The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-03

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gelist, and on that account most OF
the Protestant churches suspended
their regular services and joined in
the great meeting. The play house
was crowded from the chairs of the
orchestra to the last seat in the Sec
ond balcony and not since Sankey' s
visit has such a crowd gathered there
to listen to words directing men tc
lead righteous lives. The choirs from
the lift, First NJ e. and other churches
dla the singing while Professor Rad
cllffe presided at the piano.
The subject announced for Evangelist
Narieyss sermon last night was 1.-THE
Broken Image" He dealt with the
creation of man in the image of God;
now that image was lost through the
fall in the garden of Eden and how
again 1t was possible to regain it
through faith in Christ.
Rev. Marley is pleasing speaker
and peculiarly we'll endowed with the
essential points that go to make up a
successful evangelist. He has a
powerful voice of a sympathetic and
pleading nature. His exhortations are
not appeals to the emotions, but rather
a combination of striking arguments
which can not fail to reach every
heart in his audience. Mr.. Varley's
talk last evening was profound yet
simple, and though he made no i'm
FASHIONED appeals he carried into his
arguments an .earEeStnesS which added
to their effect. At the close of the
services 20 people arose and declared
their intentions to start on different
road in life.
In entering upon the discussion of
his subject the speaker said he was
often asked as to the right method of
studying the scriptures. While no iron
clad rule could be laid down the proper
way was to study it reverentialIy.
1t was very common to hear people
declare ne scriptures a forgery and
sun these very same people have
never given the Bible much study:
or if they have studied it, seek to
comfort the meaning of every sentence
reasonably susceptible to more than
one construction
If we turn to the Book of Genesis we
IND that God created man in his own
image. What are we to understand by
this expression? Not that we are like
God in form or as a part of the diety
but that we are like him in those
fundamental principles-love of truth
ana rig lteousness. Then we read
about the fall, and the question is
asked, why did not God make man SO
that he could not sin? AS a reply to
QlSIlQRulSn
between the power to fall ard the
right to fall. God as the supreme
architect created man in the best nossi-
pie FORM While he endowed man with
power to fall will any one dare assert
that God intended man should fall?
AS an illustration, take the physical
construction of man. He has pair of
legs to stand on; they were made for
that purpose, and still men topple over
q A NE ,-f-r -
hand may be the instrument in writing
a letter TO dear ones at home. That
same hand has within it the mower 90
forge check. Man may be honest, but
that honesty carries with it the power
of dishonesty. Man was placed in
charge of all things on earth and it
was as just of God to submit him TO a.
test as the business man and broker
has the clerk
Adam, said the speaker, was only
six years old when he ate of the apple
In physical endowments he was no
doubt an adult, but in experience he
was but a child. This fact should also
be taken into consideration by those
who cTiticise Adam and Ewes over
stepping of Gods law. People like to
talk about the fall in Eden and wonder
why they did not do this or that. never
that God was the echeator,
laws to subjects.
The speaker then, at some length,
dwelt upon the fact that the image
once lost could not be regained. That
was in accordance with the nature of
all things. He broke an egg into a
glass and threw the shell down on the
floor. No power on earth could re-
store that egg. Why? Because of the
nature of things. So. when man fell
he became possessed of sin and by nat
ural law bequeathed this possession to
his children.
The evangelist then pointed to the
mission of Christ, which made it pos
sible fer all to again conform to the
image of God. Speaking of King David,
he referred to him as the Deer of any
ruler that has ever lived, and his book
of psalms as the most wonderful work
in the world. David may have had his
faults, but no man should be con-
demned because OF one isolated act.
In closing, Rev. Marley made an elo-
quent appeal to the congregation to
turn from ways of darkness.
Tonight Rev. Marley will speak at the
theater again, his subject as announced
being: The Greatest Word in the