The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-27

soldier is not one whose duty is TO
Stay, but one who gives himself up TO
be slain.
The call to enter a band Of ruffians
brings out the ruffianS, the call TO en-
ter the profession Of refOrmers brings
out the men and women who are will
ing, If need be, TO be slain. The man
who works for his wages is a paymau.
rather than workman.
The rewards of a physical hell and
heaven are too cheap to appeal ID or
binary men and women. We need some
thing higher. We need the rewards
Of the JOY OF our daily labor, that
are looking for a job, our question
should not be that OF Judas IsCariOt,
What will you give me% but What
can L giveY
In each thing we produce, we should
be able to say, There is a bit of per
feet work It should not be our eff
fort to show results In the outward
work alone, but we should build up in
ourselves something noble and grand.
In erecting public buildings We
sometimes build the back OF brick
and put up a front of stone, using
economy in public buildings but it is
better to economic in manhood. In
everything a man makes, there is re-
Elected Cheapness in that which he
cons tructs- If we are faithful TO our
work 1t viii make as more faithful
we erect buildings good on the back
side as well as on the front side. it
Will make every man who works on
the building as good in the back as in
front.
A Higher Life.
Above our little lives is a higher
life that Is leading our little lives on
70 higher ends. The religious impulse
Of q Heavenly Father who is 10 re-
ward us, Is what leads us on. 1t is
the idea Of the ancient Zeus among
the Greeks. Leus was too poor to
give crown Of gold, and could give
only a crown of olive, which was no
addition to, but only reminder of,
the triumph. 1t does not help US to
think of our Heavenly Father as rich
in houses and lands. We may better
regard Him as poor, like Zeus. The
highest reward He can give His chill
dren is the approval of work well
our Great Father is not only the
rewarder and comforter of His chill
dren- He is the great Architect of the
work which IS going on through the
ages Some viii say that the work
of our Great Father is incomplete. It
is. The very fact Of inCOmpI eteness
is one of the glOries of a divine uni
verse. As we rise higher in the knowl-
edge OF this universe we see some
thing richer and uObler. God grant that
His universe shall always be incOm-
plete and that we may never have a
heaven, in which to stop, but heaven
In which TO move onward. Let us be
perfect, even as our Father I'm heaven
is perfect.
our own perfection as a part of the
great universe is to be that Of the
trees and the flowers The little tree
Is as perfect as the great tree. Each
has accomplished its mission up to tn a
present time. The reward of a per
feet workman is a reward that is to
satisfy all the tragmentaTy parts OF
life. Let us all be able to say with
the great Nazarene, who was cut off
in the midst of His life here. Il have
finished the work that Thou gavest me
Taft Greets Pastor.
Following the sermon. the choir
sang another anthem, The King, Of
Love" by Shelley. MIR. Sargent then
formally dismissed the congregation
and announced that all would remain
standing as the guests left the church.
At the close Of the service President
Taft at once started forward TO meet
the pastor, who came from the side of
the pulpit and received the laudshake
of the President as well as his thanks
for the sermon. The President then
turned to shake hands with several
near him and continued to do so until
escorted from the church, and through
the great crowd which had assembled
on the outside to witness his departure.
Mr.. Sargent was the recipient Of
many congratulations following the
service for the excellent sermon which
had been given. Mr.. Sergents home
Is in Corinth, orange county, Vt, he
having been brought up on a farm.
He graduated at the University of Yer
mont i'm 1904 and the following year
was principal Of the GrotOn high school
at GrQton, VI He next went to the
Meadville Theological school at Mead
vile. Pa, for year, and followed
this course with two years at Union
Theological seminary. New York CITY.
Ity school, Cambridge, and there re-
CeiVed the degree of bachelor of sacred
theology last June.
During his year at Cambridge he
preached as supply in various New
England churches, but declined TO be
come a candidate for a church there.
as ne had planned to find his field i'm
the west He went to Chicago early
this month and left there two weeks
ago, reaching Salt Lake, at the invita-
ton of Mr.. Brown. on Sept. 10. He lee
tured last Thursday at Unity hall be-
fore the local Social Science club. on
the first ot a series on Grand Fall
ures in Social Reform" his lecture on
that occasion being on the subject.
John Ruskin, or. the Grand Failure
of an AristOcrat.' He will lecture next
Thursday night before the club on
THE Grand Failure Of an Anarchist
and said yesterday that he will give
the name of the anarchist whom he has
in mind at that time. Mr.. Sargent win
preach a the Unitarian church next
Sunday.
Called to Oregon.
Prior to coming here he had re-
ceived a call to Hood River. Ore. "a
district in which ne has thought about
locating, to preach there for q month
on approval, but as the dates conflict
ed with those already made for Salt
Lake, he was forced to decline the
invitation at that time. If he should
not make other arrangements before
leaving Salt Lake ne intends to go 10
Berkeley, Cal, the headquarters of the
field secretary of the Pacific coast de-
partment. to look over the field there.
The Rev. William Thurston Brown.
pastor of the local Unitarian church,
is field secretary of the Rocky noun
tain conference of the Unitarian
church. which embraces several states.
When he noticed in the itinerary of
the President that Salt Lake would
be visited about this time he wrote the
President. expressing his regret that
he would be unable to be here during
the visit. as he had TO go 10 the con-
ference at Chicago.
A letter was received from President
Taft I'm which he expressed his regret
that he would miss seeing Mr. Brown.