Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-08-13
Preached On The Biggest Thing
In the Religion Of
Jesus"
SPRING OF POWER IS LOVE.
No Use 10 Hold Ideals of Justice BE.
fore Men Who Are SELFISH
The Practical side

Rev. p. A. Simpkin preached last eve
ning in the Phillips Congregational
church from the theme The Biggest
Thing in the Religion OF Jesus-What
Is It?' The speaker said IN part:
ITO this question. one must answer
love Philosophlcally and practically
that Is true. We dwell in the practical
side only. and the meaning OF love on
It's practical side Is manifest In its
touch and effect upon the most serious
problem that life holds. Because Of
life's deepest problem, the cross Of
Jesus. and what IL speaks. becomes the
completest expression Of love. It viii
not De seriously questioned that In
Jesus Christ and His revelation Of God
there is the LOrdship OF the race, both
in ideal and as source Of power Now
the ascending authority Of Christ lies
not On His dic,a. II is not IN His teach
ing. II rests not in His philosophy.
These arc all essential parts OF that
which makes the sum OF His master
hood. But the spring of power is In
HIS life and It's complete surrender, for
there Is that which touches a mans
deepest, graycst problem. OF what use
is il 10 tell men Of love when hate has
It's hand on the hearts helm? OF what
use TO hold ideals OF justice before men
for whom self holds the only law? We
can readily see that all which fails TO
reach the deep problem fails utterly 10
touch men lovingly at all,
THE SUPREME PROBLEM
t.rTlts.lr f.r . ..-,.,,ap. that tho sim
problem is the supreme problem. Meas
ure that statement by LIES actual con-
ditions. man fails 20 hnd happiness.
Why? Because OF a thousand things
rooted IN himself and others. all OF
which are evil His happiness dies out
because either his ideaL purpose or
pursuit is wrong. his conduct makes
what mars. or from the life Of another.
lust, greed, hate. brutal power or self
iSh interest cuts across an the beauty
Of his planning. He fails to find cul-
ture. true lie and success for the same
reason. The world Is not one Of un-
happiness, Of undeyeloped he or Of sad
failure because there Is not room for a
general happiness. not because the uni
yersal potential OF cultured, free and
successful life Is missing from the
earth No II life finds art an eagle
with crippled wings, that swoops ever
downward IN the circling flight return
ing 10 the things that have marred IL
and left II unable 10 voice the high mes
sages OF which the creator would make
il the preacher. n music has the minors
and discords which set the world In
tune with Yesterdays brokenness rath-
or than tomorrow's perfectness which Il
should express. N the soul flashes
through the window Of the eye the mes
sdges OF Babylon or the baleful opales-
cence OF the alluring low rather than
that which speaks In the material eye
glOries OF the highest; n life be brok.
en- thing creeping I'm the slime. wound
ed by surviving baTbarism. crippled by
injustice, limited by selhshuess. scori-
ated bv its perverted passions Il IL In
all cases because sin crouchcth al the
door.
"Hc who would save society and order
Il In an happiness and rlghtness must
first deal with the sin problem. The
supreme thing In Christ's religion Is
that a man IS freed from the burden OF
sins guilt and domination Of its pow.
or, Milton says truly
In our proper motion
We ascend up to our native seat"
And the glory Of Christ's religion (,
that ~ sets man where he may follow
the souls proper motion and rise t,
his native seat And the one argumen
unanswerable for this claim is In N,
lives Of an unnumberod host who IN N,
years have found the Christ Of God s.
I de6tns with life's keenest problem. An,
/ with IL, invariably there comes tina
right direction Of LIES forces that cor
/ rection and elevation OF It's ideals, reye
/ lation Of relationships and consequen
duty that give TO the soul It's ennoble
meut and furnish IL with the instru
ments and the secret OF life's abldinl
success, Yea. verify. II we confess on
sin, He Is faithful and just 20 forgiy
| all unrighteousness