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Show CHUM CROWDED AT ALL SERIES Oil EASTER DAY The program as announced In the Standard was carried out In detail In the First Presbyterian church yesterday. yes-terday. There were added selections given that made the services even better than announced. Easter Sunday was a glad day in the church. A friend of the church had had tho auditorium redecorated during the week and the newly tinted and frescoed walls added very much to the beauty of the church. H. M. Allen of Oakland sent three large boxes of flowers for the roBtrum decoration dec-oration and friends in Ogden provld-j ed two large baskets of colored flowers flow-ers besides potted Easter lilies. It was the first Easter for several who had recently united with the church. El Monte Commandcry attended the afternoon service. The music for the services was even better than, had been anticipated and was enjoyed by congregations that were In excess of the enlarged seating capacity of the church. After using all the chairs availazle, many sTood throughout each of the three services. Rev. Carver, in his sermon of the day, said: "The fascination of common life has never failed to interest and move men. The ordinary record of any life told with a fidelity to the truth in regard to the experiences of routine rou-tine would surpass the story of the fabled 'Arabian Nights.' If one of you men would rise and with clearness clear-ness and frankness relate the most important experiences of your life ! you would hold this audience by the hour. If you would tell your earliest memories of home and playmates, tell of your first boy and girl friends, your first toy, your first remembered pain, joy and labor; if you should describe how you earned your first dollar, how you first realized the sweetness of love, tell of your first life-desires and first real employment, employ-ment, recount the story of your woo-1 ing and wedding, tell your first sorrows sor-rows In death, describe the habits that bind, the doubts that deaden, the faith that quickens; tell all the loves, hates, deceits and longings of life It would be a ronjance and a tragedy, a comedy and a philosophy. In all the world, there would be nc story like it. "Now I want you to realize that last tboughL In all the world there would be no other life-story like it It would be your own story. Years ago a great man spent time lamenting lament-ing over the idea that, there being but seven notes In the musical scale, the time would come when all the combinations of music would be used. But that time will never come. Man shows is inventive genius to best advantage in, from seven notes, making mak-ing so many melodies. Man, In fact, Is most wonderful In his power of combining the common elements and material riches. We call this power of Invention, thisgift of making the mineral and vegetable kingdoms do marvels man's great human gift. The power of forming fetters and making mak-ing paper speak is one example of creative genius. But mon forget that man himself is the world's greatest example of inventive or creative genius. In all the world there are not, nor have been, any two lives alike. Having only five senses, man has used them In so many ways, developed de-veloped so many trends of his reason rea-son and character that out of countless count-less trillions of human lives no two have been alike. "Now, why is life so interesting and wonderful In its inventive and constructive power? It is because it is the story of conquest, of growth, of enlargement. It widens and deepens deep-ens with the years. It becomes a ereater life In spite of defeats and sins, sorrows and failures with each year and the race becomes more victorious vic-torious with each generation. In all the world, there Is no power like life, and no life like human life. It is the nature of life to conquer. We were born for conquest and right there is the natural message of this Easter story of Chrlst'B resurrection. We all know that a healthy seed will come to life In the growing plant. Why? Not by chance nor my accident but it grows by nature. The maple seed becomes a tree because It was made that way. That is what makes it a seed. Life lives beyond death and Christ arose because life was raado to do that very thing. It Is the nature of life to conquer. Look at any beet field when the young beets are coming up. You don't call that a miracle. You call It natural. The beet seed was made to do 1L Resurrection in the order of nature in .the vegetable world, but if only ono seed had ever come up it would be a miraclo. Resurrection is the order of nature in the spiritual world. The spirit of man is" by nature the spirit of conquest. "There is nothing to doubt about this Easter day. Millions of seeds in Utah alone will testifv to It this month. Nature has testified to It from the time when away back at life's dawn the first seed sprouted and grew. "Christ died, as you and I will die. We must die. It is nature's law. Christ arose as you and I BhaU rise. Life is stronger than death. Life is by nature a conqueror. Life was made for conqueBt. It is the fascination fascina-tion and interest of life that it does win. Death 1b called powerful because be-cause of its universality, but life Is just as universal. Now, may we all take lesson from this spring time and learn the lesson of life. We read that there are fiery whirlstormB that swept over the face of the sun. They are great storms of whirling heat. So rapid do they move that if they were on earth they would go from Vancouver to New Orleans in thirty seconds. So deadly would the heat dl that only a track of lifeless charv would remain. Now just so swift and so deadly is the thought that has doubt, impurity, jealousy, blasphemy and ruin in it. Doubt and sin is not life but death. It is ruin. Theretore In lives that must have new life daily, Christ's resurrection is a great example set in the world to tell us that life, by its very nature, conquers con-quers oveq death. Ours Ib the task of keeping all that is best of love, faith and purpose to the fore. "The true, resurrection commences here and now. It Is the awakening of the soul through a realization of its greatness its purpose and Its God. It makes Easter a blessing all through the year in Christian patience pa-tience to meet and perform tasks m God's fear bravely and sweetly. Christ is the resurrection and the life In giving to us today the true vision of life. Then we covet not today so much the courts of heaven as we desire de-sire earnestly to meet and complete, bravely and without fear or fretting, the simple routine tasks of today, here and now." |