| Show LESS CEREMONY AND MORE MORAliTY NEED OF F RELIGION TOPIC I Social Salvation More Than Formal Rites Necessary Says Bennett Uniting Morality and nell Religion lon wn was the topic of ot Rev Hev n v Frederick M M. Bennett at nt tho time Unitarian church yesterday morning lie He said raid In part To make malto a CI fusion or alliance of morality and was tho the attempt and the effect of or the life lIro an and teaching o of Jesus ThoI Tho The Hebrew I en prophets before belore hint him who ero primarily social Boehm ana anu pOlitiCal rei or er had attempted the tho same and nd had succeeded to some Bomo extent Such a union Is necessary in ord order r that there thero shall bo an any adequate civil civil- In tho the lower order of or human lito morality and antI religion are arc found largely apart in their origins ns they ar are largely separate The first Irn- Irn ulso 1 towards morality springs front from common customs and anel usages and antI the alliance with religion in is not made till there I Is some measure of or growth In primitive life tho favor of oC the nods gods I n is Bou sought ht not h by virtue but by hy ort offerings s and ind J by pra prayers cr The future lire lifo Is IK Influenced in influenced In- In not b by morality but hut b bv by ritual Throughout the history of religion groat rat trollS stress Is placed d on ceremonials and 1101 not enough h on goodness It t was a a. wholesome protest which J Jesus sus made against the th ceremonial nn and ritualistic observances when there wa was wasso wasso so evident c neglect of or wholesome mor moral l n. n PI In the popular belief of or to- to Ilao lj there Is lt still great reat Insistence Insl upon rites and intellectual beliefs be- be and people still labor under tho the delusion that there Is IB such a a. reality Kg kS asa a miraculous Individual ual salvation t HO However er c there are arc some who now t realize that tho the great necessity lt Is a a. asocial social salvation for this world So So morality can cnn only fulfill Itse r f ras as it realizes its religious implications implication s and receives the enthusiasm which ro- ro life lito affords and religion can cin I Ionly only come to Its own when it gains gainsa I a a. moral content Our time Is demanding economic c Ju justice but Jut It can not have an economic justice which will bo be worth anything until It t realizes tho the worth of or human huma n kindness and gains a 1 proper reve reverence enc for or tho real and possible worth o othe of r f fIhe the human soul What hat the business world tOda today needs most of all Is la al I reconstruction But nut it cannot ga gain l n such reconstruction till It takes Into partnership the r religious forces which give c a divine lne sanction and enthusiasm enthusiast n tot for morality Religion needs morality that thal it mn may gain aln a natural and wholesome ome mo-al mo content that it Ina may cease to be a tool ool and become a a. power of life It Jt 1 t needs morality moraUl that It Inn may ce cease Re t to tobe toc be c a charm for happiness anil become a force COICO to make malee UN ux strong that it st ma may mayo do IO o away with mysteries and les and bring the soul Into real and vital Ita I communion communion and connection with Ith God And A nd nd morality needs religion to take tako Ie IC c out of ot the drunken stupor which t leaves caves It to n assume Rume that morality 1 is of cf Itself sufficient for all human n needs ds an and a all II possibilities bill of or the soul Morality Morality- needs religion that it ma may y rescue men from tho the Lethe stream o of yf f fatalism and to cause causo men to abandon yo tho going easy mood for fOl that of or tit tho o strenuous life Ute which works In freedom free free- dom as a a. comp companion with God for Or tho time victory of oC rl right ht In this world |
