The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-21
STRONG SERMON BY
UNITARIAN PASTOR
Rev. W. T. Brown breaches
Discourse on Spiritual Sig
nificance Of Democracy"
SPEAKER SAYS RELIGION
Is TO KNOW REDEEMER
Democracy Is God Becoming
Flesh in a Diyiner Incarna-
ton, lie Declares.

'Thc Spiritual Significance of Dc.
mocracy," was The subject of a sermon
by the Rev. William Thurstou Brown,
pastor of the Unitarian church Sunday
morning, In part, the Rev. Mr.. Brown
said:
What is it to b religious? How docs
religion become fact in ones life? No
better definition than that OF Jesus mas
been given. And this is his definition
To know God Not TO believe something
about God or to perform certain rites,
hut simply TO know God. To know a
God who is now and here,
What is IL TO know God? II is to
Know ones self now and here as part
OF sacred process that is unfolding on
the earth. TO know that lifc Is divinely
worth while. To find it so, to know we
arc not actors in Il farce, but in u drama.
priceless worth.
What are all these churches for? Let
us suppose it is their business to help
these human souls to know God. TO be
aware In all their unfolding OF the dl
vine reality OF life. How do they pro
coed. and do they succced2
one thing that is being done is 10
teach little children TO say prayers An
other is 10 give older children some knowl-
edge of the Hebrew and Christian scrip
lures. and some knowledge of what mas
Z
I oi Israel and the man of Gallcc did not
set religion out of textbook
God in the Home
But in our Sunday schools and churches
and homes VIC are not trying to make
people acquainted with God who is now
ana here. We are merely telling them
about supposed God who once was
When they think of a holy land, /, is PAL
cstlno. and not the place where they live.
In none Of the religious teachings of our
n1yn ,I,,,,
rnotely like what Jesus said: The king
dom OF God is among you. is here; change
Your minds. and believe the good tidings,
But God can't be o little thing, sec
ondary thing. and still be God. We can't
have God In little corner OF our life
We cannot have religion, unless ii he the
whole word in which we live. Right
| here is seen the spiritual significance oil
democracy What is democracy Not q
party, nor government. nor nation
1t IS the moral uprising of the human
soul IT, is human evolution becoming
morally conscious OF purpose and mis-.
| sion and goal. 1t is the awaliinc of tho
sense OF collective morality and RESPONSE
! bility. II Is the sense and assertion o
| human rights; the right 10 live, TO grow
! to labor and have the product Of tha
labor TO think. study, know and have
becoming flesh in diyiner incarnation
| than that which superstition has conjurcC
UP for a Galilcan babe. Democracy give
! all human life sacred meaning and divin'
| purpose soon as II is understood. l
( is the Word OF God, for today democrac'
] is humanity on the march toward hishe
and ever higher responsibilities for ever.
| human child. toward greater and eve
! greater rights and opportunities. Nor
| than anything else in al the world, dc
| mocracy-thc union OF all tho people il
! dcfcuse and service OF cach-is able 4
| give sacred meaning and worth TO hu
! man life, and so make religion the mSpir
/ Ing reality OF men and women.
GOOD PLUMBING PAYS.
J. ". Dudley, $50 South Eighth Eas,
! Bell 3013-X.
! McCoy's Stables
Carria oeR and lipht livery. Phones 81