The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-09
MR.. ELLIS LECTURE.
He Discusses the Question Of
Democracy VS.. Theocracy.
EVOLUTION THE GREAT POWER
Large and Appreciative Audience in Attend
ance-A Synopsis of the Lecturers
Views.

At the Federal court room, Sunday eve
ming, Mr.. Charles Ellis lectured on thu
above topic to large and appreciativt
audience. Below is synopsis of the lee
| ture
| The prevalent belief is that man appeared
on earth about 5000 years ago. Among in
telligent people that opinion is looked upor
as erroneous. Twenty five years ago the
most eminent orthodox scientist of Europe
said man had been here at least 2O,00t
| years. There is evidence that he has beer
here many times 10000 years, but the
speaker would take what is conceded by
| orthodox authority as sufficient for his
purpose. The terms theOcracy, evolution
and democracy were defined and the pur-
pose of the lecture was said to be an
calculation OF our national growth under
human government as cOntrasted with
nat on1l government Gnder what has been
called God" TheOcracy means that
"GOd'' is the author OF men and nations
Democracy means that man is the author
and ruler of the nation. Theocracy is born
of priestcraft; democracy is born of intelli-
gence and liberty.
HfVl-N l4O-N 10 lie Al E-NnAL. TONEt,
that which the world has called God with
out knowing what it was working through
phenomena to elevate and improve all
D 3mocracy is the result Of evolution, and
is therefore also due to the activity OF the
universal power that dweIls and works in
and through all. Hence democracy is the
work of what we may call Cod rather
than theOcracy, which has always been a
scheme whereby priesth0ois haze con-
trOlled pie.
Attention was called to the fact that in
all probability there was higher degree OF
civilization in China 10000 years ago; also
in Egypt. But all ancient nations were
governed by gods. They were chosen
children who were to possess the earth, and
the kingdom of the Supreme was to be es-
tablished for all time. But all ancient
nations, trusting that their god or gods
would protect them in their peril, became
effeminate, corrupt, weak, and finally died
the victims of their own folly. For pos
sibly 10000 years thOecratic governments
have existed on
THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE.
Age after age the wave of life rolled to the
western verge of Europe and Africa, and
looked upon the ocean and settled back as
If it reached the end of the world. There
seems to have been no conception that one
day the God in man, and not the man-made
God of theOcracy, would drive the people
across that ocean to find a new world. In
our time, however, came a friendless
sailor with telephone connection with the
soul of the universe, and an idea flushing
his brain. Church and clergy damned him.
Isabella helped him. He sailed away into
the darkness, in full faith that his idea was
correct, one of the braVest souls that ever
trOd on deck. He was forgotten as a
hon lr,, I>.,.,1 Ii,
and his name doomed theOCracy
on the earth. The tide of civilization that
rose upon the shores Of New England will
spread over this continent, leap the Pacific,
and at last crowd theocracy
FROM THE SHORES OF EUROPE
into the Atlantic and give the globe to the
reign OF democracy under the science Of
man.
See how the work goes on. Two cen
turtles and half ago, from Cape Cod to
California stretched a Wilderness of say
agery. The pilgrim fathers came thinking
they were commissioned to establish the
ancient theocracy in the new world. They |
were happy, with plenty of clans and cod |
fish and freedom, to Danish heretics, burn !
witches and worship Jehovah as the author |
and ruler of nations. But evolution was |
getting in its work. Education got hold of |
mans head without restraint Of pope or
King. The human mind began to show less |
and more pluck, less creed |
and more grit, less faith and more freedom. |
nheOcratic Britain
PUT HER FOOT ON THE NECK
II young Democracy, but the infant rose |
rom its cradle Of liberty and flung the |
,reedy Cerberus Of divine right into the |
Atlantic and compelled theOcracy to sue for |
)eace. That was little more than century |
100. See what a mighty nation moves to-
iay where then there were but 1900, 1000 |
people.
Man does not see into the secret heart of |
Kings. He works largely in the dark to
serve himself, but it comes out in time that
he imminent power of the universe was
iSing him for purpose of its own. The
world has crowded to this continent for self
md the soul of the universe has used it to
,uild Democracy for the whole human fam
w. Man has been boasting of his
,lace and power, claiming the earth in the
lame of the mechanic and artisan deity OF
he Bible, but nature is not jealous. She
cts him Drag and work knowing that
he harvest is all her own. If men will
make idols and worship them, nature goes
light on making men until she gets them
bove superstition and crowds that night
hade from the world. Rome was
GREAT NATION,
ut horde of barbarians tore her crown
rom the queenship of the world. Spain
vas a great nation, but the people of the
Netherlands strangled her in the name OF
berty Britain has been and is a great ma
ion, but her throne is based on theocracy
+ the divine right of kings.
throughout her domain love of liberty is
yelling like the buds of century plant.
u spite of paid liars and subsidized papers
eerless Parnell and Godlike Gladstone
ress steadily to the front; year by year
he rights of the Irish rise nearer to the
urface, and one of these seasons the cen
Try plant of liberty will bloom again and
utshine the glories of the blood-stained
throne.
Many of the protestant churches of the ,
'nited States have been trying for years |
, make ours a theocratic government.
hould they succeed they would set up ac- j
Vities of I
A RBTRoGREssIyE NATURE,
lat would end in war God in the consti-
ltion would fall before some people who
ad no God in their political constitution, !
ut plenty of God in their minds al d
uscles There is an irrepressible COZ =
let between the growing sense OF hber y
Id the idea that the conception of q d
orn of priestcraft is the author and ruler
men and nations, and if the time ever {
,mes when any sect raises the sword In
lis country to compel a recognition of that
ca it will be drowned in its own blood.
ear it, We Latter-day Saints; hear 1t, ye
hear it, We Jesults; hear II,
We ends of the earth, that sect which
its the sword to compel the men and q
omen of this land to pay tithing or Wor- .
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