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February 24, 1916
Daily Capital Journal
Salem, Marion County, Oregon
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Rev. D. Simunds gives a farewell lecture at the Unitarian church on applying scientific principles to religion and salvation, focusing on moral reform through environmental changes and character development rather than emotional frenzy. (187 characters)
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Rev. D. Simunds Gives
Farewell Lecture
Concerning Salvation
The great need in religion is sanity.
By this is meant the same application of scientific principles and methods of constructive uplift and building.
The moral expert is fast supplanting the old time revivalist in matters of salvation. Instead of saving an individual soul here and there moral scientists are conducting their plans of salvation on a wholesale scale.
Save a city, a state, a nation. Not by religious frenzy or emotional intoxication but by changing the social and moral environment. Men are much like trees. Experiment has proven that 80 per cent of moral delinquents will make good and are restored to useful and honorable manhood with the change of their environment for the better.
Measure the benefits in prison-reform, in corrective methods, in moral sanitation. Wherever scientific methods are employed definite results are obtained. Proper environment is one of the determining factors in every expression of life.
Take our fruit trees, our flowers, our stock. How carefully expert advice is sought after, how patiently scientific methods are studied and applied Why?
To increase production and to increase quality. To reclaim and reduce the waste. The same methods will bring the same results when applied to moral restoration.
Not by what a man has or professes, but by what a man is. Character is the key to real salvation. It is the emphasis of the moral philosopher and of the rational religionist. If Unitarianism has done nothing else in behalf of social progress and rising humanity it has changed the emphasis from sacrifice to character and in so doing has laid the foundation for a scientific method of salvation.
A large congregation attended the lecture at the Unitarian church last evening.
Farewell Lecture
Concerning Salvation
The great need in religion is sanity.
By this is meant the same application of scientific principles and methods of constructive uplift and building.
The moral expert is fast supplanting the old time revivalist in matters of salvation. Instead of saving an individual soul here and there moral scientists are conducting their plans of salvation on a wholesale scale.
Save a city, a state, a nation. Not by religious frenzy or emotional intoxication but by changing the social and moral environment. Men are much like trees. Experiment has proven that 80 per cent of moral delinquents will make good and are restored to useful and honorable manhood with the change of their environment for the better.
Measure the benefits in prison-reform, in corrective methods, in moral sanitation. Wherever scientific methods are employed definite results are obtained. Proper environment is one of the determining factors in every expression of life.
Take our fruit trees, our flowers, our stock. How carefully expert advice is sought after, how patiently scientific methods are studied and applied Why?
To increase production and to increase quality. To reclaim and reduce the waste. The same methods will bring the same results when applied to moral restoration.
Not by what a man has or professes, but by what a man is. Character is the key to real salvation. It is the emphasis of the moral philosopher and of the rational religionist. If Unitarianism has done nothing else in behalf of social progress and rising humanity it has changed the emphasis from sacrifice to character and in so doing has laid the foundation for a scientific method of salvation.
A large congregation attended the lecture at the Unitarian church last evening.
What sub-type of article is it?
Historical Event
What themes does it cover?
Moral Virtue
What keywords are associated?
Salvation
Scientific Methods
Moral Environment
Character Building
Unitarianism
What entities or persons were involved?
Rev. D. Simunds
Where did it happen?
Unitarian Church
Story Details
Key Persons
Rev. D. Simunds
Location
Unitarian Church
Event Date
Last Evening
Story Details
Rev. D. Simunds lectures on sanity in religion, advocating scientific methods for moral uplift and salvation through changing social environments rather than emotional revivalism, emphasizing character over sacrifice, with Unitarianism's role in this shift.