The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-06
LIES MISSION
IS WORTH WHILE
DR.. Eddy Urges Men and Wo-
men to Do the Best
They Can.
EXAMPLE SET BY JESUS
HOW SOULS ARE GUIDED IN
RIGHT WAY.

At the services in the First Unitarian
church yesterday the pastor, the Rev.
Frank Fay Eddy. preached on "What is
Worth While?' The musical program by
the Unity quartettc was of the usual ex-
celience, Mrs. Browning taking the solo.
BY way of Introduction Mr.. Eddy said;
Jesus was an unfortunate man. Among
men he is unique chiefly because of the
completeness Of his moral and spiritual
conquests. on the Mount of Temptation
he seems to have settled once for all
what was wortn while, and after that,
although his life had at least two great
crisis. he was troubled with no more
doubts as to what his life should be
spent TO achieve.
His parallels on the lost treasure and
Inc pearl of greatest price indicate that
II would seem his own attitude of soul
But this simplicity of greatness is not
for us average humans. We lead our
puzzled days and often enough have a
very hay idea as to our mission. What
IS worth while is a question which seems
10 have no satisfactory answer to great
many people.
No Valid Answer.
Possibly there is no universal valid
answer. Here was Jesus: He grasped a
great, but wonderfully simple way of
H.
greatest price, his treasue hid in the field
of life. Everything else became relatively
unlmportant. To sacrifice ease, family,
friends and in the end life itself for his
great idea was not difficult. But such
men simplify their lives at the cost of
some limitations. Even Jesus turned to
his disciples who received his teaching.
and left his own family without and it is
evident enough that he was not consti-
tuted TO give the Marthas of the world
DT lOm9lV tasks their full due.
Guiding Spirits of Ages.
When great souls find a great task
they become the guiding spirits OF the
ages. In such lives the question of what
Is worth while is settled. But this does
not seem to be a practicable method for
men and women OF less capacity. When
ordinary men and women become DOM
mated by one idea they usually are the
worse for it. They are liable to become
bigoted and unfair. They are just cranks
and fanatics with few redeeming quail
tiles
Nothing Is Perfect.
In the body of his sermon Mr. Eddy
argued that all human achievements
when taken one by one for separate con-
siderHtion seemed futile enough. There
is nothing perfect and even when compar-
alive excellence is gained, the success is
seldom satisfactory to the worker. So in
that sense nothing seems worth while.
But there are compensations not to
be thus measured he said There is
a gain in doing which is expressed only
in the character of the doer. There are
unseen profits of love and self sacrifice
which unfailingly give nobility and power.
Here We Are"
In conclusion Mr.. Eddy said: Here
We are That is after all the final word
AFTER all the questioning; after all our
hot rebellion. here we are in this set of
circumstances. in this universe. What is
there for us to do but TO make the best
OF II? And there is a best TO make
OF II. We are not without understanding
True. We cannot see the end of the game;
we cannot see the complete Significance
of cur acts. But we can discern the
onward march OF certain great universal
TO do, but We can even find something
that IS evidently enough an unfolding of
vast evolution of truth and nature.
The Soul of Science.
We need nothing so much as a sense
of values, Take science. / pity the man
who delves away over specimens and ex-
perimenls and is not upheld with the
splendld ideal OF truth for truths sake
which is the soul of science
With proper sense of values we NAV
find under the protests and promises: in
the sometimes crude expressions and wild
groupings of Socialism, Labor Unionism
and other forms of social and nolitioaI
protest, so characteristic of our time.
revival of old ideals. 1t is Democracy
marching on to its own. Here Is some
thing worth while.
Something Worth While.
Even in our materialism. there is
something mighty, something titanic AT
the heart The man vino even I'm q small
place does his days work with an an
preeiatlon of his soul of the business
mart, finds something worth while.
In the broad free thought which is
sweeping through the religious world TO-
day, we have something worth while. To
Norh Httie or preach a little to help
religion don the garb of the modern aF-s
is not to waste ones DAYS.
To have that vision which will give
us Just sense of values amid the events
OF our own day, that is need. Granted
that and whatever cur duty. however
small our task. we NAV link il 10 Ire hie