The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-06
human life which gives it eOdIike dig
who feeds men, serveth few:
He serNes ali r.-hn daras he friIn y

who feeds men, serveth few:
He serves all who dares be true
Surely there. is more need that our ac-
tive interests be constantly engaged with
matters pertaining 10 our moral life than
in any other Matthew Arnold has strik-
ingly said: Conduct is three fourths of
NE; Conduct IS the profession we All
hold in common, and conduct, If it is to be
living and spontaneously noble. must be
prompted by constantly renewed insight
into that which is true and that which is
loving. moral life is stereotyped and
unattractiye which is not prompted by
constantly Strengthening soul life The
world is hungering for greater spontan-
city IN TINS realm of conduct 1t is yearn-
ing TO nave more persons actuated by a
spirit alive to present ideals. A response
bnity formed out of lifelong habits is not
to be des9ised, but, oh. the power that
there is in the life which is not simply
habit-bornd in propriety. but which
springs nth under all circumstances
with the flesh vigor of a spirit alive at
that moment-with a present grasp OF
principles and living fervor through the
vision seen today.
It should be The high aim of church
life TO keep each soul so in touch with
ulVlne forces and so awake TO heavenly
visions that this fresh spontaneity of con-
uqct may be ever possible.
Its chief results will be accomplished.
however, only as it sends the individual
soul back into its self for the source of its
central life. That is the universal law
The strongest inspiration from without,
the sweetest of human fellowship. must,
before it is perfected, intensity the life
OF soul within itself.
The hurly-burly of life tends to crowd
out this rich and fruitful realm of the
inner life unless the church shall serve
as that center of quiet suggestion and
eompanionship on high-a plane which
shall keen the soul in touch with itself.
This suggests another function OF
church life which has apparently been
overlooked in this discussion. How about
the Godward side? you may ask Is there
place for worship in the. modern day?
Has the church still that function? Yes.
if the thought of God is filled with the
life Of modern thought. Prostitution be-
fore Almighty Majesty has little meaning
TO most of US, Yet reverence for and
communion with the Omnipresent Immi-
nent Life is the soul of the religious
spirit. the central dynamic force in the
development of character.
Some one may wonder now two state
mentS you may hear from this pulpit can
both be true. At one time it may be
affirmed that ell religion is summed up
in God-in all that the thought of divine
love and power may mean to human
hearts. Again, it may be asserted that
this church stands for human service,
for the religion of humanity, that love to
ones neighbor is substance of religion.
Is there not inconsistency here? Appar-
emily so, but not in reality. The two are
one if rightly understood. Jesus recon-
ciled the two in his great commandments:
Thou shalt love the Lord. thy God.
This is the first and great COM
mandment, and the second is like unto
SELF
The two commandments are. then, vir-
tually one, because love to man is love
to God The two are harmOnized when
we know the full meaning of our faith
that humanity IS divine. The omnipreSent
God reveals himself in all life, but in no
part of the universe so fully as in the
human soul We can know God only as
We find him revealed in our own souls
and in the lives of our human brothers
and sisters. We can serve God only as
we serve him in the human beings about
US. Truth to ones highest inner self and
love and reverence for the divine spark
in every human soul are the worship most
acceptable to the Indwelling Life of All.
God in humanity; God struggling for
higher and higher expression through the
children-this is the glorious conception
that illumineS this latter day.
81 that saw where We trod
The dim paths of the night,
Set the shadow called God
In your skies to give light;
But the morning of manhood is risen,
And the shadowless soul is in sight.
"A creed is a rod,
And q crown is of night;
But this thing is God,
To be man with thy might
To grow straight in the strength of thy
spirit
And live out thy life as the light"
Is there not room for a church life in
this day Of light? Need that we help each
other TO grow out of the shadows into
the glory of Il recognized divinity. and to
help one another to a higher reverence
for our human kind and q more sacred
love for the weakest of earths children.