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Show OGDEN LETTERS GO BACK TO SENDERS One Hundred Sent Back by the Postoffice Every Day and Forty Go. to the Dead Letter Ollice Statistics of Missent Messages Made the Basis of an Eloquent Sermon. j Mrs Margaret Tout Browning sang with wonderful voice last night in First Presbyterian church. Among her numbers was The Holy City." and It was rendered most effectively. No sacred solo rendered in Ogden has called forth such unstinted praise as did .Mrs Browning 's rendition of the "Holy city" last night. Rev Carver said In part 'The Ogden iostoific has presented present-ed much Incentive to thought as from time to time I have wat hed the woik nt the general dellverv window j About 690,0Q0 pieces of mail are handled han-dled each month In the office. Almost Al-most all of these reach their destination. destina-tion. But every day 400 letters come too late and must be iorwarded Ev- ery day inn letters must be sent back to the writers, because thev fall to be called for. Every day. fortv aro returned to the dead letter office, for they cannot be delivered. This ot course. Is the general average To nee them taking these letters out to be returned and to think how among them are messages of love and strength, news of importance and items of good and bad in the old I home that will never be told, words of friendship which will neer be spoken spok-en speaks to me of the number of I lives that like these letters never (peak the message which God. their aulhor. Intended them to speak. Last l 'm.- the h.'ome of our postuffji , was jf 1.095.922.42 a great expense worth-I ily expended to convey messages be-jtween be-jtween men and women, and most of these reached the intended end Some lives nevor are completed. They end I with no lire message in deed or thought adequately expressed. Some; I lives live few ears and are een ,then completed lives. Some live over ithreo score and ten and even then' 'ar0 not a completed life. Wo all! have a message and a work in our day place and among those whom we know and live. Some like the returned re-turned letters are too tardy, too slow or too self centeroj to givo It. And oh. the heart aches one returned letter let-ter or unfinished life can cause. "The life of Moses is an example of a finished life, but an unfinished : work Moses desired ery enrnestly to see the Hebrew people sa.frlv lodged in their future home. That, however, was denies him nnd fhniirrl, he saw the promised land irom the mountain peak and knew of its rich-! rich-! uess and beauty he had to relinquish the work of entering and conquering ill unto others. Be died with his life-work life-work unfinished The reason is lu-deed lu-deed plain. Ills life work was planned plan-ned upon so great a scale and with so much of gro:f vision that even one half of It was a un it achievement. He failed In his life work, if doing bo very much of a vast purpose can be called failure, because he desired to do more than any one man has ever dreamed ot doing before He did not however fail In life. Hlfl lit- was a finished add complete one even If bis life work was left half done, j When we consider bow be had mas tered self and from an Impetuous 1 wiltul life because a very humble j trusting follower ol God enduring all that malice and opposition could I bring against him. he wan and Is peerlcBs and pre-eminent among tho Bons of men, well did Augustine say of him. 'This Moses, humble In refusing re-fusing so great a service; resigned In undertaking, faithful in dlscharg- J Ing. unwearied in fulfilling It; vigilant vigil-ant In governing his people, resolute 1 In correcting them ardent In loving1 them and patient in learing with them; the intercessor for them with I the God whom they provoked, this I Moses such nnd so great a man we love, and admire, and so far as may be Imitate.' Thnt is thc verdict of the ' Church Universal. Moses is Indeed an I example of a finished life but of an junfnlshed life work. "We hear much about the Panama canul and wo will hear more as years go by There will ever he one name associated with it and that uame will be Ferdinand de lesseps. the man who first made the feasibility of It known Vlcomte de Lesseps s an exam ex-am de of a lire trying to do more than 'ono lift- can do Would to God there were more such men! He won the cross of Legion of Honor for the jway he saed life In Alexandria when one-third of the population died of Jthe cholera He was then vice con-jSitl con-jSitl for Franee In ls)2 he was con- sul at Rarvelona during the bombard-ment, bombard-ment, and again by bravery was dec orated by three nations He planned and promoted the Corinth canal In Greece. He originated thc idea of and built the Suez; canal. He tolled ! long to complete the Panama canal, but the opposition was too great and I he failed. But think what he did do in his long and acthe life. "Solomon is an example of a man completing his life work arid failing in his life. He did do wondrous ' things He built In stone, cedar. I brass, gold and Ivorv. the world's greatest buildings He bullded cities and developed in riches and glory a kingdom He left masterpieces of 1 literature. And yet his own life character was not only to Himself,' but to others a disappointment. 'Van. 1 Ifv of vanities all ! vanltv- hi hm he write that" It was because he had lived for the vanities and had found 'them to 1-e only bubbles, He had not j made the eternal verities of the soul I the great power and purpose of life and to himself and others his life was a deficient one In many ways. "Dickens left The Mystery of Ed-' Ed-' win Drood' unfinished, but not his own life. Dr. lllack well says. Early or late, life is apprehended If a man has learned to love God and to obey him. if he has submitted his will to the will of God. if he has linked his life to the eternal love of Christ, then, though his work is undone, his life is There can Ive nothing untimely untime-ly when hie times are in God's hands That life Is finished which Jciiows really knows the love of God, but life out of God. w hat it It at the best, at the last, but incomplete, unfinished, If oeii at every point to the doom of 1 . and death like stubble that I Lh sodden earth well may M completed, finished life, fl .1 1 'mi' f-d v. ork if w u must heed choose between the two ' |