The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-24
THECHURCH DEDICATED
Interesting Exercises at the New Con.
gregationaI Ediflce.
Recital and Concert Last Evening-Presf-
dent slocum's Lecture on ssAchieve-
mentv-Instructive and Entertaining.

1uo ueW OOlgT0gdIlOQdl cluICH5 On
First South street, was dedicated with ap-
propriate services on Sunday morning
The dedicatory prayer was offered by
Rev. Thrall and President Slocum of
Colorado college delivered the sermon.
Following this Mr.. Thrall made brief
address.
In the evening fellowship meeting,
in which nearly all the pastors in the
city participated, was held in the new
church.
Yesterday morning the Ministerial as
ISOLATION met in Mr.. Thrall's study and
listened to a very fine address on
"Heridity" by President slocum.
In the afternoon a meeting was held at
the Phillips Congregational church,
where President SIocum gave ''familiar
talk on university extension.
RECITAL AND CONCERT.
The complimentary organ recital, con-
cert and lecture brought out an audience
which completely filled the beautiful
Congregational church last night. The
music was of the highest order, and
President Slocum's lecture, which fol-
lowed, was truly feast of reason, round
ing out an entertainment which will
make the evening long remembered by
those who were present.
Prof. Radcliffe presided at the organ in q
way which brought out the full beauties
of the instrument and showed his perfect
mastery OF it. The exquisite offerotery
in G minor by Batiste was rendered with
such exquisite effect that the organist re-
celyed tumultuous encore, and respond
ed with the ever popular 'Swanee River, :"
in which the vox humane fairly thrilled
the audience. The final number was
Henselt's Glove Song.'
Joshua Carlisle, who has not been heard
in Salt Lake for some years, and Mr..
Bjornsen sang 81 Would That My Love"
by Mendelssohn, very effectively, and q
quartette composed OF Messr5. Carlisle,
Whitney, Robinson and Bjornsen received
hearty encore.
THE LECTURE.
President Slocum was then introduced
by Rev. B. Thrall, and announced that
the subject of his lecture would be
Achievement"
81 am becoming quite well known to
Salt Lake audiences, - asid Mr.. Slocum,
''and | fear you will soon be willing to
speed the parting guest. !" Continuing,
he said that everything worked in this
world by law. From nothing, nothing
came. Success was not the result of ac-
cident, but of achievement. There were
two great classes af people in the world,
one which achieved something, and the
other which didn't. In reading the old
Hebrew Scriptures he had been struck
with the continuous use of the term, sit
came to pass, but he at last came to see
that t these people had in them force
which was ever bringing something to
pass. When the heart was filed with a
great idea, there was force which would
always conquer in this world.l There was
something IN proves which attracted
people. There was something in every
human heart that loved heroism, and
while they might not love John l..
Sullivan, the brute, they could not help
admiring the physical prowess that once
was his. The Creator expected that there
should be noble and strong physical de-
Velopment. A leader in prison reform
had told him that the first and most i'm
portant thing to elevate the criminal was
physical training, which would give
physical self-respect.
InsDenver a boy who had always been a
helpless idiot, without intelligence
enough to work the optic nerve, had been
taken to a physician who cut the skull
open and removed the pressure on the
brain, allowing it 10 expand. Since then
the boy had learned to talk, could use his
limbs and walk. The relation of physi-
cal conditions to physiological problems
was close. A great deal of crime and vice
could be taken out of society by good
brain development and physical training.
AS to the power of intellectual force, he
cited the instance of student at Oxford
who wrote little pamphlet, which fell
into the hands of monk III Italy. Savo-
narola was burned at the stake, but the
foundation of religious and civil liberty
was laid with the thought which the
student at Oxford gave to the world.
Judgment was one of the great factors in
and to have good Judgment,
a man must have high ideals and the
faculty of comparison. Imagination also
played an important part in achievement.
Through it the lessons which science
could not teach were learned. People had
gotten so in the habit of condemning
passion that it was thought of only as a
thing to be ostracised, and yet the men
who had been leaders in the world were
men of passion. He who never felt pas
sion never knew the meaning of life. A
great man had told him that the basis of
insanity was the loss of self control, and
it was the power of controlling passion
for noble ends that resulted in achieve
ment The education which simply dulled
the soul would never lead to achievement.
That which made the soul burn with pas
sion was best. The land which ought to
call forth all these faculties was the great
west. Here were obstacles to be over
come and conditions to call the magma
ton into activity. The spirit of the
sturdy pioneers who first crossed the
plains in the old prairie schooners which
bore the one classic which could not be
traced back to Greece, was alive in all this
new empire, and would ultimately trans
form it.
The soldierly Duke d'Eperney became
sick for hours if he saw q hare, and once
kept his bed for week because one