Friday, August'13, 1965
THE NIW BERN MIRROR. NEW BfefcM, N. C.
Page Five
MIRROR
MEDITATION
By EMMITT L. BRINSON
In all of man’s research, in
all his effort. In all his pur
suit to find the ultimate of truth,
each advance brings him closer
and closer to our Creator. He
realizes more and more there
is but one supreme mind, one
will, one underlyli^ spirit, one
Creator of all things.
All major religions basically
hold to this truui, yet some
how along^ their travels they
deviate from this valid fact. We
find their differences radiate
from human iiq;)erfections, hu
man interpretation, human con
cept. Yielding to the era, to
the location, to a government
and the times. Progress rejects,
destroys and adds to man's be
liefs. He adjusts in order to
move freely, to fit in, to be
long within a locality.
Constant change is character
istic of all religions. 1 have
been calico task on this thought
but let us review some of the
record. No inquisition of cardi
nals would today incarcerate for
heresy a Galileo who declared
the earth to go around the sun.
No Cotton Mather today would
contribute to the execution of
32 people accused of witchcraft
as this Puritan Minister did in
1690.
No clergy in this country would
assert today, as some did 100
years ago, that slavery was
ordained by God. No modern pre
late would attack the surgeon
for use of anesthetics as was
done just 80 years ago, on the
belief that to do so was med
dling with the will of God.
With e^ n;^ generation man ,
adds to and takes from the
former ideals as laid down by
man. Forever seeking beauty,
glory, peace and understanding
yet he never finds satisfaction
in man’s iiperfect world.
Theologians instead of creat
ing conc^t and dogma to dodge
or hold to certain Invalid ideals,
would better have left unanswer
able questions rest where they
were. An unquerying believer
who accepts a dogma and later
comes upon a further positive
assurance that it was a concq>t
of an era, sometimes becomes
lost and cannot rise above frus
trations, Man’s greatest endow-
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this divine law will eventually
be eliminated. History proves
this to be true.
Will the advance of knowledge
toward truth force religions of
our era to revert to their origi
nal intent? To find the spirit
of God? Or wiU they continue
to let man made' belies destroy
their divine purpose on this
earth?
I wonder!
CARAVAN .... Not a scene from ancient times, bnt instead
the above photograph shows modern-day tourists making their
way to a campsite near Giza, in the shadow of the eighth wonder
of the world—the famed Pyramids built as tombs for the Pharaohs
4,0M years ago.
ment is to grow in knowledge.
He has a querying mind—to
wonder—to probe, to search. His
intuition, virtue and conscience
reject that which does not allow
freedom of soul. It is. here he
can hold fast to his couse. It
is here religion must return to
its basic intent. There are more
variations within certain beliefs,
within any religion, than contain
ed in the differences of the basic
truths of all major religions.
Man gains nothing in the sight
of God by condemning his brother
man for his pursuit of happiness.
He sidetradts and slumbers in
ignorance who sells personal
belief or conc^t.
Each Individual has the same
entity with the one supreme
mind, theonewiU, theoneunder-
lying spirit, one Creator of all.
Anyone, anything, that defies
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