The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-10
SERMON GREW
ON A HILLSIDE
Rev. Frank Fay Eddy Dis
CuSSeS Dominion of Man
Over Rest of Creation.
IDEAL OF PURE DEMOCRACY
DOMINION OF SOUL MUST RE-
PLACE MATERIALiSM.
IDEAL OF PURE DEMOCRACY

eThe Sermon That Grew on Hillside"
was the theme of Rev. Frank Fay Eddy
at the services of the First Unitarian So
ciety yesterday in Unity hall. Miss Emily
Larson. formerly soprano in Unity quar-
tette, delighted her many friends in the
congregation by taking the solo.
Mr. Eddy spoke from the text (Psalms
vii, O.: Thou madst him to have domin-
ion over the works of thy hands, thou
hast put all things under his feet"
The characteristic life of plant, insect
and animal M on mountaln si6a was vas
vealed an adjustment to severe conditions.
The scrub oak. the sagebrush, the bunch
grass, the cactus and the procession OF
hardy weeds all exhibited traits of en-
durance. They survived as the fltteSt.
The birds that fitted over it or found
nesting places in its SCARED cliffs We're,
by reason of wings, independent OF us
peculiar conditions, But the life OF those
Insects and animals that are Indigenous
to it's soil shows, like that Of the plants,
the ugly characteristics that severe en-
virOnment always produces An eXcep-
ton may be found in favor of the ant,
model of industry. Otherwise. there is
the sinking coyote, the darling lizards
and an occasional rattlesnake. Squirrels
there are with burrows that have door
under every boulder, but for all their
stupidity, the pestilent mountain rats
outnumber them hundred TO one De-
cause they are so prolific.
Parallel in Human Life.
A similar adjustment to conditions char
acterizes our human life. We must con
form or be broken. The manifest tall-
ures in our lives is due to the bl1ghting
influences of the struggle for existence
into which we are born.
But the life of man is not hopeless
and endless struggle against harsh con-
ditions, like that of the hillside. To man
belongs dominion. He has tried that OF
force, and that of force mixed with guile.
IL cd 1d with
a higher dominion based on knowledge
and inspired by sympathy. But the do
minion of the higher man in such de-
gree as to condition the life or an era
has never yet been achieved. Wolflsh
strife and gross materialism condition our
life, and. like the stunted and blighted
life of the western hillside, our human
lives are dwarfed and mace crooked
When man attains a dominion of soul
he will have wrought revolution IN the
conditions of existence. The human spe-
cies will adjust itself and the ugly and
venomous things will be replaced by those
of usefulness and beauty.
make Way for Man."
In conclusion Mr. Eddy said:
Make way for man. That is the les
son. Way for man not only with sworo
to avenge and a heel TO crush but man
with a soul full of sympathy ana with
mind OF understanding
''The past has known all too much OF
the DOMINION Oh IOICt. IL lllclA ANNeh Va 4 -
ing by brute force has in some measure
given way TO dominion by enlightened
force so much is about all we have at
tanned in all our boosted civilization AL
government and law is based in the lasl
ANALYSIS upon force, although some con
ception of righteousness and Justice Is
/ clumsily woven into them like the CRUDE
| figures woven in the blankets or the IN
| dams This is all we have realized, al
! that we are in the habit of living.
But we have spiritually attained Ger
/ tain ideals which carry us much farthel
| i'm thought-in vision, if you please
1 There grows apace a thought or domln-
| ion of man warm with sympathy ano
/ alive with understanding. The vision Is
! of p time when a thousand will not neeC
/ TO be crushed that one may have oppor-
| tunitv to grow but a time when every
1 man will under the very conditions or eX'
| istence have opportunity to realize MIN
! self. 49,,
''What is this but the farther ideal OIL
| democracy? The spiritual meaning or
| .snuare deal? This thought is the only
| original DOetical idea we nave proaucet
| I'm two centuries. In it's glory wait WHIT
| man. with his uncouth verse, becomes
| great. and poets with as narrow range
| as William Morris and Edwin Markham
are redeemed from mediocrlty. II Is more
/ than a poetic thought, for II is the Tar
] thest word of philosophy as emerson
/ Ruskin and Carlyle show tortn' MAKE
| way for mailman with SOUL
Malthoid roofings lasts a lifetime
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