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

Rev. William NJ. Paden of the Hol-
land Memorial church of Philadelphia
preached yesterday in the First Pres
byterian church morning and evening
| On both occasions the church was well
flied and the words of the eloquent
and thoughtful preacher made a deep
impression.
he took for his text in the evening
the words, They declare their sin as
Sodom. they hide it not" Isaiah 3-9.
BE not thou therefore ashamed of the
testimony of our Lord" IL Timothy.
Is. BE of good courage and let US
play the men for our people" II Sam
uel, 1912.
The reverend gentleman said in
part:
Our first thought is the contrast be-
tween good and pad courage: good cour-
aged unashamed OF declaring rs -oyas-y
clarng ITS preference for sin; good cour-
age endeavurlng 10 play the man with
Sod people; bad courage as Willingly
pitching its tents EowaruS Sodorn." And
tue contrast has another and more Sc
rious phase: good men are too o1-en tlLsy
id; bad men are too often bold; good men
are ashamed of ehe1r moea1s; Cud men
unasnamed of their sins Iae partisan
laughter of this world IS more feared by
the good than the evil s0ui.
AS jean b. Cough once said in my
nearing, Ten men are r1dicuied away
fIOm religion where one IS reasoned away
from Gt. Moreover, the devil laughter
is more potent than his logic, and DIOwS
are rcr so hard 10 meet as snrugs and
SneerS and sarcastic SMILES Tney are che
devils v1troI wntcn lie dl2Dws IN our
faces 10 check our upward course. OF
all the various obstacles which are
thrown between the soul and its God,
SllCpfcEflIl 4
men who are more or less interested in
religious things are hindeTed from decdar-
ing ular inJere5- through fear, Ease PRIDE
ana shame They are ashamed OF uas.r
good lIlpulSfons, Or afraid OF rldlcule. Paul
makes noe of this Iimidity as the begin
rerS weakness; and the words or our
second text are this grand old mans IN
Junction TO mis- young friend 1lmotny,
Str up ehe gilt that is in thee, for God
attn not given us the spirit OF fear, DUE
of power and OF love- and of a sound
mind: DE net thou therefore ASHAMED OF
the testimony of our Lord. CHRIST had
found II necessary TO speak SimllaT words
10 his carry disciples; Fear ye not[here-
lore; lear not them which Kali the Dody
bur are not able 10 kid the soul. What
tell you in the darkness, that speak We in
the light; and what We hear in Che ear,
that peach We upon the houSefops. For
whatsoever snail confess me before men,
him viii | confess also before my father
which IS in heaven" Matt. X, 26-52).
Such words mean, when put into our oW
"
good there IS IN you; your good impulses,
your aspirations, your conscience the
remnants of the image in Which you were
created. Don't be ashamed of your re-
hgion or religious incl:nations; don't be
ashamed of your wish 10 serve and be
served oy Christ. The love of goodness
and Of God is not a thing TO be ashamed
OF. out with it. Very few men are ut
terly corrupt and goddess; we all have
good in us, and most of US have more or
less religion; many of us have less than
nrrDF1 n n nc on ID of nc
have as much as we need TO make us
what we ought to be. Yet we cannot !
without dehumafizing ourselves, become
as the beasts that perish; we must look
back and repent; look in and be dissatis-
fed; took our and SympauhsZe or pity; /
look forward and hope or fear and look
image of God, and until we destroy that
likeness We cannot rid ourselves of re-
Hgious instincts; we will, in spite of our
selves, have some kind of religion; if we
do not, canno. have the true. we drift
towards che false: if We do receive the
g-aceS Of the divine spirit. we wall re-
ceLve the owls and bats of superstition,
or the fur.eS of fate. only a religion
can overthrow a religiou.'' The race is
reig-cus in spite of Itself. To be ashamed
of ones religious nature is like being
ashamed of ones affections or reason.
Away with such Ghamei
And as a religious nature is our birth
right, religious inspiration and instruction
Is our nDec-al gttt. We have not been
instincts; our religious instincts have
been fed and fosteTed; Gods image in our
sous has been again and again retouched.
Like Timothy. We are many of us children
Of Christian parents, and have so received
our educauo in Christian homes; ali of
Us have been reared within touch of
Christian influences, and Few do not know
the cardinal truths of Christianity, and
the central duties of the Christian relg-
ion. Few do not know the command
ments, and 1t is the exception TO find
man who has never prayed. / never knew
a man who did not know enough TO save
nm. # used, or TO condemn him, if
abused. L never knew a man who could
-ruthfuly say thar Gods spirit had never
spoken 10 his soul. You can count upon
inding not only religious instincts. but
The insDira tons and instructions of our
holy religion in the toughest crowd or in
he blacklist heart. You viii ind the very
spirit of holiness in hearts which you
ire ready 10 give over as utterly noisone,
md the grace 9f God dwelling in homes
If hidden inspiration and the unap7rOpri-
ited grace of God in our dens of vice to
make them savOry were men true TO their
oeuter natures. What a revival of re-
igton there would be in this world if we
Zach rallied the good in the depths of
himself and responded TO the inspirations
If God.
Instead of this, conscience is too often
oppressed and the Inspirations of the
ptrit given no expression. Men act as if
heir chief end were the suppression
hat is gentle, uplifting and Chrsstlike is
brown into the background: while all
hat is selfish. frivolous and heshffiiy is
brought to the front. The evil treas
poison, while the good treasures are
leDt back and hidden until they are
.aten up by moth or rust. Moreover.
UGH expression Of corruption spreads; ii !
S infectious and contagious; so men vino
night meet each other as breezes from
heaven, brea the upon each others souls
he very malaria of hell. You can tell
hey have been together by the lowered
one of their morals. Or, to change the
CURE as you hasten the decay of i'm
erfect fruit by bringing the rotten spots
ogether. so many a brace of friends or
ircle of companions hasten each others
ecay of character by bringing their bad i
.des together. Such shameless sharing
Yet. in spite of all this, much of the
of the world is out of O
lace: and much of the shame which :
ur impulses TO well doing. Men would
atiler be caught doing wrong than right:
iinmeling an enemy than praying with [
friend: sneertng az some other sinner
IAN confessing their own sins. Men who
ould DE ashamed TO be seen reading the (
able viii sit down in a crowded car or
hop and devour a flash paper; and men o
no conceal their finer experiences as if !.
ley were something TO be ashamed of
Ill retail with the greatest gusto stories t
the days when they dealt in wild oats.
could wish that such a spirit We're ex-
sr,1ional: my charity leads me 10 think 7
eant bad. The devil has appropriated S
nd adapred holiness to his own evil :,
ses. When we speak of a girl as bold. II
e suggest that she is on the way TO the
I'd. Shakespeare is authority for calling
villain "a bold, bad man. q
7. ,voqIid seem as if we should reverse n