The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-11
ATTRACTIVE
NUMBERS
GIVEN
AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CALL
ED OUT LARGE CONGREGATION.
High Class Music Appreciated by og-
den Church Goers-Scrnon, THE
Horizon Of Lies Opportunities"

The services In the First Presby-
terlan church yesterday morning were
made very attractive by the musical
numbers given by chorus from the
Ogden Choral society. The large audi
torium was filled to oyerflowing when
the hour of service arrived and the
musical numbers were given with ar
tistic effect. The following is the pro-
gram rendered:
de-MacDowell; Miss Joyce.
Tenor Solo-"R Resignation; Roma;
Mr.. Saunders.
Chorus-"There Is River" Buck;
Ogden Choral Chorus.
"Andante;" Beethoven;
Mr.. Coop.
Chorus-"Be STILL Then" Buck;
Ogden Choral Chorus.
Contralto Solo-"Oh. Rest in the
Lord" Mendelssohn; Mrs. Allison.
Postlude-"March Mignon;" Poldini;
Miss Joyce.
The entire program was given In
way which was very commendable 10
those participating The chorus was
we'll balanced and sang with true ar
tistic spirit The tone quality was OF
a high order and the chorus was, In
point of attack and in modulation and
blending praiseworthy. The fine rnusi-
cal feeling which so characterizes
Dudley Bucks compositions was felt
and expressed by the singers. Mr..
| Coop's ability as a choral leader and
accompanist, and as an interpreter OF
the best music was again clearly re-
yealed. Mrs. Allison and Mr.. Saunders
are too we'll known to Ogden musical
circles to need any comment or praise.
The selections chosen were adapted
more to reveal the sympathetic feeling
rather than the range OF their voices.
The morning service recalled again
the fact that ogden people are eager to
hear hlgn class music when properly
given and that we have IN Ogden musi-
cal talent OF the very first order.
The theme of the morning sermon
was. THE Horizon of LIES Opportuni-
Ties" and in developing 1t Rev. Carve''
said in part:
The morning Scripture lesson was
from that scene in the life Of Jesus
Cnrist wherein the Master walking by
the sea of Galllee. calls Peter. John
and James to a higher and wider life.
Heretofore the horizon Of their pur.
pose in life had been bounded by the
mountain ridges of the valley Of Call
! lee. They had been content to live
within that environment and seeming
| ly had dreamed of no greater one.
| Then as Christ unfolded to them the
| larger purpose the horizon of their life
broadened and a larger environment
| of thought and endeayor was found by
them,
| The horizon of the earth is most de-
ceptive in appearance Newcomb tells
US that from the point where we are
standing the slope Of the earth, due
to its rounding shape. Is for a great
distance an ever increasing one. Fol-
lowing the contour Of this. point one
mile away Is eight inches lower tnan
, 1t is mere. But the curyeture increases
, the farther one proceeds. so at point
two miles away the earth has curved
80 inches, at five miles away 1t has
curved 16 feet, and 10 miles 1t has
curved 64 feet and at 80 miles, over
! 10000 feet So while the area between
here and Salt Lake City seems TO be
/ level. one city is really over 10000
feet higher or lower than the other
at certain times of the day Thus 1t Is
that the higher one ascends the wider
and deeper the horizon becomes, and
the same Is true of life In general as
! We rise above the smallness of selfish
ness and Indifference our life's horizon
! becomes both broader in view of what
life can be. and deeper in view OF wnat
life really is.
! knowledge and faith tend always to
( give an ever enlarging conception OF
! life's powers which doubt and sin
| serve only to contract and dwarf.
Here is the awful running power Of
doubt and sin; they contract the vision
Of what life can be and the more life
Is surrendered to them the smaller
the life really becomes. Vision, ideal,
purpose, aspiration and faith alike feel
the deadening influence when unbelief
| and evil become the dominating fac
tors. On the contrary. when faith and
knowledge hold sway, each day pre-
sents large horizon Of what may and
can be accomplished, Oh, then, count
that day in Your life a great day wnen
to you is given larger vision and a
wider horizon OF life's possibilities, for
ut is a great day in your life as II was
in the lives of these men OF old when
their aims and attempts were severed
from their old moorings and the Mas
ter pointed them TO dare hope and
strive for larger things.
Angelo, the Great, we are told, saw
eacn day greater opportunity in the
realm of beauty and so his life was
one of constant development. The
realm of poetry, the field of art both as
sculptor and painter. and the achieve
ments OF architecture gave to his fer
tile mind an ever widening range OF
inspiration and achievement Schu-
mann and the masters Of music found
the world OF melody ever to be an en-
larging one. Life. therefore, could not
become either dull or deadening.
Give, therefore, to your life new i'm
! petus Of faith, hope and knowledge