The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-30

not do It; for wherever he goes he car
RES his inner consciousness with him.
de Is not a devil although ha may have
done deViiish thing; he is not fiend,
temper and Illustrated it; he is not utter
ly base, although ne may have been base;
put Wherever ne goes he carries with
MIN the knowledge or Cod II Is MS own
moral consciousness and wherever ne
goes there raises up the divine presence
ana the divine voice TO speak 10 him,
and cry out through the darkness and
light: Ny son, my daughter, come
back Come back Give me thy heart;
with Jesus Christ, the only peace and
the only JOY in life
/ do not deny that there is another al
terna tive-may God preserve us from it,
I 40 not deny that It is possible to de-
stroy the spiritual faculty in ones SEN
sltiveness 10 the voice of the Holy Ghost.
When you so to the Mammoth cave. and
ride mile after mile in that long, inner
darkness where no light penetraIeS, you
boat, and the nsh $50 tame they are they
do not dread it, viii swim TO it. that you
may lit them out of the water. and If
you do you will discover that they have
no eyes. In other words, the organ that
receives light having hved-exlsted-so
long without activity or exercise, must
perish at last, and the eye has practically
ceased to be- 1t is a tremendous Dhv-
steal prOphecy-an august and tremen-
dous one. II means that the spiritual
faculty in one. uneXercised, may perish
at last. May God preserve us from such
a fate,
on the other hand. dear brothers. read
ing such a story as David recites there,
is precisely this: Try as we may to run
out of the presence of God, whether We
go uD we hno him. or whether We go
down We find him. or whether in the
uttermost parts of the earth we ind him,
and the crucial and supreme moment
came in this mans life when he con-
scented to be found, for that remarkable
revelation of feeling, 1 think, is the most
impressive thing in these words There
fr-o1rr 4 Fne fnf
mind in them: The first verses describe
the fugitive--W hither shall L go from
thy spirit? or whitner shall fee from
thy presence! II ascend up into heaven
thou art there: If 1 make my bed In
he'll. behold. thou art there. If l take
the wings of the morning. and dwell in
the Itternost parts of the isea''-then
the change comes. an utter revolution in
moral consciousness, and he at last sur
and light. and accepts the divine leader
shiD-"Even there shall thy hand lead
me, and thy right hand shall hold me
He had been striving TO run out or the
reach of God. and to shun his allegiance
TO the sovereign law of God, to which,
after all, We owe our highest allegiance.
Anecdote of William the Great.
Not a great while before his death the
great emperor of Germany, who was en-
peror only ninety days, you Will remem-
Der, better known as the crown prince.
Emperor Wilhelm, went into a great pub
lie school in Germany and the master
took him to say something to the boys
and he looked down over the vast throng
of boys and first took coin out Of his
pocket. and held il I'D. and said: MY
boys, tell me to what kingdom this coin
belongs" and the boys shouted out: 1T
belongs, your majesty, to the mineral
kingdom" And he took a flower out Of
his buttonhole and holding it up, said
TO them: Tell me to what kingdom the
flower belongs" Your majesty, the
flower belongs to the vegetable kingdom"
Right" said the emperor. and then af-
ter g moment he said: And now Will