Simplicity in Religion
Simplicity in Religion is an article published in The Times on 10 november 1924.
Simplicity in Religion
SIR A. CONAN DOYLE ON THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN.
A service of remembrance, arranged by the Marylebone Spiritualist Association, was held at Queen's Hall yesterday. Mr. GEORGE CRAZE presiding.
After the hymn "O God. our help in ages past" and a prayer, the CHAIRMAN said that the spirits of the fallen were with them that morning just as much as when they lived in the physical body. The Lord's Prayer was then said, and was followed by two minutes' silence.
The Rev. G. VALE OWEN said that it was a day of joy and gladness: there was no sadness. They had not only the hope, but also the certainty of future life. They must observe these things and then they could not go wrong-prayer, patience, humility, and common sense.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE said that his ambition was to see the day when he would witness a Mahomedan. a Buddhist, n Parsee, a Jew, and a Christian all standing together, united closely in the bonds of brotherhood, to testify that there was one piece of knowledge which might outclass all other matters that now divided them. What they wanted in religion was not complexity, but simplicity. They wanted a full assurance of the Fatherhood of God and of the brotherhood of man. They were very ignorant of vital things, and neither international politics nor the economic system of the world would be settled until religion was settled. because this was the basis upon which everything else must stand.
