The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-28
The SUNDAY SCHOOLS
Closing Meetings of Utah State AS
ISOLATION Convention
AT THE FIRST M. E. CHURCH
DISCOURSE YESTERDAY MORN
ING BY REV. A. Il. HENRY.
Temperance Meeting In the After
noon-Children's Mass-meeting-
Young Peoples Societies-A Ser
vice of song-Addresses By Sew
eral Ministers In the Evening.

Young Peoples Societies-A Scr
vice of song--Addresses By Sew
eral Ministers In the Evening.
The Thirteenth annual convention of
the Utah State Sunday School associa-
ton came to an end yesterday, with a
series of interesting sessions that
marked the convention one of the most
enthusiastic and successful ever held.
At the First Methodist church, where
the meetings were held, there was a
constant throng of people from the
early morning services until the maj
beuediction was pronounced at night
| Children turned out in good force, and
| teachers, parents and others interested
/ in the different branches Of work with
| in the scope of the association took part
in the services, which, throughout
were highly interesting.
| At the. regular morning services Kew.
Henry officiated, preaching a very elo-
ouent sermon on Character and
| Achievement" subject particularly
appropriate For the occasion. Special
music formed a feature. and very
| large congregation was present.
At 2:9O in the afternoon there was a
! temperance session in the lower par
I lorsSo the church. This gathering was
presided over by Mrs. E. Il. Shepard
| OF this city, who read Il very good paper
i on .srTemp eranee Teaching In the Sun
day. School," holding that this subject
! was one of the most important to en-
/ gage the attention Of teachers. Ihe
young heart should be thoroughly IN
culcated with the evils of intemoer-
ance, and cultivated to regard it as a
wrong to be Stunned. She incidentally
alluded to the fact that the only way
to stop the drink traffic is to educate
| the growing generation to realization
of it's bad effects.
One of the most interesting meetings
| of the day was that Oh lne cnnoreI4 )
mass-meeting, which took place at 3
! O'Clock. The edifice was crowded with
little ones, who participated in the ex-
ercises Rev. E. G. Hunt and Chap
lain Allensworth of Fort Douglas ad-
dressed the children, and one of the
features was special music by the mem
bers of the Chinese Sunday school from
! the CONGREGATIONAL church. The pupils
| of the colored Sunday school at the
/ post also furnished several selections.
At $50 in the evening the young peo-
pies societies of this city held union
! services in the lower auditorium of the
| church, which was taxed to the limit
Ben Corum, president of the city union,
presided over the meeting, which was
| led by Harry N. Tolles. A great deal
! of enthusiasm was manifested, the tes-
timonies especially being numerous and
/ to the point. H.
At the conclusion of the young peo-
| pies meeting there was a special song
! service in the main auditorium of the
! church, in which the choir took part
! and Mrs. DR.. Plummer favored the as
sem hlege with a solo.
The final session took place at 8
o'clock in the evening, when leading
pastors of the city took part in dis
cussion of the subject: How can the
Sunday school help the church, and
how can the church help the Sunday
SCHOOL," Rev. Henry, Rev. Brown,
Rev. Bailey, Rev. Paden and others
! took part in the discussion, which was
attentively listened to by the congre-
cation, which completely filed the
spacious edifice.
! The text of Rev. Henry's sermon in
the morning was taken from Phil. iv, 13
Il can do all things through Christ
which strengtheneth me" and the pas
tor spoke substantially as follows:
! This is a bold declaration. We would
naturally expect to find that it was
made by one in a commanding posi-
| ton of power and influence, yet these
words were uttered by man in chains,
prisoner of the Roman empire, one
who was already facing death by de-
| cree of Nero, yet possessing indomit-
able soul. Furthermore, he was a man
who knew the weakness Of human ma
! ture, the limitations of human re-
! sources, the subtlety of self-deception
| the perversion of the human will. From
the bitterness of his own experience he
| had said: THE good that 1 would 1 do
not; but the evil which I would not
a. L.
thing of greater Importance than all
! thistle Transforming power of
Christ's presence. After Christ had
! come into his life, he cried: "Old things
are passed away; behold all things are
become new" He rejoices in conscious
ness of a power that is his by grace,
not by nature. So Paul eXclaims in ex-
uitation: IT can do all things through
| him that strengthened me-
I desire to put emphasis on the "do."
| Paul's life was essentially active, a
career of mighty achievement All
! through the New Testament the en-
phasis is on doing" by the deeds
| of the body shall every man be justi-
/ fed" etc. OF Jesus if was said: HE
went about doing good"
/ There are many fields for activity in
which God would have US labor. There
is the material world. Gods servants
! are subduing the earth, conquering des-
erts, breaking through forests, diseoV-
ering and settling new lands, building
! bridges, constructing railroads, bring
| ing the ends of the earth nearer to-
gether. In the intellectual world they
are cultivating power of thought, pene-
trating secrets of nature, discovering
i laws of nation and of matter minister
| ing to the aesthetic taste, making a
man out of savage, cultivating music
and art, developing culture and refine
ment.
! In the spiritual world there is a de-
mand for men who will enter upon the
work of subduing power of passion,
cultivating humanitarian spirit, pro-
noting benevolence and beneficence,
shaping high ideals for the race, form
! ing character and destiny, spreading
knowledge of God, stimulating faith,
creating an atmosphere of righteous
ness and annihilating darkness every
where. With all these fields to be oc-
cupied, no man can afford to be idle
We have been told character is
| greater than achievement; that the
man outweighs his works; but charac-
| ter is represented in achievement, and
| the man is manifested in his works.
Character and achievement are insep-
/ arabic. The man who is brave and
! stout hearted shows it by his deeds.
Take such men, for example, as Co
! lumbus, Livingstone and many of the
/ pioneers of civilization, The man who
is learned, student, thinker, is of
value only as he gives out the treas
ures of his intellect for others We
/ have examples in Cardinal Mezzofanti.
| Newton, Gallileo, Edison. Darwin,
Michael Angelo. So the man who has
a character which God will approve,
who is good after the standard of the