The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-13

Text am not come TO destroy, but to
iulhl."
In contraot with other leaders. Jesus ia at
once the ideal radical and the ideal conscrv-
alive. He perfectly untes these contradictory
qualities both in His thought and in His life
His seems the stranger for the reason
that radicalism and conservatism arc present
paradones OF thought They are opposite
poles and are separated the east from the
west The emblem OF tho radical is the axe
laid to the root OF tho The motto of tho
Conservative IA Hold fant 10 that which is
good" The radical is pathfinder going on
before 10 blaze the wny. Ike Abraham. who
went into a land ho knew not OF. Tho con-
servativo prefers safety, and like thoso Abra-
ham left. remains behind. choosing 10 dwell
Vision power. therefore. is the charnctcristio
OF the progrcSsive memory and reverence be-
long TO tho conservative, Tho radical is
forward looking mon living BY hope; tho con-
servatiye looks backward. and Ike tho MIS-
sssppi river pilot steers from behind Both
temH-rnments arc necessary to progressi me
radical because no forgctB yesterdays battle
and victory IN tho zcd for new reform
the conservative because he fnlthrully guards
treasures and Institutions accumulated by the
fathers
Each Alone Represents Half Man.
But whcH either tendency becomes para
mount. the manhood becomes partial nno inc
rational IN front and conservative ochlhu'
After his Master, Paul was the Ideal re-
former; With hlo left hand he remembered the
. things that behind and held last 10
them. that his life might have continuity. with
things that wero before. that no might have
progress. Cut Paul in the middle and the
form, and The rear half would have made a
conservative hcologinn, defending Greco.
In running wagon and puninS load gong
uphill the horses orc all radical asking only
10? traces, going down hill tho2 are All con
servativc. asking only for breaks But Tho
ebsence OF other element In the harness means
q catastrophe History. therefore. exhibits
raeny partial and frngmentary men. In re-
llEion horo Is that conservative young rnboi.
named saul who Will defend the old Judaism
even II he must clay Stephen. In politics
heTe ls Charles T. standing for the divine right
of kings, even though ho is a barrier against
nil progress In ccclcsnsticisms wo behold
our theoloEians refusing TO alter creed one
lot or title. But examples OF fnlee radicollsm
are Just MS numerous In politics. here Is
Robosp.orrc, who ied his pilgrim band out OF
ana fre but by the light OF blazing towns
and cities Here. too. is Thoreou, who would
slavery. who would not vote whom ne mad no
other instrument fer Fighting foul wrong.
II seems. therefore, that when a man becomes
IN his generation and 10 his country. The
soul is living organism Lie Is solid
column OF days and yeaIo. and 80 TOO. are
institutions The continuity OF life. therefore.
must DC preserved. The soul in tree; you
may Gu. away the rotten branch with one
hand but YOU must free the roots with the
other Political Institutions. religious inst!tu-
tons Industrial Institutions. orc like vince
You may prouns them and you may graft them.
but you touch the lie at your peril. for with
Snnd then iafor for the v,ne's growth AT ths
top while with tho other hand conserve the
root at tho bottom In these days therefore,
when mon are discussing creeds. Industrial
institutions. poIitIcaI institutions, We car
hardly ind n more practionl theme than thi'
one-Jesua Christ. the !dcal radical and th'
deal conservative Us an example for all whC
seek 20 destroy old wrongs and bring in new
and batter wa.
How Christ Destroyed and Saved
Judaism.
Perhaps We shall ind nner illustration o.
Christ's power TO destroy tho >evn and saw
the GOOD Ia an institution than His work fo