Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-02
Son Of the Late Judge LOotbourOw
breaches Sermon In First
Methodist Church.
FROM THE SCARLET LETTER. !"
mr. Paden at First Presbyterian
cburch--Rcy. Simpkio on the
Purpose Of Life.

nav lam I, Loofbourow of Boston
voupsest son OF the late Judge lool-
sourow OF this city preached last even
49, IN the First Methodist church Spe-
",e, ,rterest was manifested In the
vounp man from the fact that ne Is
graduate OF the Salt Lake High sehoo'
~, stanford university; and ms 'her,e
VOC The teaching in hawthorne
.searlet Letter" The speaker 'a'o !"
part: 40. no went
90. h,s own Mace" He did not tell what
that place was, save that u pelouse'
csculiarly TO that individual man
snorn Ga a large question that his sug-
aas,,on opens to US Does each OF us
maize and occupy his own placer
surely there Is much of seeming ran
ure There IS a species OF tree toauS
uylne upon our apple trees when re-
semble the bark so closely thu' ~
b,dicult TO find them on H. Ihell WHY
lie IL a false retense-aPpeallnb w
ha what they are not. we nave oul
byman tree toads, men whose business
.n"r,a to he I'm hiding their true nature
vnder false front, and often II -
profitable business. . q,
We can recall so may Instances III
which men fail TO stand Tor just What
,hey are that We need frequently 10 re-
member that words and acts are put tle
imperfect expression OF a cohulti9h
within the man,and Mat condition Is ths
really significant thing me torce OF
law or the necessity OF business may
restrain man from the performances
M the act, but the damage TO the man
himself Is done In the consent ne gives
20 low impulse. These unseen SINS
NAV hide their time Some day they
viii nav us back with compound inter-
est But they have their power over
us only because they are our sins.
The whole genius Of Hawthorne IL
summarized In the teaching of the
"scarlet Letter" that the most esteem
cd surroundings cannot continue 10
ehleld a life Of dupllcity, while the red
badge Of shame can be made the sign
Of n life so helpful as to be indispensa-
bic. with certainty we often over
look we are making the place we are
60 occup In the years that are before
us. II we thus shape for ourselves n
place distinctly our own in this world
viii Il not be true also of the future
existence? We do not think as much
as men aid formerly OF the terrors OF
n great Judgment day But | trust we
place an uncompromisng emphasis on
the fact that every day Is "a Judgment
that the living hope Of our lives as e
finds daily expression IN thought and
deed is determining not only our own
place here, but I'm every other part
ri Gods universe to which we may 60
DR. PADEN'S SERMON
Rev Dr. w H. Paden preached
Sunday morning IN the First Presby-
terrain church from the text 1.-THE thing
that hath been It Is that which shall be,
and that which is done is that which
shall be done, and there Is no new
thing under the sun. Is there anything
whereof It may be said, See this is
new|' Eco, TX. 10.
And he that sat upon the throne
said; Behold make, all things new;
FOR the former things are passed away"
Rev, xxi, :,
The speaker sGid In part:
The texts we have chosen are ems
phatlc statements OF two views OF life.
The one insists that the thing that
hath been is that which shall be, that
nothing IS new The other declares that
former things have passed away, that
all things are new. The one insists
on the certain repetition of the same
ola order Of things, the other insists
with equal emphasis that new things
VIII be made TO happen. The one sug-
gests the Uniformity of nature, the 9th.
er lts certain variations; the one speaks
or law, the other OF liberty The one
suggests monotony and encourages IA
tahAm and pesslmIsm, the other suggests
variety and insists on freedom and OPP
timism,
THE differing spirit of the two writ.
ers is a good illustration of the atoried
maxim Men are disturbed not by
things but by the view which they take
OF things For the author OF the Ec-
cieslastes wrote during the troublous
umes which preceded the dawn the
author or Apocalypse wrote during the
equally troublous times which succeed
ed the dawn Both were wrestling with
,ne Prince OF Darkness and the beasts
OF NE abyss. Yet while the one writes
W ire as vanity ad vexatlon OF spirit.
me other writes OF It az if Il were an
embodied JOY while the one slls HIS
pook with miseries, the other keeps his
Dook ringing with glorles."
what made the difference? Was Il
not this; new thing had occurred. a
new thing which had made endless new
things seem possible. The world had
not changed but something had ham
pened which had changed Johns ati.
Jude toward IT, God and mankind had
not changed, but something had hap
pened which had changed the mind ana
heart OF the writer What this was he
tells us IN his overture to the GospeL
me word was made flesh and dwelt