The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-19
VARIOUS KINDS
Of RELIGIONS
npcIared That Only Half the
People Are NominaIIy Con-
neCted With Church.

-,..,..-, Thurston Brown delivered an
49, in Unity han last night. He said
in psIt- -....-.-.,-.--,
-.--i--an o.. religion-the definition inn
r.5 i'm the whole organized church-it
i-.tr ra ur~fectiy obvious that millions
-.s.-ra have no consciousness whatever
p. -,l-rrfouins as religious beings, and
rfi77s Oh that plan never will, never
less than half the people of the
---4red states are even nOmlnaily con
tied with churches II u junction IN
--5-irr means 20 belong to church. TO
ra read the Bible 10 accent any
.eI or theology. great deal more than
-. ..-rr population Is and Will remain to-
.-r and permanent strangers TO the world
% ~zr.rfar We have today a widespread
s nj religious nausea. That is the
lining of the moral impotence of con-
.-rrs1raI and theological religion Human
-.rs has no place for it, Ordinary conduct
..-ra-ss IL the expanding intellect rejects
- and ava keuiug moral aspiration has no
u-a for &C.
r-.a u is simply 10 be conscious of a world
Bitch is moving steadily and surely to-
.-4 HIGHER and ever higher moral, eth
r spfrir1aI ends. TO conform 70 the laws
.r-rsr higher world, to live IN Il and for
. 81. breathe its air. TO respond to its
ans The man who functions religiOusly
Is fr4 man whose life is lived supremacy in
IL. u-7rTd OF aIl-inClusive ethical pur-
nose 90 whom that world is the real world
.- a sense iuc0mparably truer than either
-a-s-a1T or mental or industrial life is.
"Wrat is tine message which Jesus and
non ike him in all ages have spoken and
.-s still speaking2 They have said and
az, still saving. These things which YOU
men regard as real and permanent-laws
.rsl1ms. commerce. cIvliizauons-are not
..-u4ualt They are not the world IN
-rfrh supremacy il is the business and
rra privilege OF men to function. They do
-7r remain Does Jerusalem seem so en-
l.--iuge Not one stone above another VIII
h. Jeff I'm its walls Does the Roman en-
rire seem the supreme reality2 4 Roman
emperor shall find Il necessary to adopt
the Christian religion TO save that empire
FrtIa while from its doom. Does human
slavery seem the foundation OF national
wealth and industrial power 1t shall
pass away. though Il cost million lives.
So nation can endure half slave and half
free Nothing endures but truth and jus
tee and truth and justice are eteTnaily
on the march.
What is the wcrd of religion today2
What must X say TO you and me and all
the WORLD This. The world in which
merce and the like is not the real world
it is passing, transient. Not Tor these
does life exist Not for these chiefly are
human beings born. equipped with bodies
and minds. gifted with love and aspirs-
ton and sympathy. Not in these can life
express itself. Z The ends of life are not
served merely lby the creation Of vast
wealth, by the building Of great cities.
bv the realization of world empire. 1t
isn't a greater Chicago. a greater New
York a greater Rome, more magnificent
Babylon that humanity needs. Not for
these nor in these nor through these did
Jesus realize himself: not by these can
other men realize themselves. The only
building in which we shall find our real
place and function is the building here on
the earth Of the city of God, which is the
-ity of man. the civilization of comrades,
the structure of brotherhood. That alone
IS the service OF religion That alone
makes the earth more than a mere float
.ng cinder I'm the sky-makes the earth
Gods dwelling place and the school of
ennohiinE chara Cter.
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