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Show f that you. too. may live th unfolding life. . Let the faith In, and truth of Jesils Chrlat become your pregnant power of an enlarging vision of life and do you boa to It that tho scope of mind, heart and soul Is larger, wider, deeper for life's tomorrowB than It wan I in life's yesterdays. Widen lifo'B horizon and your life's growth muat follow. ATTRACTIVE NUMBERS GIVEN AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CALLED CALL-ED OUT LARGE CONGREGATION. High Class Music Appreciated by Ogden Og-den Church Goers Sermon, 'The Horizon of Life's Opportunities." The services In the First Presbyterian Presby-terian church yesterday morning were made very attractive by the musical numbers given by a chorus from tho Ogden Choral society. The largo auditorium audi-torium was filled to overflowing when the hour of service arrived and tho musical numbers were given with artistic ar-tistic effoct The following is the program pro-gram rendered :- Prelude MacDowcll; Miss Joyce. Tenor Solo -"Resignation;" Roma; Mr. Saunders. Chorus "There is a River;" Buck; Ogden Choral Chorus. Offertory "Andante;" Beethoven; Mr. Coop. . Chorus "Be Still, Then;" Buck: Ogden Choral Chorus. Contralto Solo "Oh. Rest In the Lord;" Mendelssohn; Mrs. Allison. Postlude "March Mignon;" Poldlnl; Miss Joyce. The entire program was given In a wav which was very commendable to tho'so participating. The chorus was well balanced and sang with a true artistic ar-tistic spirit. The tone quality was of a high order and the chorus wa6, in point of attack and In modulation and blending praiseworthy. The fine musical musi-cal feeling which so characterizes Dudley Buck's compositions was felt and expressed by the singers. Mr. Coop's ability as a choral leader and accompanist, and as an Interpreter of the best music was again clearly revealed. re-vealed. Mrs. Allison and Mr. Saunders are too well known to Ogden musical circles to need any comment or praise. Tho selections chosen were adapted more to reveal the sympathetic feeling rather than the range of their voices. The morning service recalled again the fact that Ogden people are eager to hear high class music when properly given and that we have In Ogden musical musi-cal talent of the very first order. The theme of the morning sermon was. "The Horizon of Life's Opportunl-iles," Opportunl-iles," and in developing it Rev. Carve-: said In part: The morning Scripture lesson was from that scene In the life of Jesus Christ wherein the Master walking by tho sea of Galilee, calls Peter, John and James to a higher and wider life. Heretofore the horizon of their pur-poso pur-poso in life had been bounded by the mountain ridges of the valley-of Galilee. Gali-lee. They had been content to live within that environment and seemingly seeming-ly had dreamed of no greater one. Then as Christ unfolded to them the larger purpose the horizon of their life broadened and a larger environment of thought and endeavor was found by them. The horizon of the earth is most deceptive de-ceptive in appearance. Newcomb tells us that froniithe point where wo. are ! standing the slope of the earth, duo I to its rounding shape, Is for a great ! distance an ever increasing one. Fol-j Fol-j lowing the contour of this, a point one mile away Is eight Inches lower than , it Is here. But the curveture increases ! tho farther one proceeds, so at a point I two miles away the earth has curved 32 inches, at five miles away It has curved 16 feet, and 10 miles It has J curved C4 feet and at 30 miles, over : 1G.O00 feet So while the area between 1 here and Salt Lake City seems to be j level, one city is really over 16,000 feet higher or lower than the other . at certain times of the day. Thus it Is hat the higher one ascends the wider . and deeper the horizon becomes, and the same 13 true of life in general, as I we rise above the smallness of selfishness selfish-ness and Indifference our life's horizon becomes both broader In view of what life can "be, and deeper in view of what life really is. I Knowledge and faith tend always to Iglve an ever enlarging conception ot life's powers which doubt and sin servo only to contract and dwarf. Hero is the awful ruining power of doubt and sin; they contract the vision of what life can be and the more life is surrendered to them tho smaller the life really becomes. Vision, ideal, purpose, aspiration and faith alike feel the deadening Influence when unbelief and evil become the dominating factors. fac-tors. On the contrary, when faith and knowledge hold sway, each day presents pre-sents a large horizon of what may and can be accomplished. Oh, then, count that day In your life a great day when to you is given a larger vision and a wider horizon of life's possibilities, for dt is a great day In your life as it was in the lives of these men of old when their aims and attempts were severed from their old moorings and the Master Mas-ter pointed them to dare hope and strive for larger things. Angelo, the Great, we are told, saw each day a greater opportunity In the realm of beauty and so his life was one of constant development. The i realm of poetry, the field of art both as j sculptor and painter, and the achievements achieve-ments of architecture gave to his fertile fer-tile mind an ever widening range of inspiration and achievement. Schumann Schu-mann and the masters of muflc found the world of melody ever to be an enlarging en-larging one. Life, therefore, could not become cither dull or deadening. Give, therefore, to your life a new Impetus Im-petus of faith, hope and knowledge |