Show CHURCH DECIDES ON Phillips Congregational to EX EXist 1st Independent of Mis Missionary Missionary Branch PASTORS SALARY RAISED SERMON ON FUTURE OF SALT LAKE AND UTAH The Phillips Congregational church Will he be and Independent independent dent of the missionary support ot of that organIzation was decided yesterday at th morn lug Ing service of the church The Tho tion also voted to raise the salary of the pastor Rev P A at this meet meetIng Ing At the evening service the Re Rev Mr r preached on the religious and commercial future of Salt Lake find and saying sayin A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid Matt v H 14 The wor word of the tho hour is from the see sec onel ond sermon of Jesus Jestis Christ recorded lii in inthe the book The first was proclaimed at Nazareth In whose little synagogue he the character of big bis mission The second is that on the mountain in marvelous riches he spoke a pr pro program gram of conduct that would fit mn men for forthe forthe the life of the ideal city In his st statement or of an obvious fact that a city set on a ahill ahill hill cannot be hid lies a rich suggestion whIch we will seek to use in thIs hour There Is something majestic lii in the vision of a crowned hill Little St covered with the dramas and pra prayers ers and poems In stone with Its summit bourgeoning In a forest of is a spectacle that multitudes cross the ocean to see sec Jerusalem wIth Its oriental architecture architecture ture Into the sunlight of that far eastern sk sky appeals to the Imagination tion and the romantic sense apart from nU all the human Interest the age has put Into It The cit city SO situated thrusts Itself commandingly on the attention No Now it Is not alone in physical exalta exaltation tion that the secret of commanding po position lies Hes The of the lulls hills of Zion Rome Romeor or 01 ParIs lent nothing but to them The thing that has fLed i ed them on the canvases of age has been deeper leeper and higher than the physical When Vh nl a aman man a community or a nation has the throb of a high and lofty thing In the tho life there will come an exaltation which will make power greatness We are arc anxious to have a great city here one sot on the lull hUI Ye We would filling out the dream of Isaiah I lay a the stones with fair air colors the foundations wIth sapphires t windows o of agates the gates of s all the borders or of pleasant stones haYing having all our children taught of the Lord dwelling In great peace and righteousness All AlI that is held in this rIch syMbolism of the Jewish seer we would realize Defines Perfect City Th The upward climb of the raCE dirt did not register tin till men began to cities The perfect city is the end or of the social order Even the prOphets and thO Christ have hae set the tho highest spiritual end In the figure of a city that New ew Jerusalem coming down out or of heaven from God The measure of an all our worth and char character acter r is In the city we make malte Stepping into the New Year our citizens move moe buo buoyantly enthusiastIcally because they believe that this New Year holdS for us the ke of a greater richer fuller life Ufe for our city The liThe opportunities of the thc state the ideal geographical location the wealth or of the lulls the riches of the valleys a the beauty of the thc surroundIngs the gentle and salubrious climate the open leer loor for tor industrial the saline sea the medicinal springs these and a multitude of other re reasons are arc the basis for a new nen day ay whose dawn dan has broken and amI In the lIght o of whose promise m men n sa say Our opportunity Is here w shall be a truly great lc t city lt It is a pleasure to observe the signs of the times to see sec the in hi elY department or of life Ufe and it mat matters not that Wc have sat through th the years lars until the very glacial pressure ot of things has hns pushed us from the old moor moorIngs Ings and sent us out to larger things than 1 he old foundation could hold All Are Arc Working u Nos ow the stir sUr of things b by Commercial club and Merchants association is about us The work or of the tho Walls Vans an and Ne New houses the and the Derns an and Knights the Rices and Dalys the Weirs and Walkers Talkers in bringing the thc wealth of the hills to the cit city is telling The courage of the men who planted the thereat great reat factories that have lifted the Utah farmer Carmer into a condItion of prosperity un unprecedented unprecedented Is to be praised because of oC Us Its creation of oC large wealth that ma may bp be used for tor the s development The shrewd bankers and the great brained law lawyers ers the skilful surgeons and physicians the capable journalists have put their best Into the things that are an and there is