Show CHURCHES YESTERDAY Rev A L Hudson Welcomed Home by the Unitarians AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE DANCED OF OVERWORK AND NEED FOR REST How to Obtain That Peace Which Passeth UnderstondinK W K Beans Closes His First Years Pastoraite at the First Methodist Progrebs of the Clturdi Services at the Tabtrnicle First Congregational Congre-gational 31 O A The Unitarians began their church year of 189697 yesterday morning at Unity hall The platform was beautifully beauti-fully decorated with flowers and the large congregation which gathered to welcome home the minister indicated that the coming year will be one of I increased activity and success Mr Hudson preached upon Work and Rest taking a a text Matt X 28 I Come unto me all ye that labor and I are heavy laden and I will give you rest I reiHe said that these two forces work I and rest were often spoken of as i I they were antagonistic to each other when in fact each is necessary to the other like the positive and negative I poles in electricity both of which are required to complete the current Work require the correlated forces of life I ret are crrelated force lfe which together make up the sum oi I human progress and achievement There progess efficient work without cau be no wise and efcient < I out rest and no satisfactory rest without with-out work I Spealdng of the value of rest and relaxation i re-laxation a a condition for successful suc-cessful work he said that the business man actually sutfers1 a financial loss if he neglects 10 give himself him-self time for rest and recuperation Although Al-though he may not be able t perceive it or figure it in dollars and cents the loss is there just the same and is fare to make itself felt The unbroken monotony mo-notony of toil brings weariness one sidedness and limitation of vision while rest always gives a more vigorous a larger and a surer view of things After change and rest the business man is better able to see things clear and see them whole How often i happens hap-pens when a business man is compelled to go away for a few days on some necessary nec-essary trip that new and valuable ideas about his business come to him like an inspiration which he had never thought of in the routine of his office store or shop A rested man can accomplish more in two hours than a tired man can in a day Without rest there comes also a distinct dis-tinct loss of physical and mental elasticity elas-ticity The man loses one and becomes be-comes dispirited From being under continued pressure he lacks power of recovery Little things discourage him Small annoyances upset his nerves He Is unable to seize and make good use of the opportunities which come t him because the depression of his mind and body unfit him to meet emergencies He is like a general who has no reserve to call upon at a critical moment in the battle Opportunity knocks at the door of his tent in vain He has no power to respond Bridgebuilders have found the need of applying two tests instead of one Formerly it was thought sufficient to test the breaking point to know how many tons of weight the bridge would bear without breaking Now it is found also to test the point of necessary rebound re-bound For if after a given pressure the timbers are unable to recover their former position i is evident that repetition repe-tition of this pressure will steadily ands and-s bring them to the breaking i point But the business man no less I than the bridge inspector should look wel to the point of rebound He cannot I can-not afford to wait for the utter breaking break-ing down of health through nervous prostration to forc him into taking needed T = I leed rest It is this that is i making our young men old before their time The first evidence of failure of tone and I elasticity should be recognized as tired j natures call for rest To disregard it is I to invite disaster i But there is another view of the subject sub-ject that is vital The sum of human I life does not consist in lfe acquisition and I achievement To live wisely worthily and well requires the symmetrical development j de-velopment of all our powers But too of ten the demands of busiress seem to shutout j I shut-out everything except the accumulation of mon until at last the victim of tnis1 onesIde development becomes incapable I in-capable of enjoying anything in life outside the limits of his business cares He goes about like a blind man in a I garden of roses The ncnest treasures of nature art and learning are mean ingless to him Music has no charms books and paintings are merely boks merchandise mer-chandise while social companionship annoys and bores him The guest is not for him All the finer possibilities of his life are circumscribed by the walls of his warehouse This is the natural result of a life so absorbed in business I cares a to give no time for rest or change or the cultivation of the higher faculties I is one of the silent tragedies trage-dies of business life which pass unseen un-seen and unheeded Its victims Is victms are leg ion