Show S E mul N D Y v s T T fual M I 1 TJ I 1 I 1 1111 may DELIVERED BEFORE THE FIRST UNITARIAN SOCIETY the theme was on the truth that was in s f christ tae the services of the first girst 7 society were e r w well attended last even ing at their regular meeting in K M of P F hall E excellent xcell ent was fu finished by the recently organized quartette miss sang a solo the sermon was by rev frank fay eddy of salt lake city tin the th themo ernei the truth that Is in christ mr eddy said that as he looked at the theme the truth that was in jesua was immeasurably less than the truth that is in christ jesus was a man mar while we embrace under the term Cl christ irist an ideal as boundless as human buman itys aspirations in speaking of the man jesus he said jesus Is one of the spiritual heroes of the race perhaps the greatest renan was right when he declared that jesus founded true religion as ar socrates founded true philosophy and aristotle true science but ho he did not invent religion or even discover it he lie simplified it put its eternal truths in direct and impressive statements then he lived this faith in its beautiful simpli simplicity elty be cause ot of the unique greatness of thlu man maa jesus as a an exponent and exemplar emelar of the truth that Is in ili christ let lot us tike take him as searching tor for the deeper meaning of the phase pUse mr eddy took a separate text foe for each dach of the main divisions of the semon first he lie quoted jesus as saying 1 I and my father are one this he said saia asserts the imminence of the divine in the human there are those who dislike the phrase man yet permits of construe eions that might appeal to the most practical millie all the greatness of life is founded upon our comprehension of certain universal ethical and moral principles such as fidelity t to truth love of aspiration to realize a sense of unity with these great human im pulses Is to make the tile divine imminent in our humanity to comprehend in this that there is one great inclusive over soul or life which is god this jg Is the supreme act of faith th greatness of the gospel of jesus josts came from just this absolute sense gense of unity unita which led him to say 1 I and M father are one after illustrating and amplifying this main thought mr eddy in th concluding portion of hia his discourse made the following application the noblest resurrection thought is based upon this human capacity of ours to respond to the call of gods truth in the universe we may give 1 a I nobler meaning to the words of ot paul than he himself dreamed of when he says As in adam all die so in christ all shall be made alive As we live in the flesh and for the flesh we have only a dull insensate existence a little above the brutes but separated from thorn them in degree only because of our nimbler wits truly in adam we wi are dead in such living but when we respond to ideals of truth seeking of loving service and know the joy ot of righteous ness then we w are alive alive in christ the sensa of being spiritually alive of being a participant with gol in working out hla hia wide sweeping plans this is the proof of immortality indeed it ig Is experimental immortality in itow because each of us feela himself a determining living force a 1 little providence in his own r right ho he assumes lih immortality mortality as his natural heritage this is tho the great spiritual fact behind all our resurrection legends humanity exhibits a wonderful power of adaptation and resurrection amid earthly associations we rise new now born from sorrows night and disappointments appoint winter marvelously in the right environment souls flower into greatness it if we can thus adapt ourselves in various shifting scenes we feel that in a future life we will as naturally play the part of living creatures why not no soul can come into a vitalizing sense of unity with god and his truth without developing this godlike instinct for immortality aside from this we have no proof of immortality and are not likely to have As for myself I 1 do not entertain the slightest belief in the bodily resurrection of jesus on the third day I 1 have no desire for any such proof proof which would contradict the gei general leral scheme of things inan in an otherwise law abiding universe for tor this incident we have only the conflicting evidence ot of secondhand second hand witnesses suppose it were true and men and women really believed the ancient legend the shroud under tinder their and ritual then how explain the I 1 acen ascension slon tor for instance ANY where hero did christ go when he went upward locate heaven among the planets explain how a physical living body could pass through cold voids with out atmosphere it all becomes absurd it belonged to a time when men believed heaven was located juit jurt over our heads and that angels came and went op a golden stairway through som some 1 e kind of 0 a trap door no the true resurrection thought Is found in contemplating that harmony of mind and heart which humanity manity may attain with the over soua soul insofar as we are spiritually alive we wear our immortality as a general it is ours by right of iia nature ture 11 wanted A few mor more shares of tai ogden hydro carbon light and heating company stock address dp D stan dard office |