The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-06-06

the higher, better. noblcr life has only
been possible throught the possession
oil the virtues OF faith and love,
Imagine. # you can, the human race
suddenly deprived of the faculties Of
tnith and love. Imagine that. In a
moment In the twtnkling OF an eye,
all Iaith. all love should die in every
human heart. that these words, and
every word akin TO them. as-bellef.
confidence and trust, as affection,
pity. sympathy. friendship and fra
ternity. should become unmeaning.
forgotten and lost from the language
OF man
Imagine. if YOU can, the race en-
dowed with all the faculties Of mind
qualities OF heart, and passions and
appetitcs of body. which We now
have. and yot without iaith and love
on the whole earth
lnstinctlyely We stand appalled, In
the presence of such catastrophe.
and our hearts grow cold and numb
and dead within us as We try 10 rea-
lie the character and conduct OF men
and women, in all things. az We are
except they have no faitn nor love in
their hearts. Imagine If YOU can
what such a world would be-
Constituted as we are. IN the world
as IL is. we know there Is much pain
and suffering. much poverty and sin
which come from the inhumanity of
man TO man. In our business rela-
tloDs, in the unrelenting. unfeeling
competition for gain, In the Jealousy
and rivalry for place and power in
the demands of fashion, the pride of
dress. OF show and appearance, in
the seltlshness. greed and passions of
men, We see much TINT is hateful, un-
wholesome. unloyely.
1t Is painful truth that the strong
are prone to prey upon the weak, the
vicious upon the defensoless. and yet
1t Is a precious truth that the human
heart has with In II the germ OF love.
which cultivated under better In
yironments. is capable of rightlng
every wrong. and healing every
wound the mon now infllct one upon
the other
II the human heart had not this
noble faculty. the best purest. and
noblest would be even as the yilest.
bascst and most ienoble are II all
love was dead. we would not be here
today showing honor. and paying
tribute 10 our dead. the noble order
we represent would not. could not,
exist closed and dsmantled would
be every hospital for the sick, who are
poor, every home for the old, the In
firm, the helpless and the unfortu-
nate, and with cold. unfeeling eye
men would look upon starving child
rem, and tho mlsfortunes and suffer.
Ing OF their fellows would not mar
their pleasures, nor distract their
minds from their business pursuits
Without faith belief, confidence
trust-one In another, even the pleas.
ures and business pursuits possible TO
such An unnatural. monstrous race.
would be impossible. The home, fam
lily life, civilized society. governments.
social intercourse and business pur-
suits are all built upon faith. conf
dence, trust. one In another. Without
these business would cease, social In
tercourse decay. civilized society and
governments scrumble and fall. family
and home life perish from the face OF
the earth.
Enraged by jealousy and driven by
fear. men would descend in a day be
low the level OF beasts, and the race
would end in carnage and blood.
Some one has written In graphic Ian
guagc n description OF the dying
world. when the sun. grown old. has
become cold and dark and dead
His light grows dim and DINNER.
his heat becomes less and less; the
earth grows dark and darker. and
becomes cold and colder; men perish.
one by one. ten by tens. hundred by
hundreds. thousand by thousands, and
million by milliecs, until only one. the
last Of his race. looks upon the sun
dark and dead IN a black sky. looks
upon earth dark. cold and frozen.
the grave OF the race, and then-he
too perishcs.
AS light and heat are to the earth,
so faith and love are TO man. Light
What they touch.
they viNfy; the dead they quicken
what exists as germ, by their magic.
is transformed into luxurIant life, No
man can Guage the limits OF their In
luence. Nothing Is SO small TINT II
can escape their search. nothing so
great that II can defy their power.
Roundless. llmitless, unlye sal. omnl-
potent-the material typiry, The Imma-
terial are the attributes of diety The
sun above MS the sourse OF the one.
the great God who made the sun the
embodiment of the other.
Lift up your eyes and behold how all
nature responds to the children Of the
sun. Al the touch of their fingers
winter winds take their flight. Ice.
snow and frost vanish away; ths, trees
clothe their bare arms with verdure.
the grass and flowers come forth from
their hiding places. the birds return
to their resting and their songs All
nature smiles. and the whole earth
fructlfies, and yields her fruits for
the support OF man How wonderfully
are nature end natures laws adapted
to mans we'll being, and how perfectly
do they perform and carry out this
purpose, and so, tho faculties of the
mind and heart Of man are adapted to
promote his happiness. and secure his
highest good.
or these faculties. love In Its highest
and noblest form. is Gods best gift