The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-04

hopes and fears. the triunpas ana aisfsass. ia
the daily life Of man wses sloqesrt examples
Of word painting. Delivered ia 4 slow but
rhythmic manner, the poetic eject vas height.
sned. Continuing hs said:
Such are the riches of hers auisy. aud they are
more thaa these The bet hss 40, been told.
the ideal truth and holiness. Y9u.might well
say that had come late 20 IL ART saat make
brief tarrying with it, were y not That We have
been walking with IL all The way - the dis
ciples walked with Jesus ca tk*if way to En-
naus. in the lovely tale, bat kEap Him not.
Take ethics out of art anc eow 1t Hauld shfivel
and all Its gold and splspsie. color be-
come pale and dim. There sousf ne no book
OF Job, of all poems OF ssmose ssitiquity the
most colossal ana divine. thee sould se no
pices the human" with his drofrtng of warm
tears; no Dante. for his n; Ole w1fSd was but
shadow Of the moral life c. iasn: 40 Macbeth or
OF a thousand lesser things And (. in losing
ethics swe should lose 70 muel: nf art, how
much more should We lose II life. Sf which Art
is but one aspect? Take sh, moral purpose out
OF work in iu imperial range ssd what would
the residue be worth? The immGzas or immoral
captain of war. or industry. or s;zteAman, what
an inverted hero he! Butjasain AZ, forgetting
that the great things are Only f.: a. few: Nay.
but II 10 the moral purpose the 6sseAty. the sac
rifce which makes the small taings great
There 10 no humbest ta.k On w3ica man can
put forth the strength tae,e Is -, 1im wnich,
measured by the moral ia@, 10 s.o,more excel
lent, more wonderful and more srspifing than
the most brilliant things that An immoral
genius can conceive or al immc.ai giant per-
IofU-
Now comes the parting Of this ways. II all
these things are possible without religion, this
sensual appreciation OF the fal. end teeming
world, this scientific understanding OF 1t and
the arid range OF intellectual sa.,s;actions ana
delights, and then the aciiye world, all that
man wills and does from dsiiy tex, work up to
deeds that SHAKE aud live agaiG, the states
and institutions OF the world. last but not
least. all the affections ard the strging. Of the
emotional aud moral life-lf all toese things are
possible without religion. row eoei man need
religion? My answer IL, II als these things
were possible without re.ig on, tAsn never could
mans need OF IL be showl
Further on he said:
Religion. as take IL, Is not something quite
ap irt IRON all the rest of Il e, extra faculty.
al isolated expeYiance Parcel aud part of all.
it keeps the festival or it HIS nc reason to ex.
ist It's implicated in the whole o. life.
The only religion thar is gtp. for much IL
any reasonable and earnest sosii. So Emerson
Intended. when he said that IT, era should be .
statement OF religion which wGal3 make athe-
ism impossible. II the gTsat faets Of life could
external thing then IL sni&ht well be left In
outer darkness till the end of tine. But some
OF you, / am quite sure. 40 west on making
my summary OF things possible wsthout ligion,
felt every turn that reIi zion bad been left out,
that IL was implicated ali slons. know we'll
enough that it was so, kEt it wes :iot my fault
did my best to make tie statement unrelig.
ious. 1t was impossible. To state the facts OF
lie Is TO affirm religion. Exterminate
the religious element fsom literature and art
and for the dessicated corpse remaining who
ter in comparison with the per-
suasion that q universe which needs
minds Tor ita Interpretation csn not have
been originated by any lesser thiug than Iiad
The moral a. pect yet remains for .
concluding word. There are m st noble spirits
in our time " no would insist dpan the insult
ficiency OF the sensuous or the Intellectual, or
the active or the emotions al priscIple for liie's
completeness. But add tie moral aud We have.
they say, enough. But not ell wac have been
held accountable for this opinica have rightly
ethics has appeared - t. but few has affirmed
and amply shown that ethics Thought out is
igious thought Ethics lived auf is religious
lie. and he has done tais, nGI Is some do, by
simply calling ethics religion, q. II that would
make IL so, but by clearly exhibiting and
demonstrating that one cannot think OF morals
deeply or feel concerning then. yrofoundly, or
live a grandy moral lie wittou; fndirg his
moral thought and feeling aud Purpose. taking
hold on universal princi ;les sEi sfeiations, ris.
