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Show DAILY UTAH 6 CHURCH OF THE REV. ALFRED BROWN PREACHE8 AN ADVENT SERMON. Ths Bibla as an Inspired Work Consolation in Sorrow and in Dsath. A Rev. Alfred Brown had a large and attentive audience at the Church of the Good Shepherd, corner Grent avenue and Twenty-fourt- h afreet yesterIlia day morning. aubject wua: The Bible the Word of God," and his texts were . . The Kingdom of Heaven Js at Hand, Matt. iiL 2; My Words Shall Xot Puss Away," Luke xxl. SL Ha said in part: The kingdom of heaven is my chosen topic for these Sunday mornings in Advent, and for this morning I take the words," the Itible, the literature of the kingdom. How Is it that with the million Bibles published, and in more than four hundred languages printed every year, this book of books is not everywhere received, its doctrines universally accepted, and the Chrlstian-war- d life generally lived? Why is it not this word of God believed by every one In our own bind, In our own town? Perhaps we may And an answer by comparing this word written with the Word Incarnate of whom It speaks. How was Jesus Himself received? The kingdom of heaven, the church, beholding Him with the eye of faith, saw his glory in spite of His humiliation; the world, beholding Him only with the eye of sense, could not see His glory because of Ills humiliation. The disciples, believing In Him, saw ITim full of grace and truth, the unbelieving world saw Him full only nf presumption and false pretense. The chdrch loved Him, clung to Him, and at lust worshiped Him; the world scorned, hated, and at Inst crucified Him. And the rewnrd of the faith of the church and of the doubt of the world came to each In its due, exact and natural way of requital. The church, believing in spite of difficulty, her faith deepening day by day and year by year, as the disciples went to and fro with their Lord, triumphing over all the difficulties and the duubts that were raised by the lowliness of His surroundings as contrasted with the greatness of His clulms; the church that followed Him to His cross and watched by His grave, was rewarded for her faith by being permitted to see the triumphs of the reasurectlon and the ascension by the joy of certainty. The world on the other hand went 00 from doubt to denial, and from denial to sin. Clinging fast to their first miserable error as to the carpenter's son seeing in Him nothing else than the carpenter's son the Jews at last come to believe that the cross of Jesus upheld only the body of a blasphemer, and that the grave of Jesus hid only the remains of an Impostor; and so the world, as represented by the Jews of thut day, walked on in its unbelief and hardness of heart to Its doom. These two widely different and opposite progresses started from the same point. These diverse conclusions were pronounced upon the very same facta The world and the church looked upon the same Jesus, under the same external surroundings the lowliness and the greatness, the humiliation and the majesty of Christ were present to both; the king cuine to both meek and lowly, and the world rejected, while the church owned her Lord. To the one He was only the carpenter's son, to the other He was and is Very Man and Very God. The mystery of the inspiration of the written word is parallel to that of the incarnation of the word In the jwrson of Christ. In both there Is the meeting of the Divine and the human; in both there is the shining out of the Divine through the human; in both there is such an outward display of the humun, as that men may deny, if they will, the presence of the Divine. The Bible is God's word. Holy men of old spake as they are moved by the As truly and certainly Holy Ghost. as in Jesus Christ dwelt the fulness of the Godhead bodily, so truly and so certainly, in the heurts of .those who gave us His book, dwelt the Divine spirit of God. The Bible Is, in a sense in which it is true of no other book, God's book and God's word; but equally true Is it thut the Bible is man's book and man's word. God, the Holy Ghost, spoke first in the souls of those whose hearts were open to receive Him and so stirred them to give us these inspired words. They are, therefore, their words as well as His. The heurts of men were first filled with the spirit before their lips spoke out their utterances, and, therefore, those utterances were as as truly theirs as they were Gods. The human nature, the human individuality, the humun peculiarities of the writers, remained untouched, because God was speaking through the lips of real men. And so it is that the utterances of their lips come to us steeped in the deepest emotions of the human heart. It was the tender thought, the glorious aspiration, the lofty hope, the tempting fear, the solemn awe, the stern Indignation of men moved to the very depths of their nature by the power of God working in them, that shaped the words that live and burn in the pages of Scripture to this very day and that stir our hearts because they first stirred the hearts of those who uttered them. This is as true of the humanity of God's word written, as it is true of the humunity of God's word incarnate. There is in each a real, true, and visible humanity. Human souls moved by God's spirit spoke as men and under the conditions and limitations of their day