The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-06-27
SEES IMMORTALITY
IN NATURE'SFAC
Rev. P. A. Simpkin Says Spirit
uaI Life Is DiScernibIe
in Earthly Things.
HIS PROPAGATION SERMON
PASTOR WILL TAKE REST BE-
FORE PREACHING AGAIN.

The message from Phillips Congre-
gational pulpit yesterday morning was
the last sermon before vacation deliv-
cred by the pastor. Rev. p. A. Simpkin.
and was one dealing with the reality
and supreme Importance Of the spirit
ual
The text was Pauls word IN the Cor
inthian letter. We walk BY faith. not
by sight In presenting the theme
the pastor SAID in part:
Paul was neither shOrt-visiOned nor
misanthrOpic in turning from the ma
terial order for his motive Of life. IL
is not 70 be inferred that he was blind
20 the beauty, deaf to the music or in
sensate OF the glory of the material
universe No mind Of his time was
more thoroughly schooled In the things
that fitted him to enjoy to the full all
that the universe held to appeal to
the mind and emotions. And his enun-
citation OF the law for the Christian
life IS based in a wisdom wide and
sound, for IL holds the ultimate vision.
Life is to be influenced by the in
visible rather than the visible. The
visible is to be used, mastered, enjoy
ed, but 10 is to be dominated by the
ethics Of the invisible. the spiritual. The
ratiOnalism OF the spiritual life is as
demonstrable as any problem has ever
faced. IL IS written broadly in the
beautiful world. All the aesthetic
meanings and the beautiful Inspirations
Of nature are written I'm the spiritual
| that looms back Of all the massed and
spread beauty OF the world and the
sky. The phenomena OF the spiritual
touch us more intensely. but not more
really. in the field OF personality than
in that OF nature The whole universe
prOclaims the spiritual. made for the
spirit element In man Without the APP
prehension Of this truth the universe
rs an empty thing. and life a theatre OF
vanity.
Those limitations and convictions OF
the real thing behind the flashing ma
chinery Of the material is one Of the
. striking things OF history. persistinE
with tremendous power. present in ev-
cry bit Of the worlds religion; ever
larger and finer in it's manifestations
until 10 came to its fulness I'm the re-
vealings OF Jesus Of Nazareth. who
wrote 50 plainly the great fatherhood
and the love abiding that are the
universe.
''The life that acknowledges the ex-
/ istence Of the spiritual. that yields IL
I first place. that makes the law OF Il
the thing supreme. is the life that hag
sanity. that knows the fruit OF the
highest reason Life that is void of tho
vision spiritual is a poor. bald un-
l happy. valueless thing. Just as all that
| is finest in the realm OF our person
atty Is ordered into strength by the
spiritual. so the determination Of the
highest I'm LIES wider relationships 10
I the universe and fits NaSter lies here IN
| he realm Of the spirit.
And II the cultivation OF the powers
| that lie in the places and burdens OF
common duty Is so pressing a thing
| that LIES first score Of years IS con-
sumed In the task. how infinitely NOR.
I important that the powers whose ex-
pansion and service are for the realms
OF the immortal should and must have
care and culture as we move along the
roads that wind through the scented
fields Of the beautiful world.
/ The material life is narrow, narrow
| as death. The spiritual life IS wide
I wide and satisfying and free. with a
| fulness that is EMBODIED I'm the life OF
/ the immortal Master"