no doubt that 1907 1007 will seethe see the greatest year of advance we have ever known It will be a great thing to see the real estate movement continue With pride the raising of the new bus busIness mess Iness blocks will be An expansion expansion sion of all our material interests that will fitly match the greatness of our location and our advantages will be gratifying We shall rejoice as the city rightly takes its place at the tue head of all the cities citie or of the vast ast Intermountain empire as it itis Itis is sure suro to do doAnd doAnd And mine mm mill factory factor smelter store farm Carm and stream and railroad have their part in the makIng ot the greater city r So hospital and school academy and university But Is uNo No The biggest thing remains yet et etIn In the magnificent opportunity of the time there is wide and place for Cor the churches or of Salt Lake no mat matter mator ter or what their name Chance for Churches f The work of the church is of course course primarily and ultimately above aboe and be beyond yond ond the market and the shop Its mes message message sage sage Is of eternity to the eternal in man But that eternal In mans heart and anel brain brainIs Is not n a thing apart froni rom an all the other things of heart and brain In the thc life Ideal the eternal value covers the corn com commonest monest thIngs that fill the life The churches churche as such have haye a message and a ministry to the world or of common things If th they have not the they are arc val valueless valueless ueless As the n cloister life dIed out on the one hand by asceticism on the other by corruption because on either I li nd it of the divine divinely h ly appointed a and plan so a ar r religion that in apartness from the things of cOmmon day the flow and uplift or of th the 1 sPirit of truth will willdie willdie die unheeded In thIs bus busy generation Idealism and must be joined The Th time i IS passionately eager on its best side tor or an application or of the high highest highest est truth to the commonEst life Ure And is Interested in prOsperity in iner er sted that It be based In righteousness to make mak it Increasingly sO And so the churches that are wise enough to see that h eternal will rInd find expression Its in life Ufe lamely or grandly agit s lt ts Is guided wm will feel the Importance or of the time Opportunities Increasing Increase of and wealth makes Increase ot of opportunity The in 4 flowing thou are arc largely those who I 1 will augment the denominatIonal strength and make malte for greater potential efficiency but theIr coming cornIn means a greater burden of service a keener to the needs ot of the human heart What shall shaU we do How shall we join in and shape for the best and highest the cIty in its new opportunities I think the he answer lies in the only commission that is worth while To preach the gos gospel pel to every gospel as old as the heart of God as new as the sunlight that falls faUs on the summits that stand guard about US a gospel as diverse a aa the needs of the human h hearts arts For that gospel has the only power earth has ever known to give to man and city that thrust whIch will make the hill hilltop top or of pi hn beauty and desIre Geologists tell me that we are arc living in a section where the mighty under underworld underworld world forces are arc lifting us up by slow de degrees grees and that this portion of the Ya Wa satch Is rIsing wIth the decades pass lug It is asserted b by some borne that the heat in our local sprIngs is engendered b by the friction of mass on mass In the struggle That ma may be This know by the age experience that the tomorrow of a great grent greater grenter er city will not be realized save as the theother theother other world force of truth is joined wIth the divineness of our own souls to lift it to the upper levels of life I have hae said that this gospel is one with a message to all the life of ever every man and we must it Gospel Message First FirstI I 1 need scarcely sa say first in tile the preachers message that af affects feeLs personal salvation will be pro proclaimed proclaimed claimed But what shall be our campaIgn for the cit city first must come an exaltation of the need of ethical values There must be proclaimed right righteousness righteousness For it Is righteousness that ex cx a people It is a far to the achieved destiny when Then shall each mans good goodBe Be each cach mans rule and amI universal peace Lie like a l shaft or of light acrOss the land And nd like a lane of across the s a the circle of I year But in the stirrings cheerful and von on progress that have moved to such mighty end in the year ear past a 3 anew new grip on the thc abiding things ill in our life liCe there Is a great hope That righteousness