Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-27

| testing, but II Is life that is full of
weakness and mistakes and SIM life
| that may be full OF failure and disaster
| AZ men iill Gods place in life for them,
death will have its meaning. This Is the
supreme question lhe men that VIII ht
| Gods place are men Of conviction or
the truth, who live with zeal for It,
FIRST BAPTIST.
"Authorlty--Truc and False" was
| the theme dlsCoursed upon by Rev. ID,
! A. Brown at the First Baptist church
| last evening He took for his text the
! following from Matt xxi; 20; And
when Jesus was come into the temple
| the elders and chief priests came unto
| him as he was teaching and sid; by
what authority dost thou these thlngsY
| and who gave thee this authorityV
Commenting on these words the
| speaker said In parts
MAN wants authority for his con-
| duct and creed And he VIII have 1t,
true or false. BY II he measures not
| only his own but every other mans
| status I'm his relation TO God. Think
! ing they possessed this authority the
| elders and chief priests undertook the
| task Of calling into question the au-
| thorlty OF Jesus Christ the Son of God.
| They had heard Of His miracles, how
the blind received their sight, the lame
! walked. the epers were cleansed, the
| deaf were made to hear, the dead
raised up and the poor had the gospel
| preached unto them What glorious
| work! What preposterous presump-
| ton TO call into question the authority
| for such work But there were elders
| I'm that day who did IT, and there are
| elders i'm this day who do II. There live
today elders who would not be innu-
enced by the matchless life of Christ,
even though It hung I'm a perfect equi-
| poise between God and man. They
would not only call into question his
miracles.-they would rush into the sal
credness Of his baptlsmal scene or
creep into the chamber where he quiet
ly observed the Lords supper, and as
they did So thev would ruthlessly cry
out: by what authority doest thou
these things? and who gave thee this
authority"
ADDRESS TO WORKING MEN,
AT the Federation hall large audi
ence assembled last evening and lis
tened to an address by Rev Charles
Stel2ie, who Is making preaching
tour under the auspices OF the board
of home missions of the Presbyterian
church. His subject last evening was
Does the Church Help the Labor
| Movement" Personally the speaker
expressed warm sympathy for the
working people, AS he himself had for
many years performed manual labor
as means Of sustenance. lie believed
that the church, too, was the friend OF
the man who toiled for his daily bread
| Among other things In support OF this
| L.
~ have talked with workingmen
who believed that the church Is "a
scheme 70 Increase the population OF
heaven" They thought that the sum
and substance of the ohurch's teach
Ing was this. Re good; get saved
and you win go to heaven But Jesus
said He that sayeth his life shall
lose Il. and he that loseth his life for
my sake shall find Cor save) H. The
Ideal Christian Ia not simply trying TO
get to heaven; he Is trying to get 9th
en- people there, Furthermore, he is
trying to bring something OF heaven
into this sn-cursed earth.
Jesus commanded men to go 10
church, TO study their Bibles to spend
time In prayer; but these were sim
ply a means to an end. These are
commanded so that men may be
stronger to help their fellowmen. 1t
is because men have bbeyed Christ
In this respect that we today nave
our Christian hospitald asylums or
various kinds, homes for the aged,
and othCa helpful institutions TO
minister to those who have been
wounded In lifes battle Schools,
colleges, libraries and training schools
OF every description supported by the
| church or by Christian people indi"
|
for llfes larger duties. These insti-
tutions represent the church at work,
obeying the commands Of her Christ.
| almost every social reformer
| claims Jesus Christ as the champion
, OF his particular social system, and
he crlticses the church because II
does not boldly proclaim his partlcu-
lar theory, It has not yet been proven
that any particular social theory IN its
practical application, VIII bring about
the golden age for which all good men
are longing Furthermore, the advo-
| Gates OF these systems are not clear
I'm their own minds NJ 20 just what
they want. or how their schemes viii
work out. The leading socialists have
admitted that socialism IL not ideal
lit Is simply step In the right di-
rection they say. Is II not folly, then,
to ask the church to advocate n sys-
tenn which even Its own advocates have
not yet fully thought out2
Back OF every hosestly advocated So
cial theory there Is a great moral prln-
ciple. Socialism demands from every
man according 10 his ability That
means n life OF service Communism
demands the surrender OF ones person.
al interest for the good OF all. That
means self-sacrlnce. Anarchism de-
mands the doing OF right without the
strong compelling arm OF the law. That
! means justice, love, purity"