San Francisco Call, Volume 69, Number 92, 2 March 1891 — UItOTH Eli HOOD OF MAS. [ARTICLE]
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UItOTH Eli HOOD OF MAS.
Kit. Tlninma Van >!•«« Discourses Upon 11. Subject. Rev. Thomas Van >i ess delivered a most interesting sermon at Mission Music Hall last night, his theme being "The Obllgations of ' Brotherhood." The speaker, in a rapid review^ traced the growing feeling for and sacredness of human lite, saying that in the days of the Chaldrons and Egyptians the prevailing opinion was that. God was a (iod of the few and not of the many, and that his favor was bestowed only on those who served him in a certain particular. Dwelling for a moment nn ancient religious persecution*, Dr. Van Ness continued: : 11 But this is widely divergent from Christ* • doctrine. His aim was to increase the respect of the Jews for those not of their own blood, and to en fore upon them a due appreciation of the value of human life under whatever sovereign it may exist, lie taught that we are all God's children, and by this fictitious relationship fixed a tie between men the most divine in nature. By the promulgation of such a doctrine men have been Influenced to do and to die for others. "Hut if I read the signs of the time aright, the ape is at band in which nil will treat their own and their neighbors' lives as one, ■ will open their hearts to ill newcomers.that tli'ffc to our shores, as we have opened our ports. We want a religious, svslem broad enough for this, and it is the Unitarian Church that lifts its voice against nil distinctions that define, and its hand against nil barrier* that estrange the human races and prevent their crystallization into a universal system of brotherhood. The Unitarian religion has battled fur freedom — intellectual liberty— and now, notrammeled, it steps forward to proclaim the sacreduess of human life. . ."But our work must be practical. Clothing the destitute, reforming drunkenness, alleviating misery, disseminating the gospel of righteousness. On work, not merely faith, let us insist. Strive not to bring all men to our belief, but imbue in them a unity of spirit. Let our cry no loncer be, '.Sinner, save thyself,' but rather 'Sinner, save others, and thus thyself.' "