The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-09
FUTURE CHURCH
Wilkes breaches on 4
Cfeedless Religion.
Slr OLD FORMS DYING OUT.
= the Church That VIII Re-
3 .,6,e All New Truth-Mr. Garrett
= Chrlst and the Greeks.

y eood delivery. She is small woman.
ut middle age, with high forehead.
53ht. clear eyes, and q quiet, undemon-
ilse manner, not supposed to be char
hlic Of the female preacher and or
~ subject Of Mrs. Wilkes sermon was
- Church; do we still need . church :
- church we need" She said:
= = ~ apparent that the old need for Z
a + no more? AZ mans vision has broad
& 4 : new attitude toward the uniyerse'
~, instead OF fallen man, hopelessly
- depending upon the atoning sacri-
z n innocent Savior for salvation, con-
sstass n whose image he s d s crcste ede
= nature not ruined but completely and
IlH ndvsncing 70 greater heights Of being
11idlnment. We have, instead of future
8 Win, The deadly consequence Of Sin to.
. 6goa4 and today's reward in holy virtue
r = ooSn; instead Of the occasional God al
IT. nov and then In miracle or Messiah
oA1y By prayer and sacrifice, the ever
1sone, in whom we live and move and
q hing; instead OF God incarnated In
6 I, N 6ee the God in every man.
81 8hno l0ger 9 cnurcn 20 insure US salvation
~ fitos and ceremonies all speak Of q
49, - mans sin, Precipitation Of an
- n sacrifice. IN baptism, the prayer
~ - that the child is ssregenerated and
IN GcQ i water and the holy spirit" The
1M1S l9 celebrates the sacrifice Of the son
n G. RI 9hich the wrath OF Heaven was
e his IL my body broken for you,
r. - Tor remission Of sins" Over and
60 1oaemn figure OF sacrifice ID repeated
- nh tn pathetic way this sacrifice for
n6Hso11ea1ine from wrath 10 come
1T = Viz becomes something more than 4
~ Qope Of time when we ARE to decide
tkfS fnVpx s<xf~
RI - ID forms lose their power; this life
f606 Of consequence: there Is something
- - than get inside the ark OF safety: IL
- q ne utmost Importance that VIC know
0S01o have miracle wrought through faith
@u0k and heaven assured, and BY gacrament
Y M Keep fresh In the mind this miracle
- Work OF the old church. Today the
~ = trust In Him; to learn Ais will In every
- = boy, mind and spirit, and to do this
49, 1nis z the new duty Of man;
n a;m e th, church sarrer which 9isx Win
) ~ - old church tails TO meet Il. True. g
~ g me, the Old view OF these ordinances
4nel6ngef held. Tho nnt thing any minister
ossas &c oq no us mean e o 1hs i Ss,
- DO water 10 just on the baby's brow and
eMSyman says with this water he is regen-
- and born again. no one believes that
1. h sny ssying efficacy In this water; the pa
& ny trll you they no longer believe in the
III The Jesus sacrifice, tho death on CAL
- not mean Precipitation Of God, but
II prayers are still .sthrough Jesus Christ.
r. 1M4" The old rituals are read, the old
nD arc offered, but they do not lit the
nnnings; and thus steadily the church ID
81 poswer-'Ths new wine has burst The
4ulosh religion must pass away With the
ing OF all human fellowship. The
- community OF saved saints, must
!Aohgh we do not want the church to
- us, NOR 70 insure us for the next world,
I'D blees W through the hands OF the sacred
3ood-what IL left9 When you have taken
utility, you have still left her real sources
Mength and power in the world. the union
men and women on their highest
and 70 most the dedication at the
IL *Aenceforth I serve the highest within
Ii And men and women go forth to duty
leQeer and purer from the help this fellowship
: church service they are saying There 'i il
lnething higher than the body The church
% social club, with chaplain attachment, has
@nses. Il 10 the highest kind Of social organi-
on. A church a. . luxurious resting place
i ditettanti In religion, who come together
nd @sthetic surroundings to listen to the Sun
N performance will not dwell upon, as my
l1demnation might be mistaken for contempt
I -
notion may have its place, but the church OF
1e new reformation has something better to do
nan .loafing around the throne"
The church as a charactcr-builder has larger
work than ever before, not lessening but deep
eaing obligations. Every new. revelation to
nan y showing more clearly that life has larger
questions to answer than: "what shall l eat?
