The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-25
REV, ROBERT E. BROWN
 ON THE BROAD LIFT" Life is Not Divided Into Secu-
 lar and Sacred. RELIGION NOT NARROW Significant That There Are So
 Many Honest Men.

Rev Robert E. Brown, pastor of Pil- grim Congregational church in East Grand avenue, preached a splendid ser mon Sunday morning from the subject, ''The Broad Life" The sermon is given telow:
 Text: Luke 1O:27: And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy strength and with all thy mind"
 There are two different ways in which men have looked upon the com plex world. One, for want of better ! name, I will call the narrow view. It looks back upon the history of man. kind and divides 1t into two varieties one divine, the other profane. By divine history Is meant that God called the Hebrew people in a wholly nnirac ulous way to be His people. He appear ed among them and operated in their midst in ways quite different from those he used among other peoples.
 By profane history is understood the history of non-Jewish peoples among whom there were no miracles, no reVe- lations of God but only an operation of natural unfoldment.
 This narrow view divides literature into two kinds. There is the inspired literature of the Bible which is ahso- lutely the word of God Then there is the uninsplred literature outside of the Bible, which has truth only as it re- fleets here and there the inspired book
 This view divides life itself into sa- cred and secular. A mans work at his blow or office is a secular work. His relation to the school or the state is a secular relation, while his life in pray CT and meditation, his repeating his creeds or counting his beads is called sacred Far be it from me to belittle this view or to refuse to recognize that , 1t has been held by men whose lives have been saintly and whose influence for good has been untold. I refer to 1t this morning because it has been wide ly held and because 1t is not the only possible angle from which we may look at this life of ours.
 There is another view which for want of better name call the broad view. It looks back upon history and sees that the Spirit of God has been at work among all peoples. It examines the limbs and joints of our civilization and sees that it is very complex body. No man, no nation, no age can claim 1t all. It represents the combin- ed contribution of many ages. Many nations, many men.
 This view looks over literature and it sees inspiration for humanity on almost every page. It finds it not only in the writings of prophets and apos ties but in those of the Greek dram atists. the Hindoo. sages and the Chin ese moralists. It finds faith, hope and love reflected not only in Paul of the First, but in every son of the nine- teenth century.
 This broad view does not divide life into two kinds, sacred and secular, but considers that life like the garment of Jesus, is all of one piece. A prayer is not. more sacred than a grasp of the hand A meditation is not more holy than benevolent smile or a word of comfort. That people continue to make distinctions between sacred and secular which are too fine was borne home to