The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-04
STUDIES LOVE AS
NATURAL FORCE
We Have Nearly Achieved q
Social Conscience, Says
Mr.. Eddy.
OLD TEMPLES ABANDONED
CAN CHURCH TODAY EXPRESS
THE NEW IDEA.


Frank Fay Eddy preached on the Chem
istry of Love. Unity quartet sang the
usual anthem and Mrs Browning 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.
1.-THE usefulness and moral power he
said, ''of the golden rule for any given
age depends on the definiteness and
strength of the ideal of love which char
acterizes the age. The admonition to do
unto others as we would have them do
unto US, after all, is only a bidding to OBJ
serve the rules that are considered hon
orable and just, at that stage of his
tory. In an age of chivalry we would
follow the golden rule if we killed our
brother, opposing us in a joust, provided
we took no unfair advantage of him ac-
cOrding to accepted traditions We would
be doing by him as we would EXPECT
him to do by us. In this age of COM
petition 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 fact the
benefieence to the golden rule is condi-
toned on the current ideal of justice and
love"
Love a Natural Force.
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, the Chemistry of Love.
TO study love as a natural force is
70 take distinetixeiy modern point of
view" he said. Yet, 1t is difficult to
controyert Lioyd's assertion that it is
a constituent force of humanity which
becomes >active always, when men are
brought into spiritual contact. Men ex-
h1b1t this in home-making, in tribe-mak-
ing, in matchmaking, in church-making.
in labor unionism, reform movements
and all the phases of unselfish co-Oper-
alton. Love then has chemistry, for il
is force invariably liberated when men
life
Studied as a general force. love is to
be considered fndestructible, as constant
as conditioned on the mental and spirit
ual 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 life.
A Social Conscience.
1--WE are just advancing to the stage
of activity where a social man is to
come to his own" he said. 1.-The old in
dividualism has about played its part
This is because we have nearly achieved
a social concience under which the golden
rule will operate to bring forth a new
dream of justice. The gluttony of ayar-
ice personified in our RockfeIlers and
Carncgies, the evils of wake slavery and
the pre-empting of vast mineral re-
sources. monopolies and wealth under the
forms of private fortunes will as inev-
itably pass as did chattel slavery, which
in its day was defended by all respect
ability 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 ex-
Dedients have brought men into close
Fellowship in The last century. The world
IS thrilling with new passion for social
1t is love manifesting it
self in new combination. It's explain
alton lies in the chemistry of love.
An Optimistic Attitude.
ITO look upon man as social creator.
rs being who inevitably reflected the
phenomena of love everywhere and al
ways, when he came into any real mental
or spiritual contact with his fellows. IL
10 assume the attitude of an optinisf
and an evolutionist in religion. The
thought of man being helped over crises
N his existence by the interference of
God acting from without, the need of
a supernatural saviour. the possibility of
any revelation being authoritative indie
finitely cannot possibly go with the con-
ception of man as a being whose nature
IS ingrained as a natural force love
which in the association with his fell
lows is freed into activity and power. so
that his career becomes an unfolding of
life from higher to higher forms.
What of the Church?
''In all this, what of the church? The
road of human progress is marked all
toe frequently with the ruins of the tenn
pies buided. worshipped in while
md left behind Man is compelled to
wreck his institutions every few CEN
uries in order to escape sufficiently from
lis past to make real advance. He wrecks
MS churches with the rest 1t remains
70 be seen whether the church today can
express the social conscience already
forming, whether she indorses or no. The
religion of humanity is the future re-
igiOn. whether expressed by the old
church by the new church, or no church.
Dur Unitarianism is on trial with the
est. We are creedless and unbound.
Are we mobile enough to thrill with the
;ocial love. which is the modern man.
festation of love primeval. If we can be-
,ome the spokesman of love to modern
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