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Show SERMON AT UNITARIAN CHURCH I REV WILLIAM THURSTON BROWN TALKS TO CONGREGATION. Considers the Theme, "What Our Industrialism In-dustrialism Means and What It' Might Mean." Industrialism gets a good deal closer clos-er to boya and girls and men and women. wo-men. It is talking to them every day in the week, and It uses language easy to understand. It does not talk about a "sweet bye and bye." It does not know anything more about that than churches do. But it does talk about what Is. And It tells these men and women and children so plainly that they do not Tail to understand that the forces which are omnipotent here on earth do not caro anything aoout human life, except to exploit It. It does not know anything about an Immortal Im-mortal soul. In fact, it Joes not care whether there Is such a thing as a soul. Soul isn't. w hat it is looking for. There our nature. Change the system, make tho servant Instead of the master of men, make Its purposes frankly the education of life, the expression of manhood and womanhood, the culture of hope and faith and love and Joy, and superstition will fade, ignorance will disappear, a sound mind In a sound body will be realized, and a new era In tho unfolding of human Ufo will begin. j I is no market for souls. There is a market for bodleB. And It Informs men and women and children that their bodies must be banded over to the induutrlal machine. And when it hangs out its sign, "Small girls wanted." want-ed." it does not mean exactly what the churches mean when by the lips of their priests and ministers the say: "Come to Jesus." "Mr. Rockefeller has given about tweny millions of dollars which he never earned to establish Chicago university, uni-versity, but there Is probably not a" dozen families out of the twenty thousand thous-and employes of the Standard Oil company com-pany that can afford to send a son or daughter to that institution. And there are comparatively few of the users of this oil the consumers whose tribute helps to create Mr. Rockefeller's Rockefel-ler's millions who can avail themselves them-selves of the opportunities of that Institution. In-stitution. It Is not at all certain that they would be greatly the gainers If they could. At. least." It Is not at all certain that they would lenrn within the walls of Chicago university anything any-thing that would help to hasten the one thing which needs most to be secured: se-cured: the emancipation of the working work-ing class. "It ought not to take u so long to find out that there Is something bet ter that our Industrial system might mean for boys and girls and men and women, something that It must mean If this is to be a tolerable world. 1 maintain that every factory, mine, railroad, shop, store, farm, or other form of Industrial life ought to bo devoted de-voted to one purpose, and under anything any-thing worthy lo be called a sane civilization civili-zation they will be. And that purpose Is the education of human life, "I mean that tho only Justification of Industry Is the education of human beings, the unfolding of their possibilities. possibil-ities. That Is precisely what every branch of industry should mean and can mean, and if there Is any virtue left In men, that Is what It Is going to mean. And the time Is not far off as manv think. We need sound, stronc. healthy, well-developed bodies. That need is just as sacred as any other that can -be named. No church of any sort and no ecclesiastics ever enunciated enun-ciated a more , sacred need than that Gymnasiums today arc confessions that our whole , system Is wrong. There Is no good reason why the various var-ious industries should not do what gpmnaslmus now try to do. And they ought to do it a great deal better. It Is Incomparably move Interesting to get one's exercise In tho process of doing something useful than In going mechanically through the various motions mo-tions of a gymnasium. "But we need also the symmetrical development of Intellect We are more than bodies We are minds. Wo think. We asplro to know. We havo a right to know. It is good for us to know and to know all that h to bo known. Ignorance Is not a good thing. It is a misfortune. If a human being has any right at all, it is the right of knowledge. We have the right to see the world we live In, to know its meaning, mean-ing, to bo conscious of its use and beauty. That is a part of life. That is our inheritance as humans. "But we are more than minds and bodies. We have at least the rudiments rudi-ments of a moral sense. We have some consciousness of ethical beauty and worth. It is our right to unfold within the atmosphere and environment environ-ment of a moral world. I maintain that It is a crime against the human soul that the occupation at which one must be engaged more than half one's waking hours should be one that violates vio-lates our sense of justice and truth. Our modern industrialism absolutely . forbids a man to be a man. It compels him to stifle conscience. It necessitates necessi-tates the sacrifice of that which Is dearer than life. Indeed, it declares that a nan shall not live at all, unless he will part with hs manhood And when he has become utterly Incapable of doing anything, it pauperizes him and stamps out any remaining vestiges of manhood under the guise of charity. It is doing worse than that, for it is making men the objects of charity long before they are incapablu. of work. Today we are trying to havo a religion re-ligion without any ethics. And we are succeeding perfectly. Our religion is very largely Insulated from all vital contacts with life. The fact that a mau belongs to this or that church argues nothing whatever as to his ethical relation to his fellow men. Do nut misunderstand me. I do not question ques-tion he influence which religion has exerted In many ways on the individual individ-ual soul. But it has not touched the Industrial system. The operations of that system are as Independent of Its power as the motions of the constellations constella-tions are. We may be sure that we will havo nothing ethical In our lhes until wo change their economic basis. Nothing Is more certain than that tho ethical life of men Is not being fed today. It Is not being enriched either among tho people who possess tho bulk of the world's wealth or among those who are now exploited of their products. On the contrary, it is being smothered and withered and destroyed. And the reason Ir not that we are not capable of anything bettor, not at all that Individuals In-dividuals cannot be found now as ever who havo sympathy and affection. It is because w-e lack tho means of expressing ex-pressing these nobler possibilities of |