Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-24

Was true THAT message is true"
declared Mr., Simpkin. FOR lie was
Master Of life and Master of death
Ills work was done when there
came the JOY Of resurrection. The hope
lie inspires is a true hope, for He has
been giving It Increasingly 20 the
children of men in the age I'm the glory
OF life, OF light Of the Joy and strength
immortal lie has been realizing down
the age in His children, as their faith
mas been Centered in Him. the vitality
Of His resurrection; In bringing them To
life and light in Him. Oh The message
Of II all Is that He who mastered death
Is Master OF sin, and that the message
is vital Is proved by His communication
OF the power OF His resurrection to the
blasted, winter bound lives Of men dead
In trespasses and sin,
1T is a message which not only
speaks In the agonizng hours Of life's
separations under the death shadows,
a word Of hope and gertrude, that not
only llghtens the narrow bed Of those
who sleep with the glow Of hope i'm
mortal, and that lends TO the gloom Of
LIES fading sunset the prophetic
glamor Of eternal sunrise, but that
avouches II an IN that call to mans
soul, slain by sin, by lust, by selfish
ness, to come forth from the lazar-
house Of SIN and be made alive and
whole with the lie and sweetness and
beauty Of child soul Oh. the miracle
OF life and power that takes lifc's dead
tree and WHITES II, browning its tender
shoots with the buds and blossoms OF
life"
DIR, YOUNG on ETERNAL LIFE,
The musical features Of the service
u D. IL.
nlshed by quartet composed Of Prof
Ncttleton, Miss Agatha Berkhoel, and
Mr.. and Mrs, A. 5. Peters, Prot Eman-
uel Anderson presiding AZ the organ,
The sermon Of Dr. Young was from tho
text, He Is not here for lie is risen"
and In speaking Of that subject put
forth the nature Of Chrsts life ard
death. lie objected TO the beliefs OF
certain ratlonalists that Christ only
swooned, ana pointed to Chrsrs res
direction as the hope Of mankind for
an immortal life
DEATH ONLY A PAGAN BELIEF.
1--WE are more often pagans in the
way we consider death than Chris
tians,' declared Rev. T. w. pinkcrtOn
at the Central Christian church, His
subject was the Law Of the Resurrec-
ton and In part he said
Perhaps no doctrine is 50 eHaggerat-
ed IN our thinking as that Of death
ana the light In which Il Is held II
Is almost astounding when we think Of
the place that IT holds in Christian doc
trine And yet physical death does not
hold any such prominent place in the
Bible; Jesus Himself calls It sleep.
Physical death is a means to larger life.
Indeed, physical life and death are SUBJ
ordinate moments In the minds Of the
New Testament writer's, Life is the
law Of nature and death the means TO
a larger and higher life.'
AT ST. MARKS CATHEDRAL.
The Episcopal Faster ritual service
attracted so large a crowd that even
after the aisles and naive had been till-
ed with chairs a portion of the congre-
cation had to stand, At II o'clock a
fun choir and communion service was
held, the impressive chants being gone
through IN perfect form, their beauty
being enhanced by a profusion Of floral
decorations.
For the morning sermon the Very
Rev. Dean Eddie preached ON the evil
I dences which the Christian church pre-
scented in its own cause, claiming that
the Christian church Of today with rs
1000 years Of history behind II, was a
! living witness that God liveth, and that
! Christ died for mankind.