Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-03
Uv Frank Fay Eddy Delivers
First Of Series Of Lenten
Season sermons
ADDRESS ON LIES IDEALS.
o., " Plnksrtoo Takes the Law
OF Safety" as His Theme at
Central Church.

The sermon OF NV
r,,v hall yesterday was the first
:, series on the epochs Of the life OF
Cs,s, which will continue through the
. season. The subject las night
~ aThe Dreaming Christ and dealt
,t,N the period OF unconscious prepar-
Wv. IN the life Of Jesus for the work
mat was to follow.
n. said in introducing the subject:
Zone of the signs in the religious
..roscope OF the present era is the pro-
rounced tendency to seek out anew
AZ. christ OF the gospels. Slowly 1t Is
...rine on the minds OF men that
moro IA an irreconcilable difference
h.twen Jesus OF the gospels and the
p,nll1ed version Of Jesus; that
,hoIoe must be made sooner or later
h,tween Nazareth and Tarsus.
nrhe air OF this series of sermons is
"a present humanized conception OF
yssus to present Him in the majesty of
us divine humanity In doing 80 /
must necessarily deny and try TO dis
slnate from your minds the Christ OF
~ creeds, the Christ conJured up BY
ssIse Ideailzation. Yet this is done
Min the simple aspect OF better res
vtalng the genuine greatness OF Jesus
The most interesting figure, the sub
FINEST genius in the worlds history
the sermon continues by sketching
IN detail the youth Of Christ, noting his
Tendencies, and his great insight into
human motives and life, and pointing
n conclusion TO the great work or
which this was the beginning. He
closed With q picture Of Christ on the
hulsde while He heard afar the call OF
John the Babtist to come to his own
duty,
me subsequent numbers Of the Len
Ten series are as follows
Aprll 9--"The Conquering Christ"
April ie.-"rho Crueified Christ"
April 23--"The Risen Christ"
IDEALS OF LIFE.
Al the Central Christian church Rev.
+ W. Plnkerton spoke yesterday on
The Law of Safety" sermon on life's
deals in their relation TO daily life.
synopsis Is as follows:
Every man finds II hard to live UP TO
Ma ideals or to attain that which he
knows 10 be possible. The power With
owl seems to be greater than ourselves.
The passage al least suggests how we
ray be helped,
The basis Of this life is the holy
faith use the term faith both OBJ
jtctlyely and subjeotively. To every
nan there come hours Of darkness and
81 doubt Doubt, perhaps, enters into
every life. The object OF our faith Is
what2 The apostles and all strong men
have uttered the same faith; Il know
bin whom have believed
Beauty must take form and all truth.
The majesty, power glory and wisdom
Of God have taken form. So OF HIS
love and mercy, or the inviting ele-
msnts Of His character, These abide
and they are effective In human life.
Those speculations which men have
formulated into creeds are lIfeless and
subject 10 the mutations and changes
etc., back 20 the Christ Of God, This
anchor holds. II 10 the basis. And this
faith makes us strong 10 resist. and
unconqueroble cannot emphasize
this too strongly
the second point, build yourselves zip.
The Christian Ia n growing man. You
KNOW without my telling YOU that
things grow or die. Life means growth.
Inls springs from the soil OF faith, and
lslth IN him means growth In Godlike
Qualities II We desire the rich ex-
leFienees OF a man like Paul or John
w must take tho steps by which they
reached those experiences. III you
would be deep you must allow God to
dlg the we'll"
Lei ia onup,aratn Lnoo,,naun ,n.,o
Joy, peace, ineekness, kindness--these
ave GodliSe qualities.
There are three things that are es-
Nntlal TO this growth N this text.
flrstl keep yourselves IN the love OF
goa This love Is the sun that warns
voc soil OF the human heart. The love
MN IS IN the heart OF God. Keep your
0Wh heart against the heart OF God.
eecond, praying In the holy spirit.
i1s value OF prayer. Abraham was
and touch,
VALUE OF PRAYER.
Daniel prayed three times day,
WIN ms windows opened toward Jeru-
~ o'etn ~ ~ this tremendous force that
y ue makes II invinclble We 20
myw me presence OF those we love
hearts, "'N '''e''stN AZ our
ihlfd Looking for eternal life"
Ivy mas a large part In our lives.
bose 10y the hope OF reward. hut the
Ipo being To be greater and larger
Sa 4 am This 10 all there Ia OF
my NO one should be hopeless. No
ss n can live up 10 himself In whose
~ hope has set
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN.
Wv me First Presbyterian church Rev.
nE.iin FhQen spoke on the topic OF
tVW workers." choosing "a his
a., for we are fellow laborers with
SIS' lie said In part. ''
~, ute Gods fellow workers. Our
srS "er works and we work with Him
nSn, unaer HIS direction. He has the
tsrro, we cooperate with Him In
N. tns them out. There Ia that In
Ooa "uapandry or building which only
tNs,Nea n 40, only he can understand.
VA 49, 70 also that which we can do.
a. No. understand. Each OF us rnust
aesrap aIt towards making this world
wsrds OF COD each OF us his part to-
tan o'lsihs the structure Of Chris
tim nu'n =, society, or at least that nor
i brons which Is becoming better,
two Sas 70 View by ST, Paul under
second ~ -hrst as titled land ana
pects ces u building. Under both as
master the superintendent or
Anta 90 Worklnen; we are His assist
The hesd, "urkers or employee He IL
directos we are the hands. He the
bandman y" vo h ~. AGENTS He the hus-
we Ills army Of builders.