The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-08
SER
CONCERNING POLITICAL SER
MONS.

! Yesterday morning The Herald pub
lished the following:
DR.. Ravlin spoke to a very good house
/ at A. o. L. w. han last evening, and
his theme disguised General John Lu
Taylor. who quit the place ere the
service was at an end. The speaker
took for his theme the handwriting on
the wall which predicted the downfall
of BelshazZar. and after vivid de-
scriptiOn of that event, made an appil-
cation of the same to the Mckinley ad-
ministration.
Dr. Ravlin maintained that by watch
ing the progress OF events, the interest
ed observer would note that a crisis
was approaching. The concentration of
power was !discernible and gold was ap-
parently the only god the classes wor-
shipped There were mutterings on the
part of the masses which betokened a
storm. But unlike Belshazzar and his
friends. the powers that be fail to see
the handwriting on the wall and go on
working TO advance their own interests
regardless Of the welfare of others.
Values had been deprecated so per cent
by the adoption of a currency system,
which was being upheld as the best in
the world when it is not, being simply
a means of oppression of the poor by
the rich. Never was there such a devil
ish scheme concocted in the history of
the world as the one which attempts to
foist upon America the single gold
standard. It is worse than casting the
poor into furnace of fire; because it is
slower. It is starvation, lingering death;
not the sudden merciful ending which
men pray for.
DR.. Ravlin predicted that, like DagOn,
the forces of the gold men would fall,
because the people will arise and as
sert themselves. The people will insist
upon governing themselves, for, when
they do not take the reins in their own
hands and permit few to do it, the
nation viii fall and viii end.
The banquet at the Waldorf was al
luded to as an event which discounted
the feast of BelshaZzar. While no lives
had been sacrificed, millions Of treasure
had been deprecated by the action of
William Mckinley, and men had been
ruined and brought to poverty because
of the depreciation of the money which
they held. while others were made rich
money they owned. Even as Nero fid-
died when Rome was burning. so do the
men in power fiddle when America is in
danger. DR.. Ravlin predicted that a
party of patriots would arise and would
scOurge the money brokers from the
temple of liberty. and prayed that time
might soon come.
That is an honest, uncolored and
account of DR. RavIin's |
sermon, and from it no person could /
possibly tell whether The Herald favors |
Democracy or Republicanism. bimetal- |
lism or the gold standard But this ac-
count seems to have stirred the Deseret |
News to the very depths, for it com
ments on it at length under the head of
D.
are, in part, as follows:
At a regular religious service in one
Of the non-MOrmOn churches in this
city last Sunday evening, the minister
chose a scriptural text, which he APP
Piled to President Mckinley and his
administration. The sermon based upon
he text was a severe denunciation of
The present policy of the administra-
ion regarding the money question, and
an enthusiastic plea for free silver
There was present in the congregation
4 gentleman wei known to the commu-
lity, whose open endorsement of Presi-
lent Mckinley has added TO his promi-
hence. Presumably by way of indicat-
ng his disapproval of the sermon. this
Gentleman arose and left the house of
Worship before the service was over.
a morning paper approvingly repro
luces the substance of the sermon and
ecords, with apparent glee, the depart
Ire from the congregation OF the gen
leman referred to. His name is given,
md the circumstance of his leaving is
ecounted in a manner calculated to
lold him up to public comment, not TO
ay ridicule, simply because he did not
Ike the political sermon that was be-
ne delivered. And yet the paper re-
erred to has for years kept up an in ,
essant ringing of the changes upon the
hrases quoted at the opening of this
rticle.
Were a similar sermon to be delivered !