Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-12
SPIRITUAL VISION
As AN ESSENTIAL
Subject Of Sermon Preached by
Rev. Simpkin Last
Evening.
PlT|FUl SlGHTLESS SOUL.
UDb0unded Devotion ~ Material
Things the Cause OF Much sorrow
Vision II n Gift.
PIrIFuL slGHTLEsS SOUL.

Rev. p, A. simpkn preached last
evening OH the spiritual vision as the
essential OF life, holding that no soul
Is SO pitlful as the slghtless one. I'm
bounded devotion to material things Is
attended BY spiritual death, The speak
er said IN part;
Vision is not an arbitrary and equ-
able thing In men. IL IL "a gift that
is found both IN BODY and in soul The
pebble by the roadside is to one man
an obstacle, TO the next curiosity to
stll another a suggestive thing. To the
Visioned man IL Is a library nlled vita
the lore OF marvellous yesterday, or
message that holds the secret OF
wealth or OF wisdom. So life is to one
man what 1t is TO the beast, to his
neighbor IL ls a schoolroom and an
arena VI service, while to still another
II is a thing of diyineness holding with
In It's petty folds the depth and breadth
OF an eternity
THE circle of men holds no face so
despairful, no soul so pitiful, as that
of the man who Is devoid of the high
and deep visions OF life The life that
Is lonely, or misunderstood, may still
retain and realize the privilege OF an
eternal dignity. The soul that Is
cramped by the bars Of unhappy en-
vironmont may still find the JOY Of its
dreams and the hope Of its fulhllment,
but that soul which Is blind to the
highest things Is, above all, to be
viewed with confederation, Science
has almost lost It's note of negation IN
regard TO the spiritual things, Only
"A eli he a n
ful materialism OF the positivists TO the
deep spirituality OF the pan-psychi.
conceptions Of today.
The THOUGHTS OF GOD.
Science finds the life not seen back
of the fixed forms That all the age has
known and counted for the abiding
thing. When the student finds the
source OF atomic life In the seemingly
adamantine things Of nature, he is
compelled TO think Of the force and life
not seen, but just as real il is in this
marvellous domain Of science that we
find the vision making for the life
richer, fuller, more majestic, as 1t leads
men to think over wonderingly aud
reyerently some Of the great facts
which speak the thoughts of God, II
Is an aphorism that holds an age truth
that vision makes life, lack OF vision
makes perlshing. One might easily
demonstrat to the truth In an even casual
view Of the men who have seen the
high things and made possible the high
life.
THE fact is not to be forgotten that
the spiritual vision Is just as real and
true as Is the material II a man
postulates the untenablllty of the spir-
itual vision, what Is left to him? Just
to be a well.bred beast, at best, no
more no less. He deliberately choos-
IS the death Of his high self Life is
to be measured from It's high side. II
Is TO be given It's shape by the high
vision of the soul, rather than the cold,
narrow one of the body. France, sob
cred and anxious faces about ON posi-
lions tak7u hundred years ago by her
philosophers, and IN the state the art
gallery the school and the home seeks
to awaken the glowing visions which
gave to tho dead France her power and
glory. The wantonness and dead
weight Of the material are to be sup
planted by the spiritual
TRUTH DEMONSTRATED.
THE demonstration of the truth
voiced IN the text has been all too COM
and business life. That devotion to ma
terlal things, mad and almost unbound
ed, seen In the last two decades of our
life. Is attended by the things of death.
The market place has its steel, copper,
insurance and rebate scandals, that set
the times by the ears. Buffalo, Phila-
delphia Chicago and New York furnish
those shameful chapters that followed
the outrushing of our altrulstic concep-
tons OF life.
PITY stirs The heart for the sight |
less sockets Of the Mammoth cave fish, |
that darkness has atrophied into We
lessness. Due measure of allowance 10 |
given 70 every man who IL climbing |
never so poorly toward the stars. But |
what shall be said OF the man to whom |
is given that rich vision OF God and |
men of lifo and duty, of love and sacri- |
fee, With all their divine meanings, |
that have moved IN making the worlds |
great and beautiful lives, who DELHI |
trately closes his eyes and says There |
Is NO vision. I can not walk full and |
with God 'sld thus ,o be !
the fdttenine maggot Of the dying or |
the butterfly Of sunny hour in the \
garden of the pcrishlng?'
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