and include many of the best and noblest men who might live well rounded happy rich and useful lives if only they had the time What funer ican life needs in this commercial age is not so much an eight hour law for employees as some law for overworked employers which would force them tot to-t e time for rest The other side of the problem is the need of work as a condition of true rest I was a clever bit of repartee of the little American girl when a foreigner remarked re-marked But you have no leisure clasJ in America no people who live without work and she responded Yes We have chat class too but we call them tramps Nevertheless the fact is that aside from our Weary Willies there is coming to be in this country a considerable con-siderable class of millionaire loafers in the cities and lesser imitators in the towns who take no interest in any worthy activity but seek only to kill time and spend money who in short have nothing to do and find it a great bore to do that This class and all who are inclined to imitate or envy them need to learn that only honest work can sweeten rest that when the pursuit pur-suit of change and recreation is made the business of life then it becomes itself the most tiresome and monotonous monoto-nous of work Wealth and leisure af ford large opportunity for giving and receiving good but power unused reacts re-acts on its possessor and the blessing proves a curse I is physically sad in these hard times to see the unemployed and helpless poor but from another Standpoint it is even more pitiable to pitable watch the unemployed and selfish rich whose better powers of mind and soul are wasting and dying out in a process of sure and swift decay dey Nor is the pro cess lessened by the observance of out pr ward forms and ceremonies of religion while giving i no place in the conduct of their daily lives But what does religion fay to this great problem o work and rest What does i mean that the founder of our religion represents it as a source of rest to those that labor and are lure heavy laden What sort of rest can religion offer to the weary soul Certainly i is not the rest of idle ness the pigs paradise the content which comes from the satisfaction of animal wants Nor is i a sense of se curity from future ills the idea of be ing safely in the fold sfelr or the mere grat ification of religious emotion Such a t conception would debase the true function func-tion of religion The purpose of religion is nobler and grander than this I is to lift human life on to the higher planes of living above the pettiness and strife out of the distracting cares perplexities per-plexities and anroyances which bring unrest into those regions where the higher faculties can have free play and all the faculties of being find themselves them-selves in harmony with the Jaws which guide the universe Those who deny the freedom of the will and assert that we are the creatures of heredity and environment are accustomed to compare com-pare human life with the rendition of the aeronaut who cannot control the te direction of his balloon but is at all times at the mercy of the winds But one thing the aeronaut can do he can control the rising and falling of his little air ship and by rising out of the changing and conflicting currents of the lower air he can bring himself into the region of the upper trade winds which will waft him steadily upon his course In like manner human life and all the conflicting currents of environment en-vironment and heredity ha always the possibility of rising into the higher reg ions of religious relgious thought and inspira Hem where the trade winds of Gods infinite purpose bear ub onward toward to-ward lifes ultimate lfes ultmate destiny When we sincerely seek to rise into this higher realm of living the sorrows perplexi ties and annoyances of life will lose their power the peace which passeth understanding will enter into and pervade per-vade our restless lives and we shall find rest unto our souls Mr Hudson will preach next Sunday Keeper upon the subject Am I My Brothers First Methodist Rev W K Beans yesterday closed his first years pastorate of the First Methodist church and tae results have been gratifying in every department of the church I The social and public services have been well sustained wel During the year a Womans Foreign Missionary society socety and Home Missionary society have been organized each with a strong membership I member-ship The Junior League Epworth League Sunday school and Ladies Aid society have accomplished much efficient work There have been sixtysix accessions to the membership of the church while 250 has been expended on church improvements im-provements 370 on the church debt and 5400 has been raised for benevo lence After making this report to a large I congregation yesterday morning Mr Beans preached a strong discourse on Steadfastness in the Work of the Lord taking his text from I Cor 15 58 I First Con re ltional I Rev C fT Brown spoke at the First Congregational church yesterday morn I Log He chose for his text