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Show SAYS EXPERIENCE GOVERNS MANKIND The Eev. F. IVL Larkin of San Francisco Fran-cisco Speaks in Salt Lake City. The Rev. F. M. Larkin. Pb. !., of San Francisco, editor of the California Christian Chris-tian Advocate, preached at the First Methodist Episcopal church Sunday morning. morn-ing. His subject was "The Reality of Christian Experience." He said in part: The great question of our day Is, what is real? Young people especially are asklnjr, "Ts It the real tiling?" Religious reality is involved in the , Question of experience, and the mystery mys-tery of experience results from it dual character. There are tlie outside out-side fans of the physical universe, which are common to all. But there is the Inside fact which is peculiar to the individual. Five immigrants from as many 3 countries btund before the inspector in New York. Th.- inspector asks a ' question in English. There Is ho sljm of intelligence on the face of a single person. He then speaks in French, and immediately the Frenchman begins be-gins to tulk and all the rest are confuted. con-futed. All have heard the same sounds, but only to one comes trie knowledge wluch the Inspector is trying try-ing to convey. All had the experience of sound, but only one has the further experience of knowing what has been said. The Inside fact had everything to do with, the resulting experience. This is true of all sights and sounds,. This is one of the reasons that we have books on "How to listen to music," mu-sic," and "How to look at a picture." Experience has been tlie method of science since the teaching of Bacon's inductive method in the sixteenth century. cen-tury. U is called todav In philosophy tlie pragmatic method, which simply asks of any thenrv. "Does it work, or Is it worth while?" |