The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-31

How differently we regard Easter to-
day from what we did n few decades
ago. Once we believed the great NaZ
arcne died that we might be forgiven
His physical resurrection stood for the
mi2htiest climax in human existence
the time when life beyond the grave
seemed TO become n definite thing. To-
dav we find it impossible 10 believe
that another can suffer for us and we
bc clcansed thereby. We begin 10 rec.
ognize the mighty tragedy of the indi-
Nldual. Now we know that each must
bear his own burden, learn the way
himself, come 30 a knowledge Of God
through His individual consciousness.
For 4 vast period of time the spirit of
God has sought 20 teach man the true
message OF Easter: but he has been
slow TO learn. The needs of the body
have so perfected the development of
the senses that the growth of tho spirit
has been very slow. It has been dlih-
cult Tor thc mass OF men 10 realize the
certain destruction of the body, its IN
evitablc return TO the clements from
which 1t sprung, And so, though the
spirit has sought for expression from
the time man had n body, and probably
was the cause OF his having one; though
it is the one deathlcss thing in man
j. has been slow of growth, slow in
gaining strength enough 20 make itself
so powerful n factor IN the human
consciousness that man can no longer
doubt its existence
The fact that man has SO long be.
lievcd in the physical resurrection of
Jesus and She probable resurrection of
his own body. is due 10 three factors
the effort OF the ego 30 impress It's i'm.
mortality upOn tho CONSCIOUSNESS or
man. the inability of man TO adequately
grasn and express this ;ruth--onc form
of iguorGncc---Gnd the development OF
fear in rhc animal nature Of men. The
last two ignorance and fear. seem al
most 10 have combined against the eGo;
and II is only when we realize the
wonderful freedom which the spirit i'm
modern times has attained that belief
in such combination is impossible.
Truth has always been whether man
was fitted 10 receive 1t or not, and to-
day we are reaching q period OF democ
racy in religion which bids fcir 10 make
our grasp worth while. The crushing
weight of m2nmaje dogma is falling
from us. II > no longer what we be-
Icgc, hut what we arc that counts
We way believe and not be, but we
can scarcely hc--in any sense worthy
the Uamc-and not believe.
simultaneously with our freed meu-
tsiity has come the realization that we
are not obliged 60 hayo horizon II
may be "a Geographical truism that 3
horizon H. necessary. but u ls not an
ethical ono. In fact. IL is most un-
ethical for the only horizon which We
could aCccp; would bc the bounds of
God, and Our conception of God mas be.
come so yaSr that We cannot limit 1t /
even in n horizon. He i9 IN us, of us;
We arc His; bat above and beyond us 7
ia an overwhelming ccs;arY Of comprc-
hcusioH that floats clcud-iike. too nchu- .
lors for ihe human 10 voice in words, /
hut I'm which HIS consciousness rests, OK 4
pressing God for him rs no mere houu- /
dary line Of intellect can ever hope to. /
hr1 therefore, while man s grasp of /
truth is 50 much suTcr. he is growing
away from the tyranny of definite
terms. Lite IS 50 great a thing TO the
consciousness of man that words can
no longer wall it in.
Because YOU have lived longer and F..
seen something in life that we cannot /
sec, shall We say it is not there! And (
III we hear m tho music Of great (
orchestra, something that rests us and /
gives MS peace, shall You say we dream I
That were TO make brotherhood n myth. I
Ono OF the definitions of brotherhood /
j the large liberation. and il our broth |
or secs what We cannot we should re .
loicc that he has gone so fgr. Often /.
nj night you waken and watch the I.
great planets taking their ceascless |
march across the void. The silence, the !
mystery, impress YOU as indeed the /
mighty pageant Of God, Perhaps vou
feel lost in the immensity of creation;
possibly YOU arc conscious Of kinship |.
with all the unseen forces that take /
their way so irresistihly. Ii Will dc l.
pend upon where YOU are IN Your own
journey as to the way YOU look at it.
As for us. our thought is not given
TO the trembler. 10 the one who calls |
L. Eals a,.1 l.
be alone Rather is our sympathy with
him whose pulses quicken, who gets out
of bed and goes % the window or the /
roof: who stands absorbed, obivious to
bodily discomtorts. who looks and longs
and yearns; who cries out al last III
poignant though unvoiced desire, The
great cry OF the human for God is a
cry for adjustment. cry for under
standing, the immemorial desire Of man
. to- know his true place in the universe.
il is fundamental. basic, il persists
when everything else fails. All that is
lasting in the arts is the result OF man s !
deathless Eope-his desire for God.
But before man shall have power TO
chisel the divine statue from the vision
in his brain. before he shall sing the I
vision S beauty or cause the musical
instrument to trcmble meath the pas
sion of 1T; before ne shall write it in
burning words or leave il on higtory's !
page in the record Of dauntless life
he must have his Easter, the natal-day
of his soul, the period Of awakening
The most beautiful time for Easter is
in the spring if for no other reason
than that the season symbolses such
great things for man. Awakening
growth; biossoming. fruitage; the de-
parture OF winter and the promise of
summer; travail. birth. is it any won
der that man has been slow 10 grasp
ais Easter message2 Many generations
shall pass before he catches it in full.
and il is doubtful if the perfect round
Of truth shall be his while in the earth
life, for the reason that the mind of
man is not great enough TO take it in.
"On the earth the broken arcs. In the
heavens the perfect round"