The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-02
MEN MUST TURN
AGAIN To CHURCH
Religious Impulse Deeper
Than Credulity or Super
stition, Says Pastor.

The campaign for drawing people I
renewed interest In religion and religion
work known as tho "'Go-to- Church
was iuausurated at Phillip
Congregational church yesterday by Tn
Rev. Peter A. Simpkin. Both sermon
were addressed TO the fundamental nee
Of religion for the maintenance OF ciVi
liza ton and It's organized life.
At the morning service the. Rev. MI
Simplsin. taking for his text tho reopen
Ing by Isaac Of the wells which the Phi
istiues; had filled up after the death c
Abra ham, said in part.
We forget go readily that the soul
has Its thirsts rs much as has the
body The physical is the least I'M
portant element Of mans nature.
powers. the inner heart with It's
sensibllitfes and deeper meanings, hold
the values OF primo and supreme I'M
portance.
OF old. In the worlds morning time.
there MAS coined in the oriental mind
the truth that where there Is no Vls-
ION. the people perish Life is verify
made by mems spiritual vision.
That awakening OF our land Just
now to the Importance OF church-Going
is no resurgence OF that credulity or
superstition which have been whipped
out OF court, 1t is simply a sober
awakening to the truth that our ma
tional character and moral Derma-
nence have been sraVely imperllled by
the neglect Of spiritual things. Rellg-
ion, pure and lofty, Is an absolute
essential of national advance. per
manence and true prosperity, an abid-
Ing social fabric can rest on no other
founda ton
As clearly without the church rs
within IT are lifted the voices OF warn
ing. a great New York banker said
at the banquet table in Chicago last
month: I'VE have been robbed of
something, for the lack OF which our
spiritual atmosphere becomes poison
Gus. our intellectual life weak and
flighty, our social organiza tion breaks
down. That we have lost is the re-
you, not as a preacher, but as plain
business man" And the reform can
come only through individuals, Man
without religion is not cthicaliy
spite all the rich robe OF material ad-
vance. The secret OF advance and
keeping is not in school or library art
gallery or music room, but in spirit
ual power
Your church going, religious people
has nothing TO fear-economically IN
dustrlally. politically. Religion feeds
brain and heart. patriotism and en-
ergy
There is no religious impact in our
cial life or business spirit. The home
cannot endure without religion. and
where vital religion is there is neith-
er divorce problem nor the delin-
quency Of youth Men must turn
again to the church, Gods appointed
minister in spiritual things.
The father must not be content
with the preachment OF moral but,
il he would have his sons go out into
the world 10 service and greatness, he
must lead them Into the schooroom
Of religious culture, sit with them in
Gods house, and thus best lend en-
phasis TO the abiding importance OF
religion.
And beyond all other considerations
IS that Of the individual need. the per-
sonal moral culture. the possession
by the soul OF that secret OF life
measureless that the Book calls sal
walton. The flashing change that
brings success, pleasure. fame. all the
there is the aftcr~srd.
Perhaps 1t IS enough 10 say that
those who cultivate religion live best
and die best. Upon the fundament OF
a charac cter whose influence shall live
timelessly In the earth there IS buildcd
hope from whose summit the heart
sees the vision OF life beyond in the
power OF which It's possessorS move,
not into deaths night but into lifcs
morning.
We should open the wells choked by
matcrialsm and worldliness, and let
the waters of life bubble again to sat
isfy the cravings OF the human heart
and continue to produce that type of
character whose benediction IS in all
that makes our ciylliZa tion a thing Of
life and beauty.