New Britain herald., 1930-01-25
QUAKER PASTOR
 OUTLINES PLANS
 FOR NEW BELIEF
CContinued From First roge)

specially those trained in scientific linking. the great organized christian churches are failing tc supply the needed religious element The trend of our time is scientific. II IS impossible for religion which ignores Or opposes this tendency tc serve the purposn+ Of all who rec.tF. modern education
 Thousands ot copies Of this hHt"r have been sent to authors. teachers srenUs,s and leaders Of thought in all walks Of ljfr; and hmdrrds ot sympathetic or ov"n ynthUoJastic Ir.- ples have been received, according 10 Dr. Holmes.
 "The crrat oraa.j1od lunches as. insisting on al least formal accept Juce Of q lot O. medieval super~Ii- lions" continued the professor. dis .ussinc the letter. "Th" modern 0iud cannot and do,s Iot accp' them actually so ,'e have fhr Gn- Fortunate and essentially asuogrs' situation of thousands protesting tc believe what they 10 not really be- ueyc. There is inc additional and greater evil that, U insisting on th, ancient mytholoGice. the churches arc ignoNug the really }ilal toach- uss Of their founder. giving only lp-scrviro 10 the idraIs Of humility simplicity and rrIondlmcss which ar, characteristic Of Jesus Of Nazarcth Here and there one finds an rHorp- ion where q courageous leader, such as Harry Emerson rosdicE. John Haynes Holmes or I,abhi Wise takes public stand. and rallies a 4rous of likc-mindcd folk about him. But we cannot afford to Wa1 for enough great leaders to go rquud. Most Of lhc work of the world has 10 bc dons ivy second and third-rators any way and we of the lower order shoulI get busy for ourselves"
 Virgin Birth ">upcretition'
 Dr. Holmes classcd among th, medieval supcrslitions" inc doe rrine Of the Virgin birth, tha mirarl, stories of inc old and new tcsla- rnents. the doctrines Of the 'rall Q, Man. Heaven and IIoIl. us well as such minor stories as that Of Jonah and the Whale or Noah and th, Ark.
 Ministers are insisting nat thcir members accept these and their hk, as literal fact" hc went on. "but this is impossible for those trained in Ii, scientific method: and many, Of lhO~, who demand these boliqts do not themselves believe them. not only admit but assert the great value Oi the Bible as the time-sift"d litora. iure Of a great people. Its Io"onds and mytholoGics are mines Of WcaHF in the understanding Of primitiv, minds, which include the child. minds Of our time. And no age vii outgrow the stimulation and cn. thusiasln of the noble prophet, writings.
 No Better for Believing
 But that does not involve ii, acceptance of their wonder tales a htcral truth. Belief in the Jonah whale story could not make q lIal any better morally, and he mus stultify his intelligence in accepting if. Scholars rccogniz" in the Stor! an allegory of tn" B#byIonian cap Iivity. There is more than one way for a storyto be 'truc:' did Jcsu, have 10 wait for an actual robbery and an actual good Samaritan be fore He could take down the smart lawyer with the parable? bid al The things that Lincoln told "hou in his little stories actually hap penr
 "Ecligion should have noble task than iusistcncc on such prtI, things; and it has. If II will onl, stand upand get to work. Eunujn. through all history k a ~olIl thread Of effort for 'ho creulin; and maintaining Of uohi'r ml' happier humanity.
 ''rhe old testament prophets call od this vision of what should h the kingdom of God and Chris tianity adopted tue name. tnIor tunatoly the accomplishment ot tuI great end looked 50 difficult tha lhey all believed it to be a task onl for an infinite deity over and ho yond the powers of man. So the waited for God 10 do it.
 God Allows suffering
 well. he hasn't done il: and W have no reason 10 think he will | l.. except by our hearty and deII cated partnership. History tracho us that God will allow cuelty, in justice. suffering Unuttrrgbly II will allow wars in whjcb the Wiri,e conquer, rrauds in whir0 fhc @ujn grow rich and powerful But his tory also teaches ms that ir u secognzn and yirid lo lH" un5tm and humauizing influence WunIu u "e ourselves can move toward ii great goal of perfected bWautl "Whill tuc imprrja. d'lty. >r4t on q throne and domuHjm2 vor-.t and fa't"ry, is a uyt. '., alp,. s'f Of our onu rouIr nature. 'r ridden dyuauo "rlu Han.H tap and does load mm .rou ran i've socI'ty 'o '." ~'.t. fp 't domocrloN. and ua To ra1 "#n does not y,' apu.n. T. '#- dr,. him 10 ionr,gsu@ control "&.. rH blind forces o( ua'W.. .aa s t. -uniu2 10 dr', um to tn. roHtre ut blindness lu hjmsyU
 T propose that "r sul-t,'W. :u element of real uIa aud ooolHrt : eur chi'l uHpo"Uj}c for fu. ou grown nIur. a.u'W from aH na
 grown past.
 Tt mi=b, be possible. h> au"u "n our declaration Of IHann.adrn' and OUT constitution by -aturH