The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-09-18
New York: Phillips s Hunt.
Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe.
1884

Mr.. Talmage. by the way, has often been
charged with preaching, as new, sermons
that have been in print; but they were his
own; he has never been convicted of steal
ing from any other clergyman. ministers
often repeat their own sermons, exchang-
ing puipits with one another in order to do
SO. But the case in hand is not one of that
sort, and the only escape for Rev. DR.. Lift,
as alluded to above, is to show that Guard
hooked from Tiff and not lift from Guard.
To be sure, the dates are rather ugly and
the circumstances unpromising.
WHO WAS DIR. GUARDs
DR.. Guard first appeared about twenty
one years ago in New FORK to raise a fund
Tor new Methodist church in Port Eliza
beth, Cape of Good Hope, but was induced
TO remain In this country, and in 1872 be-
came pastor in Baltimore. He left Balti-
more Tor San Francisco in 1875, where he
stayed three years and he was stationed at
Oakland about eighteen months after
wards. He died October 10, 1882 Some
of his lectures and addresses were com
piled to make the contents of the volume
we have referred TO. In bis preface the
editor says of DR.. Guard that he shrank
from publication. His appreciation of
literary finish was so keen, his idea of lit
erary excellence SO high, that he dreaded
the circulation of anything coming from
his pen IN crude shape and decoid of
originality. He modestly excused himself
with the plea that in what he said there
was nothing really new" The Masonic
Grafton" and the Young Mems Christian
Association Address had been printed,
however, before being put IN this collec-
ton. So the reader can see how very i'm
probable it is that DIR. Tiff had any other
source than this printed book for what we
shall quote from his Magnificent Address,
at the Salt Lake Theatre.
PIECE OF PATCHWORK.
DR.. lifts address at the second anniver-
sarv CT the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation was stolen from three of the lee
lures and addresses of DIR. Guard. He
takes the first i've lines from lecture on
wesley and His Helpers.n Then follow
about twenty lines which THE HERALD has
not been able to trace introduced with an
at has been wisely said,' etc, favorite
phrase of the plagiarist, admitting of a
wholesale, scissorizlng without the require
ment OF quotation marks. From the words
Every thing in the title of the association
down through about 40 lines to the words
"Such a monster was once q man." then
skipping biographical statistics relative to
the ages al which some of the worlds
heroes performed their greatest exploits
that occupy about half column, we come
to Therefore as an association of young
men," thence for twenty nine lines to the
expression s'truest and best sense" AL
this together with some that comes after
is filched almost word for word, comma
semi colon and period, from DIR. Guards
Anniversary Address, delivered at the
twenty second anniversary Of the Young
Mems Christian Association Of San Fran
cisco, September 10, 1872 pages PSI TO 2o6
of the book. From the words Christian
ity with its rests down to ''All forces act,"
twenty-eight lines, are prigged bodily from
Guards lecture on "St. Patrick, the Apes
tie of the Irish," delivered in March, 1850,
in Oakland and San Francisco. The dove
failing is pretty work and shows that the
eloquent doctor is 10 novice at it. Thus
when treating Of the trlumphs Of genius,
where Guard spoke of "Hampden and Sid
ney, Locke and Washington, Lafayette and
Garibaldi," Lift interpolates Savonarola
and Luther. and substitutes Lincoln for
Locke. Where did he get that Savonarola.
Well. in this very book Guard has a lecture
on "Ssv0narola. the Martyr of Fl0rence,n
who, according to this authority, more
than any other, FASTENED the Reformation
OF Luther"
STRANGE COINCIDENCE.
With the publicity given to the fact
that DR.. Tiff would speak at the Theatre
that Sunday nlgnt, 1t is not strange, per-
haps, that he should have been requested
TO address some remarks specially adapted
to the young men," but what seems Curl
Gus is that on q similar occasion IN 1875 the
identical request should have been made of
DR.. Guard.
But we must hasten tc our proofs OF
this most wonderful assimilation of ideas
and language-this new Illustration. it may
be, of s'unconciou5 cerebration' where not
only the thoughts and language of the
preacher, but even the minutest puDctua
ton marks of the compositor have been
with most exact fidelity. And
then stripped of his borrowed plumage this
peacock Of the pulpit may strut again if he
can: