Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-06-19

caprlcious giant who ruled over the
affairs OF earth ds gardener would
over his garden. II was natural 10
think OF His managing His affairs and
guiding Ills chosen people by word Of
mouth or by angels as messengers. II
did not seem strange that Moses
should 60 up 20 the smoking top of
Mount Sinai 10 talk with God This
kind OF God is like the conyalesCeut
child Robert Louis Stevenson writes
about sitting propped up among his
pillows sending his leaden soldiers up
and down. and his toy ships IN and
out OF the harbors OF the pleasant
land Of counter-pane' as he SITS rul-
ing Ike a great giant on a hill The
old God did well enough for the old
thought Of the universe; but IN the uni
verse as revealed by modern science
the old God is an anachronlsm, Cod
Ideal continued beyond its proper time
and settling.
The evolutionary thought Of religion
leaves room Tor this development Of
the God-idea. The most sublime
thought OF Providence is fostered. Il
Is seen that as a man advances from
epoch 10 epoch he is bound to refashIon
his God-idea and his theology Il Is
all IN the law Of the universe. and all
the unfolding plan Of God. Surely
this Is not atheism.
SAvIORs ALL HUMAN,
As we put aside the ola idea ~
special revelation, We likewise deny all
divine saviurs. Seviors there are. but
all are human. Every great soulod
genius is a savior IN his own way The
law Of sacrifice makes It's appeal 90 its
own In every age, and some one has
said that every page Of great history
can b. marked with a cross, Jesus
had the genius to discern the greatness
OF love as the law OF the spirit and
made II the condition Uf the kingdom
His death was sacrifclal I'm no peculiar
sense: He l. q Savior because Of His
deeds and His words. He stands pre-
eminent among sayiors because Of His
spiritual genius But He Is a Savior
In no different sense than was Ser
vetus or Bruno. Lincoln or Walt Whit
man.
As FOR heaven hell and salvation.
these terms assume perfectly natural
meanings Heaven on he'll becomes
q state OF being We can pass from
the Kingdom Of love 10 the kingdom
81 hate in q moment and thereby we
pass from heaven TO hell. salvation Is
IL. ne saved from tho Kingdom Of hate,
eeldshness and deceit that we may
enter the kingdom % love, unselhsh'
ness and openncss.
SAYS KEY Is EVOLUTION
Now all this Is natural and har-
monlous. There Is no violent wrench
ing apart the processes ~ history-mak-
ing To lnterject a special revelation or
10 explain a goldman. The master
KEY Is evolution. out OF mans soul
ali these things come us ne taxes the
steps of spiritual proTeSS
great religion $ taking shape in
Mons minds whPh follows along
,hese lines t'niarianism Is but one
c,orsssion NJ a such a faith will
,,nssess ,he f,,ure. Men must make
- ,bair cd and their theology TO
| S,.,,o,,i5a sith the broader thought of
| i" ''"ri,s &C. A. Tor myself find such
s.t.b rand beyond expression. God
ao' lost and the mystical sense OF
/ ~, union Is sim az the heart of re-
N.th, but in the power which Is life
/ ,,slf which fits on the ether wave
/ hd holds the suns and their systems
'in their orbit we too find Cod Our
Savior becomes the on-fowing genius
OF the whole race. Our gospel Is writ
ten ON the Scared crae Of the ocean
shore and On the blooming violet. IN
myth and music, IN poetry and art.
90 Genesis. Isaiah and the gospels but
as well in Homer Plato or Words.
worth
Tho religion ~ the future awaits the
revealing Of the SONS Of God. Il win
be as great and can be no greater than
our humanity. Evolution T. the mas
ter-key