The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-18
We PAY WITH
WHAT We ARE
Spiritual Values Reduced to
Terms of Character by
Mr.. Eddy.
DAILY LIVING THE TEST
HOW TO ACHIEVE HIGH AND
HOLY THINGS.

In the services of the First Unitarian
society yesterday in Unitarian hall.
Mrs. Browning and Mr.. Poll gave
duet which was greatly enjoyed. Unity
quartet sang an anthem.
The sermon-theme of the pastor, Rev
Frank Fay Eddy was The Coin of
Character" II was 1t study of spirit
dal values which according to the ar
gument of the discourse, must always
be reduced To terms of character.
Mr.. Eddy introduced his subject by
saying:
Jesus concluded many of his dis
courses by saying: Those that have
ears, let them hear There is a pathos
in The fact that this splendid, white
SOuled man was constrained to cast
his pearls before swine; that so few
in the multitudes who came to see
miracle worker, the supposed Messiah.
or a teacher Of a new and strange doc
trine could receive the full meaning of
his message. The messages of prop
bets are only for those who, having
ears to hear, have also the hearts to
understand
The Price of Genius.
Il come now to my real text. which
is q quotation from Emerson, Common
souls pay with what they do, nobler
souls with what they are" In the sense
in which Emerson used this thought it
is most obviously true. Genius is al
ways partially ineXplicabIe. The ac-
Movements of genius are never meas
ured by counting the days work OK
pended i'm the doing of them as we
might calculate the cubic feet of
wall a mason can construct in a week
of time. They pay with what they
are.
You cannot explain the gift of the
young artist who was lovingly laid at
rest in this city during the week just
past by computing the number of
drawing lessons he executed or the
hours of practice ne gave as a student
Explain a Napoleon or az Alexander in
war a Beethoven or d Wagner in mus
&c. Gladstone or a Lincoln in state
craft. an Emerson or Il TennySOn in
literature by tabulaJiug their days
work if you can. They pay the price
Of their great achievements by what
they are.
Where Character Counts.
"AH souls, common and noble alike.
achieve the realities of the spirit, love,
faith or hone always because Of what
they are. And we all do achieve these
things in some degree, even those of
Us whose lives are set in the common
place and humdrum.
That part of art which is dexteTity.
that part of culture which is certainty
ana system in dealing with facts and
figures we can pay for by days work.
But that part which is inspiration and
vision and struggle to express the thing
too deep for utteTance. too vast fer the
puny forms Of men. this is paid for i'm
terms of character. This part is ours
because of what we are
We "a1 learn a trade or how to
WELD the tools Of the brain by appli-
cation. but when it comes to a question
of comradeship or of fidelity to honor,
or of following an ideal. it is only char
acter that counts. What we are deter
mines what we shall receive"
How We Pay.
Mr. Eddy also discussed the subject
as related to the personal and social
relationships of life and i'm re-
gard to our human capacity for home
making. The concluding paragraph of
the sermon was as follows:
so it is that we nay in the coin of
character FOR all sweet Comradeship
and loyal friendship. for the peace of
the home and the joy Of understanding
the vision of the genius. for the thrill
the babbling voices of children bring
our hearts, and for the spell of en-
chantment in blossOming springtime as
well as the meditative glory of russell
CARRIED October. These and all things
else bright and beautiful, and all things
high ard holy belong TO US as we be
long to them. Under high heaven
there is no other way of making them
ours except BY giving value received for
character. Faith, hope and love; these
are the great spiritual realities. They
may be para phrased as religion, ideals
and comradeship. They are not
achieved by feasting or prayer, or tell
ine beads. or believing creeds or any
form of set doing. We arrive at them
in daily living if at all. When they
rightfuliy belong to us, we have them.
As for pay, why we pay with what we