| Show A RELIGIOUS BELIEF that was a good religious sentiment entime at expressed by D H moffat hoffst the denver banker on thursday evening sl al though it was in reference t a procedure that is usually classed outside of religion at least unpractical religion the people of colorado Coloa ao aie are working up a mining and industrial exposi expositions tiong too be held in deaver next year the leading citi zuni have expended a vast amount of oratorical effat in adiano ing the scheme all of which Is timely and necessary necee aary mr moffat it Is a believer in the movement and expresses his belief in true religious style ity leby i by doing something in harmony with hir profession prof eulon on the subject I 1 in a hm bid letter he says ayo he be has haa concluded to give in aid of the protect project the he um mom of fifty thousand dollars the same me to be called lor for 6 by the proper of officers floors of the exposition as required he then adds by way of explanation my fortune bus baa been made in colorado it to ie my home I 1 came here in 1860 on the day of march and I 1 propose to cast my lot and my fortune with the state of colorado where I 1 be long it was an AD illustration of thi character which the apostle james proposed when he made the offer 1 I will show i thee bee my faith by my works 11 and it if there are many cole coin rado people who believe as thoroughly in the propriety of the suggested exposition as mr moffat seems to albeit they have not as muon wealth that exposition is going to be a success there to is in this incident an illustration of how a good many utah people can CAD help various enterprises with which they are associated in words of strong at least if in the urging of measures for mutual at ai vaD van Cement in material off affairs of or ei and encouragement are unaccompanied by such practical BE ae si stance anoe as may be within the power of the speaker to give and as may bos b necessary for success they are worse than useless they are harmful in bringing a conviction of the insinger ty of those who utter them the test of actual belief la in a policy or measure to is in the material aid which comes through potion when business mn advocate a scheme if they are lu in earnest they back it with their cash they way may talk and they hey may listen but when they begin to do they call into play that religious principle ul of faith which commands respect anu and leads lead to success 80 also to is it in matters connected with what is generally termed religious life when a man or woman professes belief in a certain principle if the conduct is not harmonized harmo nixed alsed with the rule of that principle the expression pres siou in words word of belief is involuntarily regarded as an mere pretense if a person really believes the promulgation of a certain rule of life to is the ex pres slon of divine will then be is found doing something to COL arm to that rule otherwise his claim to believe of necessity places him in that elan class which the divine master was catechising catechi sing when lie he inquired of certain scribes and pharisees Pharis ees whom he described as an hypocrite how they could escape SIMI and like akk those individuals be will be unable to indicate the means of escape for it is in no not open except to those who clear them selves of the taint of hypocrisy by becoming doers of the be works by which faith is made perfect to salvation it Is in a realization of this principle which gives value to religious precepts through the medium of those who observe them when the apostle james suggested suggett ed to his hi brethren that a man might say my to them that they bad faith and he bad works and then demant demanded lea shew me thy faith without thy aby works work he matie maae a logical home thrust they could not help but realize that thai t exhibit faith except by works was au impossibility that faith without works Is in dead as an the apostle had told them so 0 o dead that they cc osuld uld not materialize it to prove that it even had 48 an tollIce bat ayt hii his offer to show his hia faith by his hia works they recognized to be an easy of fulfilment fulfillment an the other wa difficult his hii was w a convincing argument that on this principle the manifestation manifee tation of Chri chriatian atlan faith by the good works which are an integral part of that faith and material evidence of its ita living existence to IB based baaed the operation of the power of the gospel for the salvation of every one that be lieve tb 01 0 1 |
