The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-07

at O'Clock. although the meeting viii
not begin until $50.
Warnings to Men.
For his topic yesterday at noon Mr..
Smith took THE Unanswered Cues
ton And for the scriDtural basis OF
his remarks read from what he termed
the 'saddest page in all human his
tory" the story of Gains murder Of his
brother He said, in part:
Let me call your attention TO the
fact that the first great sin was not one
of drunkenness, murder, stealing nor
lying. but an attempt to unsettle belief
i'm God. The sin for which Cain was
branded was that he tried to dodge re-
sponsibility for his brother. His ques
ton. Am I my brothers Keeper sUg-
bests TO my mind the highest appeal for
Christian living. 1t is not merely a
question of your own we'll being but
the destiny of those whom you iniiU
ence You stamp your moral imprint
on men every day, and when you start
an evil going you can never retract it.
You can bury your body, but not your
evil life. Which way are you heading
the men whom you influence"
Personal Experience.
At the older boys meeting, Mr.. Smith
talked on the subject, Half a Man"
His evening topic was The Other
Men, and was based upon the story of
the rich young ruler who asked Christ
what he should do to inherit eternal
life.
Here was a young man who could
Guido you i'm ethics and morality of life
and yet Christ told him that he fell
short" declared Mr.. Smith. From
this IaSSoT7 he eax-o,-,T
warnings. The first was one to the
men who are making the getting of
money their dominant ambition. He
said:
1T is not the amount of money that
puts man in danger. Its value is de-
termined by the environment in which
he lives. One man may be kept from
God by the greediness with which he
strives to make 80 per week Its the
spirit of money getting which sewers
the connection between God and man.
This, however, is the superficial warn
ing of this lesson. There is a deeper
warning to the good moral man who
says he believes many ethical things.
but notice that no standard of morals
is equivalent to the appeal which God
makes on your life. He does not want
an intellectual belief He wants a life
absolutely ruled by Jesus Christ If
you viii live the life which God directs.
you will be satisfied even though at
every milestone you record a worldly
defeat"
"The Unanswered Question"
Mr.. Smith depressed to tell the story
Of the Tebuke which was administered
to him when as a commercial traveller
for the Mccormick Harvester company
he was having hilarious time on board
a railway train. a crude country min
/ lister on board asked permission to put
one question to Mr.. Smith. which was:
Young man, why don't you live like
you expect to die?" Mr. Smith de-
clared: This is fair, reasonable
question. and l venture that not a man
in Salt Lake City but who. If the doctor
tells him he can live only twenty-four
hours, would send for the preacher and
pray like a house a-ire. In the last
year l attended the bedside of four men
supposed to be dying. Three of them
recovered and the rascaIs went on to
/ live as wickedly as before. Louis XIV
of France and Tom Paine both prayed
earnestly the last few days of their
lives. Why not be real men and live
as we expect to die? You expect to die
with your face toward God, why not be
consistent and start now to live that
way?"
! At the meeting this afternoon special
music has been arranged for b. n. J.
| Brines, which will include a male quar-
tette and a brass quintette. The ship
meetings, which have added greatly to
the interest of Mr. Smiths visit, were
conducted as usual yesterday at noon
the speakers being Bishop Spaulding
Rev. Mr.. Goshen and Rev. Mr.. Simpkin
Mr.. Smith viii speak this morning al
the First Presbyterian CHURCH