that Is more than negative morality moraUl n a force rather working 1051 in tile the lift of those high and low making an exact and just service and 11 life e In such righteousness room must be made for or the things or of God Strange that in our city with Uh a greater number of meeting houses churches cathedrals tabernacles and temples all erected to th thone the theone one and same God there should need bo be boa bea a plea for deeper leeper rIghteousness But for all our public life Ufe for the sweep of our commerce and industry for our hours or of play and our da days s of ease it is needful to speak not censoriously but lovingly a plea for righteousness for its own s sake ke No other one thing will keep our citizens in the place where tile the true will carr carry Itself as the force of that truth which is hel held m in all allOU allour OU our obligations to a righteous God and Father Practical Righteousness Here Herc AU All mere Its claim will me n no more for the conservation or of the best us than lid that apprehension of the worth of Platos an and teaching for the life Ufe of Greece that listened ned as seated and tan failed d to practice justice and truth As I said once before this city can have no greater reater asset than to have the great country know that here a practical rIghteousness abounds which Is evi evidenced In obedience to those commands which the great God has laid upon us for for mutual service an and the achievement of character worthy worth us be because cause like him Let us demand then In self an and in social life a conformity to that rightness which we acknowledge to be bc the expression of good and demonstrate anew that which the na mia nation tion or of slaves fresh from bondage be began began gan to write for the age In poet and prophet and lawyer that righteousness on the hilltop an any people The other great thing that the churches must give in addition to that truth of rIghteousness which is the sane sanc sanction tion of aU all high moral service and lift life Is the message of the gospel of love lov Jesus said that loving God and lovin loving men rUled filled tIle the demand of all law and prophet LovIng God means living Jiving God GodL is Ig the L Loving ving hard thing I suppose it is because they are so much like ourselves and we know ourselves so well We Ve lack nothing In this city quite so much as this There is plenty plent of love here I do not know or of an any anyplace and heart on earth Where the hand place are arc more open to the appeal of need and sorrow than here It would be possible to write a whole dally daily paper un full in ever column with the kind deeds of last every Christmas Week done as easily and leod by bv greathearted mining men law lawers lawyers ily journalists and business businessmen ph physicians men ers as if the they were vero th themselves to be the recipients Look at St Anns orphan age the millers home t e Newhouse bet betterment betterment home the magnIficent Y M C CA CA A the St Marks the Holy Cross and SaInts hospitals the three other orphanages the Y W 1 C A tile the associated charities What hat do they aU all spell spen rOe beautiful human glorIous divine love love for men Oh Salt Lake above all western towns is blessed b by the spirit of Abou Ben whose highest wish was to be wrItten as who loved loed his fellow men in Its facing of s and need Love Has Its Faults But our love must go further farther than it has That does not mean that fabb flabby meat ment must take the place of Intelligent righteous love Love Loe Is not blind to fauts lt It is not deaf deat to discords It is not insensate of scars and deformities But love counts time the life ife Yc We are arc not to love loe that which we con condemn but we are arc as ChrIstian ministers an and people with a message to love all the Ver very enemy of our lives i How shall sha we express It at B By recognition of ever every bit of worth In the life Ufe we touch B By seeing the theman man behind the fault the woman behind the thing we mil may not Silent before no evil dumb before no good must vo 0 be With n a message bet better better ter Ulan than he babbles who differs from us with a life cleaner than that ye we condemn let us move into this year of progress and growth with a message that shall glorify the life Ufe of righteousness and the power or of love bating no jot of con contest contest test with all that Is evil with heart of hope lovIng all that Is good tm till our cit city shall shaH be lifted by love loe and to the of a lull from whose sum summit summit mit tile the light of her life Ufe shall shaH he be a beacon for the gathering hosts who shall build with us a better empire than our dreams amid the charming beauty of oC our hills hillsand hillsand and vane valleys s |