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Show Reorganization and First Building: 1901-1920 Nobody knows when or where Jesus was born. But we have been accustomed to associate the 25th of December with the manger in the stable at Bethlehem, where legend says the newborn boy was laid. We need not fear that Jesus will be reverenced any the less the son by believing what the New Testament teaches, that he was of Ioseph and Mary, for that does not make him any the of God. Whoever thinks that God in person lived the human life in the villages of Galilee, has a faith worthy of the Lyconian peasants, who took Barnabas for Jupiter, and Paul for less the son Mercury! Let ... say, Jesus was a man, in the spirit and thought that shall lift up to his level. What does that mean to us? It means that, instead of God being incarnated in only one man in all the ages, us us he is incarnated in all men. This means not the degrading of the divinity of Jesus down to humanity, but lifting of the humanity of man up to the level of the divinity of Jesus. How it makes us thrill thought of what our humanity is capable on If he could be great and good, then all may try and climb up to his height. The regions of possibility so far from being exhausted have. only begun to open their treasures. The belief that humanity has already come to flower, discourages the laborers in the human garden. Humanity is still a-making, its perfection is prophecy not history.l" the at so Rev. Thacher's last Christmas Sunday service in Salt Lake City was sermon on 21 December 1902. the At that time he spoke strongly against a religion of creed and extolled the value of a religion of conduct, saying that" there is no more resemblance between the Christianity of Christendom and the Christianity of Christ than there is between the artificial flower and the fragrant product of the garden, between a After his farewell sermon there mummy and a living man. ,,19 was an informal reception. He and his wife went to their raisin of relaxation, and that he could vineyard near San Diego for a few weeks then they moved to Fresno, California. so again be the 18 Unitarian minister there. Accession 1094, Bx I, Fd 5. 19DtstJ'etEveningNews, 22 December 1902,5. 61 |
