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Show William Thurston Brown worth while. Will you not agree with me, then, that nothing a man can have or know in this or any other world can be good as to be able to face any event of life, any condition things, no matter what, and yet be unshaken by it, be serenely sure that it is worth while to live? Let me make myself clearly understood. It isn't enough so of that should feel contented with one's lot. one well-fed animal is contented. Life an animal. Men and growth must knowledge worth while to a such standard for any human. have such a standard of values as no But that cannot be women of seems I suppose or need a can make worthless. Our friends, the Christian Scientists, with all the helpful things in their faith, are open to the charge of shutting their eyes to some things, of attempting to get rid of real problems simply by denying their existence. You can't solve any real moral problem of life nor any social problem by denying its existence, and the service of real religion is that of enabling men and women to face all the facts and all the events of life just as and yet know that life is worth while. Religion cannot they make good unless it solves every problem, meets every event, triumphs over every obstacle. Let me try to tell you how religion has done are exactly always will be able to do that. day a well known mining man that and The other committed suicide in this city .. Here was a man in the prime of life, with an unusually successful career behind him, according to all the ways of measuring success, and apparently to live for, according to the usual standards. He common everything had been the associate of the world's leading civil engineer man ever known. He had been in the service of Cecil Rhodes in South Africa, of the Guggenheims - the highest salaried here, had made a fortune more than once, and within less than a year had married a young and lovely woman. Under the system in which we live, no man with such a career as 215 |
