Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-06-02

little In spirit or In detail from any
evangelical creed. It's followers accept
the ten messages OF the thunder as the
origin OF all law for human govern
ment they sit reverently az the feet of
the cruclned Christ, and their belief
ln the revelations OF their Prophets Is
as reasonable as many features Of the
creed Of Christondom.
Indeed the logicians the skeptics and
the theologians may all suggest that
II revelation from God TO man be q
truth az an why should Il have ceased
nineteen hundred years ago? Why
should it not have continued until the
present time through such inspired
ones as might be selected by the Al
| mighty as batteries 10 receive and in
terpret His message 70 mankind?
An eifort-shOuld effort be anywhere
made-tO now place the people Of Utah
under O cloud because of their the0-
logical idiosyncracies win fall-utterly.
The world Is moving into the new cen-
fury 10 has left behind Il the rusted
racks OF TOrQuemada. the cold ashes
Of the fagot In which Socrates roasted,
and the wrecks OF the pll.orIes In which
the Puritans tortured the Quakers, ana
Il Us remembering that the Redeemer
Himself said. "ln my Fathers house
are many mansions" Not one but
many--many creds many faiths. many
religions and none OF them In which
truth and honesty and usefulness are
not virtues.
Yet It may not be denied that reli-
gious and partisan prejudces have still
much 10 do IN making up history As
with the painter the historian selects
different standpolnts. and sketches un-
Nars NfffarnsH - oil IA .
success OF Rembrandts pictures is said
10 have grown out OF the accident OF
his having been accustomed TO make
his earliest sketches under the light
which fell from the aperture IN the roof
Of his fathers mill lie never outlived
the charm Of the effect; IL was photo
graphed upon his brain. and every fu-
ture effort was more or less impregnat-
ed with the idea. Just so with hist0ri-
ans. II Is impossible 20 Judge except by
comparisons, and these comparisons are
furnished by the education Of indvid-
val opinion. bstractions-however
wei they may serve the purposes OF
philosophy not to be thought OF IN
history; men viii paint according to
their light.
ACCORDING TO HIS LIGHT
Brigham Young lived according TO his
light, and no prophet, priest or seer in
an history was more sincere than he In
believing that the light came from
above. Ills spiritual and material sys-
TENS were both engraftures upon a
Puritan tree He was a Vermont Per
icles. an American Cromwell. 8 western
Columbus: bR he was above an the
very incarnation Of the Puritan idea
A great New England orator once
said What the Purltans gave the
world was not thought. but action
Europe had Ideas but she was letting
Il dare not walt upon / would. The
Puritans with native pluck launched |
out into the deep sea. Men who called |
themselves thinkers had been crawling |
along the Mediterranean from headland |
10 headland In their timldity: the Pill |
grims launched boldly 0H into the At |
tic and trusted God. The Pilgrim spirit |
was not confined TO any religion or race |
Lord Bacon was Puritan IN spirit for !
as he takes his proud march down the |
centuries he may lay one hand on the |
steam engine and the other on the dy- |
namo and say These are mine. for I |
taught YOU how 10 invent Columbus /
was imbued with the Puritan spirit |
when he made the historic reply TO his |
demonstrating first officer
what shall say. great captain, say
II we sight naught but sea at dawn? |
Why you shall say at break Of day
Sail on sail on, sail on and on
Brigham Young. Ike hls Athenan |
prototype. was formative In his ideas. |
He was a masculine man. He was in
stnctyely an architect-a builder-a
creator. lie loved to plan houses. TO
organize industries 10 provide for the
erection OF mills and factories. The /
overland railroad and telegraph lines
through Utah. and the great irrigatng
canals were constructed under
HIS LEADERSHIP.
He would tolerate no sighting or in
efficient work. Every stone I'm the tenn
PIE from foundation 10 spire was cut
to exactly III It's place While a part
OF the foundation was being laid Presi-
dent Young was absent on his return
he visited the work and noticed ma
son placing "spawls" or chips OF granite
under one Of the blocks, what is that
for2' he inquired. In order 20 make
the stone level" was the reply How
much Of that kind Of work has been
done?" he sternly asked. AN the way
NlH |
he tear it out all the way down and
begin over Make every stone az its
nelghbor and stand level without any
'spawls and when the stones don't M
cut and shape them until they will Mt
He had the patience with small an
noyances that Is an attribute of a great
and placid soul He brushed away the
gad-fle instead Of trying 20 crush
them. His suaviter In mOdO was su,
perb. but the fortier In ne was behind
H. Beneath the velvet glove was the
grip OF steel He was the Cromwell OF
his people, the lord protector Of his
realm. He had the same desire as the
great covenanter for the freedom OF
his creed and clan the same Intense
belief IN the Righteousness and wisdom
Of his own institutions; the same IN
tolerance OF interference with his
methods. the same instincts Of leader
ship the same love OF power
a character which has become his
toric generally requires distance for
toning and harmonizlng effect, but the
high dignity Of this mans character
was impressed upon all who surrounded
him
Chief OF his clan he oentered IN his
soul
As their evangelical their hopes and
fears
Through all his lifetime as their wisest
lie planned TO lead them to some hap
Ply goal.
A thousand miles toward the sunrise
he Missouri rolls rs turbid flood, yet
In So hours we may journey here from
there In a luxurious car But the men
and women who founded this common
wealth plodded for weary weeks across
alkaline deserts under the feroe throb-
blne light. and over mountains torn |
from the tortured breast Of chaos and
thrown away upon the world. Fooisore
ana weary. yet submissive 10 discipline
and undaunied OF soul they faced the
storm and the savage Of the desert and
disease. with the spirit Of the spartans
whose message 10 the ages Is craven
upon the rocks OF Thermopylae.
eco stranger, and In Lacedemonia tell.
That here. obedient TO her laws We
fell"
And ever h the vanguard was the