The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-30
RIGHTEOUS JUDGING
SUBJECT OF SHORT
Pastor of First Methodist
Church breaches Interesting
Su lday Morning Sermon.

righteous Judgment" was the theme
Of the morning sermon at the First
Methodist Episcopal church yesterday
The music and the interesting sermon
produced lasting impression for good
upon the large congregation present.
Rev. Francis Burgette Short said:
Moses asked an important question.
and Paul made an emphatic declara-
ton. The former asked. Shall not the
Judge of all the earth do right? and
the latter declared concerning TINS
judge, the Lord, the righteous Judge
Standards Of life, human activities
and questions OF law demand and rec
Ognize the Importance OF the judge Our
DAY, in which there is so much athIetlc
competition, oratorical display, literary
vying and legal conteSt1nS, demands a
judge for each of these several ana
varied fields. Wherever we need ana
find this person, there should be found
the atmosphere and the fitness to listen
to the evidence, hear the argument, bal
ance the testimonies, interpret the law
and render a decision in the name OF
justice and truth. The human judge Is
falIable: he may sometimes be biased
and his decisions may be both wrong
and wicked, but the Judge OF all the
earth shall do right, because ne is the
cause he is fundamentally, absolutely
and eternally right and unbiased IN the
kingdom over which he preSldeS, Inc
not one of mere success or did he WIN
1t is rather the question, did ne con.
tend fairly and strive honestly Pld
he strive with an honest mOt1Vet he
has a concern in our athletics and
amusementS and the varied contests OF
life because they nave vital bearing
upon the development OF cnaTdctyi :
With the judge OF all the earth-the
righteous judge-right character Is the
because this Judge of all the earth
MT 4 aT7Tc lC
the basis for man to be also righteous
in his judgments. For let US remem-
Der that men must judge, they must
learn to decide and to discriminate
Thev must learn to reject and to &C
cept according to the fundamentals that
produce a right character. very much
depends upon this Judgment; me quai-
ity of life is here decided In TINS posi-
ton of Judge our entire character is
formed and our destiny decided by our
Judgment of God, of Christ and OF man;
'sFOOd is a large factor in physlcal
strength Thought is a lzrse factor IN
fhe deciding of character. We are what
we think, and not what we think we
a aeRv : ali IL means use some time to be
sa1ute thyself-see what thy soul doth
Dare TO look in thy chest, for tits thine
And tumble up and down what thou
findest there.
ssNIen generally think ACCORDING 70
their Environment. One could remain
around a hospital until all the Worlo
would seem to be suffering Inc keeper
of the penitentiary might soon conclude
that the race is doomed. The material
ISL is forced to his conclusion that man
Is simply a physical organism. he OLD
,1jSer sees nothing worth while but
money. The sensualist has no object
save u crafty his lower nature. ne
intellectualist communes Simply name
matics PHILOSOPHY and logic. Their
Judgment is not righteous They fa1l
to place the proper estimate upon me
character of God, the mission or CHRIST
and the value Of man.