The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-01

- an eloquent sermon in the Phil
lips Congregational church yester-
day forenoon the Rev. 2. A. Simp-
- resurrection brings to all Chris
tians. The service was attended bv
large crowd and an excellent musical
program was rendered
Among the features of the Iexouisite
musical service in the evening were a
violin solo 0y S. Deutsch; a solo, Il Know
That My Redeemer Liveth," by Mrs.
by Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Smith. and a
solo, The Resurrection by Harry No
Cooke The church was beautifullS dec
0 Onated with palms. lilies. carnations and
ported plants The Rev. Mr.. Simpkin In
his morning sermon. said in part:
Risen From the Dead.
The world of thinking men. led bv
the Christian church. does well to lay
emphasis upon this Easter day with tbe
central fact which the race is hearing
ABOUT and discussing in manifold forms
and in every land. Whatever of tha
eafthiy' the vernal. the passing strike a
note IN the day Is but the accidental for
the tull score of the harmony that sweeps
ON the sunlight and the winds of God is
IN the triumph of this truth. Christ is
risen from the dead. and become the first
fruits of them that slept
Never in the age has the gertrude of
immortality so possessed men as TODAY
and none OF the contributions to scientific
those which. lend assent to the persist
ence of the soul and personality beyond
death. Never were there so many Of
the children of the race for whom the
central fact of this day has a personal
and living message. and never time
when this browning fact in the life of
the Lord Christ appealed from a firmer
base, or with a clearer call than it does
now.
Resurrection and the Life.
nounces this fact in a defensive tone; it
sets it no more as an unique and splen-
didely solitary fact in a far yesterday,
but echoes for here and now the mas
ter.s own words, 1 am the resurrection
ard the life.
And though the earth thrills this
morning with the pulsing life of spring
though bud and blossom, the countless
spears of emerald that carpet the earth
and the sun-filled space of the heaven
that throbs with the orchestral sweet
ness of life have a message that the dull
est heart can understand a message
voiced in this great fact of the resulrec-
ton. a message of life abiding and in
finite, message of life that is more than
death, and goodness that Is more than
evil is being whispered by him who was
dead and nveth for evermore for every
life in the earth
The Foundation Stone.
'sThe fact of the resurrection is far
more than a ground of rapture and hope:
it is the certifier of the great funda-
ments in the beliefs of a Christian age.
The incarnation is the great foundation
stone of our faith. but that which keys
the upspringing arch of beauty on which
rests the road of faith for the children
of men is this fact of the resurrec-
ton
Matthew Arnold said: Despite the
failure. sin and God-defiance still poison
ing this fair earth. Christ is risen. in the |
sense that he is conquering- Creeds NAV
be discredited, ancient forms of religion !
may be in danger. historic churches may /
pass away, the old order change and give /
place to new in all departments of po- /
itical and social life, but the prince of /
his world is judged, the victory OF Je- |