The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-09

] Rev DR.. Dixon, the noted Phlla-
delphia divine who is to lecture at the
First Methodist church tonlgnt'
preached last evening at the First
Baptist church, and succeeded, as 1t
now appears, through not making ms
statement sufficiently plain in Great
| ing something of sensation. Ills
subject was Baalam and the ass, ana
! the discourse was simply ooctrlnai
one. In the course of his REMARKS
however, the speaker made the state
ment that he had been to the tabef-
nacle in the afternoon, and aIter see.
! ing the element that the ministers OF
the city had to contend with, ne was
very glad to aid them by giving MS
| lecture, and wanted no praise Tor IL.
Some of his hearers naturally con,
strued his reference to the element
represented at the tabernacle as d
vicious and uncalled for fling at the
Mormon people, but further explanation
shows that this was not the intention
at ALL The Herald is convinced that
the gentleman did not intend to make
any such criticism on the Mormon
| people as his words might imply, OF 10
do them any injustice, and Inc Herald
does not wish to do him any injustice.
What DR.. Dixon referred to was the
magnitude of the congregation at the
| tabernacle, and he merely INTENDED 10
! contrast it's numerical strength with
| that of some of the worthy churches
that are struggling to Dullo up mere.
He perhaps took it for granted that
| the congregation would understand
| lust what he meant, and his only mis-
| take was in not making q fuller eX-
| PLANTATION.
DR.. Dixon preached to large con-
gregation at the the First Baptist yes
i terday morning. His text was from
| Hebrews II; 1924.
1.-The Alps of the Scripture-Mt.
Sinai and MT. Calvary" was the title
! of his discourse, and he said in part:
are majestic with the foot
prints of the Almighty. Monah, tinged
with sacrificial blood, thrusts her mead
! out of the early morning of the race.
Hernon wears her coronal of snow
and her whittier luster of transfgura.-
ton splendor; Carmel is an altar of
prayer; Tabor is the audience cham
| Der of the ages; Olivet the resting
place of the feet of the Son OF God
when he stepped out of earth into
heaven. In this chapter to the He
brews there are the two. most con-
| spicuous SUBMITS in the geography OF
God. Sinai is a palpable earthly noun
! tain with gloom and storm, and fame
and speech of fire. But to this great
mountain of the old covenant the
| Christian does not come. Swords of
flame welded by the tireless power of
unseen spirits no longer guard the way
| the Christian walks. This hill Of fire
| has had baptism of blood and the
| stream opened by the Roman spear has
destroyed the everlasting burning. We
! have night enough in the world; it is
like an appalling prison. But God has
set burning a pillar of fire which leads
| toward the sun rising; he comes along
the aisles of darkness and whispers
! gospels to u.s. even when we cannot
see the preacher. We are not come to
the place of tempests. Are the win
dows darkened? Have you said the
| harvest was a heap of ashes? Does
the day of desolate sorrow spread its
black wings over your path? Is the
| singing Of birds choked by the cruel
east wind? Jehovah of hosts never
| launched into your life any such dark
ness and tempest. God never covers
up the blue. He has made the sum-
mer to outrun the winter. You may
| bury your fear in an unconsecrated
tomb. A brooding stiffness hangs like
a curtain over Sinai and all through
| the caverns the weird sounds of mys-
ferrous voices are heard.
But we are not come to the voice OF
trumpets and the sound of words.
There is an eloquence in silence. God
saw the prayers of your eyes when
you stood before that white face and
mute lips and your look was a look of
| agony and wonder When all summer
music was poured into one song and
there was SO much joy that you could
not speak it, God heard that prayer
| Your whole Life ought to be perpetual
prayer set to the music of heaven. The
! Christian is not come to Mount Sinai
but to Mount Zion, radiant with light
and crowned with the city of God We
| do not need to wait until eternity
! dawns before we get to heaven We
are surrounded by = an innumerable
company of angels; we are come to
the general assembly and church of the
first born. We may hold converse with
our loved and our lost They are loved
but they are not lost. They are within
reach of our memory, within reach of
our love, and maybe Within reach of
our voice. The dead are not dead.
| Many Of the inspirations that come to
you may be the greetings of your
| mother on the other shore. May not
your courage in the time of oppression
| have been flashed upon you from the
crown of the martyrs? A cloud of wit
nesses hold. us in full survey; thew
greet us and call US to come I'D high
| err
DR.. Dixon is commanding speaker
and brings to the pulpit great 1lpIift
and a large outlook.