Show I 1 U NIT K I 1 ruah 1 F 0 R I 1 SOCIE I 1 I 1 REVS BROWN AND EDDY AD DRESS RELIGIOUS LIBERALS I 1 I 1 field secretary of rocky mountain division of church speaks on I 1 higher kinship I 1 I 1 the dozen or L so 0 o earnest souls who have set the task of form ing a unitarian society in ogden mot met last night hight at the knights of pythias hall ball to meet the rev william T brown fied fidd secretary of the rocky mountain region who spoke to them ort on the subject of the higher kinship anthems and vocal solos soloa were given by bv the unity quartet ot of salt lake consisting of mrs bessie browning miss alis 5 delta delia INI mahan alian joseph poll and A G maban who in company with a number of salt lake unitarians came up on a special train to meet bhoge who are to be the nucleus of a new of I 1 rev frank fay eddy pastor of the first unitarian society spoke on the topic of the new church which he hoped they would succeed in forming he described deschi bed the which animated as that of freedom and self expression he defined dellner the work of the church as the expression in now terms of the old religious facts acts the difference between the new and tho the orthodox he said hinged upon the doctrine of vicarious atonement atonement by blood that doctrine he said marked a clear cut difference between the two ideas in religion the unitarians rejected the idea of a god godman man dying that they might live and regarded legar ded jesus christ us a man a supreme spiritual genius and the prophet of tile the spiritual life of man speaking cing of the church to be founded in ogden he said it would be a new means of se sf expression a new avo ave nue of communion and a new nev social force in the city the unitarianism he stood for wa was s he said militant not in the sense that it would fight any ally other denomination but that it stood for god and country for the higher kinship spoken of by rev mr brown and for consequent bettor better conditions and a recognition of the divine in man mr browns sermon on the higher kinanis was as follows it is said that over the entrance of one of the greek temples of ancient temples of ancient time was the inscription know thyself that old inscription means little to you and me perhaps nothing at all that stirs our souls but it meant much to some of the men and women of that ancient world into those two words wards was packed the very essence of their civilization iza tion of their philosophy of life of their religion there is something deeply pathetic about those words for the reason that the thought they express was so immeasurably in advance of the time we do not even now hold those old greek thinkers in reverence to any extent we nare rever think of them as religious and their thought does not dominate our life it Is almost as if they had lived and thought in vain for any man or woman of earnestness or wisdom or worth never to gain recognition never to he be understood never to havo have his or her truth recognized and received 1 and revered Is one of the most moat tragic things in human experience would it not seem to you an unspeakable pity if the words the deeds the life and character of jesus had gone for naught save within the narrow limits of palestine anat he should have borne such splendid witness to the truth utterly in vain that his life and influence should have disappeared from the earth as a river loses itself in the sand never to touch or inspire or quicken the moral life and the spiritual ideals of the world for all these two thousand years because no one was wag found great enough to perpetuate pe that truth or no one cespon sive enough to revere and cherish it would not that have been a world word tragedy unspeakably sad that old greek inscription had immortal truth in it truth as aa sacred as any to which jesus bore witness indeed it was exactly that old truth to which jesus did bear witness and it Is s slowly but surely coming to its own we are finding or we shall find that there is nothing in all the world and there never will be in any other horld world so sacred as human life nothing so at well worth knowing as human life there is nothing that men and women hold sacred today which does doen not get all its sacredness from human life from human life of the very same substance as our own it the world we live in has any meaning I 1 or any value it is to be found in this I 1 that it is a memis means for the making of men for the growth of souls all the moaning meaning or value the world has or can have if we are are interested in the bible it ft is because we believe it has been and still may mat be a help in tho the making of men in tho the growth j of souls if we care for a church it is because we think it can make some I 1 contribution to this divine task tho making of men the growth of souls if we hold jesus of nazareth in rever ence is it not because wo we believe that he hb has some vital relation to this work i 1 of soul making which alone makes the world worth while indeed must we nt na n A go still farther and say that the highest eliest hi value to us of jesus Is to be found in the light his hig own character his own life throws on this same human problem abat Is if the story atory of a human life its real story what is the story of beaus life of any mans life who ever comes to