The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-21
THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL
DISCOURSE YESTERDAY MORN
ING BY REV. C. T. BROWN.
Els Theme 'The Eloquence of the
Listener'-How the Normal Chris
tan Makes Himself Heard.

Rev. Clarence T. Brown addressed a
large congregation at the First Congre-
gational church yesterday morning, his
theme being THE Eloquence of the List
ener.' He took for his text, THE Lord
Jehovah hath given me the tongue of the
learners, to know how to succor the
weary with words. He wakeneth, morn
ing by morning he wakeneth mine ear to
hear as the learners" isaiah !, A.
Mr.. Brown said, in part: These words
of Isaiah contain the philosophy of elo-
Guence. the secret of all powerful and
upon the ear-frst the awakened ear and
then the awakening voice. OF all the gates
of the soul, the ear gate is the greatest.
What allies and what enemies come up to
this gate, seeking parley and entrance.
Take heed what ye hear. said Mark. Be
ware of the braZen voices of the market
place, which declare that every man has
his price Beware of the voice of che
cynic; once give him your ears, he is
likely to take your soul. Beware of the
voice of the scoffer; the finest. strongest
of a ruffian. a scoffer is a ruffian and
his words are clubs.' Draw the bolt
against him.
Under some circumstances a locked
door is a sign not of cowardice, but OF
common sense. Beware of the voices that
are sweet, but satanic.
when Ulysses passed the isle Of the
sirens he filled his sailors ears with wax.
There are temptations against which your
only safety is the closed ear-to listen for
a moment is to yield and to perish. But
there are allies and friends. MANY and
fair, waiting to be welcomed at the ear
gate of the soul The Lord, said Isaiah,
wakeneth, morning by morning he wax
eneth mine ear to hear as the learners.
TO the ear that listens for them. God
has perpetual messages of truth and
beauty. Morning by morning they are
offered to every man who will listen for
them. Spiritual communications are not
confined to the past, nor limited to- any
ties, and his revelations are not restricted
to any artificial order. The Snly quail
ification which the Lord requires for spir-
itual communications is the spiritual ear
a devout, pure-minded man, who earnest
~ listens as one of the Lords learners.
not tell me that he has walked among
the angels; his proof is that his eloquence
makes me one This must ever be the
test of real spiritual power-the eloquence
that carries its own evidence to the heart
and conscience. of the hearer. When put
beside the eloquence of real devotion the
noble speech of a man whose ears God
hath Weakened, the mutterings of the me-
dunn and the goSSiplng famiGaritieS of the
false prophet about sacred things must
ever sound like the hollow assumptions
that they are. The normal. mature
Quent not by the f1uency of his speech,
but eloquent by virtue of the open ear
and the conSecrated heart; eloquent be-
cause his soul has become attuned to
the majestic cadenceS of Christian truth.
his heart set singing the new song OF
Christ's love and hope
Mr.. Brown announced that his sermon
next Sunday morning would be In Mem
DRY of the Soldiers Who Fell in the
Spanish-American War"