The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-07-25
. OULD NO 7
ALT ER HIS
PROGRAM

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Misses Hendershot. GunnelI and Hol-
berg.
The editorial was as follows.
You may fancy that | march up
to this point in my career with con
siderable eagerness. The past weight
cd With the memory OF rather rough
travelling over partially unblazed
trails Is receding and n future radi-
antly bright looms into view. The
church TO which go is rich in his
torio heritage and richer still in the
burning desire TO stamp the coming
day with the impress OF It's superb
Christian ideals.
And yet | do not go eagerly. For
here In Ogden my three babies were
born. Here was my first church.
Here | touched the hands OF hun.
dreds of clean.lived. clear-visioned
young men and women for whose
earnestness and enthusiasm the
world is patiently waiting Their
high standards have been TO me a
source of constant Encouragement
The new age has nothing TO fear II
all its leaders are to be fashioned in
their mould. | hope the years VIII
not rob me of their names or OF the
happy memory Of our association to-
gether.
Here. too, In the midst OF ceaseless
struggle for what / thought was right
and best | caught the light that shone
In the eyes of men and women who
had seen the vision and had breathed
the air OF the newer world-now
truly Gods and more justly mans
those who dreamed of bringing moral
order out Of disconsolate chaos. .
Here from week TO week / have
had the rarest OF fellowship with my
brother ministers. We have differed
in many ways. But we were all
struggling to make men understand
the royal privilege of service That
has bound us together. And in this
church | have found life that was
life indee1-llfe that would be
strength and hope TO every worthy
cause
Tonight ] am standing in this pull
pit for the last time. The years have
slipped away all too swiftly. Perhaps
| have made my message sufficiently
plain. Yet there are some things |
want to say In this closing editorial.
My chief work in these FIVE years
has not been that OF an agitator or
a reformcr-in spite OF my reputation
Ny chief contention has been that re-
ligion is something real. something
that yitalizes life. something which
iuSpirits. something which makes
men hate evil as well as love good.
something which gives mankind
vision of the better world.
The better world, in the vision, Ia
free from all that mars and weakens
human NE This present world, then.
in order TO become the better world
must be rid Of the institutions which
mar and weaken human life. So il
is one comes TO a program involving
bitter antagonism TO all weakening in
stitutionS There are some things
honest men cannot hand down TO sue
ceeding generations.
have no quarrel with other denom-
nations save as they cXalt the lesser
to the greater place. To teach the In.
diyidual that mis- own souls welfare
or mis- own body's welfare Is Of para
mount Importance. is TO me the
great cirme OF modern paganized
Christianity. All the PHILOSOPHERS
to be fingered on that unholy ground.
We have no right TO sacrifice Chris
tianlty to that ideal
| have not sought TO justify the sins
of society. but TO reproye them
have tried to say that upheayal can
not come with plautude: that cOnyen-
tional Christianity was only pretty to
look at that the liberalism which Is
mostly a matter of wordy boasting
is as bad as the orthodoxy which
does the same thing, that the temper
ature Of ono's enthusiasm need not
be taken every ten minutes.
! have insisted that in the last
analysis manhood alone counts; that
llte was more than drinking bout;
that no man has u right 10 fritter IL
away.
l have pleaded for new frontage
toward man. and toward the universe
and toward God. | have stressed the
hope, love. service. righteousness, JUS
tice | have emphasized the oppor-
tunities of the privileged and have
tried TO make those who had the dbil-
ity and the strength-want to serve
with their ability and strength.
nave tried to point out the path which
shall lead more and more unto the
perfect day.
| have endeavored TO tell men they
must be forever searching their souls;
that it is no great thing to say We
have come to minister unless we
have something TO minister.
| have earnestly pleaded with men
not TO offer their integrity or their
honesty or their morality in the open
market; not TO sacrifice courage and
for gain Of money.
| have protested that we were to
mould the times and not the times us.
There is a warrior spirit in the
Kingdom Of God. There Is an heroic
aspect to the Christian life. II has
been purpose 10 eNalt them.
We cannot thank God for what
makes life easy and comfortable. but
we do thank Him for what makes 1t
difficult and great
The world stands most In need of
high hope and a deeper longing after
the things of God.
\ church man has no right 10 he an
ldler or a mere money-getter. He -