Ogden Morning Examiner and Morning Standard | 1909-02-21 | Page 8 | Religion and Democracy

I RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY On Wednesday evening February 24 at the ilie Congregational church William Thurston Brown will give the concluding lecture ot or the Walt Whit Whitman Whitman Whitman man series This address will ber be pa patriotic In the tile truest sense an nn exposi exposition exposition tion of or groat thought ot of as a the expression of or truly religious life When Whitman said Religion must enter Into tho the life lite of oC the nation must make mako the nation ho he ii evidently had ha in lit mind religion as Mr Ir Brown Drown defines it as A conscious consciousness ness uess of ot God In tho hue soul of or man And Amid when he lue said Affection shall solve the problems of or freedom yet et those who love each other othor shall become in invincible the slush shall yet ct make Colum Columbia Columbia bia bin victorious he declared his faith alth althin m in the tho new commandment In which w 9 all profess a belief of love Jove one ono onoto oneto oneto to another belief in this love 00 of comrades is not only the cornerstone hut but the tho material of or the whole structure structure ture turo of democracy Is thus set forth In Inthe Inthe inthe the opening lines of Leaves of Grass Come I will make the continent Indissoluble I will make mako the most splendid race raco hc the sun over ever yet ct shown upon I I will make divine magnets lands lanil With s the love of or comrades the lifelong love hove ove of comrades I When It Is remembered that Whit Whitman man nuan personally ministered tout tOll hun nun hundred Ired dred thousand sick Ick and aud wounded Bounded sol soldiers so diers Hers anti and Confederate during the Civil war win It will be conceded that hat he lie understands the tho meaning of the he word comrade and that thaI his thought bought of tills nation as a l nation of ot comrades Is the greatest possible ideal of or democracy If H you would think of or your our country as the tho prophetic soul of Whitman Institution of or dear R ans aw Vo It as The the ito hove ove of comrades hoar hear Mr lr Brown BrownM a clear and forceful elucidation of ot thought In the lecture Re Ro and Democracy