Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-03
CHRIST THE TRUTH. "
Topic OF an Interesting sermon b,
Rev. Davis.

Christ the TRUTH was the topic OF
Rev. Davis sermon yesterday morn
ing, in the Westminster Presbyterian
church, IN which he said:
Happy is he who loves the truth
and never fears 1t. whose life Is conse-
Grated TO the truth. The light for him
shall never grow dim. Being Of the
pure In heart he shall see God. We
can never shut the Christ Of Calvary
out OF our lives. He whose pierced
hands have lifted empires from their
hinges and turned the stream OF the
centuries out of It's channel viii be
the greatest phenomenon we VIII ever
have to deal with In this life. All other
search for truth pales into compare
tive insignicanee beside the search for
the truth concerning Christ. We are
asked 10 endure as seeing him who Is
visible Is II not as natural to be-
lieve In Christ because man moves up
ward as to believe In gravitation be-
cause an apple moves downward when
detached from the tree? II Is tittMg
that we sum Up what may be learned
OF Jesus Christ.
Christ was a peasant OF Galllee,
He was not trained IN the learning
OF the schools and yet He teaches ON
God and eternity, and while the lmoNl-
edge and learning OF the worlds great
philosophers and sages has become OBJ
solete the teaching OF Jesus Is new
and fitted TO the needs of our day,
The ages pass. but Christ and His
teaching endure. II may be said that
Christ was deceived that the best OF
men are sometimes deceived and mis-
taken. Frauds and deceits are, how
ever, found out sooner or later. Tho
locked safe of Madame Humbert. with
which she deceived the financiers and
public men Of France Is opened at last
and the fraud discovered. Down through
the centuries the majestic figure OF tho
Conqueror from Edom has come to
us and every age has found Him true.
1t Is incredible that the blessings and
benefits which flow from Him can find
their source In deceit.
I'VE know something Of how Chris!
affected others. He took rough fisher
men and made them like Himself. The
Peter who cursed when things went
wrong with the fishing boats and nets
on the Lake of Galllee is made strong
and pure by contact with Jesus. John
looks upon Jesus and declares that he
is the word which was with God and
is Cod Jesus has fulfilled His prom
Uses to bless His people. AS the Nile
comes down IN food and blesses
thousand gardens and a million palm
trees, so the life OF Jesus Christ flows
on and blesses a million lives. Christ
liz not the same 10 every man. He Is
wonderfully adapted TO different men
and appears in different ways to His
various followers, but to all He is a
friend, and to an He gives gifts. The
riches which are In Christ are greater
than all the wealth Of the famous gold
mines Of Nevada. The beauty which
dwells in the Rose Of Sharon trans
sends the famed beauty Of Califor-
MAS flowery fields
In life may we be ever learning
and instead of failing to come to a
knowledge Of the truth. may we come
TO a knowledge Of Christ the truth.
individually. may We say, Christ Is
the truth, my light, my way Then
may He be the truth OF truths TO US
when knowledge shall have been done
away"