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South Place Magazine No. 6. MARCH 1907. Vol. XII. SOUTH PLACE MAGAZINE C onten ts PA GE SUMMARIES OF SUNDAY MORNING DISCOURSES DELIVERED AT SOUTH PLACE CHAPEL .. .. 81 THE MODERN ORCHESTRA ... .. .. .. ... 87 NOTES AND COMMENTS ....... .... .. .. .. ... 91 IN MEMORIAM-Mrs. Sarah S. Westbury. .. .. .. .. .... 92 AN OUTLINE OF PANTHEISM. .. .... ... ........ 94 E.A. c. SOUTH PLACE DISCUSSION. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. ... 95 NOTICES ...... .. ... ..... .. .. ... ... .... .. ... 95 Monthly, 2d., O R 2s. 6d. P ER A N NUM, P O S T F RE E. ~ol\bon : SOUTH PLACE ETHICAL SOCIETY, FINSBURY, E .C. A. & H. B. BONNER, 1&2 T OOK'S COURT , FURNIVAL STREET, E C. 'tluttr Ilart ®trriral ~ tlritiu. -------------................-- ----------- South Place Chapel & Institute, Finsbury, E.C Object of the Society. " The object of the Society is the cultivation of a rational religious sentiment, the study of ethical principles, and the promotion of human welfare, in harmony with advancing knowledge. " MARCH, 1907. The followillg DiSCOURSES will be delivered 011 SWlday 1II0rmllg5, Service be~i1l1Iillt: at 11.15. March 3rd.-G. P. GOOCH, M.P.-Historyand Progress. Antbems ! 1. Wbat of the nigbt, watchman (No. 75) ... ... T~o"s ..lIe I', I slept and dreamed (No. 239·) ... ... ... De Lacey' ) No. 121. All grim and soiled, and brown with tan Hymns ,No. 59. We all must work with bead or band (No .•81 O.B.) March loth.-JOHN M. ROBERTSON, M .P.-Hopes and Fears from Woman Suffrage. A tb \1. Now arisetb the sun of liberty ............... Mo za.l. n ems I.. If I were a voice (No. 250) ... ... ... ... Ambroise Thomas. H I No. 99· Be true to every Inmost thougbt (No. 477 O.B.) ymns No. Life is onward-use it (No. 3'5 O.B.) March 17th.-JOSEPH McCABE.-A Huudred Years of Education Controversy. Anthems I 1. My Heart Is weary waitin!! for tbe May... ... ... ... Hiles I.. The future bides in it (No. 218) ... ... ... • .. .. Tr01lSstll •. Hymns I No. 61. Do not croucb to-day and worship (No. 300 0 B.) No. 77. Men who'e boasl it IS tbat ye (No. 386 O.B.) March'4th. - HERBERT BURROWS.-The Evolution of Man in the Social Organism. Antbems I 1. How lovely are tbe messengers .. ... M,,,clol,so",, 2. Tbe wolldly hopes men set tbeir hearts upon ... ... .. Lehmauu. Hymns I No. 8. All men are equal in Iheir birtb (No. 47 O.B.) NO.93. All before us lies the way (No. 509 O.B.) March 3Ist.-JOHN A. HOBSON, M.A.- The Power of Woman. Antbem l 1. Song of D,,5tinl;'... .., ... ... ... ...... Brah"". 12. Orpbeus with bts lute ...... ............ Slll/iv~lI. Hymns I No. 2. Tbere's life abroad! From each green tree (No. 11 O.B ) No.,g. Tell me not in mournful numbers (No. 60 O.B.) SUNDAY SCHOOL. Tbe Cbildr!!n meet a.t Armfield's. Hotel opposite tbe CHAPEL every.Sunday.mornlng, at 1t.151 and thtlr lesson IS given dUring the disconrse. Members and friends wishing their children to allend the school are requesled to communicate with tbe Secretaries. March 3.-Questions In Etbics. lo.-MRS. G. KUTT NE R. Religions of the World.-1. 17.-Ml>s H. T. LAW. 24.-Music and Recitations by tbe Children. " 31.-No Meeting. Visitors brlngtng children to tbe Sunaay MornIng services are cordIally Invited to allo\\ tbem to allend tbe Children's lesson. Visitors lIIay tafle ally Seats vacallt after the first Allthem, and they are IIIviled t, obtain il/jol1l1atioll regllrdillg the Society ill tlte Library 011 SlIIlday 1II01'llillgS. A Collectioll is 1IIade at the close of each Service to el/able Visitors to cOlltribute to the expmses of the Society. The Chapel 15 licensed for MarrIages. Cyclists desirillg to attmd the Services are ill/olllled that the COlllmittee have nade arrallgelllmts for hOllSillg their mac/mles ill the base/JItllt. Arrangements can be made for the conduct 01 Funeral Services on appllca­ Uon to the Secretary. MEMBERSHIP. "Persons payIng for sWings in tue Society's place of Meeting for tue time beIng are tbereby constituted members of the Society. Members who are twenty-one years of age aud upwards, wbose names have been twelve months upon the registel, and whose subscrIptions for the previous quarter bave been paid, shall be qualified to vote and to uold oflicp.."-Bxtract {ram Ihe Rules. Slttings may be obtained upon application in the Library, Or to Mrs. HAROLD SEYLER, loa Featherstone Buildings, Holborn, W.C., Hon. Registrar of Members and Associates, prices varying from IS. to 10S . per quarter. Persons under 21 are char&,ed balf the usual rates. ASSOCIATES. Persons residing at a distance, and who are unable to attend tbe service. regularlYt may become Associates of tbe Society upon payment of an annual Subscription of ss- wltll the SOUTH PLACE MAGAZINE . • d. Monthly. No. 6. Vol. XII. MARCH, 1907. 