The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-12-22
REV. CAR YER
TELLS OF
SOCRA TES

The third OF the series OF evening
sermons on The Pagan Heralds of
the Christian King was given Sunday
night In the First Presbyterian church
The music was furnished by Mr.
Saunders His singing of TnIdley
Bucks Hymn TO Life Eternal" wos
most excellent. Miss Blddle deserves
special mention for her artistic reud.
erlng of Schubert's "Impromptu" as \
prelude. and his "Serenade" as an Of.
fertory.
Rev. Carver said in part as follows.
speaking from Haggai 2-7. The De-
sire Of All Nations Shall Come"
1t was at the rebuilding of the lew.
ish temple and the prophet was speak.
Ing OF that trend Of life which should
ultimately follow when the long desir.
ed end OF the Jewish nation should
be realized One has but to note tho
varied articles displayed IN the holi.
day windows TO realize how different
are the desires of the people of one
city Travellers tell us that each ma.
tlcn and especially each race, has de.
sires peculiar TO itself. Can II he nos.
eihlc then, to speak Of "One desire Of
NJ nations?' Yes. for the desire for
true love and eternal he are found
N all peonles. and these are the very
loaglngs that the Christ satisfies.
Let us SIC how, in their darkness
and desire, Pagan leaders have
spoken of such an one It was about
four hundred years before Christ that
Socrates was the ruling mind of Gre
ci7D thought. He was the FIRST and In
ro1Hy ways the greatest. Of the think.
ers Of that far pagan past. whose men
tai riches have been so gathered and
tept that we may learn from them to-
day. He was quite frank in his avowal
that the world Of thought needed more
help along religious lines than anv
nurely earthly mind could give and
he spoke clearly Of his expectation of
the advent Of some supernatural
leader who shoud become the great
world teacher Of men He said, 1--WE
must wait TIL some one comes from
Cod 10 instruct us how to behave to.
wards the divinity and towards men"
All he bad learned that man could
not Of himself formulate lasting
code Of morals for dealing with his
brother man. Plato was Socrates
great pupil. and In some ways the SUI
perlor Of his teacher He. too, voices
his teachers longing for divine lead
er, saying: 1T is necessary that
law.giver be sent from heaven to in
struct us; Oh, how greatly do / desire
10 see that man, and who he is"
Again In his p0~v'lic- he gives us one
cf the clearest gan delineatons OF
Christ as he fra~s for us his great
portrait Of the just man who. with.
out doing any wrong will assume the
rDDearance of being unjust. yea He
shall be scourGed. tortured, fettered,
will be fastened TO post and will re-
store again the beginning and proto-
type Of righteousness" This SEN
ience concerning the suffering and
being fastened 10 a post" recalls
very strongly the last days Of our Sa-
yiour
Now about this same period of time.
Confuclus. In China, had done all that
his great mind could do unaided and
alone to formulate a code of moral
laws and religious living His teach
ings have been grossly perverted and
10 see his worth It Is needed that one
should go far back and read the old
est translations OF his teachings. He
looked for a greater era of religious
truth, saying. "a new religion will
sometime como from the west II VIII
pierce the uttermost parts of China
where ships have never gone In the
west the true man OF God must be
looked for and found And Palestine
is west Of China.
The most vivid and lucid prophecy
OF the Christ that is recorded IA
heathen lands is that OF Zoroaster He
lived in eastern Persia about GOO b
c. The old books show that he
taught the PersiaDs Of the coming
fhrict Ia hot In Iof
ter days n pure virgin should oring
forth a child. and that as soon as the
child was born a star would appear,
blazing. even at noondav with undi-
minished luster You. my sons" said
ba TO his followers, will perceive its
rising before any other nation, AS
soon as you see the star follow it
wherever It leads You, and adore the
child Offering Your gifts
to hiT with profoundest humility He
Is the almighty word which created
the heavens
We nen but note here the reference
10 the virgin mother. the heraldlng
STAR and the fact that Christ Is spok-
en- of as the Word" as John speaks
of him in his gospel We see now
why the three Magi should have come
from the home Of the teaching of
Loroaster
India has ever been the great land
OF grand and mysterious past. but
there. too. We find those who ages be-
lore Christ came were speaking that
one like him should come In the
Oldest OF lndia's sacred writings we
find this prophecy, Some day a re-
liglon Will come from the west that
shall be under the protection of the
sword. but which shall spread by
moral persuasion" The learned Hin
dus interpret this today as speaking
OF Christianity coming under the pro-
lection of Great Britain. but advanc-
Ing by pursuaslon Of missionaries.
The name Buddha means the en-
ilghtened or the Illuminated one. 1t
mas been given TO many men, but the