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Show U ni tarianism in Utah So our of the Free Mind application principle has been a Legacy of the Liberal Spirit, positive shows that wherever in past centuries men have gone as seekers of the truth directly to the Scriptures, they have one. emerged Jesus Fred G. Bratton, in The with a man freshly energizing They have found in who illustrates in many ways humankind Because he best. ideals. was human, we can hope to imitate at its him. What has resulted in modern Unitarianism from this search has been fruitful for better human living. infallibility and human depravity longer believed that they are helpless, Once the ideas of biblical that rejected, men no they should not think be vale of tears, were a turned from or concern for themselves, that this life need that moral effort is useless. So we have with another world life abundant in the world that now is. to the quest for the It is apparently no accident that in the Hall of Fame and in "Who's Who" the proportionate number of Unitarians is above that of other religious groupings. The free faith seems both to attract and to produce men and women of achievement and public spirit. Unitarians have sought and found truth and moral example from other than biblical ethics of the Bible sources. It was seen that where the they were true, not because the fact, they were true in human experience. This has provided tools for sifting both the scriptures, and the experience of other times and places, for religious truth. Channing declared this from the beginning. Emerson opened new doors to truth including the Orient. Unitarians have always sought emancipating truth wherever it has appeared. For them "revelation is not sealed." More than a century of responsible thought has, therefore, meant progressive enrichment and increasingly sound foundations. Bible asserted the Who builds 272 new on were true, but because science and revelations. on Unitarians love to accepted mankind need the higher not fear criticism of |
