The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-17
MESSAGE OF CHRIST
BRINGS MORE LIFE
Layman S Sermon at Phillips Congre-
gatlonal Church Qluminates
World Problem,

The first or a series of evening SER
mons and addresses 10 be delivered dur
ing the winter at Phillips Congrega
tional church by leading laymcn Of the
Congregations church I'm the state, was
preached last evening by DR.. Ernest p.
Mills. q surgeon OF Ogden.
DR. Mills preached an interesting and
inspiring sermon from the familiar words
might have life. and that they might
have il more abundantly."
The speaker said in part:
Never was any saying more auda-
cious Than this of Jesus. measured
from the standpoint OF his audience.
and the time OF its delivery. A man
who was TO his fellows Just a car
penter. a familiar figure TO the public
IN the common place OF toll, standing
and claiming that He could give life,
was daring as II would seem abb
Surd.
He was OF the lower class. the great
section that was looked upon with
deepest scorn by the ruling classes
who had absorbed the contemptu-
Gus spirit OF Rome in the great al
Judea had voluntarily entered.
But calmly and urgently Jesus
spoke this message to His time. That
which no man could do. give life. that
which was to the men above Him
thing beyond understs ndnE. that
which was to the eccleslast stiles OF
Jerusalem the inheritors of the mob
lest religious heritage men knew. but
mad phantasn, that Jesus gave
and has continued to give through
the ages.
Or. Mills then went on TO analyze the
three important characteristics OF the pc
culiar spiritual gift Christ impaired 10
the age asserting that Christ was not
simply one who had Thought through
the problems OF lIfe, Jesus is more than
a thinker. though his thinkings have left
their impress upon all the lands where
His tea chings have been received, Three
especial things It holds. II is n life social
In aspect and power. In the days pre-
cedlng the Reforma ton the church tried
or,a nicaly to be everything. and even
held civil government within its hands.
Since the Reformation. Professionalism ha s
too long held the other extreme. and has
failed TO carry out the social implica tions
few years. While the primary touch OF
Jesus IS upon the human soul, every bit
OF that which claims TO be His life must
he held up TO scoru II II be not social In
It's spirit. and interested In the uplft and
blessings OF all life. The fading OF the
form OF religion crystallizing in the crcs-
cent In this time OF the cXpa nslon OF the
cross through the world is an example OF
this truth.
II IS. too life that Is political in that
IL sweeps into every higher form OF or
ganized social life the various nations
that Ii touches.
But the vital and supreme manifesto =
tion is that which affects the personality
OF those IL touches. for IL imparts a new
power that makes for n new law OF con-
duct. a new form OF service.
In a brilliant following Of the ira sfor-
nation OF the elements into cell life by
the process Of assimilation and reproduc-
ton, the speaker demonstrated the ra-
tionaie by which this higher life sweep
ing through human beings makes the
commouest life heavenly and demonstrates
the truth of Jesus's claim.