The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-18

That the political economist desires i'm
proved data or later information on
the financial and industrial questions
of the day? That the social reformer
desires the pulpit TO enter the arena
against monopolieS and trusts and in
behalf of some new system of society?
Do we understand that there is de-
mand for the pulpit to enter politics
and devote its influence in favor Of
platform principles and party meas
ureS? There is no question but that in
some instances the pulpit has brought
mighty influence to bear upon the right
solution of many of these great prob
lens. Through its influence agrarian
troubles have been settled and land
serfs have been made free men.
Through its influence commerce has
been unfertered; the missionary has
more than once carried the key that
opened up new marts Of trade to the
merchants of Christendom. Its infu-
ence has also been felt in improving
the ethics OF the commercial code. The
influence Of the pulpit has been potent
in apousing the public conscience to
many social evils, and in stimulating
activity in the matter of reform The
foremost apostles Of abolition Of slav-
cry and prohibition of the liquor traf-
f1c have spoken not in the name of So
ciety but in the name Of God.
THE SAME QUESTION.
These are practical cnastions, and
the pulpit has not failed TO speak TO
the point and with power. But after
all. the message has been in each case
the same Savonarolo. Luther. Wycltff.
John Huss. John Bright, WHEREFORE,
Garrison. Wendall Phillips. John B.
Cough, have ali delivered the same
message as Moses Isaiah, jeremiah
and Paul.
The one practical question in this
world is concerning the being and
character of God, and mans relation
ship 10 him. All other great questions
are simply restatements Of this one
question in more concrete terms. There
is no danger of the pulpit being any
thing but practical when il clings TO
the message that God has entrusted
to it
HOW GOD IS REVEALED.
1t is my purpose in a series of SER
mons TO follow this one, to show how
God is revealed in the natural world,
how he is glorified in the mystery of
creation, how instinct and intelligence
demonstrate their divine authorship,
how Gods method of working is jusFi-
fed in the ultimate destiny of man.
and how he is ever present in the
world he has formed and is ever ex-
ercising a beneficent watchfuIness.
There may be no new thoughts ad-
vanced and yet L trust that it viii prove
10 be profitable 10 think over again the
old thoughts on this most practical
theme
IT has been because men have in the
past forgotten God that tyrants have
fiourished. peoples have been oppressed
and whole nations have been deprived
OF their birth right of liberty
II IS because men of the present have
forgotten God that the terrible evils OF
mis- government and public and pri-
Vate corruption have come upon US as
a people Inordinate greed for gain,
grinding the faces OF the poor, tax
lodging, stock iobbing, cornering the
market on the necessities of life are
not evidences that men have the fear
of the Lord before their eyes.
Political rings. dishonest and grasp
ing moRopolies. gambling trusts. Whis-
ky trusts, institutions that grow fat by
wandering to the vices of the people,
are not formed and supported by men
who have seriously recognized their re-
sponsibility 10 God. who have learned
the lesson of the brotherhood OF man
from the thought Of the fatherhood Of
God
What is the source Of all the evils
hat perplex the honest social reform
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