The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-09-28

A men.
The Latin ode from Horace was then
sung By the United Gc-,Ian Society.
Eev. Isaac Everett, of Cincinnati,
then delivered an eloquent address,
taking for his text the following:
And the aTcherS shot at King JOS
iah; and the king said TO his ser
wants, have me away for l am sore
wounded. His driver therefore
took him out of the chariot and put
him in the second chariot that ne
had, and they brought him to Jeru-
salem and he died, and was buried
in one of the sepulchreS of his
fathers, and all Judah and JeruSa-
lem mOurned for Josiah and Jere-
miah, and all the singing men and
| the singing women spake Of Josiah
| in their lamentations TO this day,
and made them an ordinance in
! Jerusalem: And behold they are
written in the lamentations. Now
the rest Of the acts Of Josiah and
his goodness according to that which
was written Of in the law OF the
Lord, and two deeds first and last !;
behold, they are written in the book
of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
For behold, the Lord, Lord Of hosts,
doth take away from Jerusalem and
from Judah the stay and staff. The
whole stay Of the bread and the
whole stay of the water, mighty
man and a man Of war, and a
prophet, and prudent and ancient
captain of IiftV, an honorable
man and counselor and church
artifcer and an eloquent orator
The voice said, cry, and ne said,
What shall l cry? All flesh is grass
and all the goodness thereof is as
the flower of the field. Surely, the
people is grass. The grass wlthereth,
| the flower fadeth, but the word of
our God shall stand forever" 1t is
a time of mourning that has no
parallel in the history of the world.
| Death is constantly occurring
and every day and every hour and
almost every moment some life eX-
lpires, and somewhere there are
broken hearts and deSOlatiOn. But
we have to accept mortality and we
stay moment and drop tear, and
away again to excitement and am-
billions and forget it all. A man is
called that plunges large com
munlty in mourning, and sometimes
whole nations mourn the loss OF 4
king or g wise statesman. or Il
| friend, or great philosopher, or a
philanthropist, or martyr who has
risked his life on the altar Of truth
and won for himself an enviOuS I'M
mortality among the sons Of men
but there was never a mourning IN
all the world like unto this mourn
ing l am not speaking eXtraVag-
antly when | say it. From the re-
suit of calculations carefully made
from reliable data it is found
that certainly not less than
l300,01O,OOO of the human race
share in the lamentations and
sorrow that belong to this Occa-
sion. Here to-day, its chill shows a
fearful calamity, that has extended
itself into every house in all this
| land, and into every heart, and that
has projected itself over vast seas
and oceans into distant lands, and
| awakened the Sincerest and WO-
1 fOundest sympathy with us in he
hearts of the good people of all ma
tons and among all people. II is
worth while, friends, to pause q
moment and ask why this is? 1t is
doubtless attributable in part to the
wOndrous triUmphS Of science and
art within the present century, by
means of which time and space
have been so far conquered, that ma
tiOns once far distant and necessa-
rily alienated from each other are
brought into close communion, and
the various ties of commerce and
social interests and of religious in
tereStS bring them in contact of fel-
lOwship that could not have been
known in former times. 1t is like
wise unquestionatly partly due to
the fact that this nation Of ours,
which has grown to such WOndrOus
wight and power before the whole
earth, and which is in fact the hope
of the world in all that relates to
the highest civilization, that sympa-
thy with this nation and respect for
| this great power leads to these Of
| ferings of. coincidence and express
sions Of sympathy, and of grief
from the various nations of the
. earth, and because they have
learned to respect this nation, and
recognize that the nation is stricken
by a fatal blow that has taken away
our President from as; and yet this
will by no means account for this
marvellous and worldwide Sympa-
thy of which we are speaking. 1t
can't be attributed to mere intel
: lectual greatness, for there have
been and there are other great
} men, and acknowledging all
that the most enthusiastic
heart could claim for our beloved
leader, it is but fair to say that
there have been more eminent edu-
Gators, there have been greater sol
diers, there have been more -skilful
and experienced and powerful legis-
lators and leaders Of mighty parties
| and political forces. There IS no
one department. in which he has won
eminence where the world may not
point to others who obtained higher
and more intellectual greatness.
1t might not be considered more
righteOusly here than in MANY other