The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-08


Wicks declared Sunday at All Souls
Unitarian Church while speaking on
1.-THE God We worship"
This sermon was broadcast in it's
entirety through the Merchants
Heat and Light Company station.
For the next two Sundays the entire
service will be broadcasted.
1--WE cannot escape the logic of an
evolving Deity" DR.. Wicks contin-
ued IF Deity is infinite He must
include us, and to that extent shares
in our development Such a God I
can love, for he needs my tender
ness. I can work with him for he
needs my work.
HE cannot make so simple a
thing as luscious peach until a
man works with him. He cannot
prevent these dreadful wars that
arise from the clash of human in
terest until mankind join in its force
with him.
IT seem to see behind the observ-
able processes of nature movement
toward something, a far-off, divine
event, and that I can help in the
movement
What He Believes
EVERY living thing seems trying
to get somewhere, struggling toward
perfection. This rose before me Is
trying to become a perfect rose, only
frustrated by the hand of the man
Who plucked 1t from it's roots before
it could transmit to it's seed-progeny
what it had gained, just as man
seems frustrated by the hand OF
death, though dying with the hope
he may go on in some future life.
AS with the rose, so in man, there is
a hunger and thirst for perfection.
That, to me, Is the God within whom
can worship. I find him as we'll
in my fellows, in all animated
nature.
IT can not worship the God of the
Fentateuch who enjoyed snuffing up
the odor of burning fiesh who took
the lives of little children because of
the hardness, he, himself put in the
heart of Pharoah.
IT can not worship the God OF
Calvin who elects certain few to
eternal bliss and condemns the many
to eternal torment without regard
to their desserts.
IT can not worship God of
Catholicism who confines his truth
to one church.
II can not worship the God Of
many Professionals who loves and
saves only Christians, and may love
only the Christians Of one sect.
IT can not worship the God who
loves to hear his praises sung end
lessly, and can be cajoled into favor
ing his worshippers
IT can not worship the God who
needs to be prayed to before he will
be kind and just and loving.
IT canAot worship the God of the
prayer-book who saves only such in
fants as the priests hand has
touched with water.
II cannot worship God who
needs to work a miracle to patch up
his universe. These Gods are in
II can worship only God who
represents the highest I know; who
matches my purest love; whose in
telligence is incomparably greater
than mine; whose character sums up
the best we know in human charac-
ter.
The God He WOrships
1.-The God 1 worship is revealed to
me in that marvellous process Of
called evolution. He did not make
all things in the beginning, and then
standing apart from His work, COM
placently call it good. only to see 1t
ruined by the misdeeds of men.
He has never stopped working.
He Is not outside the universe work
ing upon it like mechanic con-
structing machine. He is inside,
as the principle of life, working from
within to without We need not go
back to Genesis to see Him at work.
walt Whitman tells us where to
look: I will take an egg from the
robins nest in the orchard; I will
take branch Of gooseberries from
the old bush in the garden, and I
will go and preach to the world You
shall see me showing a scarlet to-
mato, a white pebble from the
beach," DR.. Wicks said.