Luke 22 1415And And when the hour was come he sat down and the twelve apostles with himAnd And he said unto them With desire de-sire I have desired to eat this passover II pass-over with you before I suffer He said in part I is interesting to watch an army on the night before a battle Many of the most deadly battles were preceded by a night of I peace and quiet while others were all bustle and activity This scene caught Shakespeares fancy and many of his tradegies picture the night before some I great battle This is a night before a great battle A batte kingdom is at stake The salvation of the people forever is to be gained The captain of the Chris Chrs tians had but twelve men and one of I them a traitor He gathers his band I of twelve and passes the night with the twelve His men all loved him they had seen his successes and his failures had been with him through privations and pleasures and they were so attached to him that it was only fit that they should pass the night in i i I his offices On that night he took them I entirely into his confidence He knew that nothing would give them more i faith in him than to show that he 1 trusted them and loved them He II knew that the heart must be attended to first I a man goes to war fainthearted < faint-hearted he will be defeated I he has a strong heart the chances are that he will conquer Jesus knew that the only way his men could conquer was to have them love him because if they I loved him they would put their whole heart into the work There was Peter that bundle of contradictions I was 1 this love that caused Peter to resist I temptation on his visit to Rome The follov ing legend which I found among my papers tells about this temptation I DOMINE QUO VADIS A Legend of the Early Church I Darkening the azure roof of Neros world From smouldering Kome ihe smoke or ruin curled And the fierce populace went clamouring I These this Christian thing dogs tis they have done So the wild wolf Hate were sacrificed The panting huddled flock whose crime was Christ Now Peter lodged in Rome and rose each morn Looking to be ere night in sunder torn By those blind hands that with inebriate zeal Burned the strong Saints or broke them on the wheel Or flung them to the lions to make mirth For dames that ruled the lords tnat ruied the earth And unto him their towering rocky hold Repaired those sheep of the Good Rpre sheep te Goo Shep erds fold I In whose foam white fleece a yet no blood I Bare Rome witness to the ravening fangs of More light more cheap they cried 1 we hold our lives cred Than drives chaff the flail or dust the whirlwind As chaff they are winnowed and a dust are blown Nay they are naught but priceless is thine own Not in yon streaming shambles must thou die We counsel we entreat we charge thee entret tee I lly And Peter answered Nay my place Is here Through the dread storm this ship of Christ I steer Blind is the tempest deaf the roaring tide And j nis pilot at the helm abide Then one stood forth the flashing of whose soul Enrayed his presence like an aureole Eager he spake his fellows ere they heard tey I CaughJfrom word his eye the swift and leaping Let trod us his vines b in the winepress And poured a beverage for the lips of God I Or ground as wheat of his eternal field i Bread for his table let our bodies yield I Behold the church hath other use for thee Thy safety is her own and thou must I flee Ours be the glory a her call to die But quick and whole God needs his great ally And Peter said Do lords of spear and shield Thus leave their hosts teir host uncaptured on the field And afar from some mount of prospect watch I The havoc of the hurricane of S war Yet if he wills I Nay my task I is plain TO serve and to endure and to remain But weak I stand and I beseech you all Urge me no more lest at a touch I fall There knelt a noble youth at Peters feet And sweet like a viols strings his voice was A supplant angel might have pleaded so Crowned with the splendor of some starry woe He said My sire and brethren yesterday The heaven did with ghastly heven wih ghasty torments slay Pain trod like a worm beneath their feet they Their souls went up like incense unto God An quire offering richer yet can Heaven re O lve and be my brethren and my sire And Peter need answered Son there is small That thou exhort me to the easier deed Rather I would that thou and thE had lent ba Strength to uphold not shatter my intent in-tent i rl Already my resolve is shaken sore I pray thee if thou love me say no more And even a he spake he went apart Somewhat to hide the brimming cf his heart Wherein a voice came flitting t and fr That Go now said Tarry and anon said And louder every moment Go it cried lAd Tarry to a whisper sank and died And as a leaf when summer is oerpast Hang trembling ere it falls in some chance blast his and fell So hung trembling purpose fel dead And he arose and hurried forth and fled Darkness conniving through the Capuan Gate From hate all that heaven of love that hell of To the still Campania glimmering white I and And will