The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-14
RELIGION Of DEED
INSTEAD Of WORD
Christianity of Future Will Be
Different, Says
Pastor.

I, How God Became Reality in
IuIhdn Lie, was the theme on which
heN' william ThurstOn Brown spoke
yesterday at the Unitarian churcn. lie
said in part:
No fact is better worth knowing
ABOUT the time in which we are NV
ing Than this, that we are on the
threshold Of thought of religion and
practice of religion which differs
Wldeiy from anything the world has
ever thought OF unuer that name. That
we may inc letter see and understand
what this new and uobler thought ana
experience IF religion Is, think first
now we have thus Ear been taught TO
approach the alleged fact Of reuSiOn.
1 say the alleged fact of religion be-
cause what We have been taught to
thlnk of as religion, most OF US, was
not religion at all Think what takes
place in the life Of the average child
VINO Is said to receive religious
training, whether in the home. OF the
sunday school, OF the church.
Every child is born into Il world for
which in some respects it is fitted,
suited. The evolution of ages has
made the body OF eNe cry human child
that is born fiji TO function, to live, in
this physical WOrld-the life of the
earth, with its sun and rain. its cold
and heat, and an the changes of the
changing year. BY its mental heredity,
too, If is equally fitted 10 adapt itself
To world higher than the merely
pHySiCdl-the world Of thought, the
the mind
The child does not have to be taught
10 breathe, to sleep, to eat and drink,
to digest its food, to grow. The most
we can do for children in this direc-
ton Is to give them the opportunity.
What they need is, not TO be told
what 10 think. but how 10 see and
hear and observe and a chance to re-
fleet upon the meaning Of what they
see and hear The facts of the physical
world are right here before their eyes,
accessible 10 their physical senses. In
a word. every human child is bound
to feel. as il grows up to maturity
in this world. that religion applies
only TO "a very small part of the IRE
human beings must live, has directly
almost nothing at all to do with our
life. belongs TO q wholly different sort
of world from any he or she ever
sees or knows.
What does the child find that re
ligion is thought TO be- He finds that
il is always and everywhere either
thinking what some one a long way
in the past has thought, OF doing what
the people of long time ago sald
or believed il necessary to do IN order
To be accountable to an ina giuery being
whom they called God. 1t you viii
think about it, you viii see that II
was perfectly natural that such q
method of cOnceiving OF pTaCuclnE re
ligion or what has been called religion
would breed atheism, the denial OF the
whole scheme. That il has not
and reality i'm mems minds and all IN
tereSt in such It thing as religion IS
proof that the growing mind and soul
Of man can never be satisfied without
something which may be called re-
I'm the religion of the future, men
are not going to be met by the Old
and worn out admonition: BeHeNe.
Have faith, Trust instead of that'
we are going to understand that there
is nothing IN religion which may not
be known. We are going to know that
religion is an experience. .s.--.
Altogether the most significant
movement IN the whole Christian
church of the world today is that
movement of which the CHRISTIAN
Science church Is the largest repte+
sentative. No movement within what
may be called church lines To-Day IS
growing SO rapidly or stands Tor SO
much. at least i'm principle, on the
score of personal experience OF re
1icion as this movement which includes
christian Science and New InOuShJ.
The whole great power ana worth OF
this new movement in modern ieilSiou
life is seen when YOU understand JhaJ
reIioion for every person VINO comes
into that movement rests SquaIey
uDon his own experience, upon SOME
thing he has been able to 90 WHICH
before he could not do. the discovery
of mowers and possibilities in the hu-
man soul itself which nave never pc
fore been exercised as they ought u
he and can be. &c.,,
Iigion of the future The world IS Ilnd-
inc out that it is perfectly ldle 70
tan, about q God or to sing hymns 10
a God or say prayers TO a COD Sucy
things will not be an important par
of the religion that is coming, II =
going To be a matter OF hlgler anu
ever higher consciousness on tle p7t
of individuals II you can pIONo
men and women that they possess Ill
vine and sacred powers. mat tutSS