The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-07
CongregationaIism Subject of
Address by New York Man

child born on the earth were believer in
the gospel. 1t would still be necessary
that the church be evangelistic. For men
die and men are born. Each generation
must be evangelical as 1T comes upon
the stage
But the evangelism we need Is a broad
coloring all the parts of our life
II is the main spring OF mis-
sions. 1t Is the heart OF fruitful Sunday
school work, 1t is the atmosphere oil
message OF the pulpit. 1t is the iounda-
tion or every Christian home. ii can
not be said TOO often, or too eemphatl-
cally, that no service OF humanity can
have large or long-run results, which is
not concerned 10 bring men into personal
relations with God
We live in an age of philanthropy.
when mems hearts are touched with pity.
indignant over public evils as they once
were not Many stout heart and
strong arm Is enlisted on behalf OF the
oppressed. The long hours OF toll, the
unsanitary conditions, the rank injus
tices. the unwholesome homes-how we
are learning 10 hate 1t all The 100000
enid , wage earners, deprived OF child.
home care and study and play-who is
there with red blood In his veins who
would not be glad If he might enter
damnable greed which blots OUT the
light from their lives? We live In an
age OF education. Over all the land in
stitutions Tor the training of the head
rich is poured out like water to found
and maintain them, The dearest desire
in all our homes is that our children
may not fall of an education. And how
But there is more to be said, Phil
anthropy and reform and education-a
trinity OF high activities Of the human
soul. But though there should be accom-
pushed in each of all thar
rosiest dreams could picture, human So
ciety would still be an abject failure.
II II with II all men were brought into no
living relation with God. The heart OF
humanity would still be hungry, Men
would live and die. carnal. comfortless,
despairlng; 1t does not lie in the power
TO attain Its ideal. save as the message
OF God In Christ vitaizes its endeavors.
Philanthropies will crumble. reforms will
miscarry, education Will freeze without
that faith in the love CT God, by which
in Paul's phrase 1.-The world Is crucitied
unto me and unto the world" To
possess and to impart that faith la the
indispensable basis for all high accom-
plishment.
/ am frank to say that there appears
to me great need of emphasizing this
truth In Our fellowship. More than some
other Christian communions we are in
danger OF forgetting st. Our emphasis
upon the value OF all knowledge. our ex-
panSlFe syfnpathles, our varied interests.
our concern for social wrongs. our admi-
ration for the beautiful and true, by
whatever name called, or wherever found
all tend 10 obscure the great rugged
central necessity OF emphasizing personal
salvation through a divinely ordained
Savior. We are in danger OF assuming
It's Importance. The need is that It be
proclaimed.
There is call for q great campaign OF
witnessing among us-of witnessing to
the eternal verities OF the gospel. The
OF tomorrow shall
please God, be found proclaiming In ac-
cents of unfaltering trust, and with ag-
sressive concern. the salvation of men
through Jesus Christ.