The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11
man to accept as possible the impOs-

sible.
Once however. concede God to be a
nan-resurrected man-and the Scriptures
become radiant with light on point
that, as | hold. by Misrepresentation has
provoked more intelligent minds to athe-
ism than perhaps any other single cause.
come what he is. why may not man
achieve like results? Taking this view.
the conduct and. philosophy of the man
Jesus shines forth as d beacon high
above the ocean tide. throwing a line of
Eght across life's troubled waves and in
Vit.ns the weary to follow to haven
where rest is righteous eXertiOn. So the
infinite power OF the Almighty once we
recognize its possession by him as a re-
ward that came only through patient en-
durance. through much temptation and
/ misunderstood purpose. through tears
and anguish. become to his children on
this earth a rod of iron. TO which the
struggling Will cling in the serene as
! surance that the end will be victorious
over desires that are of the earth earthly
! with this conception of the creator IS
personality. We know at what cost the
powers we worship in him were won.
Are not our own lives filled with pitfalls,
and is not the condition of the humble
and repentant one of sackcloth and ashes?
GROWS IN ODDLY STATURE.
The almighty grows in godly stature in
our hearts for that which he hath con-
! quered- There is reason in dropping the
! tear of repentance at his feet for we can
! be assured that the sympathy of one who
has also endured is ours
! Let this conception of God be as firmly
/ planted in the minds of men as the eX-
/ listing one, and we find such reason for
/ existence as hitherto has been wanting.
Suicides Will be rare, for the reason that
! those who would cannot be rid of the
| burden of existence; aimleSs lives will be
/ fever. since life will be filled with mo-
! tives for eXertion; while the unnumbered
armies that today halt through life, be-
/ cause it offers no results worthy of Seri-
GUS effort. will surely diminish, and in
/ their stead Will appear a race strong OF
purpose. because conscious that life is a.
trust too noble to be trifled with. and
! that its object is too sacred TO be wasted
in the setting up of absurd religious
propositions so as to afford the impiOus
! the childish satisfaction of knocking them
down.
Whatever contentious may be raised
against these propositions, Scripturaily or
in reason, it may be contenGed that a
more satisfactory reason for existence can
hardly be offered. 1t may also be assert
ed, with fair mOdeSty, that none sets the
value of right conduct and earnest en-
deavor higher. The ideal becomes real.
Lies sterile surroundings are pregnant
with a purpose so potential as to outrun
fancy; there is no good thing that may
not be obtained; the imDracticable be-
comes absolutely practicable; religion de-
VelopS into a genuine, living seVen-dayS-
a-week line of conduct and an absolute
science.
Look up not down the mists that chill
and blind thee,
Strive. with pale wings, to take sun
ward flight.
Upward the green boughs reach. The face
Watchfu and glad. is lifted to the light.
The strength that saves comes never
from the ground.
But from the mountain tops that shine
around.
Look forward and not back. Each last
May be a slip upon thy chosen PATH
All that the past withheld, in larger meas
ure,
Somewhere. in willing trust, the future
hath.
Near and more near the ideal stoops to
meet
The steadfast coming of unfaltering feet.
DESERT DUST.
Years ago, on the great desert. a dust /
was found that was not of the desert, /
nor could its general characteristics be |
harmonized with any known part OF the |
earth. 1t was called desert dust" Its |
origin remained long mystery. Finally |
the determination was reached among /
scientists that it was a meteoric deposit /
the overflow of the river of sDace-a /
dust that imDerceotibly fell upon the |
earth year by year by thousands upon !
thousands Of tons. Even space has its (
matter.
One hundred years ago, the disposition
of matter. which is today so simple TO /
chemists, would generally have been as
crsbed to witchcraft. Added power is ac-
CURED by the chemist as result of pa
tient labor and investigation. Thus the
fuller knowledge Yet TO come will render
OF easy accomplishment chemical
changes. compared with which the mar
vels of this hour win be as nothing
Who dare circumscribe the possibilities
of the human family whatever limit may
be placed to individual effort? Who has
the temerity 10 limit the power which
must follow the steadily increasing sum
of human knowledge
Give TO a chemist a handful of the earth's
matter. and with the power that knowl-
edge yields, he will cause the whole TO dis
appear from the Sight-tO become even
as Desert Dust'-invisible in infinite
space. Because of the ease with which
this act can be performed materialists
view it lightly. But does not this power
suggest boundless possibilities? Assured
~ there Is, at best, but step between
the possession OF power to render in
visible matter that is now tangible. and
the acquiring OF power TO reproduce in
tangible form matter that Is now invisible.
Though it may take unnumbered years
to bridge the chasm. who dare predict |
that it will be bridged? md once this
power is acquired. the creation of worlds
becomes simple question of degree
the principle having been solved.
| believe God created this world. If
man shall acquire like power. to the
extent of creating worlds, he too. will
be a God Whatever may be done by
man will be through the observance of
laws that God himself must recognize.
If there is. therefore, no rational limit TO
the possibilities of the human family, the
possible power of man individually can
only be limited by death.
Given hereafter. as all Christians be-
lieve: given a resurrection of the body.
the continued possession of even existing
intelligence. and where shall we cal a
halt? Time ceases. immortality SupplantS
morality and the finitude of man
powers are but the extent of his knowl-
edge AS he increases in knowledge his
powers grow and to him that only VIII
seem to be infinite of which man today in
all his power and glory has absolutely no
Let it then be conceded that God exists;
that there is = future life. What more
ennobing belief can possess man than
that held out to him in these speculauons
not without Scriptural war
rant.
MAN. THE CHILD OF GOD.
Man. the child of God, the junior.
brother of Jesus Christ. at his own re-
quest, is permitted to come from the pre-
existent state and take a body as the
Savior did. He begins here the labor
to which he was promoted from the con-
seriousness before coming He struggles
i'm or well with the trust of life siven
him at his own solicitation The allotted
neriod of his mission here arrived, he re-
snonds to the demands of the flesh and
uies Resurrected. in single hte ne
takes uo the labor suspended here by
death AS in this life the eye was trained
to see. the ear to hear the tongue TO
the hand TO be skillful. the mind to see
~ and heart to become the