The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-24
FEAR INSPIRES
EVERY NATION
Men of Importance in Various
Spheres Are Shadowed by
Detectives.
WILLIAM THURST0N BROWN
AT UNITARIAN CHURCH
He Enumerates Four Things
That Are to Give Us the
Church for Today.


the Unitarian church Sunday morning
on, The Church for Today He said.
in Js1, part; 10 u,,,. ~. ,,,,,,s ,o,. 80
day? What are the things which are in
dispensahle TO religion ] name four
things without which there can be no
such thIns as A true church or a real
ministry OF religion.
order in the world, which is the mean
Ing and purpose of the race life and the
| fulhllmen, Of each individual life. The
possession OF that sense of divine or
| der is the only explanation Of Jesus and
| Of Paul. II Is and was thu secret Of
their power. Having that, they were; in
| and inspirers Of their time and all time
Having that, any man or body OF men
now and here viii have the same power
There is the first snd chief requisite
| Of the church for To-Day or for any day
! All other things follow from that. Moth
| ing can take the place Of that. That is
| the dynamo OF religion, and II is equally
the supreme need OF human life. With
out II. our lfe has nc great and inspiring
meaning; With it. there is nothing we
| cannot do, no daring ratth we may not
nay. will not, cherish.
Q. In the second place. the church for
| today is that man or body OF men that
| shall measure the right and wrong, the
| truth or falsehood, Of every institution
and custom and law Of our social life
commercial. political, economic. civic:
private or publicly the yardstick of
| that divine order which gives the only
! tolerable incoming 10 the universe and
| which alone saves parenthood from be-
ing a crime and birth a misfortune.
Nothing SO Important.
Nothing that can be named Is so su-
| premely important 70 the lives OF our
| boys and girls and men and women as the
existence and application OF this higher
| other institution among us applies that
test. There Isn't an occupation growing
| prets mans life In terms OF divine
! order or gives il divine meaning What
| is a human life from the standpon Of
commerce or business2 II is nothing but
| exactly the same S wheat or hay or
| horses or hogs-and the price of a man In
the market does not rise so high as the
price of these other things. The death
| Of a man or dozen or hundred men
| In mine or a factory or on n railroad
is no loss, at all TO the, owners OF that
mine or factory or railroad. 1t costs
| nothing to replace men. The death OF
! mule or the breaking OF loom or the
| wreck Of car is far greater loss, for
It costs more TO replace either of these
than ii does TO replace any number OF
men That low estimate of human life
is the shame and the menace OF. our
cirilIzaton-indeed, IT Is the doom OF our
social order That man is insane vino
thinks that q social order which makes
men cheaper than land OF pork or pig
iron can possibly survive. Long ago
! Lowell sang:
And think ye that temple shall endure
Which shelters the noble and crushes
the poor?'
Is it not then, of most vital moment
! cadent civilization at least one insuitu-
ton which shall demand In season and
out Of season that human life shall be
| held sacred above all other things?
There Is no such institution and Will be
none. unless II Is a church. Only a
! man or a body OF nsen inspired by re-
l,,lN Il, 1,,1 al 80,
| has any vision Of divine order In the
| world.
8. In the third place, the church Tor
today requires courage-courage of The
highest sort. Indeed ii is the only thing
that can possess courage. Courage is
an unknown virtue i'm any man any
shifting foundation Of any selfish social
order Courage is only possible TO those
who feel eternal yerities beneath their
feet,
Fear Is Widespread.
Nothing today is so widespread moth
! ing so permeates every nation In Chris
tendon and every commercial enterprise,
as fear. Fear Is the very atmosphere
which every government on Garth
cry ruler-be he king emperor. czar.
president, magnate. captain of Industry.
or what YOU wil-has his bodyguard. is
/ Shadowed by detectives is haunted by
! fear. lest someone shall take his life
a beautiful social order that in which
the so-callea representatives OF Law and
order have so little faith in the justice
| or beneficence Of their laws. that they
dare not trust themselves unguarded
among those whom these laws are said
| to protect and benefit, Fear Is ever and
| forever the child Of injustice, OF oppres-
| sion, OF wrong. Where these are. there
is fear as their very shadow. Where
there Is Justice love. fraternity there is
or can he no fear.
If there is TO be one institution in our
J social order which shall dare TO tell the
l,g1, 4. =
| courage. Only an institution created by
the, vision and spirit OF IeNgion can have
! such courage
/ A. And hnaiIy there can be no such
I thing as a true church without love and
/ secrfce-love that includes all. that ex-
/ cludes none-sacrifce that holds nothing
/ is as naturally The expression OF this
! sense Of the divine order that blesses and
hallows the world, giving meaning and
worth to human life. as sacrifice is the
/ blossom and crown OF motherhood
To be member OF the Church of
! Christ in the world. the church OF the
! 10 any soul, must be the main thing.
/ II will be. Everything else will be sub
! ordinate, everything else will find It's full
/ fllnlent and justification in that, The
| trouble with what Is niscaled the church
! TODAY Is that II makes no such claims on
men. calls forth no such sacrifice is en-
! IN no way demands that ali other things
shall be subordinated TO The vision and
truth Of religion.
But religion has 70 do with the eternal
the universal Its service must lay claim
TO the whole life of man. Nothing hu-
man can lie outside its realm. lis Ia SIX
! is q world task the most sweeping. rev.
! olutionary, compelling, man can know
! The world problem is not how 10 save
| men. but how 10 make men; not how to
| save the soul In some future life. but
| how 10 unfold the soul in this llie-to
! make the divine order which our faith
/ dtscerns one with the human order which
! epNirons and shapes our lives