The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-27

century, under the leadership of a peasant
boy namedStephen Filled. with enthusiasm.
these youths dreamed of accomplishing
that in which magnificent armies
had so signally failed. Passing
through France after untold SUI
ffering these children reached the
city of Marseilles, and the waters of the
Mediterranean rolled before them. Undis
mayed by the prospect, the boys obtained
passage on the vessels of some trad
ers, with the express stipulation
that they should be forwa, ded to their destl-
nation. But these men, INSCRIPTIONS, and
hardened to acts of treachery, betrayed
their trust and carried the helpless children
| to northern Africa, and sold many OF them
as slaves to the merciless Saracens! Com
paratively few of those innocent children
returned to give an account of their expedi-
ton.
All the crusades undertaken after the
one just considered had for their OBJECT
rather
THE PEACEFUL AND RELIGIOUS
than the warlil1e, conquest of the Moslems,
but, like the ones in which war was the
principal element, they were all unsuccess-
| full in attaining the object for which they
were inaugurated-
But was all this suffering, this destruc-
ton, this death absolutely without avail2
| flowed from these expeditions. No. To
say this would be to claim that a historical
event had transpired without being in any
way of benefit to those participating in 1t,
and this no thoughtful student of history
can say.
But the effects of the crusades were
different from what was anticipated by
their originators. In these vast expeditions
the people of Europe had hoped to exert an
influence on the people of Asia; the result
showed that the influence had been eXerted
by the people of Asia upon those Of
Europe, for the culture of the east was
initiated, and finally adopted by European
peoples In addition to this. the crusaders, by
exhibiting their bravery to the Saracens,
impressed that people with respect for
| the prowesS of the Europeans, and no
doubt this had the effect of preventing an
invasion of Europe by the Mohammedans.
Further. a closer intimacy between diff
ferent nations, produced by the crusades,
led to the establishment of commercial
relations, and opened up an extensive and
| lucrative trade with the east.
| But the most marked effect of the cru
sades was the almost total extinction of
the feudal system. which had held sway SO
long over Europe, grinding down the
masses and
ENRICHING AND EMPOWERING THE MOBILES.
Inc latter class took very prominent
part in the crusades and, since many never
returned, the property they had not sold
to procure funds for fitting out their
troops, was absorbed by the church or the
state, or taken possession of by the lower
classes. In fact, in some countries of
Europe the nobility was almost com
pletely destroyed, and the feudal system
must necessarily fall. This was the result
of the crusades. The time had not yet
come for the conquest of Palestine. In the
providence of God it has seemed good to
leave this land in the possession of the
unbelievers even until our own day. The
time has now come for its rescue and its
restoration to the descendants of Jacob but
this object will be accomplished by peaceful
not by warlike methods. Already it has been
dedicated by the priesthood of God to be
the abiding place of Israel, and present in
dications strongly point to the fact that ere
long the Moslem will evacuate the land OF
Palestine, and that region shall be occu-
pied by the Jews, who will there see the
Savior, the Christ whom their fathers have
crucitied, looming in the clouds of glory
Mrs. Maggie Bassett rendered song in
a most charming manner.
John j. Walton, principal of the Tenth
ward school. read a selection, 'An Angel
in Saloon, in his usual mastery manner