Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-05-07
GREATEST NEED Of
THE AGE IS MAN
Subject Of an Interesting Lecture
BY Attorney General
Breeder.
CREATURES OF EVOLUTION.
j. u Narrow. Minded Simpcring sem.
blance OF Man Who Bangs
His Hair

Atty. Gen. Breeder spoke yesterday
afternoon. before the Y, NJ. G. A. on
THE Greatest Need Of the Age is
Man" He said IN part:
1T is not my design. nor have the
time, to discuss the origin OF the hu-
man race upon this occasion. and /
accord 10 each man here the right to
determine for himself whether the
Mosaic account OF the origin Of man
is true. and that he came from the
hands OF God pure and m His image,
ar whether the Darwinian theory Is
true, and that he came from the ape
and the orang -outang, ana Is a pro-
duct of evolution. However this may
be- there " an innate repugnance In
every human breast. enlightened or
illIterate. against the admission OF
such a relationship. Revelation places
man everywhere even IA his sinful
state. far above the beasts that per-
ish' Are We, then. my friends To
place man ia the animal circle sur
rounded by ancestry Of the ape and
baboon species?
CREATURE OF EVOLUTION.
ITO me It is much more reasonable
ana far more pleasant to believe the
Biblical account Ut his origin, that his
ancestry came 10 this world direct
from the hands ~ God and fashioned
after Hin. In the course Of the OBJ
seryations which shall present for
your consideration this afternoon you
VIII probably discover that my sub
tect does not have reference to the
49, TIA
Ing semblance of a man who bangs his
hair. wears long-tniled coat and
stands on the busy street corners on
pleasant afternoons and by vile words
disgusts and insults the women Hs
they chance to pass by. oh. no. Such
creatures are the product OF evolution.
and indeed disgrace 10 their an
cestry OF the monkey family
''rhe little child may be content
with his rubber ring and rattle box,
The youth with hls sled and skates
mot SO with the man. lie wants his
wealth and power aud 50 Il Is
through all the realms Of human en-
deavor The Great Creator has plant
ed n resistless spirit In the human
breast which when once touched by
the spark OF enlightened ambition Hits
man up out OF himself, out NJ his
y
greater effort to reach n higher plane
morally. physically and intellectually.
Let us. then, appreciate that the de-
inand Of the hour IL man, and Jet us
consccrate our hearts and add our
power and strength 10 the encourage
nent and acceleration OF this demand.
WORK OF PIONEERS.
with Justice we all admire the de.
termination and sslf-denial of the pill
griDls who put themselves 10 peril up
on tho northern boisterous seas, and
from the frail Mayflower landed on
Plymouth rock. So. too, the brave
men who opened the wilderness, aud
let IN the sunlight at jamestown. SO.
TOO. the early pioneers who first
pierced the forests OF this country
and climbed from mountain to noun
tain, or plunged from desert TO valley |
to reach an ISOLATION a thousand miles |
distant; drove back the merciless
savages 10 make their homes midway |
between the two oceans and TO lay |
the foundation for great common |
wealths such az Utah, Clorado and |
Montana amid these rugged noun |
tains. Since the first sound OF tho |
pioneers voice was heard reverberat- |
Ing up and down through these western |
valleys periods have arisen and pass
ed and deeds have been done which |
when faithfully written will seem
more like the fascinating pages Of no.
nance than the stern realities OF facts.
An expanse Of thousand miles across
n sandy desert amid the snow and ice
or under the burning rays Of an al.
most torrld sun barefooted and weary
came the carly pioneers vino have
opened up the treasure house Of the
world
DEMANDS OF SOCIETY.
"Aly friends, II we enter the domain
Of the intellectual and moral wilder.
ness with the same spirit which ami
mated the breasts OF those pioneers
who first entered these deserts, and
with the heroic Determination. with |
which those brave men faced storms
on those northern seas, we will soon
let the sunlight OF a pure morality
and Christianity In upon our commuu-
fly which VIII transform II into as
beautiful moral vineyard ~ purity
and honor as these pioneers have
buided up beautiful and magnificent
commonwealth In the shadows of
these everlasting hills The great de-
inand Of human society today is man
man with q broad, cultivated
generous mind, thorough. svmmetri-
cal. courageous. lInscnsh nature. swift |
to do right; man purified and exalted;
man indiyidualizcd; educated along
the lines | have suggested