The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-11
NEW PASTOR IS INSTALLED
The Rev. Herbert Hays Formally
Takes Charge of Third Pres
bYterian Church.

Quite a large audience was present at
the Third Presbyterian church yesterday
afternoon. the occasion being the installa-
ton Of the new pastor. the Rev. Herbert
Hays, formerly of San Francisco.
The sermon was preached by the Rev.
DR.. w. NJ. Paden. the charge to the pas
tor being made by the Rev. DR.. r. g.
McNeice and the charge 10 the people by
City.
DR.. Paden took his text from Matthew
1898. The kingdom of heaven is like
unto leaven which a woman took and hid
in three measures of meal till the whole
was leavened.' DR.. Paden said i'm part:
when Charles Kingsley was casting
about for a title for his first story into
which he had kneaded his ideas concern
ing a number of social questions-ideas
which ne wished TO lodge i'm the minds Of
thinking people recalling this parable he
called his story, Yeast He hoped by
his book TO plant righteous ferment in the
sodden dough of English society.
Our Savior's use Of this figure is set
forth in the sentence parable we have
read. The kingdom OF heaven is like
unto leaven.' or yeast. BY the kingdom
Of heaven he here meant his own re-
ligiOn. the spirit in which he loved and
served God and man. BY the kingdom
of heaven we therefore mean this re-
iigion of Christ. That religion finds SUI
preme expression in his own life. But 1t
was to find echoing expression i'm the
lives Of those who met life i'm His spirit
Christ. therefore. likens the growth Of his
religion to the growth Of a buried seed
it's spread to that of hidden leaven. Our
thought Is now OF the latter figure
Religion of Christ spreads like leaven.
not like dynamite. instantly and eXplo-
sively. but like yeast gradually and
noiselessly. As the spring comes. the
dews fall or the sun rises so the religion
OF Christ takes possession OF the hearts
Of men or becomes the spirit of the fam
ily church or state. RefOrmatiOns are
oftener wrought by leavening than by
lightning. by quiet stiffness oftener than
by earthquake.
There is such thing as bad yeast or
poison. The figure is so used i'm the old
testament. Those who think of sin only
as contagious so use il. So Christ warns
us against the leaven of the Pharisees.
and Paul against the leaven of malice and
wickedness. One boy will corrupt a
the ears. A discouraged Christian will
bring cloudy weather Evil is conta gious
We all have some of it's poison in us.
We are infected with the disease Of sin
and selfishness. We must fight il with
the infection of righteous love The toxin
of corruption must be overcome by the
anti-toxin of interruption. Poison must
meet it's antidote. SO we overcome evil
with good.
(Which leaven is winning in us? The
yeast OF hatred. strife. pessimsm, III
temper, barshness. wicl<edness. infidelity.
self assertion and license. or the yeast of
love. joy. peace, long suffering. Kindness
goodness. neekness and Sef-control: the
ieaven of Christ or the leaven OF anti
Christ? Let the mind be I'm you which
was in Jesus Christ and then with rever-
ence YOU may work out a Chrst-iike
character. knowing that IL is God that
worketh in you 10 will and to do His
Good pleasure.