The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-08
THE STUDENTS SOCIETY.
Prof Willard DOne's Lecture on "The Hour
And The Man.

Prof Willard DOne's Lecture on ;The Hour
And The Man"
The regular session of the Students So
clety OF the Latter-day Saints college, con-
vened as usual last Friday evening at the
Social hall. The chairman, Instructor J. J.
Walton, called the meeting to order. After
singing and invocation, song, entitled
sweet Alpine Roses,' was rendered by
Miss Nora Wicket. A recitation was
given by littleu Miss sMamie Howarth, en-
titled, "Our Baby Boy" followed, which
brought forth much applause from the
audience
Instructor Willard Done was introduced
by the chairman as the lecturer of the
evening and the subject, ''The Hour
ana Inc Man" The speaker, in introduc-
Ing his subject, drew attention to God as
the designer and architect of cur earth. the
order OF creation, and the object in view for
creating them. He then referred to the
Crisis which followed, that of there being no
man to till the soil, spoke of Adams
mission, OF his coming to earth at the ap-
pointed hour, and supplying the exigencies
vi that hour. He touched briefly upon the
missions of Noah and of Moses, and with
ciearness portrayed the good they accom-
phshed by their coming forth and filling
the imperative positions which thew alone
could NIL. He made mention of Alexander
Tue Great as being raised up to protect
greece and western Europe from the Per-
SLAMS and the spread Of an inferior civiliza-
tion; also, of the earth being in bondage to
SIN and, IN the appointed hour, God was
maze manifest in the flesh, who paid the
demands OF justice by offering himself as a
sacrlnce Tor sin, and that, as his spirit left
MS body and assembled to higher sphere
OF existence, so did the earth ascend and
release itself from the firm grasp of death
and the grave. The speaker continued bv
ailQdlng to the invasion of Europe by the
Monammedans, great crisis, indeed:
whether despotism and the doctrines of
Islam was to prevail, or whether Christian
CIVILIZATION would rule supreme was
problem, he said, that stared the world
IN the face and caused the hearts of men to
1all on contemplation. He referred to the
conquests OF Mahommed and his defeat;
the rise and corruption of the Roman Cath
onc church and its universal acceptance:
10 Martin Luther and his co-workers as the
necessary means to bring about reforma-
ZION IN the religious and socia, status of
the world, and of the prosecutions of their
followers throughout Europe. the need of
an asylum where religious liberty and
freedom of conscience existed untram
melled was realized as an Indispensable
necessity. To meet this demand of the
world, he said, God raised I'D a man.
Christopher Columbus, who, unknowingly,
performed the great design of the Al
mighty, by discovering this the most
blessed OF all lands, where religious liberty
was purchased without money and without
price. England was mentioned as having
enoeavored to curtail the liberties of the
Americans, but at the appointed hour of
Gods reckoning, George Washington was
called to rescue the oppressed and to estab-
lish the foundation of the grandest
government under heaven; the aposta-
tatlzed condition of the world and the ne
cesslty OF revealed religion were treated
very explicitly. He spoke of this crisis as
the greatest of all others that the world
ever witnessed, and that God himself CON
descended to come down from heaven and
teach the man whom he had selected as his
instrument to reveal the new religion to
the world, by words from his own lips.
Joseph Smith was referred to as the man
whom God had chosen. His fidelity i'm
spreading the gospel, the sealing OF his tes-
timony with his blood and the good effects
OF his labors on humanity were well con-
sldered. But the grand climax, said he,
Is yet to come, when Christ shall come in
clouds OF heaven, and reign triumphant on
on the EARTH when peace and righteous
mes shall cover the earth as water does the
mighty deep.
Following the lecture a piano duet. en-
titled ''Lutspiel Overture' was rendered
by Misses Mamie Freeze and Jenta Smith. |
After singing and the benediction pro
nounced, the meeting was adjourned for
one week.