Rev. S. McC. Crothers, D.D., h.99, pastor of the First Unitarian Church, delivered the annual Ingersoll lecture last evening on Immortality and Ethical Idealism," before a large audience.
Dr. Crothers began by showing that every thinking man at some time comes to realize that he is in an infinite world. Then he brought out the idea that the field of immortality is not fixed; it involves the thought of an untravelled world, and is one phase of the thought of infinity. An important point which Dr. Crothers supported by a long chain of reasoning was that a man's realization that there is something beyond the limits of his understanding leads him to a vague conception of immortality.
The next point which the lecturer treated at considerable length was the attitude of the ethical idealist who aims steadily at perfection, and cares more for the quality of life than for its duration. It is a great help to a soul which is beginning to realize that human life is not finite to come under the influence of great man who convinces everyone that his personality, at least, does not end with this life.
In conclusion, Dr. Crothers emphasized the essential part which faith, hidden in the hearts of many men, plays in the fullest realization of immortality.
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