The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-08-15
BONNIE SCOTLAND.
How 1t Entertains a Salt Laker.
Rum and ReligiOn-Slght Seeing
The Beautiful Lake.
RUTHERGLEN, SCOTLAND.
July, 81, 1880.


RUTHEReLEN, SCOTLAND.
r July. 27, 1880.
Editors Herald:
1 have seer three OF the principal
: places in Bonnie Scotland. Lock
Lomond, Edinburgh. and Glasgow.
Glasgow is now a very different city
from what it was even ten years ago.
Il has been wonderfully built up in
the last six years. consider that in
everything but antiquities It faI
exceeds Edinburgh. It's present
population Is about 600. COO. about
four times the population OF the
entire terrilory of Utah. 4 file field
in itseli for an energetic and capable
elder; but the Glasgow conference
does not end with the town or rather
city of Glasgow and suburbs, but
includes EIiDourgh and al the
regions round about. 1t is much
more difficult to convert the Scotch,
than the English, they being more
set in their own traditions IF pcssi
ble) and OF an almost invinclols self
Righteousness, and very headstrong IN
their notions about religion and
things generally. The humility re-
quired to make the gospel acceptable
seems wanting in mos cases. Another
thing, drink, has made great threads
among all classes. This makes them
still more impatient OF contradiction
or reproof, and many are simply q
combination of Presbyterianism and
whisky, hard mixture to tackle with
so unpopular a creed as the gospel OF
Christ. The authorities of the cities
are very religious and every thing
tends to keep the masses under
religious control, ~ regards mode of
worship and peculiarly Of persuasion,
but the reckless drinking. debasing,
poverty and Wsnton wickedness that
teams in all large cities, are left to
the temperance associations and the
police to regulate and punish. The
influence OF the church cannot and
does not reach the difficulty, for
the man land woman tool who drinks
Scotch whisky every day from Mon
day morning till Saturday night, will
put on the best he has and pray and
sing Justify in the Kirk" on the
Sabbath day; and his presence there,
with his contribution in the box. is
deemed a sufficient guarantee that
his religious standing is sill o. K. You
may AK, don't they handle these
things! There are people who have
carried on this game for twenty-five
years and etill pray and sing and
drink in their respective peEs snd
public houses to-day. And some OF
them ara the loudest advocates of the
great work of John Knox, and the
necessity OF denouncing popery and
all kindred evils. They are so self
righteous and bigoted that you are
casting your pearls before swine to
talk to many OF them. But, for all
that, there are many honest hearts,
some of whom are investigating, but
they are those independent people
who have stood aloof as q general
thing from many OF the Inconsistent
theories and practices of the priest
ridden masses.
The weather is cool and damp.
always take an I'M brella with me
and frequently an ov6rcoat. | had TO
get one made on my arrival here.
the weather was 60 chilly. Fancy
in July; it feels quite comfortable in
the evening to put on my overcoat,
and l never jet changed fsnnels, but
wear the same warm clothing l
wore when | left Salt Lake. All
wear fapnels, We could not endure
the climate if We wore cotton under
clothes, it is go damp and chilly in
the evenings; but sometimes it feels
pretty warm for a few hours in the
daytime.
1t is great privilege to be able to
travel and see various countries, but
if you want ease and comfort stay at
home. "Ihere is no place like
home" l do not wonder that people |
charge for information in books and
lectures. for it costs money, time and
labor, mentally and physically, tol
obtain knowledge by observation and
experience, and the more We see the
more we realize bow little We know.
We visited the Edinburgh Castle, the
Hollywood Palace, the Museum Art
Gallery, climbed the Cation Hill, and
viewed the great places OF noted
antiquity, including Knox's house
and chapel, the new in6rmary, the ex-
tension ofth university the beautiful
Scott monument, erected at a cost OF
S75, 600, the gardens. etc., etc. We
have also visited the places of interest
in Glasgow, the various parks,
Botanic Gardens, Crystal Palace,
WAX works, corporation galleries,
where We saw the magnificent pre-
sents given to the Prince OF Wales
by the Indian hi-muck-i-mucka,
value beyond competition; aHd what
is mos. wonderful the Glasgow Cathe-
drAl; this beautiful building would
form of it.elf the subject of deeply
Iintsretting lecture, as would also the
castle. We also saw at Glasgow tbs
metropolis, a beautiful mausoleum,
the nearest TO approach Greenwood
Cemetery in Brooklyn, ne have seen,
tut of course much smaller. The
most conspicuous monument is that
erected to Juhn Knox.
In West End Park We saw the
magnificent fountain erected to the
memory and in honor of Lord Pro-
voet Stuart. through whose energy
and perseverance, the city has been
supplied With the waters of Loeb
Katrine. This fountain is beautiful
in appearances, and cost probably
$50 600. Next to London, Glasgow
lis considered the finest city in
Europe. OF ccurse its population
and advantages arc far less thar
London, but no other city competet
| with it in commercial greatness and
Q grandeur. We had del ghtful day
on Loeb Lomond, the finest lax in
Scotland. Some of the scenery equals
the scenery Of Switzerland $50 tourists
ssyl, and l am willing 10 confess
.. should believe them if they should
ssy sit surpssses it. " Ii is simply
Immense. Beauty sitter beauty
bursts upon the view as We sail IRON
Ballach to Tarbst, and also in return
T.. ing. was charmed beyond al ex
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