strove to think he did the Masters But spectral eyes and mockingaigues pursued mOcingceS Ahd with vague hands he fought a valC had ut phantom brood Doubts like a swarm of gnats oerhung his flight And Lord he prayed have I not done aright Can I not living more avail fo thee Than whelmed in yon red storm of agony The tempest it shall pass and I remain Not from its fiery sickle saved in vain Are there no seeds to sow no desert lands Waiting the tillage of these eager hands That I should beastlike neath the butcher fall More fruitlessly than oxen from the stall Is earth so easeful is mens hate so sweet Are thorns so welcome unto sleepless feet Have death and heaven so feeble lures that It Choosing to live should win rebuke thereby there-by Not mine the dread of pain thp lust of bliss Master who judgest have I done amiss I L on the darkness brake a wandering ray A vision flashed along the Appian Way I Divinely in the pagan night it shone A mournful face a figure hurrying on I Though haggard and dishevelled frail I and worn A king of Davids lineage crowned with thorn Lord whither farest Peter wondering cried To Rome said Christ to be recru cified I Into the night the vision ebbed like I breath And Peter turned ondrushed on Rome I and death My friends although voices say g I and tar to you a they did to Peter the only thing to do is t resist them a he did I At the Tabernacle I The quarterly conference of the Salt Lake stake met yesterday morning and again in the afternoon and at night Stake President Angus 11 Cannoii presided pre-sided At the morning seri s Stake Counselor Coun-selor Charles W Penrose and Joseph E Taylor and Elder Adolph Modsen addressed the audience Their sermons were devoted chiefly to the duties of the stake priesthood The regular choir did not occupy its customary place but a chorus of about 100 chiefly from the ward organizations organiza-tions sang with pleasing effect with Mr Thomas a director ana Miss Kate Romney as orgonistjj AFTERNOON SERVICES At the afternoon services Elder J Golden Kimball first addressed the congregation He began by referring to the temptations with which young I Latterday Saints were surrounded I is hard he said to resist the song of I the siren of evil srn i The preservation of virtue among Latterday Saints is something beyond all price The crime of adultery is one of the greatest sins in the sight of the Lord The Book of Mormon says I Know ye not my son that these things ore k abomdnaition in the sight of the Lord most abominable above all things save it bthe shedding of innocent blood or denying the Holy Ghost Parents should preserve their children child-ren from this and other growing evils or the hearts of the will heat people wH be wrung with sorrow The Spirit of God a all Latterday Saints know as well as they know that the gospel is true will not dwell in an unclean j I I toberaacle Time wits in Zion when the loss of virtue by aLatterday Saint I caused as a sensation n the great a ses3lion a te I commission o murder now does When one injures the body he injures the spirit within hiPj vV3ien a Latterday Saint loses his virtue unless he repents I re-pents he is really an apostate from the church Safaris of Jesus Christ of Latterday Srns SafarisThat I That continued Elder Kimball Is strong doctrine How do the Saints like I I it I that is disagreeable to you then I I shall g into the wilderness and live I on locusts and wild honey and when I the people a satisfied with following the ways of Babylon I shall come back come day and Saints preach repentance t the Latter v I Elder Kimball said he felt like malting I malt-ing a prophecy All the great man I sions o Zion he said would yet come into the hands of the Saints and they I would feed the people pay the taxes on Zions property and make all the land prosperous I The names of the stake authorities were then read and sustained unanimously imously by the vote of the congregation congrega-tion cngreg Apostle Teasdale was the next speaker I speak-er He said the singers of Zion were an example to the people He considered consd I ered the hymns he said to be as sacred a the Scriptures I is a serious I wrong to the authors of these songs to alter them in any respect I they are I crude 1e tem remain crude There is often as much inspiration in a song I a upon the lips of a prophet Apostle Teasdale read extensively I from the moral teachings of the Book of Mormon He said that the people came to Zion in order to get away from the worlds evils The Saints left priestcraft for priesthood darkness for light evil for good things I seems a if many of the worlds temptations had followed the Saints Zion begins to look very much like the rest of the world If the Saints would keep in I te Saint remembrance re-membrance their responsibilities and I the consequences of evil they would be better fortified against the temptations tempta-tions of satan The evening services were cut short I on account o the shutting off of the electric lights Elders Seymour B I Young and Angus M Cannon were the speakers |