The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-09
REV. f. F. EDDY
ON "MY FAITH :
New Unitarian Pastor Heard
For First Time.
EXPLAINS NEW CONCEPTIONS
CHURCH OF NEGATIoN'' UP
HELD IN DISCOURSE.
EXPLAINS NEW CONCEPTIONS

Rev. Franklin Fay Eddy the newly ar
rived pastor of the Unitarian society of
salt Lake. who succeeds Rev w. II. Fish
deHVered his first sermon yesterday
morning in Unity hall. Mr.. Eddy comes
70 salt Lake from Halifax. N. s
His theme yesterday morning was .sNTv
faith and NV Faith in Ny Faith and
ne spoke in part as follows:
a Few weeks ago I preached for the last
cifV t0 10 a go GGongTesatiQn in a lar distant
reIss too IO"a az whom l had sustained the
1oaT D,rlPee 81 70 express the great funda-
tHlehIal thought which determined fhe
SSSuor OF my preaching and guided nv en-
oeavors while we had labored toeetbsr az
pastor ana people. Today / take M the
same relationship with Won in fbst ,i1f 80
pastoraI office with all it's peculiar in
IIIInacies and mutual obligations. and I
I lave deemed it wise to repeat in some
ds 1eIng quite as appropriate as an intro
uuctory one Nothing can be more i'm
you should understand i'd w Sf man bald that
me great fundamental of faith and thai
I should learn whether my faith is your
So my theme is my Faith and NV
n attn tII1+ IN Ny Faith !" and shall use for
free" ne 20"
As to Unitarianism.
In the eyes Of our ever numerous crit
les Onltarianism seems chiefly a thing
faith at all for faith Is IN i fses esse6.
Ildl nature positive. We need not wonder
al TINS when we consider how explosive
And what noise and cOmmOtion some of
our negatives have made in the theoJori-
ca arena Nor could we deny. if we de-
sired that some of the splendid old here
tics who were pioneers in liberal religion
nave failed often to discern the affirma-
Mons made possible by their denials The
IiYes can scarcely be realized And we
9elude ourselves if we think there is no
13Inger need OF repeating them with all
SiSSarhssS ana directness.
Mr. Eddy then went on to indicate that
t me negauves of Unitarianism included
ABOUT everything orthodox Christianity
had held as essential. AS to the church.
1t was regarded OF human origin, result
the worship of God. While creeds We're
seen to have been Inevitable in the his
=! tory or religion. and were stepping stones
ianism found no variety in creeds and
desired none. That the Bible was any
ture was another negative. its Intrinsic
worth. however. being freely admitted
whole doctrine of the blood atonernent
finding satisfaction in the splendid hui
manity of Jesus.
New Conception of Truth.
Then the discourse continued as follows:
II we have seemed TO make war on all
Christendom has held sacred and es-
sential, ii was because in the lignt of the
wise. And fidelity to truth has its own
v
re wards While we have been casting
aside the affirmations, seeming 20 dis
card every certainty in religion there has
gradually dawned upon us a new con-
cept1On of the workings of divine law OF
truth IN the very constitution of the uni
verse the full majesty OF the thought OF
now the infinite power sWayS all things
and shapes the trend of things bursts
upon us. when we no longer try to adjust
our conception to partial revelations to
oeified Christ, to creeds and churches
sancttfied in human deiusfon When we
are loyal to the truth the truth always
makes US free. In tracing out the work
fngs of the spirit of truth. which is the
spirit Of God. we see ceTemOnIa1S and
creeds and churches come and 90: we see
not one race. but many, play their part
on the stage of affairs; we find not one
revelation to a chosen race but a con-
tinuOus revealing of the purposes of the
Divine to all humanity, and in and
through humanity.
Loyal to the Truth.
Upon this mighty thought. into the
realzatlon of which we have only fairI,,
So.e' We round our church. and in il
nave found the broadcast and most sjgpi
meant affirmation conceivab bic IN an
tdIneslneSS. and hope I say II wit hont
cant. L believe because we have in SOM
measure Oeen loyal TO the truth as we
saw IL we have entered into a heritage
OF freedom and catch the glory OF a
vision more grand than those vvbo baya
Ton by old creed and ancient forms
therefore we. of all Christians, are free
OF useless imOediments and can anteT
upon the reconstructive work for tho
coming epoch And we can enter uDon