Show TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT UTAH II I SAYS THE REV P. P A. A S SIMPKIN I Send Good Things Broadcast to World and Keep Bad Ones at Home BUILD THE TH IDEAL CITY Picture ii it or of luit 1 mitt Suit Salt t Lake he SI Should iou hi Be lk 4 li J All J Can Call huh Help Materially Tell Icil the thu truth about Utah was tho substance ur of a sermon by Rev Re Rep p p. A A. of or the the- Phillips the Phillips Congregational church pr preached ached last night lIe He pictured l th thc clI city and amid said It was vas wasa vasa a a. place rr fr from rn r which only the good things thing WeI ei sent forth to the world from rom which every a agency s sent nt out good and kept Internal troubles at home where lh they will Wm have to lo be treated Simultaneous with the splendid sermon sermon ser ser- mon muon by Rev Rc ill Mr MI I comes Conies th the tho announcement nt that thaI his hh church arrived at tho the where It Is point support self Ing big yesterday Ja Missionary l help was thrown aside after an nn years' years struggle I At communion yesterday morning fourteen persons were re ro- ro Into the growing flock Clock undo under tb lIw charge of the able minister I Iwas It was vas a great eat day ay at al Ph Phillips III I The Rev ItC Mr r. r took tool as hi his text A city that Is set on a hill hili cannot cannot cannot can can- not be lie hid lid Matt v. v 1 I 11 I. I lIe Ho said The word of the hour Is from tho the see sec ond sermon n of Jesus Christ recorded tn In n th the hook Book The first was at Nazareth In iii whose little synagogue hl he ic outlined cd the character of his hits nils mis- sion slon Th The second is that on the mountain moun moun- tain taimi in whose marvelous riches h he poke spoke a of conduct that would fit men for or the lIf life of tho tue Ideal city eity In ta lenient of an nn fact fac oct that a city on a hill hili can not be hid hill lives a a. rich supposition which we will wll seek cek e lt to i sc c In this hour There is Something something some some- thing majestic In the tho vision of a u city city- crowned hill hlll Little St. St Michaels covered cov coy ered wit with II the o. middle age c dreams and prayers poems in stone with Its summit bourgeoning in a forest o of oC spires Is a a. spectacle that lint m multitudes cross the thc ocean to see linage Image c of Jerusalem I with Its oriental ur Urr Into the sunlight of that tha I Ia ml a ai I pastern eastern sky appeals to the Imag Imag- nation and the tho romantic sense apart apar from rom int all the human Interest tho age has hns plat pit Into it so situated thrusts Itself commandingly on the attention Now It I Is ot alone In lit physical exaltation that a secret o of commanding position tic lies le he of or the hills of or v Zion Ion F. F P mor m or Paris lent nothing but sight sight- lin ine s s to them The thing that has fixed them on the canvases of the time age i ihas has been deeper and higher her than the I I aaL When hell a man a community ll i. throb ot or a a. a high bight pid tl d loft lofty thins In lit the life liCe there willme will wll me an exaltation which will make Cr r. r greatness We c are arc to have a great reat city here one ones ones' s' s set t on a hill hili We Ye would be filling ou out I Ithe the dream of or Isaiah La Lay the tIme stones with fair colors the foundations with will sapphires s. s making the windows o of It agates the tue gates of or carbuncles all the time borders of at pleasant stones having all al allour allour our children taught of th the tho Lord dwellIng dwelling dwell dwell- In Ing In great peace and righteousness All that Is held in this rich symbolism of the Jewish seer we wo would realize Th The The upward climb of oC tho the race did no not register till men began to build cities Th city is the he end of the social socia 0 order f t v Ne C Year CiLl III In City Even the prophets and the tho Christ have highest spiritual end In tho tue figUr fig fiS' i Ur ur f a city that New Jerusalem comIni com com- Ini own out of or heaven from God The measure o of all nIl our worth and character is hi in the time city we make Stepping Into the tho new year our citizens move mo buoyantly buoy buoy- antly hopefully cn enthusiastically because be be- cau cause thC they believe that this new year hold hoid for us the key to a greater richer rich rich- cr er fuller Culler life for Cor our city The Time long long- onS' onS neg opportunities of tho time state the location the of oC t te ic hills the riches of oC the valleys the or of the time tin the gentle and ami salubrious climate the time open In Industrial development the sea the tue hc medicinal springs these rind f JS multitude of other oilier reasons ar arthe are arc the for a new day whose dawn has l foken and In the light lIS-ht of whose promise men say gay rejoicing Our OUI opportunity op op- Is here We re shall shull be bo a truly I It Is ls a sincere pleasure to observe tho the signs of the limes times to see sec seethe seethe in tn every department of the QuIcken quickening In life id lI it matters not that we wo have sat h the time years year until th the vcr very glacial l pressure of or things has pushed us from r nl the old moorings an and amid sent us out timings things S than the tue old foundation foun foun- dation could hold Now