any noral moral stature at all it may be described b as a series of awak edings to certain facts to certain facts of life lit to certain truths of existence a succession pf af discoveries of hin kinship ship the first aNya awakening koning or discovery that any human life makes makee is the diso cobery of motherhood the fact of motherhood that is the very first reality that greets a human soul every child finds out that it hag haa a mother long before it has any sense whatever of a father indeed the ery cry of a father ls la almost a matter of indifference in the he lite life of a human being compared with the d davery of ft a mother and a child h fir fiuk r i aigotti purely and simply through uie tile experience of care of affection af 0 feyd r ness nees of devotion the pera lr ima gives to the cli child ald these think TAO I 1 cares for ita it sacrifices for it lun a 4 broods orbr over it feeds defenda jg t sects it that person Is mother may not be the woman who gayy davd birth that is utterly unimportant fic as ar the child is concerned that has nothing to do with the childs dis bovry ot motherhood d it is love care devotion defense protection tenderness these are motherhood to any and every child that knows motherhood at all now that discovery of kinship in the life of a caile Is always any every where the result of experience it can come in no other way it cannot bo learned in books no class room can impart that knowledge nor JB is there any moral choice on the part of the child it is ig I 1 merely the result of the child a 9 surroundings the he child Is alle a seed of grain it grows where it I 1 is s p planted I 1 ant ed it will grow somehow in any soll soil and an any y one who can give it the care and love and devotion and tenderness of a mother can bo be its mother will be as long as memory lasts no one else elise can and this experience of finding a mother of discovering this first kinship is ig for any child almost as important for its unfolding as the experience of finding god can be for man or woman perhaps it is the experience of finding god tor for the child surely it Is all of that and if there are arc children in the world children who never have any chance to know isnow motherhood as an experience in their lives may it not bo be that there are mon men and women in this world who through no fault of their own aro are without god and without hope as one of the apostles puts it who are denied the possibility of finding god or knowing him as their father if it la Is important that every human life shall learn cam to say mother and find that word full of a never ending sweetness and sacredness as nature itself has decreed and it if in order that this may be b so eo every child that cornea comes into the world must experience some brooding tenderness some loving care some self denying devotion as a benediction upon its dawning intelligence may it not also be important that thai every human life shall sometime learn to say with reverence and joy our father and find the words swords A full of comfort and strength and may it not be necessary if men and women are really to find sacredness in those words that this world in which by no choice of their own their lives have been cast shall mean for them as clear and convincing love and care and devotion devolio n as aa motherhood means 1 s to every child that knows or experiences it must not the knowledge of god be as aa much a product of experience as the knowledge of motherhood Is we men and women are but children of a larger growth and that only can bo be god to us which affords a sheltering tenderness as wide and deep and high as our greatest need which convinces us that life is unspeakably worth white which invests our days and years with inspiring meaning and opens before us employment chic i squares with the uttermost demand of our moral nature nothing else can be god to us other discoveries come in the unfolding of a human life from childhood onward we discover perhaps that certain childre nare our brothers and sisters that is another discovery of kinship another kinship it mako make the slightest difference in the world who or what these other children are the discovery of brotherhood or sisterhood to ie not at all a matter of choice with a child it doos does not select its brothers or sisters this athla discovery arises from the fact of A family life which the child had bad nothing to do with creating it was was there into that fact the child came when it entered the world these other children are members of that family life and treated with the same consideration that makes them brothers and sisters that common consideration even though there be no relationship between them if there are members of the household who are not treated as brothers brother or sisters sisters the child will not know them or regard them as such even though they hereof the very same parentage mark twain in his story bearing the title wilson draws VL a picture of what may have taken place hundreds of times in the south under the regime of slavery a picture absolutely true to human nature under that system in the family of a southern planter two babes wre were born within a few days of each other the mother of one babe was the legal wife of the pl planter ahter a woman of pure caucasian blood the mother of