The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-10
Rev. E. /. Goshen Makes Good
Impression.
DISCOURSE WAS ON FAITH
SOME POWERFUL AND PRACTI-
CAL ILLUSTRATIONS.
Rev. 7. C. Tiff Talks About the
Worldwide Conquest of Christi
anity and Gives An Optimistic
View of the Future of His Relig-
housewives at Tabernacle.

Rev. L. !. Goshen of Plano, Ills, who
during the summer will occupy the pull
pit at the First Congregational church
while DR.. Brown is away on his vaca-
ton, preached his initial sermon yester-
day morning and made a decidedly
good impression on his congregation.
Mr.. Goshen is still a young man, al
though he has been seven years in the
ministry. He is a close student. a clear
reaSoner, a forcible speaker, and gives
promise of making a high mark in his
denomination.
Faith was the basis of his discourse.
Christ's words, Go in peace-thy faith
hath made the whole" was his text.
Man knows, he argued, that there is
a force called gravitatiOn that holds
the heavenly bodies in equipoise, but
he does not know the nature of the
force. He knows something Of the
workings Of electricity by which
mans thoughts are flashed over noun
tains and under oceans. but he can
not analyZe that force. The same is
true of faith. This mighty agency Is
often strongest and brightest in him
who can tell least about it. There has
never been any Improvement On the
apostles definition of faith-''the sub
stance of things hoped for. and the evI-
dence of things not seen"
This is a practical age. when men
pride themselves in their belief IF TIE
real and tangible, and yet there was
never an age when men lived more in
the atmosphere of faith The vast
banking system, with its checks, drafts
and clearing house is a monument to
mans faith in his fellow men. You go
to your train. buy your ticket and take
your seat in the car with absolute faith
that the engineer will guide the train
and that you viii reach your desEina-
tion. Without this active principle of
faith the commercial world could not
carry on its transactions.
The minister then proceeded to show
how it was by the experience OF this
principle of faith that men are ieo to
God. Also how this same principle
has enabled man to accomplish all shat
lives in potent form in the worlds his
tory. The story of the Pilgrim Faith
ers was recounted to illustrate the
truth of this. II was only faith that
led them over the ocean, enabled them
to wrest living from a forbidding
soil. conquer all their difficulties and
at last found a nation with freedom Of
conscience and faith in God for its ba-
sis.
And today" the speaker went on
1.-The fetid prisons of our neighbOr is
land are opened, women and children
are uShered into the domain Of civil
ization and possibility; Cuba is free,
and under the providence Of God, given
the chance to float the flag OF freedom
and of right And all this has been and
is because of faith IN the God who dom
mates and guides the ages
At the close a large number of The
congregation crowded about Mr.. Gosh
en- to greet him and bid him welcome
to Salt Lake. He expressed himself as
most highly pleased with the city and
his environments. He will be at home
while in the city at Asa East First
South street.