The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-19

God he could not free In order to
build terrestrial city of God. SYM
metrical healthful, convenient, COM
Portable, beautiful and permanent.
men must experience that communion
with the divine artist which, is the
privilege only of truly trustful souls.
'"rhe kingdom of God is another
name for the reign of love 1t is the
incarnate principle of universal unity,
the manifestation of the harmony of
the inner and the outer life. and is
concerned only with universal wei
fare
Cannot Serve Two Masters.
No man can serve two masters;
for either ne will hate the one and love
the other or he will hold to the one
and despise the other. Ye cannot serve
God and MammOn.
Jesus positive direction was that a
man should hold all that came into his
hands at the disposal of others. OF
course, ii goes without saying that an
honorable man will always sacrifice
profit to principle. But this teaching
is inestimably more radical, and Jesus
uses extreme cases to illustrate il,
namely, the borrower. the thief, the
contestant-at-law, and the impecu-
NOUS. Concerning the borrower, he
says:
Give to every one that asketh
thee and of him that taketh away thy
goods, ask them not again. And if
We lend to them of whom We hope to re-
ceive, what thank have We? even sin
ners lend to sinners. to receive as
much. But love your enemies, and do
them good, and lend, never despair
ing, and your reward shall be great,
and We shall be sons of the Most High;
for he is kind toward the unthankful
and the evil
This expression, never despairing,
is variOusly translated hoping for
nothing again and 'despairing of no
man. 1t is the testimony of those who
have tried to obey this preceDt that
their charity Immediately became ra-
tional and ordinarily directly product
i've of spiritual results.
Our charity associations have many
divine features in theory, but these are
the very ones that are neglected in
practice.
"TOlstOi says that men are willing TO
do almost anything for the poor ex-
cept to get off their backs; and it is
a fact that there is no way to ideally
administer charity by proxy, or in
any fashion that assumes the neces-
sary economic superiority of one man
over another.
IHe question: arises as 10
how well-disposed people are to act
while as yet all men are not converted
TO the loving life The preceDts of
Jesus are precisely an answer to this
question in this, as in all departments
of human conduct: that the man OF
Good must act as he ought to act. if
all others were perfect. even while the
others are still spiritually ignorant
and practically selfish.
One Purpose of Property.
There is no better gvmnastic appa-
ratus for the development OF charac-
ter than property. when rightly ap-
preciated and used. Like any other
gymnastie apparatus,>-it is dangerous
and harmful when handled ignorantly
or unskillfully. Moral muscle and
symmetrical ethical development come
always to those who do the world s
work, unattached 'renouncing the
fruits of action 1t is more. than true
that virtue is its own reward.
Il know a man who never knew such
great spiritual enlightenment as when
he determined to pay one who had I'M
justly sued him. at which time. he
said his whole spiritual nature seemed
at once to claim the ascendancy in his
experience and his ecStatic perception
and joy became unspeakable.
Certainly any man who lives after
this fashion would be Immediately
freed from the curse of anxiety He
would also be certain of the existence,
the perfection and the presence of
God. His whole body would be full of
light When he had entirely with
drawn his allegiance to Mammon, or
the cultivation of personal desires. and
had yielded entirely to God. or the uni
versdl will. then indeed, as the earth
ly things failed, he would be received
into the eternal habitatio What
shall the voices say to esChrist-like
soul? We'll done good and faithful
servant. thou hast been faithful over
few things: we viii make thee ruler
over many things; enter thou into the
joy of thy Lord. "