The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-19

source in the spiritual rather than in
the temporal, and he wished to en-
phasize this fact.
Christ came not only to bring life,
but also Immortality, to light. Man is
a citizen of two worlds. BY birth and
constitution he is such He is at once
the son of God and the child of earth.
His physical being is rooted in matter,
but his soul is akin to God, and fire.
quently he yearns for his real home.
The poet has given beautiful express
sion to this feeling that from time to
time wells up in every heart:
II saw a little blade of grass
Just peeping from the sod:
l asked ii why il sought TO pass
Beyond its native clod.
1t seemed to raise its tiny head.
All sparkling pure and bright.
And wondering at my question, said:
l rise to seek the light
I asked the eagle why his wing
To eeaseless flight was given.
As though he spurned each earthly thing
And knew no home but Heaven.
He answered. as he fixed his gaze,
Undazzled at the sight,
Upon the suns meridian rays:
1 rise to seek the light
1 asked my soul: What means this
thirst
For something yet beyond?
From every earthly bond?
1t answers. and I feel it glow
With fires more warm, more bright:
All is too dull. too dead below,
/ rise to seek the light. "
Man has ever cherished the hope and
the instinct of Immortality. Nature
gives US a thousand hints that man is
TO rise from the sleep of death and
enter upon a freer and more glorious
life. Philosophers have guessed that
there must be a perfect and enduring
life; seers have had visions of an ideal
home of the soul, and poets have sung
in rapturous strain of the paradise of
God. This native and irrepressible be-
lief, that we are born for Immortality
and that we shall be reunited with our
loved ones after death is touchingly
expressed in the Greek drama of Ion"
The hero is devoted to death; he has
offered his life as a sacrifice to fate.
AS his beloved Clemanthe bids him
farewell, she asks, with irresistible
pathos, if they shall ever meet
again, to which the young Greek
replies: I have asked that dreadful
question of the hills that look eternal
of the streams that flow forever-of the
stars among whose fields of azure my
raised spirit hath walked in glory. All
were dumb, but while 1 gaze upon thy
face, l feel that there is something in
thy love that mantles through its
beauty that cannot wholly perish. We
shall meet again, Clemanthe."
However, Notwithstanding all the
hints, and dreams, and premonitions,
that had encouraged man from age to
age, Immortality was still only a hope.
Strange birds had been seen, and
green branches drifted from the shores
of some continent that must be close
at hand: but no one had yet sighted
the unknown shore. But Christ hav-
ing come out from God, returned again
to his native continent, shouting back
TO his followers the joyous cry of
Land" when his feet had touched
once more the shores of eternity. So
what had hitherto been only a brave
and undying hope in the breast of man
to cheer him in his hours of human
weakness and despair became a GER
tainty, an inpregnable fortress of
Christian faith. The first clear and
steady bar of light that ever visited
this world from the eternal side fell
the open tomb of Christ. 1t
is in the warm rays of this light that
the Christian world basks today, and
its radiant beams.
Many of those who are not actual
believers in Jesus Christ as the Son of
God and the Redeemer of mankind
borrow a comfort from the prevailing
faith of the Christian world which they
do not fully realize or appreciate. The
fact is that the civilized world is NOM
inally Christian, and, whether saved or
unSaved, unconsciously trusts in Christ
and the future. If any unconverted
man doubts this. let him endeavor to
think himself back, into the age that
preceded the coming of Christ: let him
endeavor to exchange his present feel
ing of positive assurance concerning
future life for the vague, sad yearn-
ings, and occasional CLEANS of hope,
of Plato and Seneca and Cicero. We
cannot fail TO see that the warm glow
of faith and certainty that emanates
from the heart of the Christian has
permeated civilized society as well, and
that millions hope and believe who
have never analysed the basis of their
hope or published their belief to the
world. Neither saint nor sinner
realizes what a frightful blank would
be left in human thought and human
faith if every trace of Christ were to-
day to be obliterated from the world.
What, then, shall this day teach US?
What lesson shall we bear away with
US? What would be more fitting than
that we should henceforth walk as
though we had a firm belief in the
message that Easter day has brought
u.s. We are sons ana daughters or the
living God. We have been born not for
day but for eternity. Let us conduc.
ourselves. then, as children of the
light; let us walk honestly as in the
lay: not in rioting and drunkenness;
not in clambering and wantonness: not
n strife and envying. But put We on
The Lord Jesus Christ. and make not
provision for the flesh. to fulfil the
usts thereof" Tomorrow the tides of
he world Will once more surge about
is. Business will engross US; care win
larass us. and pleasure will invite us
% her sunny bowers. The yellow gold
will serve to obscure the beatific vision
IF the Savior that has gladdened your
hearts today: the triumphant strains of
music that have thrilled your souls
will tomorrow be drowned by the
'oarse discordant voices of the world |
Ind the generous impulses that have
his morning stolen timidly forth I'M
Ter the genial influence of the gospel. |
will tomorrow be chilled by the sordid |
Ind selfish desires of the shop, the |
,ffice and the mart. We must go forth, |
hen. with strength of purpose. We !
must live as Christ would live. We |
must measure our gains and our losses |
~ heavenly standards, and not by the |
riterion Of earth.
For cuts, burns and sores on man or |
my animal that lives use the genuine /
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