Show IMMORTALITY A AI I Of TODAY JOllA Y S 5 Hope of Future Is Only Based on oil Present Vital VitalS S S Realities ETERNITY NOW WITH US In lii Strong Sermon Rev William 3 j 5 Thurston Brown Sets i S j This Forth S t Immortality Is IH not the hope o of the said S future but a n fact act of ot the present I the Rev Rc William Thurston Brown rown In InI 5 Hall yesterday his sermon at Unity I Following Is an nn extract from tho the serS sermon ser ser- S mon Immortality Is II a II question of quality of ot tho the and not hot of Ot quantity a a. question I nu now and here not at all a question of the future Religion has nothing to toS todo for the lie S do 10 with a future existence r. that our minds can not S jI know any such thing tiling As Cha Charles Ferguson Fer Fer- guson gilson lIson says This is ct eternity how eternity now S It ft wrapped as 11 In you OU are sunk as deep will be The close In It as you vou over ever 0 future Js is an Hn Illusion It never neer arrives It tiles flies before you You Oll as you advance Al Always Always Al- Al ways It Is today and after a long time It Is still toda today and ami after death dath and a n thousands years It Is toda today You have great groat reat deeds to perform and you OU must do to them theta now That Is supremely a religious utterance Tho The assurance or conviction of or immortality Im Immortality Im- Im mortality never comes to any soul from mere argument or reasoning or author author- i It ity All the philosophers that have lived hived or that live now have not been halt half so 00 potent In creating in men's mens souls the tho belief beller In Immortality as I iho ho simple life of a Galilean peasant whose teaching teach teach- lug ing hardly contains a a. hint of ot the Idea ideaS of or a future life S Religion Hylon I ho Ton Tense cAll c. c All tile tho facts of ot rell religion lon are re of ot the pre present nt tense The world we e are art livIng living liv liv- ing In In Is frel freighted with all of ot opportunity unity obligation obligation- achievement c peri- peri ence and need that we can cnn ever Iwer know It I Is not the hope of ot lt Immortality that S we WC want want Tie lie who speaks of or the thc hope of or Immortality Isn't using the tho language e eor of or religion at all al Immortality must be bea beu a u matter mater of ot consciousness fact of ot ones one's onesS Jre life or It I does docs not exist for a man The S problem of or Immortality from center to toS S Circumference Is a moral problem the tho problem of giving to human life Im Immortal Immortal immortal Im- Im mortal worth as well wel as Immortal sig sig- And that problem wo we mi may mayas DR as well wel know Is not the problem of ot a God but hut the Immediate problem of or men How Ho shall the sense of ot Immortality become a fact tact of ot our lives Tho The man nan man who exists chiefly chIen for tor the purpose c of or eating and drinking drinkinG or of ot experiencing pleasurable physical sen sensations will wi of ot Immortality It not gain aln this sense I doesn't He lie le on that plane Tho They whoso whose o st on nn this tIl earth oarth Is I absorbed n u In the mere mere pursuit of ot material things who value alue their possession and the tho power ower the they bring above aboe all else elge can cannot cannot cn not kno know the meaning o of immortality Immortality does doCs not Ho lie le on that plane either eitler And If I there are m n and women whoso whose lives in the or very nature of or things thing as thc they now are are loomed doomed to- to tl toan an 11 existence devoid deold of or opportunity d devoid vold of or Incentive Incent to thought and re reflection re- re one one monotonous round of or one druger such men and women not only will not attain this sense of or Immortality Immor Immor- wi this sense of or the Immortal worth of talU life lre which Immortality Is but tho they will wi as al millions of or them are now doln doing obe obey the brutal Instinct that makes more mere physical indulgence and d aimless amusement the supreme end of or existS existence exist exist- S i ence ence S S Ie- Ie Jeu tin u. u nil es RI nu an Immortal 1 What hal va was the distinctive mark marl of or l life tho life which more oro than c L n c suggests u ge t tho thou thought ht of ot unS un- un It I was as the life Jre of ot a man 5 S made religion Ills bis one ohe S business who took took- tool religion lon seriously That meant that Jesus Jeans Jeus had a profound conviction on as 35 to what life means menns and what It Is for or What hat does the tIme world mean men That Is the fundamental human question and nd all al depends on its is answer Jesus hesus answered that question queston b by his eUS lf life And this Is hi his answer This world is a human home All An lt Its men and women are brothers and sisters equally beloved belo by the one Eternal Father each with as much right here herc RR as H a any other But people dont don't seem eel to be he aware of or this central fact tact o of life lre and so there Is evil evi and dl discord cord every every- where here What then must a roan man do There Is but one thing to do Ho lie must become a messenger cr of ot this truth to others B By all nl that he Is Is with wih all al ho he possesses or is capable of or he must mus do lo that supremely remel sacred thing And Arid ho lie must proceed to organize life lre on tho the sis basis bals of or that fundamental law Jaw That tells the whole story of or Jesus That explains his Hense Bense of or immortality A Ama Aman Aman man ma is immortal has tho the consciousness of ot immortality only as aR he consciously becomes the door of divine deeds an agent of ot Gods God's plan for mankind mankind of t of ofa a plan for tot mankind worthy of or a God at least Here Is tho the profoundest moral challen challenge challenge chal chal- len lenge e our lives C cart can n know the know the challenge challenge chal chal- lenge binge which faces the whole fabric of or our life personal social civic lc c pol political U- U cal industrial Industrial Shall wo give ive religion a 8 trial Shall we take religion seriously seriously seri serl- ou 1 Shall wo we begin In this Twentieth Twentieth teth century to give substance and reality to the faith of ot Jesus Wo We 0 can cn know the feeling of ot Immortality ever only as wo We have tho the senie sense that life Is divinely nely worth while That sense Hense of ot the worth of life Iome comes now nou to in men melt and d women v vm m n- n nm m more mio io th than i anywhere n- n else S In the atmosphere of ot home where peace I Is where love Is Is where J ji Uce tice Is automatic auto auto- matic Is certain it I Is la love lovo in acton action But we can cn secure that home atmosphere for ourselves only as a it Is secured for Cor all al Tho whole world is one knit together over moro closely cosely with wih ono one morality one ethics ethic one destiny one fate for all al We e sink or swim lm A to to- to gether ether Wo We 0 rise or fall CaU together We Ve Weare aro are a a brotherhood b by Inescapable Jaw law This human word has hI got to be a homo home or a 1 hell hel rho Tho very essence o of or religion Is b tho the conscious operation co-operation co of ot all al for forthe forthe the establishment of or tr freedom edom and i ih health h and unfolding and life lre for each For us u men and women so 80 to cooperate oper co ate Is for us to enter Into the tho only sense of or God we can have Is II to undertake undertake undertake under under- take a sacred task is to breathe the atmosphere of or oh an n Immortal Immortal world is to move with like God tread trad along tImeS tIme the S grand roadY of or the tho universe |