The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-12-14
REV. CARV r
ON PAGAN
HERALDS
WONDERFUL STORY OF A HOPE
BORN IN ROME.
3 They Have Given to Ue-VIrgirs
Fourth Ecloeue.


First Presbyterian church Sunday
were worthy of especial mention. Tho
solo work OF Mrs. Lynch, Mr., Saund-
ers and Min5 Hamil. as we'll as the
regular work of Miss biddc, at the
piano showed much training and
skill
Speaking from the prophecy of the
Messiah, as found i'm Isaiah 3 6-7
For unto us child Is born unto us
son Is given, and the government
shall be upon his shoulders and His
name shall be called wonderful coun-
sellor. the mighty God. the everlast-
ing Father. the Prince Of Peace OF
the increa2e OF his government and
peace there shall be no end, upon the
throne OF David. and upon His king
dom 10 order it and to establish It
with judgment and with Justice from
honcefoTth even forever"
Rev. Carver said Sunday night in
part, speaking in the series upon
The Pagan Heralds Of the Christian
King
Thij prophecy of Isaiah. spoken
about 700 years before Christ. was
called forth by the great need for
national leadership. strong foes were
gathering To Invade his people and
the prophet in dire need OF help turns
to God and the vision of the coming
)! Christ Is the result The condition
of dire need i0 ever a great pro-
phecy OF help if The trust be only
reno@ed i'll Cod America has been
richly blessed with leadership. Great
men have been givon for every crisis
and we Of today cannot feel the need
of national leader. but We can leei
deeply the need of a personal leader,
and such an one is the ChrI I.
The need felt in lsaiah's heart was
only counterpart OF the need felt
with growing intensity In the lives OF
all the then known world Let us
turn 10 another land founded as a
people but little before lsaiah'S time
ana see how the need was there felt
and aDswrcd.
About the time OF Christ Rome was
the leader in religious practice The
Jews were quelled POLITICALLY and cold
spiritually, The Grecian thought was
absorbed in Roman life. The east
was dormant The north was almCrt
unknown. Rome was chief, her Ideas
Of religion dominated but OF real
leadership she had none Rome be-
lIeved that che was the most religious
Of nations and that religion had con
tributed mo7t TO her greatness. His
tory says that this belief was true,
and that Rome's fall commenced with
her religious decline Twcnty-siX CEN
turies ago the foundations of Rome
were laid with religious ceremonies
and by religious men. Our word ''re-
ligion," and hundreds more OF re-
ll21ous meaning IN our language. tes-
titles 10 the lasting power of Rome
religious thought, for they are Roman
words in origin and meaning. The re-
ligion of that day was a composite
growth from all the beliefs OF the
world, but it was devoid of the ele-
ments Of leadership either for the In
diyldual or for the state. The gods
were many, but they never spoke to
men. Their voice was in the winds,
waters, thunder and In signs and Won
dem. The Roman saw a god In all
about him, He had a god for every
minute object and each avocatiOn and
! trend Of life had its own deity The
god Vaticanus taught the child TO cry
and the god Fabulinus taught the
child its first word. The thieves and
criminals had their own deity There
was an altar at each hearth. and the
keeping of the fire burning brightly
upon II was the chief important task.
There was a family god and altar for
the nation az a people and the ve3tal
virgins had the care of it. But by
and by in their eager quest to make
religion real by linking 1t to every
trend OF life they made It but a hol-
low mockery, and in b c. 62 Caesar
in the Roman senate openly pro-
claimed, as high priest Of his nation
by virtue of his public leadership.
that there was no life beyond death
all history After 700 years of seek
ing religious realities the leader.
speaking against Cataline. says that
gled seven centuries for religious
leadership and light and found none
The faith of their founders had failed
TO stand the test.
In 70 b. c. Virgil was born. He
soon became the leading poet, and he
has the solitary honor of having his
writings used as text book in litera-
ture from fifty years after death TIL
ary beauty has been the model for
the youth of all lands, and as new ma
tious arise they adopt him as a model
in the school Japan, China and At
rica are reading him now with the
youth of Europe and America. 1t was
| i'm 40 3. c. that this Virgil wrote his
| Fourth Eclogue" 1t has been the
| problem of the thinking world since.
AS it is short, translate it for you:
Comes the Last Age. OF which the
| Sibyl sang
! A newborn cycle of the rolling years;
! Justice returns TO earth, the rule re-
! turns
OF god King Saturn; 10, from the
| high heavens
Comes new sed of men. Lucina
| chaste.
| Speed the fair infants birth, with
| whom shall enc
Our age of iron, and the golden prime
or earth return; thine own Apollo's
reign
In him begins anew This glorious
age
JnauGurates. oh Polio, with thee;
Thy consulship shall date the happy
months;
Under thine auspices the child shall
| purge
Our guilt stains out, and free the
land from dread
He with the gods and heroes like the
gods
Shall hold familiar converse, and
shall rule
With his great fathers spirit the
peaceful world. -
For thee. oh child, the Garth; untitled
shall pour
Her eathly sifts-the winding iyy's