the other was one of the slave women of the plantation a woman with only a slight elight taint of african blood the father of both children was the planter the slave mother who had charge of both children changed them in the cradles and the child of the slave grow grew up ag the legal son and heir of the planter while the child who had not a drop of african blood in his veins grew up tip as one of the slaves the result was inevitable the child of the slave woman who grew up in that household as the legal son took on all the characteristics of that thai position became domineering imperious masterful the boy who had not a trace of african blood in ills veins became a cringing creature because that was the treatment he received the relationship which these two boys observed toward each other ether was not a all the relationship which their birch determined but the relation relationship obil which the pernicious conditions of a soul de straying ying system dictated brotherhood sisterhood as a dlo dla covery in a childs lite life grow out of a social condition in the family and they I 1 exercise a potent influence on life on character because we have learned in childhood to regard certain persons as aa our brothers or sisters they will be cherished by us ue to the end of our lives with a special regard and affection fec tion they will III be to us ue as a rule somewhat closer than most other persons wo shall admit a claim upon us from them which we do not admit with reference to any others othern who have not been sheltered by the same root roof if then the simplest and moot fauda mental of the claims of religion that upon which all others rest without which no other would have any any moan mean ing is true if we are all the hildren children of one god and father the sacr edest relationship of our life is not that which is fixed by the mere chance of a common physical parentage but that which is 11 decreed by a a common divine origin and heir shil not that which is ours because we liabo bodies of a certain mould but that which I 1 is ours bec aulse we are souls with all the limitless capacities and needs and demands which belong thereto and it if it jr is a good thing a morally right arrangement that we shall have hornes homes if family life is what we chalip tor for it then we cannot escape the cori con elusion that there Is incomparably greater need tha tsuch social condi eions shall obtain in this larger world Ut finlly jillY as shall breed into all tuo 10 1 A and texture ot 0 our life this sense ot of jr worldwide world wide brotherhood and ina ia w cherish as our brothers and sister 14 who bear the human likeness crimps the urne time comes in the life no ae child when another discovery Is made which transcends and overshadows all that have preceded the child grown to maturity discovers another person parson perhaps some one hitherto a stranger angor who becomes for him or her during all the coming years yeara more than brother or slater sister or father or mother this experience la is not a moral one it Is not a m matter atter of if moral choice it Is the result often if not always of facts and over which the person has no more control than he hag over those which gave him a father or mother these discoveries of kinship important as they are in the lives of men and women do not in them selves alone involve much tor for ones moral nature nor do they exhaust the possibilities of 0 kinship there arc or may be ba higher kinships kin ships than these T the h tj time n I 1 c I 1 roust nus t cows conte for all of us when even these earlier discoveries of our life must grow larger and deeper and nobler or perish unless she who stands in the place of mother to this unfolding life possess moral qualities that are capable of commanding reverence and regard the time will come when little will remain of the childs veneration A mother who should disappoint her sons or daughters sense of honor or truth or ju jus tica or purity would utterly fall fail to meet mea t a far higher demand than any the childs life had known or could know fatherhood has hardly any meaning unless a man shows himself possessed of qualities that compel respect and love and reverence not even the experience of marriage can retain its sacredness unless husband and wife find their lives more closely cemented and their affection exalted to a higher level by common devotion to alms and purposes that take them into ever enlarging spheres of service I 1 now jn ow the experience of any and every child your experience ermence and mino mine Is in most respects exactly like the experience of jesus there wab I 1 nothing in his experience which has haa not been in that of othor other men before and since the alby jesus had no moral character no virtue of any sort it did not know its right hand from its left it had to make the discovery of motherhood exactly as you and I 1 malie make that discovery that jewish child sound found mothe motherhood rhoad alone I 1 in the experience of a brooding tenderness a loving care an unselfish devotion that was what motherhood meant to jesus jesua and that discovery of motherhood was for him as it Is for us an integral and vital part of his discovery of god it if the t h apostle john was ight wh when e n h he 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