The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-02
GOV. HUGHES ASA
PUBLIC SERVANT
New YOrk'S Executive Subject
of Sermon by Rev. Francis
Burgette Short.
QUESTION OF SALVATION
HUGHES SAVES HIMSELF AND
ENTERS GREATER CAREER.

THE Salvation of Governor Hughes
was the subject of an interesting ser
ban by the Rev. Francis Burgette Short
at the First Methodist church last
night. DR.. Short took his text from
Luke ix-24 "FOr whatsoever viii save
his life shall lose il; but whosoever
shall lose his life for my sake, the same
shall find it." He said, in part
Christ gave that larger conception
Of life when He spoke of the kingdom
of God. The kingdom of heaven finds
its first expression in the individual
heart and life within you, bat to re-
main here means to shrivel and die. 1t
must seek TO express itself in other
lives. No man is saved until he has
an active concern for and in some
other body's salvation. The kingdom
Of God must be set up and established
upon the earth. For nothing less than
that did Jesus pray Thy kingdom
come, Thy viii be done on earth
THE motive that prompted that
prayer, or that part referred TO, as also
the underlying motive of the text, is
that larger conception of life which the
Christian should ever possess His
own salvation IS necessary, but surely
not the end of his concern. His chief
concern should and must be the social
gOOd-the salvation Of the social COM
MUMMY anu lliC verify Vi luG text II
readily recognized by every observing
person, that personal salvation as an
end means ruin to the one serving be
cause selfshness can have no part in
the kingdom of heaven or the kingdom
of God on the earth.
THE life activities of Jesus were not
for the purpose of developing or acquir-
ing personal benefit They had as their
sole and supreme object the benefit of
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dividuai Christian live. This Will mean
self-denial, but that is an element in
the Christian life. The same Master
said, Deny thyself and take up thy
cross and follow me- But let US re-
member that the self-denial of the
Christian does not mean a negative or
losing life. I deny myself when I make
a contribution to the happiness of our
home, but does not that sO-called self
denial mean an enrichment of my own
life and its enlargement in the happi
ness of my family life? Christianity
does not depress nor suppress the indi-
vidual, il inspires and enlarges his life
as he seeks to give himself TO the pub
lie good and to lose himself in the pub
lie welfare. One just begins to find
himself and society begins to discover
him when he gives himself over to their
concern.
Thus should it be said of the saliva
ton of Governor Hughes-he saves
himself as he gives himself to the pub
lie welfare. He has been doing this for
some time, and it would seem to me
that he is now but entering upon a ca
reer where he will become Of inestima-
bic value TO his countrymen. But you
say, Is not this a trick IF Wall street
TO shelVe him?' God Almighty only can
shelve men. History abOunds in perth
nent Illustrations. Some men once -ried
TO shelve the cry Of the UniOnists for
representation according to taxation.
Men tried TO shelVe the immortal Lin
coin. In your day and mine some men
one day in Philadelphia tried to shelve
Theodore Roosevelt; it has been said
that our war department planned to
shelve Admiral Dewey and that the de-
sire was that Sampson should be the
great man to destroy Cervera's feet.
but standing back in the dim shadows
was the great God, who ever keepeth
watch over his own.
IF God has a more important place
for Governor Hughes than that which
he will soon occupy, he will be called
to it in spite Of Wall street and all the
corrupt politicians. In this acceptance
which he has made his opportunities
viii be almost boundless for serving
the common good and Tor fastening the
kingdom Of God on earth. And in rem
dering this service. in the giving UP of
larger salary possibilities, in this self
denial and the losing of himself to the
more conspicuous and spectacular life
he is but saving the life with which
God hath entrusted him. Serving is our
chief business. Are you among the
saved? Are you among the serving?"