The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-21

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For Christ has come Into His own. and
the door or the prison house is opened;
IIo has come to set at liberty the cap
tive. and when eighteen centuries have
passed His Golden Rulo shottcd tho guns
that overthrow the citadel OF oppression.
| Others Of ChrIsts words have not yet
como to n harvest though centuries etll
do come and go. And what ls tho lesson
OF His life but this; 1T is good for
man 10 work and hope, and patiently
wait for the salvation OF God"
Waiting Necessity of Nature and Life.
Consider tho philosophy Of waiting. II
Is said TINT we ore workers together with
God If n three-score- -year-old man tries
to keep step with an eternal God, he
must wait Our days are handful, and
with him thousand years are as one
day. Our scale OF measurement in build
Ing a house is one-eiGhth Of an inch
his the diameter OF a universe Mans
stride is hnf his length: what shall
be said of him whose stately steppings
arc from stnr to starr We weave tex
lures out OF cotton and silk. But
the cloth OF God. civilization Is spun
out of racial temperaments, arts, laws,
the tides OF tho sea- the moVements oI
suns For back of all the ages. and
back OF all the movements OF society
stands one great shaping and controlling
mind, a world-architect and a world
artist, a worldthlnlScr and supervisor,
who directs all men and all events
toward n far-om goal. In that stream or
purpose you and / may be but as drops
in river Nevertheless, we have our
place. and each drop is controlled by law.
n law OF gravity as stern as that force
that holds the star in It's place. Tho
thought OF Gods loving providence iends
tranquility. and the conviction that we
are working together with God lends
dignity and calls out oil OF our reserves
or course, sometimes tho working and
tho waiting may not be Cle0r to our
reason God asks men who arc workers
together with him TO fulfill their ap-
pointed tasks. Down In Washington Is
the Congressional library. Tested by
achievement in architecture. For dignity
of line. for simplicity, and also Tor
beauty without and within. II Is all but
unsurpassed Now the architect Of that
library, In making his plans. had por-
toned the work To many workers. To
ono artist he committed the decoration
OF one room. To man skilled In woods
no committed tho carving in another
room one man fashioned the columns,
and another the capitals; but what III tho
architect had sent drawings of some OF
tho statuary TO Italy. There the Roman
artists selects a poor sculptor for GER
tain carvings. To this peasant work.
man he commits tho drawings, With In
slant enthusiasm tho sculptor undertakes
his task. with what care does he lift
the hammer and the chiscl! With what
loving regard does he arch the forehead
and cut the lip and chisel the nostrils'
From Toughness. what beauty! And with
toll comes love for his task. When the
work Is done, he commits 1t, almost with
tears, into the hands Of the contractor.
And now the peasant sculptor receives
his scant hire and returns TO his rude
shop. In his ignorance he docs not know
that there Is such n city as Washington
or such a building as tho library Then
WI hHn FIgF G,1 ha a EEo hfe
way across the ocean. Hero, blessed with
good fortune. he fingers for little time.
md then makes his way to the Nations
capital one morning standing In front
of the Congressional library, he lifts his
eyes to N figure above tho entrance.
Dazed, the sculptor rubs his eyes and
thinks himself dreaming. At last, with a
flood Of splcndor. the truth bursts upon
his mind. With the tears streaming
down his cheeks. he exclaims THAT
angel face was carved by my hands,
released the bcauteous being imprisoned
therein. ] knew not for whom l was
working, nor for what niche l carved.
But. oh thank God. l did my work under
baptizing yonder face with tears and
prayers ] did my best, And now behold
my reward is greater than / can bear"
And this. my dream, Is mans history
What words have described men arc In
life. The marble Is mans appointed
work, the chisel Is the duty he is doing
inc hammer tnAt IS llttcU represents the
blows OF adversely and suffering. But,
mans work IS not to stand In my little
building OF time. but In the great temple
OF eternity; For there are no humble
tasks. God is an architect and every
stone in his temple Is carved Under his
stroke every life is chseled like a cameo
I'm the fneness Of its finish. You may not
comprehend the critical Importance at
tachlDg 10 the work committed to your
hands, but 1t is so important that II you
do not perform it as in the sight OF
God. his whole purpose and enterprise
VIII be marred and frustrated. No
great man eyer does understand his
work until thousand years after Il is
done Paul did not Luther did not Oar
win never could have dreamed what he
was doing Columbus had not the slight
est conception before he died what he had
done To all humble workers comes this
word. You arc building better than you
know Therefore II is good for n man
to work and hope and patiently walt for
the salvation OF God
Lends Power to Rise Above Troubles.
This associating ones work with God,
our co-worker. lends strength to the Will
and. power to the heart What a :ecret
of endurance is In this thought, that to-
days cloud will be tomorrow light and
victory! Indeed. the measure OF man.
hood is the measure OF endurance. the
power To work and hope. and then pa
tltHllS walt. . ~ weak ndNulc looks Tor
immediate results. A child plants a now-
er seed today and tomorrow pulls It up
to see If II is growing-so do all We ak
men. What n word is this OF Lord Ba-
con'S-'I leave my name and fame to
foreign lands, and to my own country
when long time has passed" How great
was Kossuth. spending his private for
tune for the cause OF liberty. then tramp
ing the world over TO plead the cause OF
the oppressed; then living In the north
OF Italy In exile. and refusing all bribes
To return home and accept tyranny! For
nifty years he worked and waited You
say he died, never having seen the IL Ings
he desired to see, Nevertheless ne ra-
tiently hoped and waited to see tho sal
walton OF God. What man so happy,
What plea was the silent protest OF this
old hcroi What tower OF strength Is
the very thought OF Louis Kossuthl
What man so victorious and successful
within, despite all his outer defeats, Ho
had the consciousness that he had been
a co-worker with God. And. waiting tor
his reward, he all but smiled at death
and deSpiscd the delays. the postpone
ments and trials and troubles OF life In
deed. the consciousness that one is
child of God, heir to all wealth in land
and sea and SEy, that Nour Heavenly