28. Gd per annum, pod rrl'e. ========~--~~====~~ (The writers of Articles appearillg ill tltis I1Iagazme aI'e alolle rcspollsible lor lite oPilliolls tltercin cxpn~sed.) UMMARIES OF U~DAY MORNING DISCOURSES DELIVERED AT SOUTH PLACE CHAPEL. JANUARY 13TH: "THE LARGER HOPE." By HERBERT BURROWS. ::'11 \:\y can remember how thirty years ago, when hell was much more on men's lips than it is now, the late Canon Farrar preached his famou. sermons in \Vestminster Abbey on .. Eter­ nal Hope," in which he stroye to _how his f ellow-Christia 1S that, after all, they n ed not be in such mortal terror of being­ burnt after death in material fire and flames. ) I i. difficult for the younger generation to reali, e what a sensa­ tion those sermons caused in the orthodox world. The chil­ ,dr n of those days are now, a. Ingersoll prophesied they would be, skating o\'('r the floor of hell. Everywher hope, the larger hope, is becoming- the keynote of life. Physically, mcntally, morally, the horizon is widening day by day. Faith, hope, love- these three. ]<a ith in man, his faculties, his capa­ bilities, his ideals, his aspirations. Hope in his destiny, in his ("c rtainty of accomplishment. Love, the co-ordinating po\\'(!r "hich shall link men to men and nation to nation in the bonds 'of friendship and of brotherhood. In life this trinity of faith, hope, love, rightly concen­ trates, in the tran ition stage of development, on its middl' t I'm- hope. Alway in human history and human affairs there has been hope, but neyer, perhaps, ha that hope heen so justified as it may be to-day. Every day new yigOllr is , eemingly manifest, and this \'igour means that ertain here­ iofore latent forces ha ye become visible and potent, and that Ihe tide which carri es on the affair. of men has in creased in volume and in strength. The mo. t potent of all these tendencies and ideas is the growing , ense of the wholcness of life and of the interdepen­ dence of mankind at large. Outwardly this ha. ariscn from the enormous de\'clopment of physical science. Hitherto physical science and mental life have often contra­ dicted each other. The more that the communi m of physical -.cience has manifested itsdf in it. wide ideas of the unit) of ., 82 ... , ! force; the univen;ality of law, the conservation lof energ?" the co-ordination and interdependence of atom, molecule, and cell,. of . L1ns, planets, and stars, the more has intellectual activity, when it ha. concerned itself with the inner effe ts of conse­ quent mateI"ial development, contradicted the real laws of it. own being. The universe a a whole wa. misread, and it was supposed that its physical unity ould be used and mi . appro­ priated in the direction of selfi hne.. and greed without any ill-effect in the mental and moral realm. But now we arc' beginning to see that the univer e i. one in all its realms, and that no true mental and moral de\"elopment is possible for men and nations unless the great law of unity i obeyed in e\"ery department of life. This is one of the chief grounds for hop for that fu.lle:-. fr er, nobler life, which is lowly but . urely blo soming out before us. In the political realm humanity will presently weary of the intolerable political chaff, and will hunger for the "heaten bread of social justice and ocial freedom. In the social realm, although the majority of our old ideals of life may ha\"e to be abandoned, for them will be substituted the one simple but great ideal that men and women shall help each' other in eyerything instead of socially and industrially striving again t each other, even in onc thing. In the religious r aIm thcre "'ill be an actual science of ethics founded on the recog-­ nition of the g n ral religious needs of man, but making his pCl".onal, speculati\"e, relation to the universe as a whole a matter purely fOl" hi own heart and hi . own conscience. On. the. e broad principles the humanity of the future will be built. Our children will urely see the fairer structure of the new social order of justice and of freedom- the religion of man in­ . tcad of the religion of the churches- and mankind gen rally hound together by those golden chains of ervice and of 10\'e " 'hich will be the completion of the trinity of life, the culmi­ nation and the crO\\"11 of the larger hope. JANUARY 20TH: "THE WORLD V\lE MAKE." By J . A. HOBSON, M.A . To the various inhabitant of the earth, the world appear in­ different aspect, . The conception of the Earth-\\"orm must be small in area.
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