The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-04
Rev. Frank Fay Eddy Quotes
Golden Rule and Command
mpnt of Jesus.
WORLD READY FOR LOVE
AS A SOCIAL PASSION
Beneticence of Rule Conditioned
on Current Idea of JUS
tice and Love.

Al the services OF lhe Il iisb thi'aiion
society yesterday in Unitarian hall Rev.
Frank Fay Eddy preached on 1.-The
Chemistry of Love- Unity quartet
sang the usual anthem and Mrs Brown
ing gave a beautiful soprano solo, which
received many words Of praise from
members of the congregation.
Mr.. Eddy began by quoting the
golden rule and the commandment of
Jesus to his disciples that they should
love one another as he had loved them.
''The usefulness and moral power, y 'he
said, "of the golden rule for any gwen
age depends on the defniteness and
strength of the ideal Of love which
characterizes the age. The admon1;,
that they should do unto us, after all.
is only a bidding to observe the rules
that are considered honorable and Just
at that stage of history, In an age
of chivalry we would follow the golden
rule if we killed our brother, opposing
us in a ioust, provided we took no un-
fair advantage of him according to the
doing by him as we would expect him
10 do by us. In this age of competi'
tion in business we can follow the
golden rule and bring our brother to
bankruptcy. for we are using him as
we would expect to be used. In tact,
the bene6cence of the golden rule. is
conditioned on the current ideal of jus
tice and love.
Mr Eddy said he was indebted to
Henry D. Lloyd s last book, - Man, the
Social Creator,' for this thought as
well as for the suggestion of the larger
theme of the SERMON, 1.-The Chemistry
of Love" To study love as natural
force is to take dist,nctively modern
point of view Yet it is difficult to con-
trovert Lloyd 8 assertion that 1T is
constituent force of humanity which
becomes active always when men are
brought into spiritual contact. Men eX-
hibit this in home making, in trlbe-mak-
ing, in matchmaking, in church-maklng,
in labor unionism, reform movements
and all the phases of unselhsh co-opera-
tion. Love then has chemistry, Tor IL
is a force invariably liberated into ac-
tivity when men are brought together IN
the crucible of life.
Studied as a natural force, love is to
be considered as indestructible, as con-
slant. as conditioned on the mental and
spiritual contact of man with man.
After quoting somewhat from Lloyd s
book, Mr., Eddy illustrated this theme IN
a historical way, and then went on to
consider some of the consequences sug'
gested by this theory of love In llfe.
Among other things he said:
We are just advancing TO the stage OF
activity where social man Is TO come 10
his own. The old indiyidualism has
we have nearly achieved a social con
science under which the golden rule
will operate 10 bring forth a new dream
OF Justice. The gluttony of ayarlce per
sonified In our Rockefelers and Carnegie.
the evils of wage slavery and the pre-
emptlng OF vast natural resources. mono
poles. and wealth under the forms OF prl-
did chatte slavery, which In us day
was defended by all the respectability Of
society as voiced In press: In court and
in pulpit. For the first time the world is
ready for love as a social passion working
in the hearts OF all noble-minded men
and women the world over. Mechanical
expedenJs have brought men Into close
friendship In the last century. The world
Is thrilling with a new passion for social
righteousness. 1t is love manifestins IT.
self in new combination. Its eXplana-
ton lies in the chemistry OF love.
To look upon man as a social creator.
as a being who inevitably reflected the
phenomena OF love everywhere and al
or spiritual contact with mis- fellows Is
TO assume the attitude OF an optimlst and
an evolutionist In religion. The thought
OF men being helped over crises in his
existence by the Interference OF God act
| ing from without. the need Of super
natural saviour, the possibility of any rev.
cannot possibly go with the conception of
| man as n being in whose nature Is In
| grained as natural force love. which In
| The association with his fellows is freed
| into activity and power SO that his ca
reer becomes an unfolding sof life from
| higher 10 higher forms,
In all this, what OF the church? The
road OF human progress Is marked all 100
| frequently with the ruins OF the temples
which were builded. worshiped in awhile
and left behind, Man Is compelled to wreck
| Inc cPDtnrteS In
order TO escape sufficiently from his past
| to make a real advance. He wrecks his
| churches with the rest. 1t remains 10 be
| seen whether the church Of today can ex-
press the social conscience already form
| lng-whether she indorses not The
religion OF humanity Is the future reli-
eion whether expressed By the old
| church. by a new church or no church.
Our Unitarianism Is on trial with the
rest. We are creedless and unbound.
| Are we mobile enough 10 thrill with the
social love. which is the modern mani
festation OF. love primeval2 II we can
! become the spokesman OF love TO modern
| life pIr fufnrp is