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Show REM. URDU Rev. William Thurston Brown, tho ex-Unitarian minister of this city, who recently was made the victim of police brutality in Salt Lako City, pnvo the first of a r.erles of social sermons in Music hall yesterday morning. From bis lecture it would seem that Mr. Brown intends to organize or-ganize a socio-rcllplous society in this city which will hold weekly meeting. The speaker declined to make his pluns public at present, but stated thnt lie would announce tliem at the ' next meMlnK, which will be held In Music hall next Sunday morning. Mr. Brown's left Mr still shows tho effects of tho blow dealt him by the Salt Lake policeman, following the minister's arrest for making a socialist social-ist speech on a street corner. D-.irlng Us lecture he did not touch upon his trouble with the police, but when asked, after the meeting, why In his opinion the officer had struck him, he replied with smiling Irony. "I don't know the officer says it was in self-defense, that he was afraid I was going to strike him." Mr. Brown started bis locture by defining the modern schools of Spain, In the foundation of which Francisco Ferrer gave hls life. He commended Trofesdor IVrrer for bis bread Intellect Intel-lect and heroism and stated that while Ferrer was dead his school still lived. 'I am organizing n 'modern school' in Salt Uike City and I shall probably organize a similar prhool In this city," said the speaker. "It will be a pchool of lectures to the working class to the people who are destined to rule the world. I expect to give lectures In this city all winter, if I find It possible pos-sible to make my expenses In so doing. do-ing. They will not be what are commonly com-monly termed socialist lectures. I nay not use the term 'socialism' It mat'ers not whether I use that word .r not for there la no secrc-dness in words, but In their meaning. The speaker drew a picture of the misery and want that exlsU today among the working class of the larger cities, quoting from Lyman Abbott's nrtiolcs on democracy, now running in tho "Outlook." He stated that in Salt Like City at the present time there are 600 carpenters Idle because there Is no work for them to do. Ho psserted that there are at W-t 1.000 willing workers In tbo capital city without jobs. "Democracy more than any othor word signifies and describe true re-liclon," re-liclon," he said. "You cannot I? re-lieious re-lieious if you feel no responsibility for these men. If you feel no respon-Kiblllty respon-Kiblllty for the great mnss of workers work-ers In the great mines and mills or for tho great army of men who are vainly seeking frnploment, never, rover call yourself a Chrlrtlan. rte-lldon rte-lldon Is no longer a little Individual thing: It has become a uncial thing. And a religious man must do more than strive to push his own llttl soul into heaven ho must work for tho whol race. He must strive to ralHP to a higher standard the life of hH brothers, of society tn general. "If Christ came to eurth today I doubt if he would be recognized in any church of the country, for be would not bo with the master class, but with the struggling worker. Ho would probably be arrested for his public utterances nnd thrown upon the roek pile of some modern cltv prison. Tho church of today Is proving prov-ing itself inefficient and Inadequate to meet and cope with the conditions which confront It. HellclonR thonKht is changing nnd must change to conform con-form with tho truths of evolutionary science. We must recognize that the work and Inspiration of such men as Darwin, Spencer and Hacked are Just as much entitled to be called holy a are the efforfg of theologians. "I left tho Unitarian church not because be-cause I have In any sense repudiated religion I want no one to think thli but because the church would not open It doors to social truth as I saw If. 1 left with no bliternens but with a feeling that 1 had grown 'out of It; that I must utilize th results of modern mod-ern scleneo and that T coijM do this outside of the church better than I could within." The crowd which had gathered to bar Mr. Brown speak was not a large one, but numbered among It many of the speaker's old friends. It was not a socialist crowd, although there were In It a number of Debbs followers. As a whole It was a group representative of that element of citizens which d-vnfs d-vnfs much thought to religious and political progress. |