Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-10-04 | Page 5 | Poor Give More to Charity than Rich

POOR GIVE MORE TO I I CHARITY THAN RICH I I i Special to The Telegram OGDEN Oct 4 The 4 The tendency of ot the prosperous to get and keep all th they y can can is the deadliest enemy of ot ottrue true religion according to John E E. Carver in his sermon at at the First Presbyterian church yesterday The minister declared that combined be bequests bequests bequests be- be quests of ot the poor were greater than the immense endowments of a few tew of the rich lIe He said in part We Ve often sneer at sentiment and call those who are sentimental foolIsh foolish foolish fool fool- ish but nevertheless nevertheless' our our sentiments largely mar or make us There are ara some trends cold reason cannot quite overcome because as Pascal says The heart has a a. thousand reasons that reason And wh when n the sentiments of ot the heart are killed kUle life lite becomes a dreary thing When sentiment dies we are old even If it there are no gray hairs upon our head The child gives freely treely and Is happy in so doing dolOg and when the person person person per per- son becomes miserly the other divine traits traUs of ot trust and affection are usually usually usually ally dead de-ad also The poor give ever evermore evermore evermore more freely treely than the rich and ard doubtless doubtless doubtless doubt doubt- less their gifts gUts bulk larger each year than the heralded large bequests be In no trend of ot a wealthy age do dowe dowe dowe we find more danger t to true religion than in the trend of ot the prosperous prosperous to get and keep all they can cati The money side is not the most serious phase of it The withholding of love Jove service praise and prayer from a loving God Is the deadly effect of ot the death of the sentiment of giving