The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-17
MILLS OFFERS
NEW DOCTRINE
TO THOUSANDS
Gentle Preacher Enjoys Rare
Privilege of Addressing Tab
ernacIe Congregation.
ADDRESS TO THE WORLD
IN SALT LAKE THEATRE
LIBERAL EVANGELIST BELIEVES
A NEW SPIRITUAL ERA
is AT HAND.

Thousands of Salt Lake people yester-
day heard Benjamin Fay Mills eNpouud
the doctrines Of the new spiritual era.
which he believes is at hand. The new
thought if sucn it may properly be
called. is an overturning of the dogmas
which have been apparently an INSOFAR
able part of the creeds of many faiths.
In brief. the religion that Mr. Mills is
preaching is called the Modern religion.
the religion of progress and advancement;
the religion of faith and hope and love.
1t IS estimated that 1000 persons heard
Mr.. Mills address at the Tabernacle yes
terday afternoon. His subject was 'The
Eve of a New Spiritual Era" Last even
ing the Salt Lake theater was filled with
those who We're eager TO hear his ceie-
brated Address to the World" Mr. Mills
lectures yesterday were closely interviewer
in thought. even though there was a dit
ference in the language employed.
At the theater last evening, Mr.. Mills
said in substance:
The New Era.
I'VE have arrived at one of those SUI
preme moments when an Old world passes
away and "A new world comes into exist
ence- AMI / 50 desire TO assist in the
birth of. this new spiritual era that 1
utter this confession of faith and hope
and love.
There is but one and that one is every
where.
''There is but one. of whom. by whom.
and to whom are all things: one origin.
one life, one destiny.
The creation and evolution of the uni
verse is a sort of drama which the great
soul is enacting for reasons. 1t has pro-
jected itself to the remOtest frontiers Of
the universe, even to apparent uncon-
seriousness. but even there we see that all
the majesty and beauty of the universe
are latent in every iota of the universe
and in the densest atom or smallest ion
there are always infinite wisdom and pur-
pose and power. which are other names
for God out of the simplest and least
developed consciousness of the remOtest
atom comes the higher consciousness Of
the living plant. and beyond that the con-
seriousness of the sentient animal and be
yond that the consciousness Of the think
ing, choosing, aspiring and achieving man.
God in Embryo.
Man is not a God in ruins. but a God
in embryo So far as he is seff-consciOus
he is GOd-cOnsciOus: he knows that he
came from God and is going TO God, and
he thus comes to exercise wisdom and
power until he realizes that all things are
given into his hands.
His one hope of Individual growth and
ultimate freedom and his one possibility
of divine service lie in the development
OF the consciousness Of the one reality and
the Identification OF himself and all that
is with the universal life. When he can
truly say, = and my father are one he
will be a Christ. Until then the way of
salvation for him consists in the en-
deavOr to exercise absolute trust as the
fixed attitude of the mind and perfect
love as the unvarying practice of the life.
This is the logical and active expression
of his perception Of the unity of life.
+ How knowledge Comes.
"AI knowledge must come to man
through nature or the world outside OF
man; through experience or the contact
with circumstance, conditions and events,
or from the intuitiOns of his own soul.
Let him absolutely trust all these as ex-
of "a 4 vii in
nOn-Tesistant or absolutely tTustful expert
ence he will realize the unity and omn-
presence of God.
AS man realizes his essential divinity
ne will receive knowledge by intuition.
wisdom by inspiration, character by tine
consciously indwelling spirit, unspeakable
joy from the realization Of universal
unity and Hmitess power from his intel
ligent surrender to the universal purpose
and Identification with the infinite will.
He is thus destined to break through
into higher and higher stages of evolu-
ton. He is even now controlling. pre-
serving and healing the body at will by
his growing knowledge of the laws of ma
ture and his exercise Of spiritual forces.
and will probably create finer and more
powerful bodies for his occupancy in the
future as he has in the past. TO keep
pace with his spiritual evolution
Only Perfect Cure.
This is the only and the perfect cure
for all the apparent ills of the flesh and
the soul. whether OF the individual man
or of any form of social rganizatiOn. do
nestle Industrial, commercial, political or
international.
THE Sermon on the Mount is a uni
versa1 teaching, appropriate to any reli-
giOn man now knows. The golden rule is
a universal precept of universal appIica-
ton. / appeal to mankind to begin to
practice what il processes to believe.
First, let US recognize the universal
kinship- The man who truly gives his
love TO nature shall meet with a certain
and Immediate response. The whole crea-
ton literally gTOans and travails in pain
until now, waiting for the manifestation
of the sons of trust anal love-
Second, let US make real the universal
brotherhood of man This is not an iri-
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