and their generation. Their thoughts were tinged with the philosophy, their knowledge was limited by the scientific knowledge of their own time; they spoke the history and the science, as truly as they spoke the dialect and grammar of their day; to suppose anything else would be to suppose not a supernatural but an unnatural inspiration. Now, as of old, the church and the world look upon the Divine mystery with different eyes, one with the 'eye of faith, the other with the eye of sense. The world delights to show us all that is human in holy Scripture; delights to dwell with critical skill and learning upon the genesis and history of each book in the Bible; delights to question its received authorship; delights to show us errors in its history; defects In its science, solecisms in its grammar; dissects the Bible, vivisects the Bible, and having failed to find there a living soul, turns round to us with a look of scorn, and tell us that it is flesh, flesh only. They ask. Wherein does this book differ from other books written by man, who as it were, are with us to this very day?" Have we not Homer and Milton, and Shakespeare, and Dante, and are there not the Koran, the Vedas, the Shastras, and sacred book? many another Why should we bow down to this Joseph of yours that would set itself above Its brethren? On the other hand the church clings to the truth that this word intensely human as she knows and owns it to be Is also Divine; and that in it dwells the spirit God; that In it are the infallible oracles of God; that it is therefore as truly Gods book as It is man's book. By ever drawing nearer and nearer to their Master's presence, by listening more and more to His words, by throwing their hearts more and more open to the Divine teachings and light that came from Him, there grew in their souls a deepening conviction that He was not as other men. and so they passed on into assured faith by the certain fact of the resurrection. In the same way, and in no other, can we deepen in our own souls the divinity of God's' word. It. is as we gather from it our consolation in sorrow, our strength in trial, our courage in adversity, our patience in trouble; it Is as we gain from it dally light on oui path through the world's tangled wilderness of temptation and sin, that it shall become, In the light of its own revealing, the manifestation of God to us. Let that word sink deep into your hearts. Let them close over it as the earth closes over the seed cast upon It; and then safe hidden there in the very innermost core of your being from the blighted blast of skepticism, from the furtive hand of the tempter the seed ahull germinate and spring up in green leaf and shall bear fruit, and you shall know that the power that makes it so live and grow in you is not less Divine than is the power that quickens into life and fruit the seed which human hands cast into the ground, but of which God gives the increase. ed Robbed the Grave. Kodol Dyspepsia Curs. A startling incident is narrated by John Oliver of Philadelphia, as follows: I was in an awful condition. My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain continually in back and sides, no appetite, growing weaker day by day. Three physicians bad given me up. Then I was advised to use Electric Bitters; to my great joy, the first bottle made a decided Improvement I continued their use for three weeks, and am now a well man. 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It Is sickening, this foppishness of worship which girls bestow upon things dressed in mens attire. It is worth while to spend your time with noble and fine manhood, but life is too short and virtue is too costly to waste time on the depraved lepers of our society. Woman seems to appreciate that 14, 1903. I BIG' R.EB SLEDS Jesus Christ has liberated her from the slavery incident to her sex, and in Rev. Ora C. Wright Preaches Last Dis- which, until recently, she was held. Parents, do you remember when you were young, :,ii Therefore, since the first resurrection course on a Series of Inyou news she first told when the morning teresting Subjects. wished for one of those BIG RED 8LEDS for Xmas? of her Saviour's appearance she has been His most devoted and faithful Of course you remember you can never forget thos At the Baptist church last night Rev. herald. Let the b..y daughters remember Gra C. Wright preached his last of a their marvelous opportunities in His Now just remember that your own children have nose ain series of discourses on The Home, church today. A high minded, pure BIG RED 8LEDS. we the and have WISHES, and the obligations which devolve up- hearted womun Is God's best gift to the world. on the parents and the family. In this series he has pointed out the duty and A. W. BROWN bewhich 125 should t Twenty-firsexist relationship Street, Ogden, Utah tween the heads of the family and its 2455 Washington Avsnue. John A. Boyl., ggr. members and the responsibilities which Cemtery and Lawn Fences, Sidewalks, Doors. Ornamental Iron and Grating they conjointly owe to the commit Work, etc. Brass and Iron Castings. nity and society at large. The subject of the discourse last The Daughter and the night was: Horne. He said In part that at the time the daughter assumes any importance in society she becomes in the home a factor ranking next to father