The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-10
SERMON THAT GREW
ON HILLSIDE, THEME
Rev. Frank Fay Eddy Delivers
Interesting Discourse at
Unity Hall.

At tho services OF tho First Unitarian
society Sunday the many friends OF Mias
Emily Larson had the pleasure of hearing
her In the solo, Still as the Night"
Rev. Frank Fay Eddy preached on "Tbe
Sermon That Grew on a Hillside"
Mr., Eddy spoke from the text. Ps. yii.6.
Thou madst him TO have dominion over
the works OF thy hands, thou hast put nil
things under his feet" Referring 10 tbn
text, he said: The dominion of man
OF lordly man. over the rest OF creation,
have we lived Into more than half. and
that tho worst half OF the meaning OF
the phrase? Likely enough we see all
the meaning Of the psalmist, which is bur
an inadequate meaning. To exult on the
one hand In the superiority of man and
on the other TO make a humble obeisanco
10 Jehovah. who conferred this supremacy
Is as far as the thought OF the author
takes us. In this the proper pride which
man may cultivate In regard to his
place in the order OF creation is prob
ably OF greater value spiritually than
that mock humility which crys aloud
Praise God. from whom all blessings
flow and adds in It's heart: That the
same may continue to flow
May We not. after u1l these centuries
since the reign of the semi barbarIc
Jewish Kings in which the Psalms were
written be led TO a nobler meaning?
Such dominion OF man as we have reason
10 be proud Of comes and shall como as
the growing power of the soul to under
stand. It is the dominion OF knowledge
helping us TO the power OF sympathetic
understanding. IL comes not as a ca
pricious gift from God. but Is tho boon
that is bestowed in added power as the
race pursues the course OF Its evolution
A new and nobler conception OF the dom
inlon OF man Is developing In the soil OF
modern democracy, Let me say this IN
the way Of Introduction that you may see
The trend OF my thought. The example
plucked from a so-called barren hillside
may furnish us with illustrations TO point
this moral with greater cleerness In the
conclusion"
Plant and Animal Life.
Mr.. Eddy then went on TO describe the
plant and animal life OF a typical noun
tainside In this semi-arid southwest. The
lessons he drew were two. The life oi
the hillside showed an adjustment tc
severe conditions. The scrub oak, the
sage brush the bunch grass that shell
tered itself under the shadow OF these
all wero hardy fighters In the face Of
trial The survival Of the Attest is the
evident law here. But this Is Indeed the
law OF human life. The life OF an age
exhibits an adjustment TO the condi-
drama In Elizabeths time. the era o
revolution in France and America oact
produced its own heroes that were deep
rooted In the community life Of theil
time.
So with our own era. It's defects are
closely connected with the wolfsh strife
and greedy materalism- In our living we
all more or less adjust ourselves to So
cial conditions or be broken. We arc
like the plants and animals OF the hill
side that are inevitably those that have
most perfectly adjusted themselves te
the conditions OF climate and moisture.
The other lesson was that man is II
degree master OF his own conditions
To him belongs dominion The attitude
OF his own soul Is important. He may
have limited dominion OF force, he mal
greatly enlarge this with cunning ant
Intelligence. and finally ne may have thai
dominion that comes Of sympathetic
understanding, and charitable motives
This last is the dominion of soul. Il
applies to mans whole relation to The
universe, bat peculiarly to his ideal re-
lations with his fellows. He who would
become greatest among you. let him be-
come the servant OF all.