Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-15

Xybo turks about youths brink
And sure dlsmay he brings away
The elf-I didn't think
- ROM the earliest dawn Of ciyiliza-
l.. ton to the present time strug-
gle has been going on, In deyel-
i oplng the intellectual or spiritual
man out Of the animal or unthinkms
man.
# has been q continuous battle be-
tween thought built sentiment and
mobocracy without thought since
two thousand years before Christ law
eiyers and philosophers have labored
10 teach men 70 keep In subsection their
spaech and their appetitas
The few thinkers, the intellectual
,,ghts who have nlumined the pathway
of the ages, stand out conspicuously be-
c,use their numbers have been few
but their influence has blessed human
nv and we enjoy the fruits OF thclr la
bors,
There are now few churches and
few societies, and only few, with the
nurpose In view Of developing the hlgh-
err faculties and sensibihues: that Is,
20 develop the man-strangle the brute,
In other words, to make men, thinkers
oyou mourn, you sigh becahse men
hate each other.
II makes you grieye that men shall XIII
Alas that man should fiji the world
with sorrow
And vet, he may do better things to-
morrow
We owe a debt Of gratitude to the
workers Of the past Had IL not been
for the lifes devotion of the few who
worked increasingly and alone, without
a word Of cheer without recompenCe,
either Of food or raiment, ana then died
,lpou the cross, the rack, and the scat
fold. that each succeeding generation
might reap golden harvest of intel
iectual liberty from their sowing the
seeds OF sacrifice, we today would be
subject entirely to the whima and fam
cles Of the mob.
Lowell expressed a truth when he
said.
"Truth forever on the scattold,
Wrong forever on the throne,
Yet that scaffold sways the future
And behind the dim unknown
Standeth God within the shadow
Keeping watch above His own,'
The mob cannot think, and some
who might develop, won't! Hence hu-
manlty must still travel on through the
ewamps and foul morass of bigotry ana
Ignorance. The ship of progress must
FOUNDER about In stagnant pools,
chained to posts Of envy and hate, by
public Clamor.
Tine pilgrim fathers who sacrificed all
10 attain their liberty Of conscience,
no sooner had they attained IT, than
thay commenced to ensldVe others This
condition of the human mind seems 70
rarpetuate itself, Nineteen hundred
wears Of Christian teachings seems to
have eradicated but little of the devil
len sin Of public clamor, Today we
see brother against brother church
against church, society against society,
and each claiming to be follower OF
the gentle Nazarene, who said, Love
thy neighbor as myself CHRIST
walked from town to town, crying 10
the people, do we unto others as We
would have others do unto YOU ana
they cruclned Him.
lie died with q smile on his face and
a loving word upon his lips while the
mob clamored and finished It's deyilish
work,
The same old spirit and the same old
mob are still at it, killing their VIC
TINS on the cross Of SANDER and buru-
ing them at the flgots Of prejudice and
hate.
Abraham Lincoln said, "Our reliance
Is in the love Of liberty which God has
planted I'm us. our defense Is I'm the
spirit which prizes liberty as the hertz
age OF al men, Those who deny free
dom to others deserve It not for them
selves, and under a Just God cannot
long retain it," Lincoln meant this
not only for governments but for indi-
Nduals, churches, and societies,
true man viii never ask for a right
that he will not accord to his fellow
man,
II a poor barbarian was kneeling to
p stuffed snake praying for his wife
and babe, you have no right 10 laugh
and sCoff at him. You would do better
by kuceling down and praying with
him,
FLUSH up that spiteful tongue of yours,
Give him chance TO grow
Before you hang him, tell me this.
Why differs he from you?
"You never made yourself, my friend,
Then why should you be proud?
And II you've only what's been given,
What right have YOU to croWd?'
A liberal man will recognize the fact
that his neighbours religion and the
ceremonies combined with it, are his
neighbours private property. The inner
consciousness Of religion is doarer and
more sacred than life itself If you
have something better open your arms
iu Christian love and tenderness, beCkou
them up into the brighter light the
purer way, instead Of cutting them
with the daggers Of rldicule and pierre
Ing their souls with scorn, Turn the
6oarchlight upon your inner self before
You call your brother fool.
The road has been long and dreary,
from PythagoraS, the sage of Samos,
to Lincoln, the sage Of America, but an
across the ages the mob has kept %
going, clamorng for the destruction Of
every man who was ahead OF his time,
every advanced thought, every iuycu-
non, and every discovery The best
nave always been abused the most, I'm
our time questions that effect the well
ltre Of the state or nation are not taxi
on up and considered under the torch
OF reason, but to the contrary under
inc red nag ana the skull and cross
bones OF hate and egOtism. The ware
l'ng factions work for supremacy, not
lor principle, by arousing public clamor
We may well cry where is the Christ?
ana what of His teachings? We surely
need The second coming or q revival
OF tho works and Of His lifc5 teach
iDgs,
why call ye me Lord Lord, and
no not the things which | say"
Inc mob aud publio ,tu mon hoe nm
sued the Mormon" people for rs voars
which is evidence in itself of their
strength and fortimdc.
II Is not my purpose 10 say or to
uIEue whether the mormon" faith or
Iguslon Is right or wrong, but IT is my
purpose to deal with them I'm Justice
ma fairness as ] would with any other