The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-22
GREATNESS COMES
THROUGH YIELDING
Most Towering Characters
Attained EminenCe Only by
Acknowledging God.
SEEKING HIS FELLOWSHIP
Humanity Never Before So Willing
to Tabernacle With God Than
It Is Now.

The service at Phillips Congregation
al church yesterday morning was in
charge Of the pastor, Rev. P. A. Simp-
kin, who has returned from his vaca-
ton. The message Of the morning
dealt with Gods Tabernacling with
Men"
The text was taken from the apoca-
lyptic vision OF John. in which he hears
the voice from the throne asserting that
Gods plan was OutWrOught, and that
the mark OF IL was 10 be found in the
fact OF the EternaIs fellowship in the
life or the race, whose people were to
be hencefOrth His.
The race has never been unconscious
OF its relationship with the Eternal.
Conscious OF divine pOtentialities, man
has reached dumbly upward with long
ing for fellowship with the highest,
man at his best. Always he has made
reVerent place for those who in
priesthood have found channels of ap-
proach TO Him. 1t is not out of har-
mony with the intuitions and the strug
gle of mems hearts that at the apex
or Gods project plan, this should be
the test of its arrival, that the Eternal
white miracle of the Christ should be-
come the underworld possession.
Through the long centuries men have
been writing in their upFeach. God pro-
claiming in His love, that He was the
Indispensable for the human heart.
God In Mems Plans.
In all the noble story of struggle for
the perfect in the social order, IL is pitt
ful that man viii not see the truth
that life. and all its barter and bust
scope Of its political and social propa-
ganda, viii fail OF its planned end
save He, the Master planner have part
in all men set out TO be and do.
II is absurd for men TO point to the
lOwness and the ephemeracy of the de-
tail of life, TO smile at the thought of
the supreme One having share in ant
hill business of street and mart and
mine.
one has only TO remember the simple
truth that the acts OF men, great and
trivial alike. are the register of per-
sonallty. and that motive and all psy
Geological value are read in them.
The written tragedies of life have no
darker line than this, the sunless sky
of the life that fOrgeJs, or pushes out
deliberately, God, denying Him place in
the days fellowship.
Wants 10 Mix With Men.
God cares TO have part in all our life.
because only as He tabernacles in man
can He find either fulfillment for Him
self or that perfecting of the human
heart that seems to be the supreme
passion of the eternal God.
Humanity was never so willing TO
seek such fellowship as il is today. But
the modern effort to evoke God fails,
and Will The Eternal lies in no un-
IOldlng or human personality. The
highest reach OF autO-eVOlutiOn has
never climbed far above the dust. One ,
has the authority OF experience and
the dictum of revelation for asserting
at IL never wilt
Great Through Yielding.
The towering lives of the earth, /
whether in the field of the Christian
ethic or that of the ethnic religions of
the age have all been lives that after
the light they had, yielded the will to
Him, the dynamic of His person and
purpose.
A multitude walks the dusty roads of
life proving that this Is no idle dream
of fellowship with God 1t is not a
thing that waits for the end of the
road Through the days hands are
stretched TO pluck the flower millenial.
And more than views of God and doc
Irines Of men, they find this fellow
ship an union vital, and the implica-
tons il carries are realized in the
fruitage of immortality as He fills life
with His spirit, power and truth.
Mr. Simpkin closed the sermon in
marking the factual realiZations that
enable the fellOWshipping soul amid the
fever and fret of life TO hold itself in
peace, strength, courage and gladness,
because the unerring mind and will of
God are bringing the soul TO the per-
TUNED blossOming Of perfectness.