The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-11
MONEY AND TIE KINGDOM.


and strengthen work among the lndlaL
and in the rapidly growing States OF
the CREST west. There K not a cnurcn
school in tue clCer States winch Is not
in need Of immed .AJe rellet in tn maj
ter of buildings or endoWnentS, or DOH.
The uneyauge lied masses of our c1les
can not longer b. neglected with safety
to the country, not TO speak Oh tneif
own higher interests. Where are the
men who will dare to be scrlptaraliy
religious with their money In response
10 this CALI Lot no man who Is worm
$50, 600 think OF stopping at SOU; that
would not be in the nelgnbo rhooo OF
self-denial for him. Let rich disciples
give like rich disciples, and not timi9ly
as If life depended upon retaining thelI
property. come men now troubled tnat
they own so little, by brief illness may
soon find themselves where IN the
presence of the Judge they VIII De
alarmed that they possess 50 muco. IL
was time they were unloading. come
are SO overloaded that If they woulo
clear themselves in time they must IN
load rapidly.-Nashville Chrtsttd" Ad0O-
cate.
PURE IDEALS FOR CHILDHOOD.
1t is next to impossible to RI form those
who have lost all faith in the sincerity,
honor, or goodness of human nature
who believe that people in general are
all bad, who have been taught that all
criminals are heroes. In such hearts
there is a reservoir of rage and vice,
Invisible save when some flame, hotter
rllU forth.
And If our national life is growing
worse. if society is growing more
corrupt, it is because our young men
and women. who are entering into
manhood aud womanhood, have, IN
:hildhood, fed their minds on perEiclnus
literature. Childhood is the time when
the ideals Of life are formed. In the
dreams OF childhood are found the
germs of MANY mans career. The
seeds sown in the mind of the chud
will terminate into the character OF the
man and ripen into the pleasant fruit
of good deeds or the Dead-Sea apples
of sin. And so, If we would have cltl-
zsns capable, by voice and vote, OF
wisely governing and directing the
1ffairs OF the nation, We must see
to it that the children of the
land are early taught to be
manly and honest, pure and true.
But apart from these considerations OF
the worldly power and prosperity OF the
nation there is higher duty which we
are called upon to fulGl-a duty whose
performance or omission must be
accounted for when the great Judge OF
all men puts to US the question
'Where is thy brother?" Think you
that the old, old answer with which
humanity has so long satisfied its
conscience will suffice then? Shall we
be absolved from blama if we give tbs
answer of Cain, Am l my brother
keeper?" When eyeballs glaze and
ears grow dull-when the golden core
| that binds the soul and body tog=theI
is frayed and breaking. and life IS ebb-
| ing gway-what will it matter to Us
! then that we have been clad dalntlly
| that science mas been our guide. or thai
| art has surrounded our lives With al
| that is fair and pleasant? Batter Tar
| if out of the darkness OF the Valley o.
| the Shadow of Death We hear voice
| speaking to US words like these: wei
! done. thou good and faithful servant
enter thou into the 10y Of thy Lord. " =
Arthur Dudley Vinton, IN NORTH 101er-
| icaa KeUjelC for March.
HIGHER HIGHER!
Men scott at new theology, as though
it were something new in the world tt
have new theology. Why, theology
has always been new. There never
has been a time in the history OF th'
church when theology has not beer
| new, The theology of Moses was new
to the people that he led out OF Egypt
and they said, who is this God?
| And he had to tell them. 1t was news
The theology of David was new to lhs
children of Israel when he built the
temple for them. The theology of the
exile was new when it was declared
| by Isaiah. The theology OF Paul wa:
so new that the Christian church
could hardly dare to have it preached
The theology OF Calvin was so new II
| MS time that men prosecuted him anC
bounded him for 1T. The theology o.
| Wesley was so new that all the Church
of England broke out into derislvt
laughter. The theology of Edwards
was new. and be was driven from hi:
church at Northampton for preaching
il, The theology of Finney was sc
new that the religious newspaper;
bombarded him with bonn bardment
worse than his pulpit ever re
ceiYed. The theology of Lyman
| Beecher was so new that he was
put on trial in Cincinnati for preaching
it. The great laws OF right ant
wrong, it may be said with truth, o(
not change. Nevertheless, the stand
ard of ethics change from age to age
thew change in their actuality and they
change in the application which is to b
made OF them TO changing circum
stances. The ethical questions of to-
day are not the ethical questions 0
Yesterday. The labor question OF to-
day is not the labor question Of yes
terday. The church OF to-day
cannot be, must not be, the church o
Yesterday. 1t must not be, or it vii
not fulfil; its duty. IL cannot be. for i
it is not growing, it is decaying. N
church can live on its past history
however respondent that history ma!
be. No church can take the method
4 admirably adapted to yesterday ant
4 employ them to-day without consider
| ing the question whether the method
of Yesterday are adapted to to day. Tn
spiritual experience of the church ha
grown, ripened, widened. 1t is bette
to day than it was yesterday, and it vii
be better Tomorrow than it is to-day
And this truth of progress in theology