The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-22
MORE WHITE THAN
BLACK IN WORLD
DR.. William Paden Shows How
Fortunate Could Alleviate
Ills of Others.

At the First Presbyterian church yester-
day DR.. William Paden preached on the
theme: More White and Black" His
text was Phil. S:9-''If there be any viz
tue and if there be any praise, take &C
count of these things" In the course OF
his address he said:
when the optimist contends that this
world was started on the best possible
lines there is no good reason for denying
his contention. If God had been able
to make a better world and keep it bet
ter without destroying our freedom or
choice. lie undoubtedly would have done
so. Even though it be a school OF sur
fering and sorrow, still. on the whole, II
is the best possible school for a moral
free agent. Christianity is optimistic; 1t
does not find its golden age in the past,
nor are the good times coming all to
come; even now we live in dispensatiOn
of grace. There is more joy than sor-
row, more love than hate, more faik1
than doubt more ease than pain, more
laughter than tears even now and among
US. Why should we not take account Of
these things?
''Of course. there is want in every COM
mUnity. There are those who are out
of work and many others who must live
from hand to mouth, whose daily work
barely provides them daily living. But
if all the people who are out of work and
destitute in this city were gathered to
gether into one company, and if all the
people who have work and enough to eat
and TO wear were brought tOSetneT IN
another company, you know that the lat
ter assemblage would be many times lar
ger than the former.
Majority Prosperous.
There are ten people in this city who
have enough and TO spare to one who
is destitute. and a dozen who have en-
plOyment of some kind or other to one
who walks the streets in search of work.
Suppose the ten OF dozen of US were to
II in usaI hnI onD Krraf 1e -v.H
hit or ready to perish even that one
would soon be convinced that there is
more white than black in the nature of
things.
"Or take the pain and sickness which
sometimes darkens our city or homes
You who visit the sick and who are
brought in contact with those who are
shut in every week have reason to know
that even the healthiest community has
its quota of sufferers. Yet, suppose that
all the disabled and suffering people
were brought together in three or four
great hospitals. you know that there
would be enough of us left to keep all
the homes going and all the work go
ing. There are ten of us who are able
TO 90 about our work and our pleasure
to one who is laid aside by ailment or
age. Now. if the larger company were
to use their health and ease as they
might and should, they could make even
the lesser company of the ailing feel that
there was more white than black in even
their handicapped lives.
Even in the sick room there is often
more white than black. Some of the
happiest people, some of the bravest and
brightest lives we ever touch are the
lives of men and women who are having
their course in the school of suffering
As a matter of fact, pain is usually inter
mittent Very few people suffer every
hour, and all their lives Though we
speak of invalids who have never lived
an hour without pain. there are not many
such. The most terrible sufferers have
had years of ease, and even during their
months of agony they have had times
Of comparative comfort Moreover. ii is
true that the rest or relief
which sometimes comes between the
hours of distress are often beyond meas
ure more delightsOme than the whole davs
Of ease which fall to the lot of those who |
know nothing of pain.
Suffering Is Temporary.
"Of course, there are those who suffer |
continually, save when under the influ- |
snce of anaesthetlcs. But such suffering |
foes not last, or If it does the body does |
not last. In spite of such exceptions ii |
S safe to say that there is more laughter |
han tears in the saddest life Nobody /
IAN cry all the time. In the saddest wear
If your life tears have been the execution /
'ather than the rule, and if YOU have /
ound sympathy and learned sympathy
here has been more white than black /
n the year.
1T is much the same with the ,,,iol,a6