The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-30

marks in which he alluded to the work
of the distinguished guest while here,
/ declared he was glad to meet with d..
McNiece, and felt that the banquet would
not have been a success without his
! presence. In the years which have flown
he had found Rev. McNiece a man who
was readily approached; one who was
/ ever ready to assist those who needed
assistance. He was man of humble
life and his Monuments are with us every
where and will remain with us no matter
where he himself shall go. His works
We're lasting and of benefit to the COM
! munity.
DR. Lift responded to the toast 'Utah's
past and our churches" He related that
ten minutes was not ample to do justice
/ to the subject in hand, and that he could
only make few soundings along the
coast. The great ocean would have to re-
/ main undisturbed. Fifty years ago
| band of emigrants came into this valley
and pitched their tents upon the spot
where this hotel now stands. bitter
conflict was soon begun between these
/ first settlers, who held peculiar. views
| and the miners and others who came in
tional minister, Mr.. Mcleod, in 1864
| opened the first Christian mission at
Camp Douglas The Protestant Episcopal
church came in 1865 and in 1869 arrived
| the Methodists and Presbyterians. After
wards came the remaining sects now rep
resented in Salt Lake. AT the present
| tim there are 5000 members in the
churches built up by the missionaries.
who were sent here by these various de-
nominations. But these numbers do not
adequately represent the work done by
these pioneers in the Christian cause.
| These churches have stood Tor the
| Bible-one revelation. the Christian home,
but one wife. they have stood also for
the educational idea, which has compelled
American system of public schools to be
introduced. They have stood for. Arneri-
canism. which meant much in the days
when DR.. McNiece came here to become
one of its advocates.
DR.. McNiece has always been in the
fore front of all these developments and
has never uttered an uncertain sound in
the pulpit or in private life. No man who
ever crossed the Missouri river to the
great west has ever been truer to the
principles which he came to propagate.
Rev. B. +. Clay made brief address
on "Utahs present and future. He de-
clared I'VE are here because there has
been a past. The present is the child
of the past and necessary to the future.
The present may be disappointing to some
of us, for we have cherished many hopes
which have been unfulhlled. We expected
an early solution for the momentous
questions which confronted us and We
have grown wiser and now know better
the character of the problem. believe
we have deDended in the past too much
upon the politician but he proved only
a broken reed. from which we received
wounds instead of assistance. We are
not discouraged upon looking into the
future for we now believe that we see
things as they are and | trust are, in a
measure, prepared to meet them we
nave
and under his banner we are assured
of a triumph. We may rest assured that
the great enemy will be vanquished I'M
der his leadership. Attempts We're MADE
Jesus Christ has come and has come TO
stay. His workers are here. The
Christian ministers, the Endeavorers and
Epworth leagues and in the new schooi;s
of the state are the forces. SapDerS ana
miners performing their certain work
Yet it is mot by might. nor by mower.
ir;t fNn .nr6 n
Hosts The gospel of Christ is the
power that shall regenerate all the COM
munities that are established upon wrong
basis.
Presbyterian church was the next speak
e. and responded to the sentiment:
"Utah's future and our churches. He
declared that 20 years ago it was thought
Utah was under dark cloud. and we
wondered how it could be dispelled. The
speaker then made a comparison OF the
power of God in this section to the leaVen
that was hid in three measures of meal,
until all was leavened. Once in an At
rican desert in traversing an oasis all
were fed and maintained by one small
spring, so the religion of Christ was able
to fructify this moral desert and make
of it an oasis. He had assisted in the
installation of DR.. McNiece and had felt
to thank God for the fruitage of his long
passionate.
Rev w s. Hawkes. of the Congrega-
tional church spoke the toast Our
w lNeSt lie asked why ne SHOulu SpSeih
for the ladies when they are so well able
to speak for themselves. He compli-
mented the women of Utah particularly
for their work as teachers and as mis-
sionaries wives. There could be no higher
calling than that of a minister's wife.
Mrs. Clay played .Blest Be the Tie
That Binds"
DR.. McNiece made the closing address
and remarked that while unusually good
things were said of a man after he was
dead, in this instance he was glad to he2r
rFaar Il,
bestowed.
Other members of the association. in
Guiding Mrs. McNiece, delivered short ad-
dresses.
Those present were Rev. and Mrs. r.
G. McNiece, Rev and Mrs. B. F. Clay,
Rev. and Mrs. +. l.. Arnold Chaplain
and Mrs. AHensworth, Rev. and Mrs. c.
7. Brown, Rev. and Mrs. T. j. Collins,