Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-07-30


lions In the most glowing terms Of
which human elequence and poetic
Imagination are capable But
al eau be summed up IN
the general statement ihata time will
come when the human race shall DO In
a position to live for The attainment Of
all that IL good AMI beautiful and be
endowed With Che necessary moral and
physical power 10 accomplish these
ends. To this view religion has chung
throughout tho ages and does 20 slill'
Storms have RACED; the night has
sometimes been long and dark and the
waves Of Gin ami iuiqulty have dashed
against the earthly shores, A. II total
destruction wereireyliabl,;b amid the
storm and the tumuli, tbs silver tones
have been ringing IRON the lighthouse
ofrevelaton, peallng forth the met
sage Of hope TO The struggling children
u the Almighty, that there l. a hsr.
Dor where rest, aud peace and Joy
await them at last
Those who have followed the de-
velopmonts OF research will have per-
ceivei that science too points 10 tho
same direction. Physicists aro slow.
~ solving secrets Of nature and
mechanism Is being perfected until
space ana time no longer are 10 man
what they formerly were. But what
will the result ter We are clearly ~.
preaching time when the means Of
procuring the neccssilles Of lilo viii
he 90 abundant ami the facilities
Of enjoyment 70 plentiful that they
will boz within the reach ofall. Then
mankind will have time hnd oppor.
tuniiy TO direct its wonderful ontfglcs
toward boaullfying the earth and ouiti.
waiting righteousness. Gold will no
longer be the ruling power, simply TOT
the reason that II IL not needed ~ It 10
now, aud With lie dethIonomentc oli,n
and all its evils will have NO excuse
Tor existence. Then, Indeed, the earth
will be- that Iafadho, Of which foycla.
ton bias NJ often spoken.
Aud this Il no idle dream.
Science now stands on the threshold
Of discovefite, which when realized,
viii render thOsB things actual facts.
When he lie work OF Edison anu
Tesla aud Kveley, anu many others h.
done, the world will enter upon a lew
epoch Of It, history.
Among the men named Mf. Kce'y
particularly stand, OUT ~ ~ minolt
figure, although lees known than
othef-. For twenty years bu has been
l.Lorng on tue problem u nudiug anu
tue hidden iofc,s ny
whiUh nature produces her various
To explain his IDEAS Is
al present impossible, but he seems
10 have penetrated 10 lho atoms,
aud n now experimenting WITH
what no calls "lho very soul OF
matter" Aud according to eyewil-
nesses he sots machinery IN movement
by no common power. His methods
are mystery TO oil no,w thstauding
his Efforts TO explain them, for no has
entered upon field where common
scientific terms fail q express tho phe.
nomeua thHt appear However, tho
object 10 10 draw within the sphere VI
human ussiulneis the very power by
which planets are born and held 10.
gether, just "a electricity aud magnet.
ism have been harnt,sed for the service
Of man. keely IL called u charlatan
by some, just as Calico war; but tho
testimony of the late Henri Herr, who
had seen photographs Of his wonderful
machinery Is tina, "no man working
ON these liues with such Instruments Ia
fraud"
Ia It possible to picture to ones
mind what man eau 10, when he
holds Ia his hands tho key 70
the mighty force that turns
the earth In IT, evolutionary
mollous2 Towards the discovery OF
that key science now IL bending III
energy,
10 some lthe present aspects OF the
world mag be Encouraging, when an.
arohy In the state and aposlaay In the
churches seem 10 threaten the social
structure with ruin. Hut In times like
this, II lie well TO remember that the
very oommoiion In the realm OF dark.
uess Is sign OF liz speedy fall. itwas
no before tho birth Of the Savior; the
darkness was intense just before the
bursting forth Of the great light. 1t IL
NO now before the coming Of the day Of
the millennium, but the intensity Of
the night IL no sign Of strength. IL
will give way TO that light Of which
both religion and science are coguizant
IA approaching In glory.