The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-23
RELIGIOUS NEWS
AND THOUGHT.
GATHERED FROM THE RELIGIOUS
AND SECULAR PRESS.
Worth POndering on Religious
and Moral Subjects.
Accomplishing Great Things.

"a man who is to accomplish a
great work must have infinite pa
tience in dealing with all manner of
obstacles. These very obstacles are
the test of the greatness of his aim
and steadfastness of soul If he sur
wives them he is worthy to achieve;
if he yields to them he is not the man
to win the victory. That is reserved
for men of greater insight and of
stronger. grasp. 1t is easy for raw re-
cruits to make a charge, no matter
how forlorn, but it is very difficult to
keep them steady under continuous
fire. There is a certain joy in the
dash, however dangerous, which is alb
sent from q periious position long
maintained. There are many men
who can brilliantly and successfully
lead a short and quick movement, but
the men who can successfully guide
long and stubbornly contested reform
in any department are few. For such
men must possess, not only clear NOR
al convictions and the ability to make
those convictions contagious. but also
to reserve power OF soul which is the
base of supplies TO q commander on
a long march in the face of number
less acknowledgements, obstacles and
failures of support. There is some
thing divine in patience, because 1t
is the quality which makes Sreat
works possible. Outlook.
1.-THE to the Lord.
1--WE are rather tired" says the New
York Observer Pres.). of hearing
that ChristiaE IS should not be urged to
make the 1.-THE the standard Of their
giving to the Lord The reason
usually put forth for denouncing such
urging is that the 1.-THE, fair enough
flower of the tree of Judaism, is not
equal to the flower which should be
produced by the tree of the cross. If
law says 10 per cent, grace should say
more, so we are told. Very true, we
admit, but the proper altitude of
Christian giving, like Hollands
heaven, is not reached at a single
bound So we think it better to pre-
sent something possibly within sight
of the averag Christian, and not
something that would seem to Utopia
pure and simple. If ever the Chris
tian church comes up to the 10 per
cent platform, then will we speak
unto the children of Israel that they
go forward and seek a higher realm,
for 10 per cent was not the Jewish
standard, and certainly should not be
the Christian goal. At the same time.
the adoption of the 1.-THE would bring
about a momentOus change in preserS
attachments; a revolution would be
wrought if all the Lords people should
give him 10 per cent of their incomes"
4 True Workman.
The true workman must labor for
results that are far off and out of
sight We may be disposed to wish
that the brave men who laid down
their lives on yonder hilltop could have
had vision of the thousands of happy
homes that have been created within
less than a century and a quarter
along the banks of the Mystic and the
Charles. But would their devotion
have been any less complete? They
laid the foundations and others have
builded the Superstructure. They
sowed the seed and we are gathering
the harvest. 1t must be so more than
all with the scholar. He cannot see
what will come of the truth he spreads
broadcast among men. But it Will
not die. 1t will spring up in the glad
sunlight and bear fruit for a hungry
world.-Chrlstian Leader.
The Sacred Duties of Home.
more must be done to remedy the
domestic evils of life The pulpit
ought to be more devoted to the in
struction on home life. The ministry
may be aware of sores among their
people, and for fear of giving offense
they may fail to instruct young and
old as to the sacred duties of the home.
Religion, or a least piety, will vanish,
even if religious forms be retained.
Church authorities should be more
wide awake to the greatness of the
evils Of this widespread plague
Christian Instructor