The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-05
WHAT THE WORLD REALLY NEEDS
HE WHO HAS IT CAN SELDOM
BE HID.
Sermon By Rev. Alfred H. Henry at
the First Methodist Church Yes
terday Morning-Christ's Message

Rev. Henry preached to a large con-
gregation at the First Methodist church
yesterday morning, his text being, He
who has what the world needs can sell
dom be hid"
There are few lessons more important,
said the pastor, than those derived from
the study of the character and career of
the men whose names have been handed
down from generation to generation.
While the world has canonized few
false prophets and crowned with laurels
lew unworthy heroes, the verdict OIL
DosteritY has as a rule been just. When
we think of the millions that have lived
and the DeriShabieneSS OF things, we
marvel that we have at this age any
means of putting together the history
of the past. Historians must indeed,
pick their way backward through shat
tered fragments of buried cities, forgotten
empires. in order to form a conception
of the ancient world. Here and there
through all the years. there have been
men who have stood head and shoulders
above their fellows. The speaker pointed,
as examples, to Abraham, Joseph, Moses,
! David, Saul of Tarsus, of Scriptural rec
! ord. And later history has numerous eX-
amDleS of great men who could not be
hid because they had within their souls
that which the world supremacy needs.
Christ said the speaker, had within nm
self in fullest measure all that these men
we have mentioned had but in part. Then,
continuing, he said, in part;
His was supreme faith in God, SUI
preme knowledge of the intrinsic value
of man; wealth of love, tenderness and
sympathy; the power to inspire zeal
| and enthusiasm that disease, hardship
and death could not chill; the ability to
] iTnoart strength that should be equal TO
! every requirement, and courage that
/ should face fearlessly the most terrible
foe. What shall we say of him who was
| moved by no less a mission than to
bring a message of salvation to all races
of men and tc II generations? Who
han r # faaaDl iTnc RI IaS inl-
! the lame, the blind, the leper, and the
hand OF forgiveness and succor TO the
sinful and fallen? He who spoke with
authority of mans responsibility to Cod
who proclaimed himself the way, the
! truth and the life and who injected a
! thrilling hope into mans doubling, de-
/ spending heart by the StupendouS miracle
| of the resurrection? He who preached
| the fatherhood of God. the brotherhood
| of man and the law of love; he who was
! to inaugurate the great world-movement
| for a higher life and broader liberties, and
who had it within him TO make the ages
] brighter as the world grew older? He
! could not be hid.
He may be thrust forth from his child
hood home: he may be rejected by the
| people and misunderstood by his disciples
he may be betrayed into the hands of his
/ blood; he may be Knocked, spit upon
! beaten with stripes; he may be con
/ demneds the Roman soldiers may thrust
their spears into his side. he may suffer
| mortal agony as he hangs upon the cross
he may be buried away from the sight OF
man, mourned by a few, but forsaken by
most of those who knew and loved hin
best, but still he cannot be hid. His name
/ and message penetrate beyond the scene
of his humiliation, far beyond the Dor
ders of his native land. Asia Minor hear;
| the story. 1t is borne to Greece, to Egypt
| to Carthage. 1t is echoed in the forum
at Rome. 1t is whispered at night around
! the camp-fires of the Roman legions; i
I is proclaimed in the proud Roman senate
II broadcast
Gallo nations; ii is carried northward t
| be cherished by the fierce German tribes
and across the sea into Britain, where
it becomes one of the most potent influ
ences in moulding the destiny of tht
sturdy Anglo-SaXon race"