Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-05-05
POLK COUNTY.
TnE NEW PREACHER.
A Good Audience Welcomes Rev.
Brown az the Unitarian
Church
FoR REPRESENTATIONS.

y mass Of pleasant, intelligent
faces looked up at Mr.. Brown, the
new Unitarian preacher just arrived
from New fork,as he opened his first
service in Salem Sunday morning
The meeting hall had been put in
fine order from doorstep to ceiling,
The table at the entrance was well
stocked with the publications of this
sect, and all felt hopeful for the
future of this society.
Rev. Brown makes an impressive
appearances He II man of power.
ful facial expression, wearing full
beard and dark hair crowning u
broad forehead and large well.
formed head. He IL evidently q
preacher of good deal of heart and
warm blood, n muscular, vigorous
effective speaker. His delivery Is
eloquent, deliberate and impressive.
He read that most beautiful chap
ter Of Paul's First letter TO the Cor
rinthlans, beginning, "If I speak
with the tongues Of men ard an
gels, and have not love, am become
sounding brass, or changing Gym
bal"
After prayer Miss Willis sang u
lovely voluntary, including the very
effective passage "Green pastures
are before me-" This singer il n reg
ular and attractive feature of ser
vices at this church.
The sermon was ON the theme,
Ideal manhood" from the text
Romans, XIV chapter, Sd verse, "For
Christ also pleased not himself"
1t was an able exposition of the
idea of revolution through law to
so dear to Unitarian's
the world over. 1t pictured with
rare skill mans restless struggle to
overcome discomfort.
son forever" was the cry of the
human soul. When II has climbed
Tho highest mountain of its ambi-
ion, still other countless heights
will rise before II. Man was not
l mere machine for transformation
IF the forces of nature into things of !
beauty and utility, Ii this were
rue the "Be We therefore perfect" of .
christ has lost Its meaning, "he .
me great boast of the 10th century .
vas material progress, or intellectual
Ii was in nothing
Else. The great end and aim
vas 10 be successful, and
success meant control over wealth,
'olitics, and great achievements.
Vas this n correct definition Of sue
ess? Was the ideal man a modern
uccessful man? Was the philoso-
'her of evolution an ideal man?
Vas man less noble than now before
hese ages of invention. Before all
his 10th century composite life was
iuddha, nobler In all his ideals than
'e, and he, that carpenters son In
udca; here we strike gold; In John, ,
he man Of mighty heart, in Paul ,
he intellectual giant, we find ideal ,
len. Why? These men stood for
he soul, They used material things |
, spiritual ends. Institutions that
envelope the noble are TO he encour- \
sed, To the extent that the church '
envelopes character IL IN to hc en-. /
outraged, Crceds that clip the I
'ings O; the soul are worthless. 1
hey do not develope manhood or /
Only as bailders OF 4
haraoter are churches entitled To {
rspect. The ideal man must be a {
iood man. "Re good was ,
he essenee of every religion.
What II goodness Right
'ousness. rlght-living, was the first
,tep 20 a good life. A good human
aeart Is better than wealth, aud
without Il every dollar only damns
lls ,,ossessor the more. Each day
man a richer does not make him