tho time stir of or Commercial club Chill and Merchants Merchants' Mer Mer- bY chants chants' association is aboUt us The work of r the time Walls and New U tile he and the Dems Derns Keiths and imd Kearns and Dalys Dals tho the T Weirs the flees Rices wealth of and W Walkers in bringing tho thio I the hills to 10 tl the city elty t 1 is n tilling Th The I courage of oC the men who planted he great great factories that have lifted the time Llah farmer fanner Into hito a condition of oC prosperity prosperity pros pro I unprecedented is to be praised because of itt lla creation of or large wealth I that may b bo be used for the time city's devel devol- t. t Hell Heal I E Estate Mo The Time shrewd bankers hankers and commercial men the lie brained great lawyers Jawers the skilful surgeons and physicians the capable callable Journalists have put their best Into the things that are and there is i jj no doubt that 1007 will sec see the greatest year of or advance we have ever known It will viii be a n great gren t th thing Ing to see I lie tho II real r.-al I estate movement continue With VIti pride the time raising of or the now business blocks will be watched An expansion of all nU allour allour our material Interests that will nth match the tho greatness of our locution location anti and our advantages will be gratifying I We IC e will wm rejoice as the ell city rl ht takes its place at tho the head of ot all the cities of the tho 1 vast mountain Inter empire empire em lm pire 1 as It Is sure to do and min mill n-mill factory smelter store farm stream tream and antl railroad have o their part in inthe inthe the making of or the greater city ho So o have hospital end and school academy and timi university nut lint Is that nil No Tin Time biggest thing timing remains yet In the nt opportunity o of the time lime there is wide whIp and essential place for the chun churches hc of Salt SaIL Lake no matter what their name Mission lolI of th tho Churches I Irh The rime work of the church is of or cour course cours primarily and amid ultimately above c and be beyond the tIme marl market ct and tho the shop It Its 0 message Is of or eternity to the eternal In Inman man maim But Dut that eternal In mans man's heart and amid brain Is riot not a thing timing apart from nil all the other things of heart and brain In Inthe tho the life Ideal the eternal value cores the time commonest things that nil fill the time life liff The churches as such have a 0 message and a ministry to the world of or common things If It they have not they arc are val ueless As th tito th middle ago cloister UI I life died out on omi the one hand by asceticism on the other by corruption because on either cither hand It failed ailed a II ell of at the time divinely dl appointed ted and naturalistic plans so a a. religion that would cloister In apartness apartness apart apart- ness from the time things of or common day the How nO and uplift o of the spirit of or ortruth truth will wUl die unheeded in this bus busy generation Idealism and utilitarianism must be Joined Tho rho time Is passionately passionately passionately passion passion- eager on Its best Jest sido for an application ap ap- ap- ap of or tho time highest truth to the commonest life And the church Is interested In prosperity prosperity pros pros- perRy interested that it be based in iii righteousness interested to make malco It in increasingly In- In so And so tho the churches that are arc wise enough h to see soe that the eternal will find findUs Its Us its expression in life lamely 0 or grandly grandl as It ii Ills Is guided will feel the Importance of at the time I Increase of Opportunity Increase of population and wealth makes Increase of opportunity This The Inflowing thousands are arc largely large who will vili recruit the denominational strength and make for Cor greater potential potential poten poten- potential efficiency but their coming means h. h greater burden of service service- a n keener to the needs of the human heart What hat shall haH we se do How shall we Join In and shape for the tho best and highest the tue city In Its new opportunities ties I think the answer lle lies In the only commission that Is worth while while- to preach the gospel to every creature a gospel as old as the heart of or God as 35 new as the sunlight that falls Calls on the snow-crowned snow summits that stand guard about us a gospel as diverse as the time needs of or human he hearts heart rt For that gospel has nas the only Jow power r earth has hns ever ovel known to give to lo man and city that which will make the hilltop of or prominence beauty and desire Geologists tell teIl us that we see arc are living In a section where the lie mighty und underworld forces arc gre lifting us up by slow degrees and thus this portion of time the Wasatch is ii rising with each decades decade's passing It is asserted by some that the heat heal In our local springs is Js engendered by the time friction o of mass on mass in the time struggle That ma may be This wo we know b by the tue age uge experience experience- that th the tomorrow of or a greater city will not be realized d save sa as the other worM world force Corce of or truth is Joined with witt the divine divine- I ness of our own souls to lift It to the upper tipper levels of life liCe Mu