Show DR DI PREACHES fROM STAGE OP Of THEATER JEWISH NEW YEAR STARTS Tho The day of or enforced d belief Is gone the tho day of ot the peculiar belief Is passing and a day of more moro liberal religious thought is at lt hand This was tho the substance substance sub sub- stance stanco of ot the sermon of or the Rev Elmer I. I Goshen of the tim First Congregational church who delivered his sermon In tho the Salt Lake Lalio theater yesterday morning The sermon ormon was preached ii in tho the theater theater the the- ater as the doors of the church are closed ed while the new organ i is being in in- stalled Tho The theater was crowded This Thil was Dr Go fi firM t sermon permon since his bis return from his summers summer's va v cation ration lIe He ht began an b by stating that it is essential l that A n man runn o bavo some Bome rei religion ion or belief It i is a strange thing declared cl the tho that will biso his bis preacher a man inait trust o own n fa faculties in every cn other direction ion that ho he will wil build tall tan tail beautiful build build- I that ho he will wil build tall tan tail beautiful build build- buildings in ings 8 or mighty cn engines IJ or carry through h to successful completion a thousand thou sand and projects while when it comes conies to his belief ho lie must follow fonow another who lays Jays claim to somo peculiar WR way of gaining iniD tho the truth Man l is surrounded b. b by peculiar proofs of tho the universality uni universality of God s 's love Jove I yet et ho iso in is afraid to trust him He lie thinks God must speak in some somo peculiar wa way to some special menI men I nm not referring ferrin to anything of only local interest The thing is true in in Salt Lake Lako It is truo true in Chicago It is truo everywhere that man isA isA isA is A father does docs not have ha to perform somo some especial act net in order that his children children chil chil- I dren ma rua may know keen that ho loves Joves o cs them He lIo simply docs all his acts in fatherly fashion fa au inn n. n God God simply keeps keens ri right bt on bin being our nir father lie furnishes proofs of his love tide ride Town and hamlet ovo on every o plain lain nail and mountain forest and stream day la and night tho the earth beneath us and ho tho stars above us reveal ro that God has hns made a covenant co forever with tho sons tons of earth Summer pessimists pessimists-I ts I T can find no better name for them them ten tell us UK that rc rc- li ligion ion is on tho decline that there thore is a revival rc of skepticism and arid that tha t the tho world of f today is going to the everlasting e bow ow How slow wo we are aro to find it ITow How we t cling to the creeds of men who never did id proclaim Gods God's God s 's message And Aud how we harm ourselves Cs b by so doin doing man pro prevail We Wf can effect permanency permanency perma perma- nency in in but one unalterable wa way by bJ each ono onn of us remaining true truo to our cherished heals Tonight we are arc happy to usher in our new year Jear in our own house of wor wor- ship Quo One year ar ago by hr force of circumstances circum stances s which wo we could not control we enjoyed d the open hearted generosity and hospitality of a neighboring church hurch We Wo rend in such actions a si sign n of tho the times The rho animosities had previously been heen evidenced cl throughout bout time timo are arc gradually ach passing gassing away and din dying out And AncI in m their place are those manifestations manifesta Hons which tell of the hrin bringing in to the surface of the tho truly human feelings which should unite unito nil people in the bonds bondA of It a common fellowship fellos Passing 4 are tho the petty fe feelings more noro enduring art are the time Si signs lS writ large on our horizon of a dawn of a better day loy for man alan JJ |