Show ELEM ELEMENTAL NT AL FAITH COMMON TO MEN Natural Attitudes of Awakening Awakening Awaken Awaken- ing Mind Sources of Religion LARGE IDEAS UNIVERSAL I Rev Ie Contends Wonder Trust Aspiration Lead to lo Iiii Founding Found miti- miti In lug ing of Religions A At t the lie First Unitarian church yesterday yester ester estera day a Rev He Frank I. I Fay a Ed Eddy took as a atheme theme home The Time Religion lon of or Man lie He sal said there lit was an elemental faith that was WIlS common jo mm on to all men a faith of all souls He 1111 Used usell illustratively el the time passage L if G Genesis which describes c Jacob visited d In I Ithe the night at a as he lie Is on his his' wa way with all his bis possessions to the lan land landof landof of Egypt In this we find the lie I common elements of religion namely r wOI trust an and aspiration These lhee natural nat nat- ural attitudes of the awakening awakening- mind of man mall arc nrc the sources of all religion sal said Mr Ir l Edly out of this raw laW material immaterial are fashioned all oh the lie diverse faiths of or men Miss 1188 Nellie Mahan Malman sang the time solo 00 In the tho musical program an and amid Unit Unity quartette rendered au an anthem extracts from Mr Ir Eddys Eddy's sermon ermon follow Certain Ideas alThe al The results which grow glow naturally nn and Inevitably Inc from time the wonder the tho trust anti and th the aspiration of mankind are area va Va- rious iiii hilt but even In iii the lie domain of results certain large l Ideas or 01 fundamental conceptions con con- are seen neen to bo lie 0 For Fol on oum thing some sonic kind hind of or a Go God Is a u result Gods Cods arc fashioned out of mans moans own thought Man lan begins to lo won wonder er and question anti and Instinctively e ho he makes I a god goll who Is the tho lie miracle worker amid the lie mysteries otherwise Inexplicable Nat Nat- he makes his JO gods s vcr very 0 him i self or at least like his own Ideals Flint hits his expanding conception of Go God Cod answers the tie call of a living reality I 1 do not ques ques- tion but hut thus Is the lie god goll l Idea eu formed In t th I huma human n mind Close following comes conies Some tome form of propitiation 01 or communion To ro get In touch with the divine In is the lie aim aini of or ull all worship from tram fetich worship anti and rankest l Idolatry to the 1 communion of or pure note lure and loft lofty souls with I the Over soul Origin ln of Righteousness Mans Ian discovery of God Cod mu must t have bavo hl u clo e followed IJ by lh time the thought that lint there here was also a n will of or God Gall To do o this un and not to lo do that wa was to please pleas the lie gods Jolls That is Is ho he arrIved at al a a. knowledge knowledg of or righteousness accepted a standard of conduct In religious matters Ills moral It ity which usually was a result of or history an and environment In Us its beginnings was wa soon soomi connected with his hla Ideas of rl Thus some sonic ver very curious customs have hav hen been Ia sanctified no tl Including such auch things as war slavery r and polygamy Gradually wo we have hav abandoned th the hue thought of ot righteousness which Is founded upon the lie Imperious and nd capricious ivill or of God Goll as an Irresponsible tyrant to the tho thought of or law as ns a sequence nce an un a Inva- ibl happening It Is b beginning to dawn upon u Uti that lint cause caust and art are operative o everywhere a as much sequence In the lie n l mental and antI spiritual realm as us In iii time till physical Righteousness we see ge Is ad nil- nd- nd to law It Is being to 10 these eternal sequences and loyalty to our sanest Interpretations of or them I |