UNIVERSAL RELIGION

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 49, 27 February 1934, Page 13

UNIVERSAL RELIGION

A WORLD CULT

There i\as a gathering of inteicstcd people at the Lyceum Club yesterday afternoon when Mrs. S. A. Mathcws, of New York, gaie an addiess on the effort-.which has been going on for a considerable number of years in Ameucu and othei paits of the woild, to gather under one roof woiEhippcis of all icligions. Mis. Mathcws said that a unneisal effoit was being nude to build up a new civilisation -which embodied a gathciing together of thought and worship. The natural boidenngg of the world had changed, and thcie was a new setting on the stage of life for the older people, and they, in particulai, needed a puctical bolution of thp difficulties which the changed order piesented to thorn. The greed of power and wealth had long piesented an ugly face to a wonicd woild, and in America money and salesmanship had taken the place of God. These ideals weio toltoiing in the TJ.S A. today, partly owing to the fact that the sticnuous effoit needed in the businebs woild meant the nun of health nnd digestion to the aieragc man, and something had to be done. Mis Mathews showed that the building of harmony among nations mubfc come giadually from the building up of individual harmony, and the Bible "Aimagoddon" was going to mean a. campaign against international greed of place and power. She explained that those to Whom she belonged were not pacifists in the ordinal y senso of tho word— they would certainly fight for their country* if necessary—but they worked and prayed unceasingly for peace. So much can be done now owing to the universal means of communication ,"and it was felt that tho enviionmcnt for peace was ready if people would only have it co. Science and leligion, men and women, must walk togethci as equals and friends, and the power of good thought, and the misery of evil thought wore strikingly montioiied.

Mis. J. C. Andeison (vicc-piesidcnt) spoke of tho fineness of the address, and motcd tho heutv vote of thanks to the spo.ikci, winch was coidiallv given. Afternoon tea was senod, and the mcnibeis piesent weic introduced by Mis Andersen, and had a pleasant opportunity of meeting; and speaking with the vciv intcre'sting u'sitoi.