WI ~. 'h al drink rs and Tnsrew,nsI
~ being recognized; salvation is be-
coming something higher than . commercial
Cennection between an angry God and abjcct
~, whose salvation is bought by the blood of
e innocent victim. Salvation 10 constant
uoNMm knowledge and power.
- advances, as evolution brings him
alsnRend higher In his faculties, his spiritual
oslun makes larger demands, the need for the
Mfn4 help becomes greater instead of less
4! nm duty changes from the one task of
NJ ones soul In the next world to the null
ueynS aud enlargtng one OF using this world
os more compIex and he learns the nUin s
spnubility of living, now that law of mental
influence Is showing how mo man liveth to
ssal s no man dieth to himself"
-: sde becomes as the h mpors sno e .de
end the church that shall teach the highest liv-
~ cherish the truest loving, inspire the brav-
- ooing, becomes more and more necessity.
nwship around our noblest ideals, will have a
lu.ef no other compact OF family or state has
hi. is what the church of the new rcforma-
eon Z trying to do-to make church large
S9ough to take IN all new thought: church
Gue0 enough to leave room to grow, room for
sunorlows inspiration, room for tomorrow'a
g Sssslauon. 1t would bind its thought by no
sssE,ments OF belief, however grand aud true;
S0uid let no creed, however beautiful, bar out
1ne1 10 sympathy and help any honest doubter.
~ cnurcn must be strong enough, not only to
~ o ON. saints, those who are saved already,
~ al the weary, heavy laden, the SHINING and
1s weak in character, and by its great hopes,
sssvng iaith and patient care shame The faith
INTO faith, warm the cold hearted into low
~ Oeef with the prisoner OF selhshness in his
~ solitude till he can come out from its
- - lnl into the light Of human sympathy l
~ Soeve this fellowship in our aspirations will be
80 ~ closest brotherhood known, when all
ssI OF thought can unite on one COM
~ - Gm-our desire to attain the highest
s ls1e With freedom to think, there will be the
s.ss iaith. Here with no fear OF human nature,
s ~ 9Snv hrm faith in its grand possibilities,
w a IS union on that ideal that haunts US all.
~ nv hat we could be,
mat We aspired to be and were not"
SSsss snail be our common union. mot as
ssoSusn we had already attained or were already
ss.Lsecl but we shall press forward toward the
~ OF the prize of our high calling.
MI IN the new astronomy which makes our
49, earth no longer the center about which
~ .nd moon and stars revolve, but one of a
S!et ms not been really tried The old love of
Esshness has failed. Over competition still
2ung human happiness and hindering hu-
progress is its remains
very man a brother. .sIove thy neirhhor N
eu That means. al must no longer con-
~~ ~ .~hat Is good for nse-not even TO save mn
Es even for Christ's sake. Worship no
sSfSss. tonnage is wrung from servile fear"
A~~%u would but pray | have naught to say
= T nis, that God may be God still"
-, ~ language OF the new piety is: "Lord, what
S ~ tlou have me to dos'' christian, DO a.
- we call ourselves Christiauss Then must
~ 1--WE up the seifregardfai life. No room is
4 ~ tr 81 t-assertions, no room for hate Love
Hs uo9 ana whose loyeth is born of God"
sm;psed, the founding church OF the shirt.
Iee.o Wy highest task ever attempted, TO follow
s.rcn "a a spirit OF love, To trust only the