The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-20


manhood. The priesthood will never
be jealous of the cultivation of this gift
of God. When Joshua came once to
Moses asking that he rebuke the young
men who were prophesying. there was
no accent or trace of jealousy in his
words when he said: would to God
that all Gods people were prophets and
that he would pour out his spirit upon
Them
The priesthood will rejoice when a
! prophet is raised up in Zion, we'll
knowing there will still be room for
the development of all Gods amounted.
The law of liberty and freedom will
prevail, until the heavenly throng and
the Saints are united in that strong
and indivisible cord which harmonious
and perfected knowledge will weave
around them
The choir rendered beautifully the
anthem. Jesus, Ny Cross Have
Taken" and benediction was offered
by Elder c. W. Penrose.
Rev Brown Lectures on Lincoln.
The Rev. Clarence T. Brown closed
his series of lectures on champions of
liberty last evening at the Congrega-
tional church, by delivering a very in
teresting and instructive lecture on
abraham Lincoln. The center di-
vision of the church was reserved for
the members of the Grand Army of
the Republic, of whom large number
we've present
The reverend gentleman spoke for
nearly an hour and succeeded in hold
Ing the undivided attention Of his
hearers by the interesting manner in
which he treated an interesting sub
ject.
He started out by saying that al
though people were unable to grasp
the measure of greatness which Lin
coin attained when in the zenith and
towards the end Of his career. no such
difficulty was experienced in cOntem-
plating him in his early days. He was
poor and of humble origin. He was
of the people, and d favorite expression
of his was that God must love the
common people because he had made
so many OF them.
Lincoln, like Cromwell and unlike
Napoleon, was never carried away by
his greatness and his successes. The
giddy heights to which he attained
never turned his head or his heart, at
the last. as at the beginning, he being
of the people. He had d good mother
whom he loved, and although he lost
her when he was but 10 years of age,
to her good influence he ascribed the
success of his life There was deep
vein of sadness in his character, and
he was early characterized by men
tai hungering for ideas, sentiments
and truth.
He had an unbendable and unbreak-
able backbone and his mildness anu
deep feeling was ever characterized
by firmness and an unswervin de-
termination to do what he conceived
to be his duty. In his early days,
when visiting slave market at New
Orleans, he formed a determination, if
he ever got a chance. to hit the insti-
tuition of slavery hard, and he hit it
so hard that it died.
His greatness as a politician. or
rather as a statesman. grew from his
sensitive conscience, his cool head,
his honesty of heart and his maxim of
keeping faith with both his friends
and his enemies. By these he was en-
abled, as Gods pilot to steer the ship
of state safely through the stupendous
breakers which assailed it on either
side. He was statesman OF the
highest order. He had a firm belief
in the ultimate triumph of right, in
God, in the government, in the people
and in himself. He held that among
appeal from the ballot to the bullet
and through him free and democratic
move on.
Lincoln like Caesar. lie Cromwell
belongs to the world. He was too
great a man TO belong exclusively 10
any nation, but peculiarly he belongs
to us, and that ought to give hope to
any nation for a thousand years. Now
he is dead he belongs to the ages and
he will live a thousand thousand
years When Wilkes Booth. in his
madness, after firing the fatal shot.
to escape, his foot caught
in the old flag and he was captured,
and all who attack our country will
be similarly caught by the same old !
flag.
Mr.. Brown interspersed his lecture |
with anecdotes illustrative of the |
genius and character of Lincoln, |
which greatly added to the interest of |
the discourse.
The church was we'll filled and Mr.. !
Radcliffe presided at the grand organ. |