The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-26
NEW RELIGION
FOR MAKING men
prpose Is TO Unfold Capacities
and to Develop Best There
Is in the Soul.
CHANGES CERTAIN TO COME
UNITARIAN PREACHERS VIEWS
ON SUBJECT.
CHANGES CERTAIN TO COME

..,-,- q, save Men. but to Make Mer
tba Task Of Religion was the suDJe
~ zine sermon by William lhuiseoi
p-,v,8 in Unitarian hail yesterday III
,peqker said in part; 60,
..T.e time is coming-and IL is Hol la
...,,.-,,,ben the whole picture OF ult
s-o~f1 which religion now eInOouIes Hi 10
~ Hanged 1t must be changed loI .ns
r,rrs reason that operated IN cIedtiiS ~
,f.rIrs. Does this mean thS S.tu " 49,
Eg,ou2 Not al ALL Preclseiy tiI ,.-r,,-t,,
human needs and demands "illJII -. ~ TN
-el;gioD into being viii keep IL mere. ~
9 ~ TODAY as deeply need lhe "
.Ir1ge which religion away back III Wy
..'jii,bt of knowledge supplied as the
,ren ~ that distant time neeued tIIeil I-
IT. mind Of awakening man ueiii s'i ~
most inslstently the unliica Ion I.,'1,,, 1,bat
sscrs OF life We want 10 kho" VIVA
"a. me- means We demand 10 see II a
t-...-r,,,- And IL we cannot see IL a.
i@rT-onv on the plan Of theology "hlcI
,-ranc out Of human ignorance dhu
rore the less is il necessary that
lta', a. a harmony on the more assur-
- ,tsr of a reconstructed human so
riety And life would cease TO De worm
-. n 90 iacked a motive and purpose
H,1abI+ of arOusng enthusiasm. IheSe
.Li,gs religion must give us IneSe nttus
@ . suratv Of religion, and only that
".TCbst then shall be the passion and
.-ose beating in the heart OF the re-
80, that Is 10 be- that IS already rlslllS
s,70 men2 IL cannot be the passion TO
Ne men. for the idea that men are lost
= :, danger of some dread punishment
,s zone. Effort directed toward saving
~ In the old sense, is wasted. There
= bathing in the future to save them
I'm except that which now and here
rnsnaces their lives or-corrupts their
Characters. There has been no fail, there
has onlv been one long ascent from mon
er1u 10 man.
To Make Men.
.To make men. not to save men-tO
create character. 10 unfold capacities, 10
devotion and express all that is in "A man,
rather than to rescue him from fancied
danger in some other world-this Will be
The task Of the new and better religion,
Is now the task Of the only thing which
NAV Justly be called religion. That task
IS rejected in the whole spirit of de-
mOcracy That Is the aim and purpose
Of the public school That is the prob
lem Of childhood.
III IS Inevitable too. that under the
power Of this new vision Of the world
and this new consciousness of its real
task the thought of God must suffer
change. This cannot mean loss. rather
must It mean a vast gain. The child who
has IncAElA OF lLt WOTlQ as nat QOtS
not Lose anything when he learns of its
rotuadity The man who finds himself
obliged TO give up the idea of special
divine inspiration for certain favored in
dividuals and 10 adjust himself to the
idea that all the facts and realities OF
men and women today as they ever were
to any one, does not lose anything OF
value.
you can easily foresee what tremend-
Gus changes in the whole face of civili-
cation are ensured by the substitution
Of this passion to make nen. to fulfill
manhood and womanhOod- to give fullest
and freeSt expression to life, in place Of
the old passion to save men from an i'm
aginary future perdition. The older re-
lgiOn has contented itself with one day
in seven for the accomplishment of its
task That is all its task calls for II
would not know what to do with much
more time, and II is not making demands
for any more. What il seeks to do is to
get men to accept certain doctrines.
When that is done. its main task Is over.
The Whole Man.
The new religion is going to claim the
whole man and all that touches him. 1t
is going to claim the whole of life. 1t is
going TO insist that the daily task by
which man gets his bread shall be as
sacred as the service of any sanctuary
i4a0 httu luOuSnl 10 DC. II Is gong 10
say that II is just as much a proclamation
of life that a man should be tied to a
machine in some factory six days in the
week, as that he should be compelled by
police force to attend a certain church
ln Sunday-indeed, a far greater profan-
alton. II will declare that it is Just as
much menace 10 the moral and spirit
nal life Of men that they be compelled
BY fear Of starvation to do tasks which
they feel 10 be wrong or unbrotherly or
unjust, as II was for TorQuemada and
his assistants to compel men and women
under pain of fearful fortunes to give as
sent to doctrines which their souls alb
lorred.
The new religion will invest all of life
with sanctity, and il will insist that all
Us work and all its tasks be made trfb-
ntary 10 the development Of character.
That religion which holds the future must
embrace the whole OF life, as that which
now exists has utterly failed to do. As
sNfr as man Is man, as sure as the I'M
lo'clng Of his ethical nature. as certain
az the development of conscience. the
religion which in the coming DAYS shall
commend itself 10 men and women as
worthy of The name must be one with
.l.- l'S iditn VIII be greater than that
when me past has known, for II will af-
l"n lti eternity is now and that now
!. 90, Time and here is the place to live
. "N'a TO the full. not in one mad
',' profits such as now curses the
a. OUT ~ the resolute determination
M -,e every human life the chance 10
--.-yo itself in the midst of a connrade
-, within the atmosphere of broth