Arizona silver belt., 1900-01-11
TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Have Been Given Larger COrcsru1n
 ot uod's Creative Proce, S.

Professor Fritz delivered the follow
 ing interesting address in Los Angeles
 during the holidays:
 "The science of the nineteenth cen
 tury has given us an eilirged concel .
 ion of God creative plO;esS, so that
 now we believe in God who works by
 law and not by arbitrary fiat. And
 when we get this enlarged conception
 of Gods working through nature, we
 are not SO much surprised to learn
 that mans evolution also has already
 required ages of time, and will take
 still other ages yet to perfect the work
 We are just beginning to realize that
 the glory of man is to be the fact of
 his overcoming life: of his ability 10
 start from crude conditions and work
 to finer expression.
 "As we study nature we find an alter
 hating process of quiet and activity
 going on continually, so it is with the ages of the life of humanity DOW a
 period of quiet, then period of activ- ity-reaching out after some new lib' erty, some new right, some new ideal,
 We are just beginning to learn the power Of thought force. The new thought is giving us new and better definitions of old things. Instead of 'belief.' we now hold the thoughi;' instead of using the word prayer, We now use the word vibration.
 "For belief, instead of trusting in a historical Christ of 2,0O0 years ago. we now trust the power of the living Christ within and hold the thought Instead of prayer being the petition ing of a reluctant God, 1t means th hold the thoughtand vibrate when We pray; instead of petitions begging re- luctant God for things, we now hold the thought, vibrate our spirit and commit 1t to the bringing t0 pass of new insttutions, new forms of educa- tion, of invention, of expression on every line of activity; then humanity seems to go tD rest again for time, but is really only the gathering ol forces for some new manifestation. And SO i' 1.l.cs that each century
 ne new task is to be wrought out.
 "The greatest task of ancient times was the work of Moses leading the children of Israel out of their indus trial bondage, and laying the founda- tiOn for governmental, economic and religious system the like of which the world had never seen. Moses was the first great labor leader the first man who struck for industrial freedom for whole nation of people. And we have lessons yet to learn from Moses experience before we shall get out of the bondage of our day; we shall yet go back in the twentieth century and sit at Moses feet and study true econ omics, and learn how to purify and | develop healthy race-how to diSclp- line manhood and w0manhood for the | new era. The great teacher Jesus said: I came not to destroy the law; l came to fulfill. Moses gave the out line, the plan, and Jesus came to bring the dynamic force of life that would make that plan possible as an fact in the life of the race. Jesus took up the development of the life; laid down system of ethics; philosophy ot life, and above all, furnished a practical working eX- ample of a life of service that he said would prove dynamic power equal to the task of bringing the kingdom of heaven on the earth. Jesus spoke Of the truth that should make men free, mems bodies free, their spirits free Mans spirit has been trying to get free all these centuries. His first dis covery was that his spirit was in bond age to religious system that denied him the right to free worship. His next discovery was that his spirit was in bondage to political tyranny. He now finds himself in bondage to eco homie tyranny that denies to him cer- tainty of employment and the just product of his toll. The task of the twentieth century is to break this in- iustrial bondage that mans whole life may be lifted up to the spiritual plane; that he may be, indeed, set free in body, mind and spirit. It will not do to free man at one point and leave him in bondage at another just as vital. Nothing less than the freedom of the whole man will bring to pass new institutions, new government, new education and new religious life, such as will be adequate to the needs of the human race today.
 'IThe duty of the twentieth century to gather together and unify the best of all the past, realizing free dom for man that shall fruit in broth erhoOd.
 We shall begin to bring this new era whenever we believe it is already here in thought and ideal, and To! presently it will become fact in material ex- pression.
 "The twentieth century task is to