The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-15
Presbyterian Delegates Preach to
Salt Lake Congregations.
DIR. CoYLE'S DISCOURSE
DREW IMMENSE AUDIENCE AT
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN.
Creation of Man Was His Theme
Nothing In the Bible That Con-
f1icts With the Theory of Evolu-
tion-Man May Have Descended
From Brutes.

i Four of the visiting Presbyterian mini
listers from the Pacific coast occupied
Salt Lake pulpits yesterday They
were DIR. Coyle of Oakland. who
| preached at the First Presbyterian;
Rev. Frederick A. Doane of San Fran
cisco, at Westminster church; Rev Mr..
MacQuarrie at the First Baptist, and
Kew. Mr.. Mum at the Phillips Congre-
gational. Several of the delegates at
tended the tabernacle services in the
afternoon, and the party continued on
their journey eastward in the evening.
An audience that completely filed the
auditorium assembled in the First
Presbyterian church to hear Dr. Coyle
OF Oakland, who is one of the most
celebrated ministers in the country
The reverend gentleman preached
from the text, And God said: Let us
make man in our own image and in our
own likeness"
People who have a correct concep-
ton of man are as scarce as those who
have right conception of God The
man who possesses a, low and material
idea of himself and his possibilities need
not be expected to rise very high. To
think low is to be low. and degraded
mind can never rise to the Biblical con-
cention of man. The estimate of scien-
reach the ideal of the book of life.
When endowed with all the attributes
of the ideal, a man only approaches the
Biblical perfect man.
How is it that the Bible is always
ahead of the greatest scientific thinkers
of the day." inquired the speaker. II
Will leave the question with the congre-
cation to figure out.
The creation of man was most
solemn 70
story. Great deliberations ON the sub
Ject occurred in the council chamber.
Let us make man. said the Creator. in
our own image does not refer to a
physical likeness, as many people SUD-
pose. And there is nothing in the story
that opposes the theory that man was
evolved.
we nourish our bodies on the flesh
of beast and fowl. and / do not find
anything to be ashamed of in the idea
that we came from a beast lower than
ourselves. We need only be ashamed of
sin.
And then the story goes he breathed
into man the breath of life The idea
OF physical act is repulsive TO many
OF us. The meaning of this is certain
ly spirit of life.
self to his offspring any more than God |
could bestow his physical attributes !
upon his children. He simply gives |
Think of the reflection it is on the !
Creators judgment to behold his han |
diwork in such places as the dens of |
vice in large cities. Think of the man |
copy of Deity. Think of the murderer |
and thief; of the Tearing face of the !
idiot, and then let us ask ourselves |
can God Almighty do no better than |
that?'
And then look at the other picture.
Think of the man IDEAL erect. broad
brcwed, educated, and yet at best he rs
frail.
THE solution to the tangle then is in
The fact that we are not looking at the
right man. We must think of him
stripped of all that is deviIish. We must
lake the possible with the actual. and
f we do so we will find the result not
altogether unworthy of his divine pro-
otype. Jesus was the ultimate. the
complete. the finished man. All that
human frailty can do IS to climb as
nigh as may be toward the ideal. The
displays that we see around
Is brings conviction of the sad fact that
lin is all around us.
why is il here, and whence il cameo
ire questions that are difficult of solu-
ion. But mans acts are his own. and
lie is dealt with when he does wrong
IS free moral agent
And evolution cannot explain why
hings are so out of joint. A spec of
'rotoplasm or germ cannot sin, and if
his is what we came from why hold
Is responsible? But the mystery never
las been solved. 1t is a case of the
-iolin that has hung on the wall for a
ong time and is found to be out of
une. 1t is the little rift within the
ute that has contributed so much to
he worlds woe. 1t is no fault of any
me-
That man may sin, or live up to the
deal as he pleases. proclaims his ma
esty He may wallow or he may look
p and win the diadem. This proclaims 4
is Immortality. All other things die
70 human being can escape being, con-
it is very important that he
e headed the right way"
In conclusion, the speaker paid his ,
aspects to the men of science, but de-
Jared it did not matter what we were
billions of years ago.
IF my progenitors were animals, it c
oes not horrify me in the least. pro-
idp1 the line iS long epnuob