The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-01
WHAT ARE YOU LIVING
FOR? IS QUESTION
The Rev. Mr.. Brown Makes Able
Address on Adequate Life
Purpose.

"What Are You Living Forv' ol
7s.An Adequate Purpose for Life was
q the subject of an able address by the
= Rev. William Thurston Brown at Unity
.fball Sunday morning. Said Mr., Brown
n in part:
The religious problem is not how YOU
lean. In your little home or among inc
'Icircle OF your cougenia friends. have re-
,IlIgious consciousness. believe in God and
worship him. The religious problem is
'Ihow TO invest the whole OF life, inns Whole
4social fabric. with sacred meaning. with
Ia sense of immortal worth The most
slGod can do for any soul is to give a
sacred meaning TO life for that soul, to
timpart sense OF the immortal worth.
That problem can be solved and men
,|be given the consciousness OF religion
xoply as life for each and all is con-
Isciously related TO divine ends. 10 things
lof Immortal value. No man or woman
Lean find or ought to think. he can find
a sacred meaning or divine worth in
life whose years arc spent Ike those
llof tree or an insect or even as one
IN the lower animals,
lor more OF the representative people OF
.lthis city this vital question OF religion
for today: What arc you living torT
What does the world seem to YOU? What
,imakcs you do the thing you arc doing?
NJ There are in this city. in every city
fof its size. representatives. OF great
many pursuits Here are merchants
1ers. divekeepers. preachers Here are
'3bankers and gamblers. editors and agents
-rof the white slave traffic, dressmakers
..and women of tho street and so on To
l3fhe end of the list of business pursuits,
What would they say i'm reply TO your
7'nuestior2
N The merchant would say: Il am in
;Ausncss for tho profit II affords, ] was
horn into "A world which provides for
! merchants IN which they seem TO be
NECESSITY. | am meeting plain demand
zof the social order.
IL That is exactly what the keeper of
,ealoon, the preacher. the brothel-keeper
1.-THE banker the gambler, the lawyer, and
all the rest would say. They might with
perfect justice say: II am saloon
keeper because II is a profitable business
am a gambler because gambling is a
fcspcctable fascinating. popular, and
eometimss profitable pursuit | am a
banker because the system calls for bank
crs 7 am q lawyer for the same rea-
tkon. | am a dealer in prostitutes of one
Kind because there is demand for them,
n am woman OF the street because the
IMAGES are much higher than i can get
IN any other occupation open to me. |
hm minister because religion is rec
Dgnized Industry and answers wide
( Fprcsd demand
fThcse answers are all practically alike
-ir ono respect: they denote that all these
-pccupetions relate solely TO a certain eco
honiic system. All these persons accept
tt world as they find il and adapt
themselves to that world. But that is
BOT religion. Religion means adapting
E3nc's self 10 very different world, to
: world Of eNcr-cnlarging moral pur
= bose. a world Of higher values.
II ] am nor saying that some of these oc-
l<ipations are not all right as far as
Z hey GO. But do want To say-and this
lurbt to be said. and will sometime be
pid-to every boy and girl in the public
e fhools ny those who call themselves cdu-
s-etors. that not one OF these occupations
Nieht Ia bc considered by any one an
4 nd IN itself as if q could satisfy the
z'ecd "r capacity n the human souls The
limo Is coming when every human being
Fai comes into the world IN the confines
4 civilization will he made TO under |
= Rnd that the real vocation of "A man |
I ,r woman is not accumulation nor pol |
: heal or economic power over others |
\ hat II is rather the creation or an ever |
Tfater ever more beautiful. cvcr-holicr. !
. orpetcr. nohlcr human world. To know |
!. uch rocs ton as that is To he rcli- |