The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-11

hearers were so thoroughly aroused by
of his auditors throughout. AT times his
his patriotic uterances that ripples of
spontaneous applause swept over the
congregation. In part his sermon follows:
Pslam Xoviii: Sing unto the Lord a new
song; for he hath done marvellous things;
his right hand, and his holy arm hath got
ten hum the victory.
THE poets and heroes whose songs
and deeds made the old time splendid
were pure enough of heart and large
enough of brain to be able to find the
divine pathos of human events. There is
no chance. no accident, no fate. Law is
universal. The more scientific a people
become, the stronger will be their belief
and trust in providence, and the less CON
fldence will they have in luck accidental
chance and the other absurdities In the
days of mans ignorance the providential
was looked upon as the miraculous, and
the miraculous as providentiaI. But with
the growth of science the miraculous be-
comes obsolete and unnecessary while
providence becomes more evident and
prominent in human affairs. There was a
time when the greatest philosophers did
not know that steam had been provided
as a motive power to serve man; that
tude of utilities. The Greeks did nor
know that more than seven metals had
been provided for the arts; while the sage
knows that from 30 to 60 have been pro-
Vlded. The ancientS never dreamed that
there had been provided in the economy
of nature the possibilities of gunpowder
and dynamite; the possibilities of a mod
ern navy and the possibilities of Manila
and Santiago victories, by which America
doth take accession by the hand and
make the bonds of freedom wider
1T is science. or knowledge. that brings
US in touch and in alliance with provi-
dence. The more science, the more provi-
dence. Yes, the more science the more
God in the worlds history. The provi-
imply. the miraculous. We should not
quarrel with the elegant old proposition.
the winds and the waves are always on
the side of the ablest navigators,' for the
aDleSt naV1gatorS know how to use the
winds and waves and are in league with
the mighty laws that govern things. Cod
is on the side of good. favoring good
hnanceering, good politics, good gains,
good battleships. good discipline good
generalship and good causes In the olden
Tune men and nations allied themselves
with providence by faith: today men and
nations ally themselves with providence
py knowledge There was a time when
the people found nature in sympathy with
their struggles for freedom. and the
storm overthrow the Egyptians in the
sea; and the sun and moon stood stiU in
the day of battle to give righteous cause
a good chance, and the stars in their
course Fought against Sisera What does
al TINS mean? Was God teaching man
the necessity of mastering the elements
ana Iorces of nature and yokine them in
his purpose? Was he teaching that he
VINO contends against the stars. against
liz "a" anu OTueT ana every constitution
of things must fall? Is this then a less
providential age than the age of Noses
Is the light growing less providential
than the pillars of fire? Is a Dakota Wheat
harvest less providential than a shower of
mamma? Is South Carolina cotton cron
less prov.dential than the uuails of the
wilderness? Are the orange groves of
California less providential than the vine
yards of old Eschol? Was the discovery
or America less providentai than the find
ing of Canaan? Was the coming of the
pilgrims and Huguenots less nrovidential
than the exodus of the children of Is
rael? Was the declaration of indeDend-
ence less providential than the decaIogue
of Sinai? Were the guns of Dewey and
Sampson LEES providential than the rams
horns of Joshua. the lamps and pitchers
of Gideon or the rod of Moses? Were
Manila and Santiago less providential in
the history of human freedom than Jeri-
cho and Al? Is Christian civilization less
providential than was Jewish barbarism !?
If God ever had a peculiar people he
has them now. They are the product OF
all the struggles and aspirations of the
past. The men who stand before Santiago
are not the product of day or of cel-
fury. they are the rich consummate flower
of the ages, the highest evolution of his
tory. They represent a manhood that has
climbed century by century up the steps
of light and liberty and now stand in
sight of the glorified SUBMITS of the uni