Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-15

that there are some who care for them
and will visit them IN their hours OF
trial, Is only one part of this work.
Visiting them when IN strange cities
making them feel at home. is another
good work. and brightens what might
be otherwise a rather monotonous life.
Above all things else, II this alliance
will teach the various churches TO be
less stringent In their wholesale de-
nunciations II will have accomplished
n great work and largely bridged the
chasm and made human sympathy 10
prevail where there were suspicion and
nntagonism. II VIII not lower the
church to do It's Masters work for our
fellows wherever they are or whatever
their calling"
UNITARIAN SERMON.
Rev. Frank Fay Eddy OF the UnitaH-
an church preached on disappearing
Line Fences" from Job XVII: 5. For
what is the hope OF the hypocrite,
though he hath gained, when God hath
taken away is soul The speaker
ssid IN part:
Job wandered beyond the line fences
OF Judaism he treated the ancient
landmarks Of his fathers as II there
were naught. lie justified himself with
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OF me except that | be honest with
myself and Him. for what Is the hope
Of the hypocrte, though he hath gained
when God hath taken away his soul 2
After all. when a man has constructed
a line fence, what has he accomplished
except TO exclude himself and those
who choose TO stay with him from all
the rest of the universe, IN so far uh
their fence Is u success? II results
chiefly In exclusiveness and IN com
parison includes but little.
Instances are multiplied OF me
fences that are disappearing. Note
how many questions are becoming IN
ternational, indicating that national
lines are becoming less important
Within every civilized country the mou-
ern democratic ideas are attacking all
the old lines OF social caste so that
soon there will be no divinity that doih
hedge a king about and certainly IT.
tie tolerance Of aristocratlc incapuhles
In religion sectarian lines are vanishing
with astonishing rapidity In canada
a number of the strongest cvangellcal
denominations have come together and
we have the recent meeting OF me con-
federation of churches as an illustra-
ton Of the prevalent tendency. Thoush
this organization excluded us unilhrl-
ans. and really constructed a new line
fence IL achieved much by wiping OUT
so many division lines among scots that
are included within its definition OF OF
thodoxY.
IAN inevitable reconstruction or re-
lgIous belief must then take place.
Science has seemingly destroyed mucA.
but only apparently Really the way
has been cleared for q grander concep-
ii. -. Il, st.l In
al the same time purposiye and good
The first thing Is to realize some ration
al and sa satisfactory relation TO this deity
that for the first time IN the history OF
men we are beginning 10 see as really
infinite. All the rest Will follow. We
have right to challenge those VINO
have accepted the universal principles
underlying life In all its phases, and
ask them to Justify the faith that Is In
them. They have now and again climb
ed the Full height Of Truths noun
tain. They shame themselves and lose
their souls In hypocrisy as Job sug-
gests In our text II they compromise
with what they in their hearts regard
as error. We are just beginning to re-
construct religion so that the old
thought OF God who is God of the
earth, shall be swallowed UP In the
OF the universe, and when the Scrip
lures and ritual of religion In this
broader sense are evolved they will re-
fleet man as a citizen of the universe,
worshiping the God Of the universe,
and line fences will disappear"
REV. GosHEN'S ADDRESS,
Rev. f.. /. Goshen spoke on The Uni
versal Messs"a" before the Y. NJ, &. A..
yesterday afternoon. He said
When love has faded from the heart
the vision of man Is blinded. his song
loses its power to thrill the heart Men
who were made to sit at banquet tables
have become like beggars, groveing in
the dust. picking crumbs. When Christ
came He found man like splendid
temple, apparently beautiful yet with
its tapestries and decorations widowed,
covered with dust and decayed Not by
creed or profession, hut by the spirit
Of the beautiful, the grand and true is
the influence of Christianity manifest.
There Is only one way to escape Gods
love, you may fee to the ends OF the
earth. you cannot DO II. you can only
do II by shutting yourself Wlthinn