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Show Edwin H. Wilson the Bible. They studied the world in their religions. They incor discoveries of science. thinking They only religious organization to champion the cause of evolution at the Scopes trials in Dayton, Tennessee. Unitarians have pondered the ideas of God and the problem of death and on these ultimates they give the widest freedom of belief. Generally speaking, from the time of Ralph Waldo Emerson on, God has been held among them porated were the be the to new creativity of others call it God." the reverent Our fellowship has been hospitable to a larger For Unitarians God became agnostic. thought, joining "Some call it evolution and nature. natural law and moral law in the "life that maketh all gence; soul and idealism of things new," at one emer work in the There has also been the greatest freedom and the least dogmatism concerning life after death. men. Beliefs concerning death are for us an individual matter. Yet when we ask what the free mind has done with this problem, religious freedom. For the thing dispel the fear of death. Charles Eliot once said, "Unitarians die well!" We deny to none right to hope for more when this life is over. Many we are reassured of the value of chief W. the we have done is among us believe it man's mind is most should be snuffed of rest not to be just developed, out. or his sensible that when spirit most mature, a he Others take comfort in the and would be disconcerted to face an thought everlasting existence elsewhere. Whatever generally hold they to a that those who live believe concerning belief in cultural a death, Unitarians immortality. They know life of disinterested service live for what will outlast them. The things to which they devote their days like the best part of themselves and will not follow them into the grave. Unitarians are content to live one life at a time, to pitch this life holding that, come what may, are high, 27 3 |