Ing into al atmosphere O. infinite height, con.
sciously relating itself 20 one WHO, call Him
what We may, IL yet the !ountsi., light of oil
our day, 10 yet the master life OF al our seeing.
:, Never before. ! said, .as mans need OF re-
ligion SO great as now. Shy, t9t because never
before has it freed itself from superstition, SO
that the good OF it remains without the curse
and shame. Why, but because sg,;in the unities
OF science lead rs each gad all snto the presence
of one central unity and all ths mysteries OF
science lead US into the presence IL one central
mystery aud this ms stery apl unity are
one and all that se.srce has to
tell goes to increase tSle Sandeur
and awfulness OF that mysnarious unity
For nothing can be clearer thar that our evolu.
tionary science impliostely {. :sot explicitly
affirms an infinite element In every stage Of evo-
luton, that 10 to sag, 40 grester things from
less. save ~ greatest makes IL. less the chan
mel oil It's power. And because ths Greatest One
from whom has streafaet the ctdsred universe
demands from US a wors nip fe. aIore reverent
than any god OF trad tlonal tleology Men
need religion now as neTer in ssle worl4 before:
need ii as the premises ri iogi:, The concfnsio
they involve. The religious a:.iTlce Is the SUI
preme necessity to who all Knowledge, science
and experience run as rivers TO tie sea. In the
language OF philosophy, the reasonable must
be the real ! neet ncs say that
have not the slightest 81 tnpathy Vfth those who
find no ground or sanction for morality save IN
the dogmatic certainties of Got's existence and
the immortal li'e But tie tenn rt,.:ion. to wrong
doing never were so CREST as IL Ire complex de-
velopmen,s of our motern ira Find a good
seaman who can keep steacy keel on such a
swelling sea- To say taet "t.ss,ts OF Nazareth
Yves tempted in ull points like w. Are ia 10 use
tIme-houored words thai have ~ meaning II
the married state is full # bless ness surely il
mas It's own temptatlc0 10 bs selfish and I'M
just, to make our foai auSie.y the law of
our parental rule. Jcsas kneS uothing of ALI
this. nothing OF orr enorrc ,ss stress and
strain OF modern competition, ,i;jhiug of mod
ern politics with their base - icitations for
ambitious men. Temptation wa never before
30 manifold and subtle as il IL EAday. and for
this reason We need region :io.H AZ We never
neede II before. need t. feel ihns our morslit
10 no accident of soci.i pref f. u es or coutri-
vanoes, but the proiec;!an OF r.oral universe
which Is tie Manifestation o. :. anorai God. II
God be Tor US, who can be Eyeinst US? And
lie Is Tor US iu that rigIlt-doins: "a In the line
of His eternal evoluton. and saen we cleave
to that We cleayc 10 hin, slie need not tie
afraid. Here 10 bartecnr for future
bliss but tho step that auickens aud
the heart that warns II n: usic that God
breathes forever Through the u.,lserse OF so.,iz
oacs more: Now. IS sisan never did before. we
need The hope OF immortal liz Affection NAV
not yearn Tor dear ones Isl TO light whit more
tenderly ;han when ,orde. 4 lay upon the
breast OF Lear. or DAVID nouric.t for Jnnathan
with love passing the inTe Of woman. Blu, now
as never III the word before the passiouate
ycari.iag To explore the myster,. OF ltfe re,cnts
enbition as "A base aif5oat Ar: Vith the greater
need there comes the greater hone see.
as this which suca AAs reven!ed
nothing eau be too gland e. b. believeG-the
ErandeF the more Likely 10 L., tue: and seeing
s5at the connection OF q Is horss ssith all that IS
most higH ana pure ANA grand and lofty in our
moral lie - as GODS 5fjttiee --,Suless t1at Iif,
lie nose OF iis-that Hs VIII ssti>fy our hope
win II reality as great - oar iesile. d. we BE-.
htNe these things? /. se do so.. they have no
claim on our devotion sci sscr!dce Bat II
We do We shall not be e)ntsEk with taking our
own JOY in them with es.sy s.ifsh sati,;scIior,
We shall grid ourselves To .aa@e our glorious
message known TO the n thHs cit in darkness
aud the shadow o; death 4ea for them also
light msy spring up aud oDr Joy mas be in
them.
After the eloquent s.scogrse Mr. Chadwick
was surrounded py the .ongIsg- ton aud an in
formal reception followed. ftis morning the