Show A MATERIAL SERMON this sacred day of rest is an atte time for the consideration of indi duty toward the community in a broader sense than that of formal religious worship it is no profanation of this time to resolve for the new year to follow a generous plan of business policy which shall add prestige and power to the city and shall give prosperity and a greater measure of usefulness to ita citizens we are dwelling in a century which has for its chief characteristic ma and progress 80 swiftly does one mighty improvement follow another that ho is indeed rapid of observation who can trace the flight of the eagles of invention every community has afforded to it by means of the advance in methods incalculable opportunities for mental and moral aggrandizement such other ages never enjoyed and that which seems at first only a material or creature good really carries with it the divine power of elevation not a factory nor a bank a railway track nor a shop but may be made an engine to draw civilization and its countless beauties to our midst that these advantages are too often neglected is n argument against factories and banks railway tracks and shops the fault of failure to seize encouraging opportunity rests with men w can only hope for a recurrence of the same or better opportunities tuni ties under the observation of more adaptable or receptive men when the time of painful depression came upon ogden we all know the check which was given to magnificent public enterprise of a refining and bic bating character university and church stopped in the upraising of their walls and silently mournful foundations attest the public disaster of delay and its occasion in private affairs no one can measure the extent of the retarding of culture and enduring happiness because of the oppression of finances private residence building was delayed and a thousand fair projects for the of son or daughter upon the road to usefulness have abond boned and so the moral and intellectual of a community may be lengthened or shortened by alio disposition toward material progress it therefore is not amiss on a dy but is a duty of importance devolving upon every citizen to plan that course of per onal conduct and wise community movement which shall give prosperity in its bast and most lasting sense ogden debould and must overcome alio comparative inertia of recent timea and once more in mutual endeavors which have moved lwills in the past and can overturn mountains in the future lat jealousy be banished and gameral confidence take its place when a call ahall come for the rejuvenation of bodies like the chamber of commerce which may be helpful to our ogden let every man feel eliat in giving his beai nes support to the renewed endeavor he is preparing blessings for himself and his family and is performing the of usefulness which devolves upon every human being |