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Show Reorganization On 19 March 1905 Rev. subject of "Glory and First 1901-1920 Building: Eddy preached on the sensational Be to God for Heretics." After referring to many who were considered heretical in one way or another from Jesus and Socrates to Luther, during their lifetimes - Copernicus, Voltaire, and Emerson, Eddy continued: "Every who seeks man independence and distinctive individuality point of view of the heretic. He must at any cost preserve the veracity of his own soul; he must be faithful to his own conscience in the light of the must, in a measure, attain the "38 knowledge that is his, whatever the cost may be. In May 1905 Rev. Eddy in discussing "The Unitarian and Orthodoxy" said that Unitarians were committed to the principles of love and rationality. By the characteristic of love Unitarians were "united with all the Christian world in the bonds of the church invisible." However, due to their rationality, Unitarians denied most of system proclaimed by orthodox Christians. characteristic of the doctrinal He explained that the traditional doctrine of the atonement, which is "built up around a deified Christ dying for the sins of the world seems to the Unitarian trying to be loyal to the facts of the universe, a tissue of assumptions not only "39 but inherently improbable. entitled "Getting Together in Religion" delivered on 25 March 1906 Rev. Eddy expressed his skepticism in the lasting value of ecumenical movements: "I doubt if we ever get any unity in religion that is worth a unprovable, In a sermon rusty carpet tack in that way. When be convened to for which their 38 39 a number of men can compromise and adjust the articles of faith predecessors lustily fought, it usually means The Salt lake Tribune, 20 March 1905, 10. The Salt lake Tribune, 15 May 1905, 10. 69 |
