The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-29
WORLDS EVIL IS
TOPIC Of SERMON
The Reverend John Malick
breaches Strong Discourse
at Unitarian Church.

AT Unitarian church services yesterda
the Rev. John Malick treated upon th
worlds evil and the effective cure 70
sin. enlisting the close attention Of hi
during the discourse In par
his address follows:
The problem OF the worlds evil
whence and why these things that
burden and darken our lives until we
would purchase respite by release II
we could quit the field with honor
has vexed the human mind throughout
the centuries. Why is nature SO sui
len and cruel? Why does disease raw
age and humanity wallow in the
dregs? 1t Is such a difficult question
that men are cautioned to leave 1t
alone. because the seeker for the
whence and why OF evil often must
sacrifice his belief for his pains. But
venture that II Is not 9 Big a aues-
ton today as it was twenty-five CEN
turtles ago.
Socrates was indicted, convicted and
drank the hemlock because he ever
made the worse appear the better part,
and every century since his time has
witnessed much vice IN the field OF
evil brought over TO the field of good
because we hnve come to know it
better.
But the field of what We call evil
and the field OF sin are not the same,
When men speak Of the problem of
evil they mean every terrible thing
In nature-storm. earthquake, sick
ness-everything that makes us suf-
fer and drop out before our time. But
sin has much smaller field than
this, 1t Is rather restricted but con-
stantly enlarging field. As clviIiza-
ton advances the field for the prob
lem Of evil becomes less. but the field
OF sin becomes greater with every
genera ton.
In this city in the past week mil
lions of actions have been done; mil
lions Of words have been spoken; In
Vulnerable dealings In business; con-
tact one with another for every con-
ceivable purpose 1t is conceiyab BILE
that out of this vast number of acts,
words and thoughts part are neu-
trail, Not man, woman or child
either gained or lost in health. happi-
ness or a chance to live. However a
part Of this whole field Of activity nee
essa1ly was so directed that some to-
day are distinctly richer In some part
of life. The third possibility is that
because of a part Of this activity some
lives today are poorer In purse or
spirit or honor. unhappler and the
whole way made infinitely harder,
One man cannot sin in another man
or through another man. Every man
begins his own guilt account, II closes
with the man, His guilt is linked to
his standard of life, Transferring
guilt from one account TO another
would be impossible. The guilt OF
Judas Iscariot and the merit of Jesus
are private affairs in the soul OF each
to the end of time.
Religion can say to man just what
the physician would say "if You
would get nd of the results. quit it,
One can say TO any moral wreck,
Start with what you have left These
very laws OF habit and nature. that
now bind you TO the ground as II in
chains, would as gladly bend you TO
the good and make that as easy as
vice now is. until You shall rise out
of the freedom of vice into the free
dom Of virtue and the chains that
drag becomes wings that lift"