J t Proclaim GlI pil Gos ItI I have hav said that this go gospel pel is one vue with a message e to all aU In the life of every man man amid and we must proclaim tt It The rhe first thing In the preachers preacher's mes- mes sago saga must be that which touches t the great treat matter of personal salvation That must be and will be proclaimed But nut we must have e a special message to the city What shall it be Undoubtedly nr first t must come conic an exaltation of the need of or ethical values There must be bea a a. stirring proclamation of righteous righteous' righteousness ness for It 11 I Is rIghteousness that exalt exalt- ethi a a. people It Is a far ur look to that happy happ day of which the poet sings Then Theil shall shah each ach mans man's good bo be each mans man's rule And universal pe peace ce lie a shaft shaH of light across the time lund luna Anti And like a lane Jane of beams across tho the sea seu Throughout the circle of the golden goldei year But In the time stirrings cheering and wonderful won won- that have moved so 80 in iii the tite past year evidencing a new grip gripon on tho the abiding things timings In our American character there I 1 Is u a great hope That rI righteousness which Is more moro I than thun negative morality which is a 3 force In life of high h anti and low making exact and amid Just service must be proclaimed In such a righteousness room must bo be made for the time things of oC God Strange that thai In our city with its man many places of ot worship all ull erected to tolie the lie one God there thero should need be a alea apica apica pica lea for tor deeper righteousness lint But Corall for Cor all our public 11 life fe for the sweep of our commerce and amid Industry for or our play hours an and days o of ease euse It Is need need- dul d- d ul ui to speak a plea for or righteousness s fur for its own sal saki sakiNo e. e No other timing thinS will wW keep our citizens In n the time place where the true rime perspective of values will itil Ht so carry carmy itself as th time the force of ot that truth which Is held in all allour allour allour our obligations to lo a righteous God an and Bather All mere assent to moral claim will mean no moro more for the thc conservation o of the best wIthin us than did the time apprehension apprehension ap ap- ap- ap of oC Platos Plato's visions and mes- mes sages agos to the life liCe of or Greece It listened I assented admired and milled failed to prime prime- Ico tice Justice and ancl truth and und It died Country Must rho Tho cit city can have no greater asset than nan tho knowledge by the country that hint here a practical righteousness abounds which la is evidenced in ut an aim obedience obedience- to that fiat code coda of morals In all our life lito which the tho ho great grent God hns hlf laid upon u us UN for or guidance for 0 mutual service and the tho I achievement of or character worthy worth us us S 'S i because I like I he h him m mm L Lt t u us us then demand II I In self and amid soi social lil life lire a a. y i ti II that Tightness rightness which we to be the tIme expression of at essential good and anu demonstrate anew that which Is Israel Israel Is- Is rael fresh from bondage wro wrote so 10 plainly for the tIme age in iii tho years of her national being That righteousness on tho tIme hilltop any people Time The other great thing timing tho the churches s must utter for the tho time which Is the thi sanction of or all high moral service life Is la the meSS message l e of or the gospel of love Jesus said that loving God and I man filled the demand of or all law lass and prophet Loving God means living God Loving men our men our neighbors that neighbors thai Is the hard thing Perhaps It is because they the arc so much like ourselves and we know v ourselves so welle well We e lack nothing quito so much as is a. a broadening broadening- of our love Not that we have ha not love here plenty here plenty of or It I know of no place on earth arth where tho time hand hanl and heart of love are arc more inure open to the tho appeal of oC sorrow and need than here Tell Ichi of or Good Goud It would b be possible possible to lo fill 1111 time the columns col col- I of of one of our great greut reut dallies dailies with whim the kindly deeds of or last last Christmas 1 week done as easily and readily by great hearted mining men lawyers physicians journalists and business businessmen men as If they were themselves to be bethe bethe the tIme recipients Look at St. St Annes Anne's orphanage orphanage or or- the Judge home the Newhouse Newhouse New New- house Betterment home the splendid Y M. M C. C A. A the time Y X W. W C C. A A. St. St Mark ark Holy Cro Cross s and Day Latter Saints ts hospitals hospitals hospitals hos hos- the orphanages the Associated charities What hat do they all spoil spell Love beautiful human glorious e diving love hove Love for tor men Oh Salt Ia Lakes Lake kl klaboe above e all Western towns Is blessed by bythe bythe bythe the spirit of Abou bou Ben Deim In Its facing o of sorrow and need But our love hove must be wider and go I farther than it has bas That does not mean that hubby flabby sen sentiment must take the place of intelligent righteous love Love Is not blind to faults not deaf to discord not riot insensate of scars and de- |