The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-28
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What is of pressing Importance and in
tereSt is the religious life of the cOmmu-
nifty without the orthodox and Established
churches. Its abnormal aspect is present
ed everywhere. 1t is not that there is If
religion Quite the contrary, in fact.
Athens in Paurs time was not more the
Los Angeles that OF Americas IN this
opening decade of the century. Every
ism and OlOgy and pseudo scientific
thought Of the continent finds voice
here. The motif seems to be the de-
sire for the new. For the first time in my
experience I found the blase religionists,
men and women who had run the gannuI
OF so many phases of religious thought
and life that all seem alike unworthy OF
There is an attitude of mind that is par
ticularly open to the new and especially
the grotesquely. new.
There is serious purpose in it all to
accommodate religious life to the latest
phase OF the spirit of the times, and with
1t a forgetting of the fact that renglOn
can only abide as IL possesses those veri-
ties which in their grip on eternal truth
have power to minister to all the age
Perhaps nothing is at once more Strlk-
ing and chara cteristic of the situation
than the new brotherhood or fellow
ship. the cult of B. Fay Mills, a religion
which, based on the sermon on the
mount and serious purpose to apply it
TO practical life, emasculates itself at the
outset by an eNcisiOn of those apprehen-
sions and convictions regarding Jesus of
Nazareth which alone hold the dynamic
making possible a realization of the ser
y
il is new form Of Unitarianism to which
has been attracted social programme
brilliant in its outline. but foredoomed
because i is apart from the one. power
which = ~ lerent in a Christ who is truly
the Christ Of Gcd
Cause for the Abnormal.
THE vast stream of broken physical
life which has filled southern California
has been the soil out Of which most of the
abnormal has grown. Every religion
which has had special message of heal
ing for the body is here with its phan-
IaSmS and errors. Christian Science. Gi-
vine science divine healing. mental heal
inS and a half dozen forms of Ike reli-
gion, ethical centerS. circles, fraterniueS
and societies. all barking back to the
life HindOOiSm with it's UnCtuOus ba bus
Oozing with gush and impartinS the love
of the east at s. Der imDart TO shallow
women whose life has sprung from re-
iigiOn which stands above the broken and
lying life of HindOoiSm with a message OF
progress and life and satVaJlcn. Is Il pre-
scented. Theosophy has its thousands OF
devOrees in this southland. Karl Marx is
reincarnated IL centers which scOrning all
.eiIslOn, move through the channels OF
the secular 20 their Work-a religion OF
profit and Of icOnoclasm- The major pOT-
zion seems 10 be either abnormally reIi-
gious- or Indifferent to any religion.
There is needed a deep revival of the
sweet old religion CT the Galilean. based
sonality. That need is. of course. com
mon to all our great cities
4 believe this condition arises from two
principal Sources-men's Sana in Sano cor
pore is a truism more than motto. The
invalid life g-aSping at any straw for the
phySicai life. surviving to DhilOsODhize
other than Sanely Is one great taproot OF
this condition The other lies in the con-
ditions that have mace and Keep Iul~ ais
trict a playground for the well, fiesta
land for all