The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-20
AT PHILLIPS CHURCH.
Rev. p. A. Simpkin, the Pastor,
breaches an Effective Sermon.


The dav at Phillips Congregational was
filled with the Easter spirit. At each
service the church was crowded to its ca
pacity. The sermons and music were all
laden with the Easter thought and joy.
An interesting feature of the morning
service was the presentation of large
number of infants for baptism. In the
evening there was a special musical serV
ice in which delightful program was
rendered.
The evening sermon was devoted to
consideration Of some present meanings
of the Easter fact and message
Mr.. Smpkin said in part:
This glorious Easter day, flooded with
sunlight, fragrant with blossoms echoing
with harmOnies. beautiful with the light
and JOY of the resurrection, has been one
of triumph for Him of Galilee.
The world has been girdled with an
thems of praise. with worship and jubi-
latiOn, and only the spiritually blind. the
morally dumb, have withheld note from
the chorus that has acclaimed the risen
Christ. In the last hour of il we come
to eVensong, to note anew. with less of
vigor. perhaps, but not of conviction and
gertrude the message that II brings to
life.
The drama of that fair morning, ex-
quisitey wrought under the pearling sky,
drama in which the eternal breaks
and overflOWs times petty things has
too much in it to ever pail on the souls
of men so long as death answers birth
sorrow rings aHtiphOne TO joy, life filings
out the messengers of the souls hope to
the wider experience back of the curtain.
For the resurrection and its story are
more than part of a dogma of a reli-
giOn, more than tenet of Christian faith,
more than an unique experience in the
life of Jesus of Nazareth.
THE dynamic of hope and life are in it
for the age. The flash of angels wing,
the suggestion of celestial glory that
makes glamOr for the scene, the hui
man delight of those to whom it meant
a personal and present, an immediate and
dazzling truth, are all elements of charm:
but they are the accidents. The vital
throb is deeper than that. The heart IS
in Him who rose master, and in the re-
atiOn of Him to God and us, to the eter-
nal and the time. so that the age has
sung. and will sing the more:
Now once more. Eden's door
Opens stands to mortal eyes,
For Christ has risen and man shall
rise
And the field of that to which the
conquering life of the master moves is
the manhood and wOmanhOod of the long
centuries touched. quickened. viYified
mOdulated by just thiS-the communica-
ted poWer that answers the lame hands
of faith. the glory of a life-ideal that has
made the complete conquest of life and
death.
'MuItitudes of Swallowed hearts have
been cOmforted today by the great truth
reaved. The god-splashed threats of the
fragrant lilies have sung a song of hope
for the pilgrims 10 the country OF re-
uniou.
The men and women who in the swing
of the current irresistible of the years,
are being carried by the temporal toward
the unseen. have turned with wtstful ca
gerneSS to the measures of the immortal
the day has held in its central fact of the
souls continuity beyond the metamOr-
phosis death brings. But in the evening
light as sink to gray the high tones of
sunset and the nightbeH rings the pre-
lude TO silence and rest, we Will find
more than the gertrude of life tomorrow,
far more than the glad hope that Re
surgans'' is inscribed on every heart
stayed in the faith of the Redeemer.
Ave, for now, the now that holds the
heart break and the failure, the sense of
sin and the fever OF unrest, the dullness
of defeats ache the shame of OVerbOTne
manhood and Sullied woman soul, the
resurrection has a present message of for
giVeness and love and peace. of new hope
and strength and beginning. for though
You lie among the grasses or upon the
dry desert of life's defeat. OVerbOrne and
undone though your own broken piniOnS
that have lifted YOU against the very
cloud in the upward riot of your soul s
heights from which you fell know this
that on the spreading piniOns of that life
unquenchable that has circled the outer
edge and hung IN the very zenith OF
high perfectneSs, your life may be borne
to where in the clear air of God. you
shall sense the eternal Ave. the resur-
TeCteQ one mas MS secret as We'll III SDlf-
itual perfectness as in creative power, |
His cross with its appeal and promise, /
finds the sanction of all its claim the
seal of all its promise in the living one. |
wonderful will be the resurrection
wonder at the end of time, but more won
derfuI now the STRINGS that one finds
among the broken, mangled souls that lie
in the death of evil when the breath of
the risen Christ. coming like the fragrant
wooing southern breeze brings to them
the reviving that is all glorious, the re
newaI that makes men new creatures in
the Christ
And for those who creep to his feet,
hiding behind slken fold and robe of af-
fIuence. the leprosies of the heart and
soul there IS the resurrection power here
and now, that lifts men to the life i'm
mortal
.sThe tombs that opened at the voice
of the master yOnder. from which men
brought the carnal cerements for few
years more of earth wandering, were
things for wonder. But far more those
opened graves of life that our time has
seen from which the spiritual suicides and |
the moral incurables beyond all touch of
human help and love. have been called by /
the voice and power of the resurrected !
one are worthy of our note.
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