The morning times., 1895-10-22
JESUS THE PERFECT Min
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winch corresponds to thought and feeling
ana love In man Is Infinitely higher and
Srhuuer and more than these in Gud. We
Deiieve III His perfect and universal father
| hood.
Whatever else and other than this He
may De, He Is still our Father, Our finite
spiritslookupand claim kinship w il h him the
Infinite Spirit. Wedo not believe that there
Is now, orever has been, any child ofmanfor
one ni"nem forgotten by him, or left outside
the limits of His tender care.
we recognize him as the Power back OF
an the phenomena OF the universe, as the
Power manifested In and through all the
developments OF human history. The God
we believe IN is not outside the world He
has made. ruling 1t from afar, governing
1t arbitrarily. as an emperor governs his
realm, He Is the power, and the truth and
the justice and tile love of this scheme of
things"
BIBLE AS GODS WORD.
AS to the Bible as being the sole deposi-
tory of truth he said:
The Word of God is not bound. either by
Limitations of creed or nationality or re-
iiglon, or between the covers OF any book.
The universe, and the history of the unfold
1ng ana development oil haman life and
human aspiration-tbese, SO far as we have
been able to spell them out, are the record
When history is accurately writtcn, the
method OF God in dealing with national life,
national prosperity, or national decay, is at
last revealed"
Regarding the origin of man, he said:
"As we go in search OF the first man,
father of the human race, We do not lind
him perfect in garden, tx thousand
years ago. Neither do We journey up the
ages as though human history has been n
dee cent. Rather do we go backward and
downward, not tx thousand years nor ten.
notsixty Thousand nor u hundred The best
authorities tell us HAT man has inhabited
the earth for at Least two or three hun
dred ,hous and years. And as go seeking
for the first man We find him III the jungle.
on the borders OF the animal W Grid.
This wondroGs race oi CUTS has climbed
out of the animal into the human, out OF
the brutal into heart and brain; climbed
until at iast. as VIC look backward, we see
tuch high submits of human achievement as
are repres cnted by the names of Homer.
Socrates, Aristotle. Plato, Virgil, Dante.
Shakes peare, of such. as Confucius. Zorro
aster. SakyI MGni, and, above them all.
as Mount Washington out-,owers all its
fellows the subliniest height OF human
history, Jesus of Nazareth
And when we look upon characters
like these, and recognize that they are the
natural outgruwth of that human nature
with enthusiasm and hope. We believe
that, to a race which can produce souls
like these, nothing is impossible And
so we dare to trust that by and by there
shah be a perfect human order established
here on earth, that there shall be perfect
control OF the natural forces of the world.
Want and disease and crime shall be out
grown, and the world shall isee the estab-
iishment of that Kingdom OF God which is
Only the perfect republic of man."
The destiny OF man and the scheme OF
salvation according to the Unitarian church
were thus expounded:
II come now to speak, in the last place.
OF what we believe concerning the destiny
OF man. According TO the old ideas, death
is the end of human probation, and the good
and the bad at that time are assigned to a
final and endless doom. We hold that
death is only an Incident in the eternal
career of the soul. There is nothing in
the fact OF death to change the nature or
the destiny OF man. any more than in the
going to sleep last night and waking up
again this morning. Under the universal
and eternal laws of God-of rause and
effe ect-man is continually engaged in
building his own character.
SALVATION AND PERDITIoN.
And. es in this world, he can go up or
down, as he pieascs, SO we believe it VIII
he true in any other and all worlds. Only
We trust that as we go on. the path viii
be clearer, and men will discern ever
more and more, and so come to prefer
that which is good instead of that which
is evil. Salvation or perdition are not
matters of place. We know enough of the
conditions of human happiness in this
life to understand that it does not depend
upon where VIC are, but what we are.
Happiness is conditioned upon cur being in
right relations with our surroundings and
all the great facts of life.
II used TO suppose, as boy, that If at
the last day l could only get through the
gate of Hea ven before il was closed. should
be in Heaven as truly as Paul or John.
But now | have learned to recognize the
profound truth in those two lines of Omar
Khayyam:
Heaven but a Vision of fulfilled Desire
And He'll the Shadow of Soul on fire"
LET US remember, then, that neither in
this world. nor in any other. shall we ever
succeed in getting into any more of heaven
than we first get into ourselves.
THE man who physically lives 4 life in
perfect accord with the In ws of the universe
does not have health given him as reward;
health is the natural and necessary result Of
such living and we find the same truth when
we look upon man as moral or o spiritual
being The man who, in any department
of his life, is in perfect accord with the laws
and life OF God issayed. And he who is in
accord with the life of God here, we believe
will be found to, be in accord with that
same life anywhere. For it is one life, one
law, throughout the universe. We do not
trouble ourselves so much as do many others.
then, over the, question of mans salvation
in another world. We make it the aim ofan
our endeavor TO have him right here, and
now, and If we can succeed in this. we are
willing TO trust in the future
The programme for to-day's session was
published yesterday in The Evening Times
the session to begin at 8 a. m.
Rev. Robert Collyer, of New York. VIII
conduct communion service with which
the regular proceedings win commence
tomorrow. and Carroll D. Wright. super
intenGent of the census and commissioner
of labor. win deliver the address of well
come.
His Clothes the Canse.
Ambrose Turner was arrested last night