The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-12-06

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Deed Not Greed Saves-Rev. L. w.
= Beattie Answers Ingersoll in His
Regular Sunday Evening Lecture.
There was a small attendance at
Storms hall Sunday to shear Rev. A.
w. Gould, secretary of the Western
: Union conference of Chicago, preach
a liberal sermon on "What Must L
Do to be Saved?" The speaker open
ed by saying that each race has re-
ligion which is no higher than it's
mental capacity. The old answer
made by the follower of each creed to
. the question of how to be saved was
"Get into our religion or be left out
not in the cold but in the hot, be
burned up" During the last half
century wider view of religion has
been taken, and every institution
of learning now teaches the new
theory of creation. The law of evo-
and the same rule can be applied to
religion. Nature selects the fittest
for saving, and if we can find out who
the fittest are, we can answer the
question of who are to be saved. Ac-
cording to the theory of evolution, IL
you want to be saved in this world,
make yourself the tittest. In what
way? In the vegetable and insect
world the useless are cut off, and
among the animals those that help
man are being saved, while the wild
ones of no use are becoming extinct.
Among men, the nations that care
most for their children are being
saved, while such as the HotentOts and
Australians are rapidly fading out.
The fittest is that which helps the
life of this world, and the most use
full race is going to take possession OF
it, no matter what it's religion may
be.
Those who help to save others will
be the happy ones hereafter, for it is
deed not creed that saves. Believe
what you think to lie true and do
what you think is right, this is the
only thing we ask. Have such belief
as reason forces on you, don't accept
what others have said in former times.
If you do all you can here, you need
not be afraid of the hereafter. 1t is
law of nature that everything is re-
suit of the past, and the future is
result of the present
Eve are not opposed to any other
religious belief or church. Iattended
church in your city this morning
and heard it declared from the pulpit
that it was infamous to hold such
belief as 1 do. We do not say this of
other churches, nbut we say it is in
famous to hold no belief. We be-
lieve that all of the churches are
necessary, even the Salvation Army,
and the gray ghost dance for the In
dams. AS your soul expands, you
must have a larger religion. If one
has only pint dipper of soul, he
only can stand pint dipper full of re-
ligion.
The essentials which we insist
upon are freedom, fellowship and
character. With freedom we are more
sure to reach the truth. The forty mem
bers of the French Academy once each
had different theory on why dead
fish weighed less than live one, I'M
til they were informed that it did
not. There are in the United States
147 theories of how man fell and how
to be saved. Investigation shows
that the fall of man is only story.
Man didn't fall from perfect state,
but has been steadily growing up
from the lowest state. We have not
got to explain away Gods cruelty in
the past, but we should return thanks
to him for his graciousness in extend
ing his hand to lift US up.
Our Sunday school teaches the truth.
l have seen leafiet used in other
Sunday school which teaches Genesis
as great truth. When the scholars
find out later that some or the things
which they were taught at these Sun
day schools are not true, they will
too often think that religion is not
true. We teach that God loved
the world, not that God had
hatred and hostility toward so many
races, as the Old Testament indi-
Gates.
Mr.. Gould announced that next
Sunday evening Rev. Carleton +.
Brown, of st. Cloud, would preach, and
that the following Sunday Rev. Lord,
of St. Paul, would preach.