The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-02

revival of pentecost. ''Granf unto thy
sS-ya ANS, thai VITA all holiness they may
SPEAK thy word was their petition This
/ OF apostolic audacsey. The APOSTLES were
nerSes by the grace of God and so may
we De; but If we are, We must make more
use OF t1e PsalmEsts prayer, 20 Cod.
let none that wait on thee be ashamed
Iel tuem be ashamed which transgress
without cause. Only let us get the cour-
age and the shame of this world in the
fls.lt pace. or in the hearts of the right
persons and the music of the millennium
VIII begin, the song of the angels Will
again be heard For the kingdom of this
world will have become the kingdom of
good.
BY the way. the devil has no fault TO
nno with religion while it let's him alone
Let US alone. was the demons prayer.
Let US alone is the prayer of the careless
world. and let us alone is the most dan
geroEs plea which IS made by our bosom
s'n- OF course you cannot be jealous
without getting into more or less hot or
go ~ate- ne luke warm VIII lind
ida-I with you because your earnestress
reveals their lack OF It. Some who have
been asleep viii wake up grabbed. and
others who are SONG to sleep. will yawn
IN your face with undisguished' WEAKNESS.
You VIII POSSIBLY be called a fanatic or
enthusiast. or 1t will be whispered about
that you are over jealous; but you need
not mind little things like these.
As matter of fact religion whose
SYMBOL OF power is tongue of FIRE. the
sdm of whose commands is thou shalt
love. and whose gospel is a gospel of alb
half heart. Those who accept ChristS
service in any such way will neither
honor II nor enjoy it. AS an old writer
an ingiorious thing. persons of this mixed
character are strangers to the highest
pleasure. They have just enough reli-
gion to make sin bitter and enough sin to
render religion unpleasant. CAS- a frank
spoken evangelist has said: Il declare
that the hardest work a man ever tried
10 90 is TO ne Christian without reli-
GOD serving and devil serving cannot get
on together; they will not agree)
Therefore, let US stir W the gift that
is in US. Why should we be shamefaeed
or timid? God hath not given US the spirit
of fear; we need not fear him. for though
he is judge. he is also forgiving father.
are Denitent; we believe in the forgive
ness of sins; and why should we lose
courage in the presence of evil?
God has not given. US the spirit of fear,
but of power and love. Love casts out
fear and shame and all their weakling
crew; for love is strong, stronger than
death; love will put courage into the
heart of a bird, and make a mother of a
lamb as bold as a lion. Love of country
will make heroes of hodmen, love of home
makes heroines of hoidens- 1t will do its
down its life for the object of its affection
Even today there are men and women
who would die for the love of God. But
we have no heart to talk of our love FOR
MIN; it is so completely overshadowed ty
his love for us. The very thought should
make us ashamed of our shame / have
heard of a mother who risked her life to
save her child from a burning house: she
saved him, but her face was disfigured for
life; when the child grew he was ashamed
Of that disfigured mother. Shame upon
him Yet we are in danger of greater in
gratitude. His face was marred his |
BODY was bruised and his spirit shame
fully treated. yet for the love he had for |
Us he endured the cross, desDising the |
shame.
God hath not given us the spirit of fear,
out of power and of love and of a sound |
mind Come, let us reason together /
saith the lord. The service he asks IS a /
reasonable service. All he asks is that
you give his claims your serious and can
lid consideration Seek the truth with l.
| sober mind and with vigorous inten-
ion and you have Gods word that you
Will surely find it. You will find him. and
ind in him more than it hath entered into
rour heart to ask or think. No true
ecker for goodness and God was ever
disappointed with ashamed of the re-
lults of his quest, for those who seek him
IND him. and those who find him find all
rood things, including courage.