The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-04-30
JOHN WANAMAKER.
The Ex-Postmaster General Arrives
in Salt Lake.
a Trip to Garfield Beach-The visitor
Addresses Large Audience at the
Presbyterian Church.

The Presbyterian church was crowded
to overlooking last night. Every seat
was occupied, chairs were placed in the
aisles and standing room was at q
premium. John Wanamaker ex-post-
master general and the greatest Sunday
school superintendent in the world was
announced to give an address on Sunday
school work.
Mr.. Wanamaker has benevolent and
attractive appearance. Before he had
thoroughly in sympathy and in touch
with the speaker. He said twenty years
ago he used to be much exercised and
troubled in efforts to make speeches. He
now had dropped all that and simply
talked.
His talk from beginning to end was so
thoroughly in earnest that the personal
ity of the speaker was lost and the whole
attention of the audience fixed on the
subject. His Christianity is of q cheerful
type and he believes in making the
Sunday school attractive by providing
Instructive and interesting teaching by
putting the Bible forward as the great
magnet. He does not believe in bribing
scholars BY giving them ice cream festi-
walls, oyster suppers, etc. The Sunday
school should be conducted on busi-
like way. 1t was deplorable fact that
so few men attended the churches.
Women were better than men as rule,
and in great measure to them was at
tributable the good work which was car
ried on by the Sunday schools and
churches to-day. He disapproved of
opening the World s fair on Sunday; also
picture galleries, museums, etc. Would
rather have churches open every DAY in
t1,o L. ,Ioxy
1t was mistake to suppose the devil
was jolly good fellow and that
God was a morose and forbidding
personality. He thought the assembly
in that church was a grander and better
conference than any silver conference,
irrigation congress or even Republican
| conference. All the legislation at Wash
| ington and at the state capitals could not
| keep men from drinking, gambling, ETC.. 3,
| out true religion could.
In his Sunday school at Philadelphia
there were from 1000 to 1900 pupils in
regular attendance. He gave history OF
the Sunday school from its very small be-
ginnings to the present time when it was
one of the greatest powers for good in the
world.
| At the conclusion of the address
an after meeting was held for
the purpose of comforting with teachers
1
at which number of the local preachers
attend and propounded questions which
| Mr.. Wanamaker answered.
| The distinguished visitor Is on a tour OF
the country for pleasure and recreation.
He has been through to the coast and is
on his way back to Philadelphia. He
stops at all important towns and raises
his voice in encouragement to the Chris
tian works, Sunday school teachers par
ticularly, whenever opportunity offers.
There are twelve in the party, including
Mrs. Wanamaker. They arrived yester-
day morning from New Mexico, visited
Garfield Beach, the Salt works and other
points of interest and are highly
pleased with the city and its sur
roundings. Mr.. Wanamaker says this
country is no longer the new west, but is
rapidly becoming the old west; it is being
settled, and in refinement and culture is
rivaling the east.
The party leave for the east on Monday
evening, stopping off at Leadvtlle, Den
yer, Kansas City and Chicago, and are
timed to arrive in Philadelphia May IS.
Mr.. Wanamaker will give an address
today at $3.50 o'clock in the Congrega.
tional church, especially adapted to Sun.
day school children and under the au-
spices of the Sunday School union.