The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-01

with an iron heel but this, elevated them
The great tide of liberty struck England
and Hungary, which is now in its second
decade of freedom. So with Sicily and
Italy What shall ! say of Germany and
Russia? I believe the tide of liberty has
arrived there Scattered all over these
countries are lovers of liberty, and believe
there are those living to-day who will see
the time when freedom and liberty will
prevail; out of the religious liberties of the
bible grow civil liberties
The congregation then joined in singing:
My country It's of thee,
Sweet land of liberty.
The closing remarks were made by
REV. WILLIAM KINCAID, d. D.,
of New York city. His text was also taken
from Washington's inaugural address: mo
people can be bound to acknowledge and
adore the invisible hand which conducts
the affairs of men, more than the people of
the United States. Every step by which
they have advanced to the character of an
independent nation. seems to have been
distinguished by some token of providen-
tial agency" correspond to the psalmlst
when he said, He hath not dealt so with
any nation.'
The speaker said: ''YOu must observe
that influential men respond to holy writ
and acknowledge the interpositiOn of u
higher power in the government of nations.
The great Bismarck recently said, The
longer | live, the less becomes my con
tidence in human powers II Is God alone
who is from everlasting TO everlasting, who
appointeth beforehand our dwellings and
the places wherein we shall dwell. No
nation has had greater number OF inter
ventiOns from u higher power than ours,
whose centennial occurs to-day. 1t may
not occur to you that God is wonderfully
present in the origin of our nation. 1t was
not thought that when our fOrefatherS
threw overheard the cargo of tea, or the
defeat of Bull Run were the orderings of
the hand Of providence. The former re
suited in the glorious Declaration of hide
pendence, while the latter gave time for
preparation. At the defeat of Bull Run
was in Cincinnati, and l saw strong men
weep on the streets from VeXatiOn and fear.
| God was in that great battle. Thirteen
years ago we celebrated our independence,
but now we celebrate the
CENTENNIAL OF OUR ORGANIZATION.
The thirteen years which interviewed were
precious years and fitted them to found the
government they We're to establish. They
were inspired with pure and lofty thoughts
and given time TO examine the case which
alone could fit them for the task. Who
shall say God was not in it, Thirteen
years of doubt trial, anticipation, none
knew the outcome Above the darkness
was the irrisisJable power of God, and it was
as He ordered it. 1t was marked in all our
territorial domains from the purchase Of
the great territory of Louisiana to that of
| Alaska. The Louisiana purchase was eff
| fected uncOnStitutiOnally, without the con
sent of the Senate, the President paying
the money to secure it. What induced
| Marcus Whitman to ride in dead winter TO
| Washington, that the northwest territory
might be secured to us! and our territory
was extended to the Pacific coast. Thomas
| Benton said the great ramparts of the
Rockies were the natural western terminus
of the United States and recommended that
a monument be erected on the top of the
mountains bearing an inscription to that
effect. But now it is seen that
THR NATURAL TERMINI
of the United States are the Pacific on the
west, the gulf on the south and the lakes
on the north. | close with the suggestion
that human free agency is alone and de
ponds on us and not on God. We have ar
rived at the highest point. If we forget
! this, we fall. When | was in Germany ]
saw an inscription on tombstone which
read TO the memory of our son Hans
who was killed by falling from steeple
! Only those who know the height of d
! SIeeple know the ueDLn OF our SORROWS.
So we are at the top, and if we fall it will
be to the lowest depth. We believe that
all men are free and equal and that the
right of liberty is the parent of happiness
! This is sometimes distorted by dreamers
At Cooper institute in New York recently
/ ! heard a lecturer explain this by saying
that no man should possess what other
men do not possess. This was not
! Thomas JeffersORis idea; he meant
that we stand on the same foothold, are
under the same rule, man and woman are
equal. but it was never intended that we
should be equal in everything. God like a
father, has gathered US around family
table, we can not all occupy the same seat
or same position. The Communist says nc
man shall possess which / do not possess.
This idea has brought ruin to older nations
and will bring ruin wherever it enters
We are on an equal regarding law and are
| permitted to work out our own destiny
whatever providence has seen fit to give
US we are to accept. We should set oul
faces like a flint against rotten Europe
who seeks to overthrow US. God will be
true to US if we are true to him.
The services We're then closed by the
choir singing hymn and The benedictiou
bV Rev McNiece