What it t will vill seek tou tOJ do Is not to feed reed and clothe the tho body not to perform perform perform per per- form for humans the functions of ot a 11 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty CruellY to Animals but to create character to take away the obstacles to s self re U-re- U manhood and womanhood to establish and insist upon the conditions conditions conditions condi condi- in which these can exist and without without without with with- out which the they can not exist will deman demand de do- man mand manul U as the time first and peremptory right of ot moral life lite the free fieo opportunity to work and to receive the full fuH product of L f. that work That flint Is precisely what hat hatan an on organization inspired b by religion lon lonwill will d dp and holding charity balls or establishing soup I kitchens and bread breadlines breadlines lines is exactly what hat IL it will not do 0 |