The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-01

What Are You Worth?" was the sub
iect of an impressive sermon in the Uni
tartan church yesterday by the Rev VIII
liam Thurston Brown.
What are you WORTH" inquired the
preacher. What is your product? by
virtue of what do you claim the respect
of men and the smile of God? WHAT are
the things in this life of ours which nave
enduring value? This man moves 50
many cubic feet of earth day IN tne
city streets. That man sells so many ar
ticles of merchandise over the counter VI
a store. This woman covers SO many
pages of ledger or day-book with 1lguies'
writes so many letters; does so much Oh
the work. That woman performs the
tasks her housekeeping imposes some VI
us are hunting up precedentS OF law OF
trying cases in court. Some OF us are
experimenting on various forms of so
called disease Some of us are carrying
out a prescribed course OF studies IN the
belief that we are educating youth.
1--WE are answering, in one way or an
other. the demands which society ana
custom have together created. how mucn
does it all mean? How much IS II az
worth? How far is it a real fuifilment OF
our being? Is there something to come
of all this effort which makes it worth
while, something that commands worthy
verdict in a higher court than fleeing
popular opinion or unreasoning custom?
Lessons of the Past.
1T is not given to us men to part the
curtains of the future and read its YER
diet upon the deeds and thoughts ana
products of men But II IS given 10 US To
see far back into the past, and that power
carries with il almost the power to read
the future. What was it that counted
back yondeT? What are the things that
have lived? What are the things that
have not lived? Three thousand years ago
and more there were men in Egypt VINO
Wondered these same questions, and yon-
der in the valley of the Nile stands tnelr
ansWer-the massive, silent PYRAMIDS,
What saw these monuments to the world
three, four thousand years afterward?
Do they speak of the immortality OF the
PharaOhs? Have they preserved III any
way the lives and hopes or those VINO
caused them to be built? That IS WhaI
the Pharaohs intended.
And while those stately tombs were
rising, stone on stone. at the cost OF the
lives of myriads of enslaved men,. the flrsi
prophet of Israel-the first man who was
remembered in all the after years as a
man who spoke for God'-was cherishins
a faith in freedom and an ideal OF human
worth for the very slaves who buiit thos5
pyramids, in comparison with which al
the wealth and wisdom of Egypt were and
are as a mist before the sun. The pyr-
amidS are here, but they are witness to
the cruelty and folly of men whose names
and nothing more survive The world no
where contains a stone to mark the spot
where the body of Noses returned TO dust
but the truth and worth of the ideals he
cherished and the faith he held and gave
his life for are fixed as the stars in tht
sky of human reverence and esteem. Not
until the human soul is dead and our race
has reverted to the beasts can Moses
cease to be an inspiration to mankind.
Time and Eternity.
of the American cities of hundred
years ago very little remains today. OF
the American cities of today, how very
little will remain a few hundred year;
from now 1t is not a material monument
that any of us is building. How eVanes
Innnt hon trivial hnNE ShadoNNN seem tlt