and mother. As she grows older she often ranks next to mother. While not ABOUT DRESSING WELL AND depreciating the importance of the training of our sons, in view of the fact STYLISH. that the daughters are to become wives NEITHER IS IT EXPENSIVE IF and mothers and, therefore, prime facYOU KNOW WHERE TO BUY tors in building homes, her training is will That supremely important. parents YOUR CLOTHES.. COME TO guard her from Impurity is assured. AND LET US 8H0W YOU THE But how to inspire in her positive and nigh conceptions of virtue and duty LARGEST AND FINEST LINES is a problem not so easily solved. OF MENS, BOY'S AND CHIPositive virtue is the only safeLDRENS CLOTHING, HATS, CAPE guard against evil and though there to a as how be may far the question 8HOE8, ETC, TO BE FOUND father should go in giving his daughUTAH AND AT PRICES THAT ter a conception of the assaults she will meet in her contact with man WONT JAR YOUR BANK ABake is best relhe should at least go far enough to CCOUNT. ished where the make her safety secure. But let him also by the contact of his intellect acclams are right. custom her to grapple with the probThis rule holds lems of citlsenshlp, finance, national good with siny events and world struggles. Lend to kind of a bake. her character the masculinity which Next time, hake makes woman independent and justwith Let his inspire her ly with the idea that beauty without Art and strength is contemptible. 2345 Washington Avsnut. music do not make the man effeminate; nor does strength of body and I independence of mind make the woman mannish. And notice the The NORTH AMERICAN INVESTMENT COMPANY The mothers duty to her daughter wholedelicious, is unrivalled. She must be her OF THE UNITED STATES. some bread As the son will more and more confide in the father so ought the Not tlie cheapest, but the brut." daughter hold motherhood a sacred St. Louis, Dec. 5th, 1903. shrine where she may pour out her Mr. II.. E. West, Ogden, Utah. soul. Here is the test of motherhood her and wisdom when, hy Dear Sir You are hereby notified experience and love, she gives to the iqulrlng girl that the North American Investment the advice and wisdom she sorely needs. Where this close relation la Company of the United States has insacredly held, the daughter will not go creased its deposit with the Treasurer of far from the paths of virtue and wothe State of Missouri to $193,000.00, for manliness. the protection of investors. But as with the sons so with the 2 Influence Parental not is daughters. Yours very truly, omnipotent for the final test of responFive Cars of Bran and Shorts R. L. MAUPlN, President. Signed sibility Is found to rest on the individual soul. The daughters of your We also hare tlie most This Companys deposit has been increased $32,350 since llneof Poultry and Feedcomplete own homes must guard their own lives, Supplies In the county. November 1st, 1903. must be willing to be inspired by noble FLOUR-COS RN HAY Impulses and Ideals; must acquire for themselves the womanly characters; H. E. WEST, Manager. must fight their own battles. All the W. FARR&CO. NEVADA. UTAH. IDAHO. help parents can give, they must give, m a but parental duty and children's responsibility commingle. I would have every girl know the of importance conducting herself A SUGGESTION TO beautifully nnd dutifully In the home. Here is the place to show the charm of manners; the culture of music, and of books; the refinement of experience and training of society. Be the queen In your parents' home thnt you expect to be in your own home. And the daughter who falls to help mother lift the burdens Is unworthy of mother's sacrifice. Instead of going to school to learn how to cook and keep house enter the home kitchen and home Can he bought. We are offering some exquisite duties and learn these womanly arts. sets for the Ladies Christmas. See them. The girl that feels it beneath her dignity to do whnt mother is compelled to do is not fit to become a wife. It is important for the (Lighter to and understand her position in society. It Hobby Horses is assumed she will lend her charms Doll Carriages. to the social events and by her presence social life in her community will IN ABUNDANCE. Many, be more pleasant and profitable. Girls nnd boys are apt to be very foolish but times comes when childish things are to be put away. The thought I am most concerned in on this occasion Is Fill out this Blank, cut itout and send it with the amount of Subscription to the power of the daughter to ennoble and purify society. Woman debars from her presence the one of her sex who has fallen. I demand that she do the same regarding the man. Treat OGDEN, UTAH. both alike. Give young men to undersubscript!00 stand that they must be as pure as you Inclosed please find $ for are; that they must be as high minded to the DAILY UTAH STATE JOURNAL, beginning with No as you are; that they must be worthy ns you are. or date 1903. When the daughters are determined Name...? Residence to demand the same moral requirements of young men thnt young men State City and County require of them then, nnd not until 1 11J V BOYLE HARDWARE CO. There Is No Trick U A Clam IN Putnam Clothing self-relia- ...House nt Crescent Flour..... high-prie- st Bros. Peery milling' co. Just Arrived! ! 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