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Show Edwin H. Wilson been called troubled by "worship." this word some minds with to an arbitrary - Many independent worship. Worship is thinkers are associated in repetitious, self-seeking prayers addressed power who is believed to like flattery and to aside natural law in order to grant special favors. be able to set Surely it is obvious to all that in Unitarian Churches such magic has been left behind. permits us to, nor makes us Our view of the universe neither wish to, make rain, stop bullets, budgets with prayer. Worship among us may well be interpreted as the drawing to ourselves of all things that are admirable, all things that ennoble, all things that gUide one to the good life. The thought of nature's grandeur, the sacrifice of men who gave their lives for freedom, the sympathetic figure of Jesus and others who exemplify the law of kindness, the disinterested or meet of men of science, the ideals to which men have again and again turned as the opposite of cruelty and greed and all these sources of inspiration hatred, the faith of progress ness - are focused in the successful act ofliberal worship. Knowing gain power for by taking thought better living, we seek to lift our lives to higher ground in a weekly ascent from" the world of many, to the world of the one. We draw strength from awareness that our roots are in nature. In worship we find hope in the realization that the things worth living for will live on in the quest of other that we, of the best, can .. men. Something of this experience is found in the best moments But adventurous of each thoughtful person's solitude. It needs cultivation flower. wild is not a religious experience at stated intervals or the humdrum of the daily world will crowd it out. One has to come to church regularly, come seeking inspiration, come with sympathy and earnestness and hope, to renew the visions of one's best hours. If we come 277 |
