The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-02

$3.50 o'clock p. m. at the tabernacle.
TOMORROW.
IL o'clock a. m.
3o'clock D. m.
Both at the First Congregational
church.
Monday morning at o'clock Mr..
Moody will preach ait the penitentiary.
Yesterday Mr.. Moody preached twice
to congregations that filled the First
Congregational church. both afternoon
and evening. 1t was not only Saturday,
an off day. but the day before Easter.
when most women are supposed to be
giving all their attention to their Eas-
ter gowns. Notwithstanding this COM
bination of worldly attractions, women
formed the major part of those who
listened to the evangelist, but they gen
orally make the larger part of those
who attend church, not only to hear Mr.
Moody, but other preachers
Gray hair was predominant yester-
day; the hair that is parted smoothly
over the brow, and twisted into sim
pie knot behind, generally framing
face with kindly, believing eyes and
mouth that suggests a mothers kiss
and the infinite tenderness that attaches
to the long ago" When hands were
raised, as they were once in answer to
a question, they told at a glance of
years of labor and love for others; they
were brown hands, many of them, and
some knotted and hard, but whether
white and soft, with the blue veins
plainly outlined, or SO twisted and
cramped that only their general form
could be noted, they were the hands of
those who had worked in the Lords
vineyard; the hands of mothers, of be-
lievers, of Christians. The needle could
alrnoss be seen between the fingers, and
il was to them that Mr.. Moody spoke.
There were old men in the congrega-
tom, too, who held their hands behind
their ears and caught every word of
the speaker; men who had sounded all
the depths and shadows of ambition"
and turned at last, when adj else was
slipping away, to the /nple faith they
learned at their mOInerS knees. They
had tried it all and were tired, very
tired and when Mr.. Moody took for his
text, Come unto me all ye that labor
and are heavy laden, and I will give you
rest" they nodded approvingly, antici-
pating what was to come.
THE POWER OF CHRIST.
"The Power of Christ may be taken
as the subject of the two sermons. Mr..
Moody believes in the "Old Adam"
original sin, but believes also that
Christ can drive it out. Come unto
me abl of ye that labor and are heavy
laden and 1 will give you rest" With
that as a text he preached a sermon
ON rest.
Probe every heart to the bottom
he said, "and you will find one want;
it is rest. Where can it be found? Some
think in money or stocks and bonds, but
if 1 wanted rest 1 wouldn't go among
the millionaires, for there are hundreds
of men who would give millions today
for rest, but it cannot be bought.
rs 1T in fame? Do you thing. Cen
eral Miles is satisfied?
rs it in a high position in the coun-
ellis of the government? Do you think
Alger is satisfied?
is it in the presidency? Do you think
Mckinley is satisfied?
Political honor doesn't give rest;
fame doesn't give it, books do not give
it, and you can't find it in the 400.' If
l warted to find rest 1 would go to
some man or woman who had listened
to the voice of Christ.
''You may roll the whole of this
world into a mans heart and he is not
satisfied, for he needs two worlds.
"'Come unto me and I will give you
rest All the prophets and priests and
sages never said that: they couldn't.
Moses couldn't say 1 will give you rest.
Elijah or Elisha couldn't say it. 1t
would have been preposterous. Jesus
Christ said it and 1T was believed, it is
the proof of his divinity; the proof that
he was God manifested.
LET me tell you that what retards
the Christian church today more than
amy other is long faces. Christ carries
your burdens and your sins. Why
should you take that mummy of trouble