Show I PAST MESSIAH NOT FOR TODAY The Rev W. W T. T Brown Declares Story of Christ Is Out of Date DIVINE SCHEME CONTROL The Sense of Religion Must Fit Fitin Fitin I in With Modern Progress What Is the Worth orth of or a Man Mui In was the tho subject of or a stirring sermon delivered de dc- de- de livered b by the Rev nc Dr William Thurston Thurs Thurs- ton Brown Drown in Unity hall haJ yesterday A discussion of divine divino power enters into the tho spirit piri of at the discussion which In part follows Is It not our business bu ln ss to havo have somo some conviction con some hope somo some faith concerning con con- the tho city tho the nation naton tho the world we live e 1 in In-a In In a conviction con and a faith ralth which take tako account of ot the whole fa fabric Ia- Ia brIe bric of civilization What hat do we conceive con con- to be bo the right thing for our lives to be What hat Is the divine dl scheme chemo of things Into which we are to lit fit ft Not ot tho tue human scheme of ot things s. s not an any selfish scheme for tor or that would not be bo religious We Ve men and women can have a sense of 01 religion or of or the In Indefinite indefinite In- In definite worth of or life Ile only as we wo be become he- he come conscious of ot fitting into a divine scheme of ot things s which can cn mean no nomore more mOIe than titan such sucks a scheme of life as aswill aswill will ull satisfy the needs and aspirations of or all nl sorts and conditions of ot men What hat can cn satisfy the human soul that the power po or which rules the universe Is la lagood good It I Isn't enough to accept the word of or some fome one else that that power Is 11 good No o bod body el else's es e's word will wi an an- an We e cannot ha have ve rel religion lon by proxy We e must have It I each for tor him him- I self Can wo we escape the thc conviction that the sense of or moral ethical spiritual obligation which Jesus hud had Is Js al also o ours ours ours-ours ours because e He lie was human and we are arc human What hat I is that obliga tion ton To bring home the tue truth of or religion to all al men How low can that be done dono tOda today It I cannot annot bo IJO done as it I has been attempted In any an past period of or human history If I the tho truth of ot re reIg religion re- re Ig ligion on is brought home to men and women women wo wo- men the they whit be bo made mado to know that life is worth while Is good Whatever Whatever What What- hat ever makes them know that makes them rel religious l How Ho can we wo do that sacred d thing today Wo We e cannot do It by b teaching any creed whatsoever I Wo We 0 cannot do It b by sowing the tho land knee deep with wih Bibles We 0 cannot do It by multiplying churches We e cannot do It i by hy teaching bo boys s 's and girls and men mon and omen v-omen women about God Tho The things thing which once produced conviction con do not miot do so now We Ve have been taught that lint God manifested man man- himself once for tor all al In a Mes Mes- Ics Ics- slab siah and that Messiah Messiahs was Jesus of or r Nazareth How tragically untrue that teaching i is teching The Tho world must have constant repeated ever changing o cr ever ever- growing manifestations of o God God Not one Christ Christ Christ-a Christ Christ-a a million milon Christ Christs must the tho world have To 0 try tr to satisfy the tIme satt worlds world's need heed h by by repeating the stor story of oC Jesus hy by V asking ln the world to accept accept ac- ac Him mV Is ls giving It I t a stone for tor bread Is trYing to turn tIme the moral ml mm mill f wheels of at toda today oday with the wt wlter sater r that Is past past Time The world must m st learn the truth or of r religion b lii by doIng tIme the work nf of religion Human society today tola must be bc Gods new now Messiah Messia le i Our r cities culos- cUel our schools our industries Indus- Indus tries ir fi our 1 0 commerce 0 our whole civi these these have ha become the preachers and the only preachers by bythe b which or through which the message of religion In these days das can adequate adequate- 13 l' l be spoken No 0 of the past can eRn be at all comparable In al effective effective- neBS fleas moral with wih time the voice time tho meaning erect c the or of these social In In- that surround shape guide determine for Fulde the great mass or of men antI M women m n what life ft great Is la t to be or seem to them Are millions of 01 nn toda pose pOKe today that void or of f an W conviction or purpose pur pur- pur men resembles the conviction and purpose of or Jesus Are Au millions of men ignorant or of the h milons ot of a good o or God r It I Is h because they have listened to and believed the message of or that S system whIch Is humanly omnipotent om- om over UJ their lr lives What hat do Ivee we want this civilization society nil this of ours to say sav to the mull mull- lions of boys and ml- ml lon girls who are arc all time tie While hl coming upon the sta stage e nA ni R wan it I to ta say that human ii Ss e-Ss ot great reat worth or ot of little worth That hat human life Is or of primary Importance and all al other things secondary or that other things a property p profits re arc ot of as Importance and human hu- hu man life secondary Does Docs an any ono one onor suppose the tho mass S of men can h isear the r 3 dh voice of r some idealized d 1 C and d distant t delt deity above n time the roar and thunder or of things ns as thE they are Either ane we wc must clothe with wih the tho attributes or of gentleness gentle gentle- ness love lo e and justice that thal pres over ent power of or our social order which presses presse so Immediately and constantly ott on the lives es 1 or of men or We must abandon aban aban- Ion don all al hope or of lon We Ve cannot have havo any Got God or of the past No God or of the tho past Is adequate to Co the n need ed of at toda today and tomorrow But we cnn can have a God whom time the whole world will worship wor- wor ship whom all nl men will wi love lo wi b by Investing In- In vesting all al that has hns power flower over human lives es 1 with tIme the spirit of justice time the sPirit or of fairness time thA of oC spirit brother brother- hood and In hool no other wa sway |