Notes

NOTES. The fifth annual exhibition of the Utah Art Institute will be given in the old Social Hall, 41 State Street, Salt Lake City, from March 9, to April 9, inclusive. This will give the young people who visit conference a chance to view the work of the exhibitors. Admission at least three days of each week will be free, and the lovers of art should not miss this opportunity to witness some of the best Utah can produce. "Better faithful than famous," used to be one of Theodore Roose^ velt's characteristic sayings. It has ever been his rule of life. And be- cause he was faithful he has become famous. That in itself is giving his day a character to be proud of. The genuine men as a rule reap all the rewards nowadays—the men who do things. You have only to make up your mind to that, and stick to it, to win. The conception with which Christ makes us familiar is that of Fa- therhood. This is interwoven into the very texture of his teachings. The sense of it was the deepest element in his consciousness. With this, every other relation of God must be harmonized. In the light of this, all Christian doctrines are to be interpreted. Yet we shall miss the full significance of this final idea of God, if we do not find in it the sugges- tion of the parental, as well as the paternal, and make it include that which is so tnexpressibly dear in motherhood, as well as fatherhood.— Rev. E. E. Chivers. The secret of the undying vitality and perennial attractiveness of the sacred Scriptures lies in the fact that they come bringing the reve- lation of the Divine name. Under the illumination and guidance of the Divine Spirit there was wrought into the consciousness of the Jew of old a sublime conception of God such as no other people ever attained. From the background of the Old Testament Scriptures there stands out in clear relief the Living God, separable from all phenomena—a veritable being, clothed in perfection. With the majesty and splendor of his holiness, too, is blended unspeakable tenderness. He is an approachable God, entering into most intimate relations with men. The world owes an unspeakable debt to the Jew for the conception of God with which he enriched human thought—Dr. E. E. Chivers.