The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-04
ADDRESS OF WELCOME
ELDER JOHN TAYLOR
On His Visit to the Isle of Man in
1850.

Hail Faithful messenger of peace
Or ce more
We bid thee welcome TO our island shore
No earthly monarch nations love and
own
So welcome is to fill the regal throne
AS thou to visit Mona's sea. girt isle,
That we may hear thy voice and see thy
Twill be to US as Z;on's hill the while.
We raise no banner, waving to the
breeze,
With gilded motto and device to please;
We rear no arch by Flora's hahd be-
decked,
Nor With the merry chime peal our
respect;
We cannot bid t. swell the music strain
To make thee welcome to cur midst gain;
We bow no knee, we use no fatteIlng
art
These are repugnsnt to thy noble heart:
But If to breathe for thee the anxious
sigh
To Him who dwells above yon azure sly;
If every thought, and hottest wish we
know
Will prove tribute worthy 70 bestow.
If pure affection burniog .or thy bliss,
Can show O welcome in world like this,
Then, these are thine, and ever-wellinS
flow
TIL illusions of the gratitude we owe.
Twas thou who first Obsdient to thy
Lord,
Proclaimed Oh Monas Isle The precious
Word.
While yet in darkness we unconscious
Nor dreamed the dswning of brighter
day;
While Error reigned supreme around our
globe,
Tradition held US 10 her misty robe;
While rscking doubt, uncertainty and
fear
Were all we knew of peace and knowl-
edge here;
By thee eternal truth in radiance shrined,
And sable night dspelled from every
mind;
In glowing elcquenee the gospel scheme
Startled our fears and reused Us from our
dream,
And, rendipg fesrlessly the robe of lies.
Thy light burst on our lopg-benighted
eyes:
The spell that hound US in cur doubts
Was broken,
Thou saidst-who could resist il? "GoD
HAS SPOKEN !"
Thy testimony we could not Withstand,
And yielded willingly to Gods command;
And now we feel, though earth and hell
asssil,
The word of God through thee can never
fail.
Well msy we. III IN, attune our grateful
praise -'----
For messengers like thee in Latter Days.
Thy valiant soul no hostile image
feared,
But leadst the way where Zior's stand
ards reared.
We've watched thy steady course with
anxious eye,
When peace sbounded and when foes
were nigh;
In that thy cheering light from Zion's
Shone on our path and made US love
thee still;
In this, when hell seemed furiously ar
rayed
the cause, thy vslor was dis
played:
Firm to the Last in lions holy cause
Thou stood'st beside the martyrs Of the
cross,
Became witness to tn strocioua deed
That angels wept at and made Zion
bleed;
And, IS thy wounded body PROSTATE
lag,
Gods will was thine-to 20 with them or
stay.
If those who every energy employ,
OF mind and body, nstioIs to destroy.
Shall with the heroes sword cropt
wreaths be crowned,
And learned historians r, cord the
wound,
Shalt thou no sacred need OF honor
have
For scars like :bine while striving men to
save?
Yes! Well perpetuate thy name on
earth,
And angels, too, eternslize thy worth!
But futile our attempts to spread thy
Ttou'st won myself al ever. hallowei
name;
Thy noble deeds, thy cultivated mind,
Thy generous soul to benefit mankind;
The pure desires thy heart that animate,
To place man in a more exalted state,
Need but be known to make the good ap-
prove,
TIE saints admire, ev'n enemies to love.
''No whit behind" thy ancient brother
Paul,
Thou knowest how to be call things to
all.'
The prince and peasant, poor man and
the peer,
Thy happy soul can teach, persuade and
cheer;
The lisping child when prsttling on thy
knee
Looks up and tells its tale of woe or glee,
Feels from thy tongue the generous I'm
pulse glow.
Smiles with thy smile, forgels it's little
woe
The sage philosopher, the skilled in arts,
The son of genius and the man Of parts,
May lesvn their problems and their elias.
sic lore,
Artistic works Ger which they anxious
pore,
reasoning OF thy master mind,
Which scstters labored theories to the
wiLd,
Return to udy and 10 lab',atory
And own the tru b sublime of power and