The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-13

Of an unfaltering hope and faith in a
glorious future. Faith in the mighty
and protecting arm of Jehovah was
the inspiration of great men OF old.
Plutarch stated that he found cities
without theatres or gymnasiums but
never without gods. The golden
thread of faith in an over-ruling prov
idence is what has held nations and
peoples together. 1t ennobles man In
the dark. ways of trial and adversely
until he is again able to reach the
sunlight Of prosperity.
Yet there are higher and nobler
laws to be obeyed. All men
are conscious of higher ex-
istence to spiritual laws to which their
spirits respond and look up for guild
ance, and the man or woman of strong
character is the one whose face has
been turned toward the light and who
has become uncompromisingly obedi-
ent to the teachings of that spirit. No
man can become a ruler until he has
first learned how to obey. No man
can become a general who has not first
been disciplined in the obedience of
the private. No man is fit TO be a lead
er in statecraft who has not himself
been taught. And thus, also, no man
or woman IS fitted for the work of
God in this world who has not first
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Byron was miracle of poesy and was
possessed of a masterful mind. In his
soul was a harp so divlnely attuned
that angel fingers would fain have
touched its strings. But this mighty
power was in the hands of man, and
when God asked him for a song which
would have lifted men from the dark
wales of despair. Byron took the harp
and sank it in the dust at the feet OF
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rem has likewise a soul divinely at.
tuned. Jesus promised that his own
would know his voice and would not
follow stranger. Men may never
have heard of the written word and
yet they have in their hearts the sans
testimony of a God. There lies in
each mans heart divine loVe-a love
that can become so deep, so pure, that
men have changed its name and called
it God. The spark of the divine is in
the chambers of every soul, and it is
this that shall endure when the earth
and stars shall WAIVER and fade away.
Susan b. Anthony.
Susan B. Anthony followed in a brief
address. Twenty-four years ago she
was present when this immense edi-
fee was dedicated. Large multitudes
of people packed the building on that
gathering In this one-fourth of a
century the people have passed from
childhood in government into the full
stature of sovereignty. 1t is a pleas
ure to be able to congratulate the peo-
pie upon their remarkable success and
advancement. In laying the founda-
ton stone Of the new state, the people
have done Justice to those who have
suffered by the side. When the ter
ritory of Utah shall become the state
Of Utah, this will become the greatest
IF the intermountain states.
Bishop o. F. whitney.
was the next speaker. 1t is a dlstin-
guished honor indeed, he said, to be
called upon to follow in a speech the
queens of thought by whom the audi
ence has been held entranced. He said
that he was there, however, to speak
as the spirit gave him utterance.
When the eloquent reference was
made to an important poet, the words
of an associate and poet came viz.
idly 10 mind. His spirit" says Rog-
ers, walked the earth in scorn and
gloom but yet there were times
when its primal glory lit his songs"
Rogers, his friend, speaks faithfully
OF the poet, for there were times when
his soul lifted itself above the clouds
and the mists of this earth and re-
membered that song which he might
have sung for the delight and better
ment of man.
When the speakers mind dwell
upon the opprobrium and disdain that
fell to the lot of these noble women,
he thought of Byrons sublime words:
'He who -ascends the mountain tops
shall find
The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds
He who surpasses or subdSles mankind
Must look down on the hate OF those
below
Yet there IS consolation FOR these dc.
voted champions of others rights. Such
treatment as they have received has
always come to those who would bless
mankind. The prophets. poets, sages
and reformers Of the past have never
had their brows wreathed in laUTels by
the world. Such men have ever been
cast out aald despised, while me sepul-
chres of the dead have been garnished.
a bright future is before these women
and their patient struggles for supren-
acy will yet prove to be as the stons
rejected by the builders. but which af-
forwards became the chief cornerstone.
In rejecting upon some theme which
would be appropriate for this occasion,
the record of Genesis, wherein 1t says
that God created man in his own i'm
age" and that male and female ere.
ated he them" had come to mind. II
God created man in his own image, II
must assuredly follow that God is like
man. On the same hypothesis, he who
created IL his own likeness must have
done so on the male and female prIS-
ciple. Furthermore, if men and women
are the children of God and if, as beau.
tifully shown in the opening hymn,
there IS a mother in heaven, then man
must have within him the embryonic
germs of deity and the capability of
himself becoming god. If these pre-
misses be admitted as true. then il
must likewise logically follow that the
common father and mother of human
ity once dwelt,a as men do now, in NOR
tally. These are we'll known doctrines
of the Mormon faith and should long
ago have been adopted as Christian be-
liefs. The doctrine is plain and har-
monious and is clearly taught in the
Bible
The Mormons have been accused of
too literally interpreting the scrip.
lures. A noted Hindoo minister, who
was recently here on visit, stated
that too liberal a construction upon the
sayings of scripture was misleading
and that only oriental Scholar
ship can be depended upon for
a faithful Interpretation. This NAV be
true in some instances, but it should
also be remembered that two well-de-
fined meanings may attach to the
same passage of scripture. The tenn
poral Interpretation, as in the baptism
unless a spiritual application were also
do