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Show CHRISrS COMING -WOULD REVEAL ONLY MAN'S SELFISHNESS Such Is Theory of the Rev. Green Alvin Foote Expounded Ex-pounded in Sermon. The Rev. Greer Alvin Foots, pastor of Went mini ter Presbyterian churrh, moralised mor-alised upon the probable results If Christ: wore to come to Salt Lake, In his sermon last night. If Christ should come to Salt J.ke and announce that he would heai the lame, the halt and the blind, the speaker said, the wnnle population would gather quickly quick-ly about him. The Word would soon be sent broad rant throughout the world, and this city wou d be the n terra of the world. Rnllroad txafflr would be ronast-i ronast-i el and everv nlncr of irvnnimAdallnn for th transient would be filled to overflow-In- The valley and the hillsides would be prop'ed with dwellers In tents. And then. If Christ i-hould say. Instead of "They Ilia are healed," "Thy sins are forgiven thee?." the people would murmur snd complain that they wanted something more Important than forgiveness of sins. There would, be business men who would wish their Indigestion cured that they might devote more eneray to making money. An artist would want lost sight restored that he might try again to create cre-ate a masterpiece. The faded society belle would want her chsrms restored that she might h fascinating again. Selfish . Air-si rea would, don.Uuua thai, uowd The speaker pointed that the motive of the crowd would be wrong. They would consider the miracle greater than the power that made the miracle possible. They would overlook the fact that sin Is the cause of most of the world's misery, mental and physical, and that to he made perfectly whole, their sins must be forgiven. |