The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-20
ADMITS CHURCH
OLD-FASH|ONED
Dearest Things in Life, How
ever, Minister Says, Also
Are 0ld-FashiOned.
INTERESTING DISCOURSE
BY THE REV. Mr.. SIMPIlIN
Sects of Today, the Speaker
Declares, Are Not Fighting
Each Other.

Rev. Peter A. Simpkin of the Phil
lips Congregational Church preached an
interesting sermon Sunday. in which
he dealt largely with the beauties of
old-fashloued religion as exempliGed by
the old-fashioned church. Rev. Mr.,
Slmpkln chose for his text Matthew
xiii, To- ''Ono is your Master; even
Christ, and all yc are brethren, and
said In part;
II is granted without discussion that the
church is old fashioned. but II is to be asked.
IS mere newness the hallmark OF excel
lence and worth? A little look into the
worlds heart. and your own. will show
you that the very dearest things in all life
are old fashioned: What was there new
Hoe" or The Cleaners" Just the mate
rial upon which n cupful OF color was
smeared; no more. Tor the scenes there por-
trayed arc ms old as the race. When Mozart
put into the rich Funeral Mass all the
penitence, faith aud hope OF his soul, he did
not make new thing. He but gave his
Yooing TO the world-old things OF hear, pas
sion and pain and desire that every soul rec
ognlzes In listening TO the liquid melodies
OF that requiem. And 20 with the richest
things that come closest to the heart -
motherhood with It's grace. love with It's
worship and sacrifice wifehood. childhood.
fatherhood-are all very old-fsshioned. as
are honor. truth. integrity and fidelity. Yes.
the church is oldfashioped. and II is in
splendid company. il is never 10 be for
gotten that churches. religion. have need
TO be old-fashioned When the earth sees
a new man, with new emotions. needs. moral
values and problems. then the church can
cease TO he old-fashioncd. But the nge man,
the race. II you Will has not changed in
type. even though socially his conditions
may be different
Clamor Is Foolish.
This clamor about new life is foolish
There can be but variation. When De vries
made bis important discovery two years ago
regarding the differentiation OF species be
did not find tha, any one OF the new forms
produced was by that step separated from
the laws Of life and development that gov
ern the species. And so. no differentiation
that culture, civilization aud varying social
conditions bring in the human family will
ever dissever man from that law OF spir-
itual life and those truths which meet the
conditions of man, voiced by the church Of
Christ They are OF God for the ngc Prac-
tically the only progress possible 10 the
church of Jesus, beyond deepening apprc-
hcnslon of the abiding truth, is that OF uni
hcntion and assimilation. Unihcatlon OF the
is not only possible. but essential to world
conquest. III rs here that the fair-minded
and careful observer viii End a marvellous
progress In the church.
The great change our time notes is due
TO recognition of mutual possession of
the essentials and of the great fact stated
Christ. and ell yo are brethren"
This progress has naturally included. as
men have come to see more clearly together
the abiding essentials. the deliberate out
thrusting from beliefs OF such that was
merely human In its origin. and not binding.
therefore. upon the conscience. Indeed. II
you'd seem, In the ehurch's present temper.
that practically all that is IN the way of
the union OF Christendom today In a prac-
tical fashion is the remnant OF the merely |
human In belief and practice which are sull
visible - the century-old accretIons, whose
value is only sentimental.
Cn,4c NJax
He who paints a picture of the sects fight
true that men do not-and in the present
racial development cannot-perhaps see eve
TO eye In religious things; but do they in
matters political. economical civic? And vet
10 voice is lifted against the expressions OF
men In these matters that differ so widely
and yet are one in honesty He who said.
unto Me" stands in the heart Of our age
aud about Him gather the regiments of God |
II yesterday in the fogs that hung thick |
upon the face OF the world they found the |
enemy where they should have found the |
brother. let US count their zeal more rather |
than their honesty and goodness less AS |
we see them today giving utterance to the
age suppressed cry of brotherhood and in |
their eye catch the common fire OF a zeal |
that Is wise enough TO direct its FIRE upon |
the things OF evil IL our time because it !
loves men with Gods love, let US he thank |
ful that the church comes so fast to the |
place where it shall throne upon the pas |
sionate devotion and submission OF a race |
me Christ who by love is the worlds Master !
Oh. yes the church is growing, is moving |
with the human race. To all the old prob |
lens II is earnestly seeking to apply the
simple remedies OF God. ashamed that dIla- |
iorily it has tarried in the past, dwelling |
on the exquisite chasing OF the cruise rather |
than on the power OF It's contents TO heal
lhe ages hurt To the new problems the |
involved life OF the day brings, ii Is giving |
as passionately as an Edison or a Beard |
IN the laboratory its thought and care 10 |
meet the demands of appealing life, Il |
needs no new alphabet no new message for |
as the old alphabet holds all the combina. |
lions OF speech that the latest science. the |
highest literature demands, so the old mes |
sage OF Jesus, that In the centuries the |
church has babbled all too brokenly. holds |
Tor ever the answer TO every need aspira- |
lion and ideal OF that Man who is back OF |
al the veneer OF culture and civilization un- |
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