Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-24

continued ~ work at the trade mucn
longer My first work IN this country
was as blacksmith ! came TO Amer
lea when ! was twenty-scyen, taking
passage from Liverpool to New York
on i.1g ship. From New York |
went 10 philadelphia In search OF work.
saw an advertisement In the Ledger
of that city, .Wented--A blacksmith
TO make claw hammers applied and
got the job knew nothing about
making w-hammers then, bur soon
got the hang of II and kept on at that
work for about nine years ! was still
there when | was thirty-slx.'
Were you . good blacksmith"
Il think I did fairly we'll" replied
DR.. coIyer. During recent visit to
the old country looked at some gates
In churchyard which | had made
about nifty years ago They We're not
very beautiful. and as examined them
] felt like buying a new pair and sub
shutting them for the old ones. As |
looked closer, however, | found that
they were Just as sound and strong
as when they were made, notwithstand-
Ing they had swung back and forth for
more than fifty years The lock which
had been put on by another person.
had broken. but Of the gates themselves
not rivet was sprung"
HIS THOUSAND DOLLAR HORSE
SHOE.
could you make horseshoe today,
doctor?" I asked.
Yes. You may have seen one here Ia
Cornell which | made at the time of
the Chicago fire. I was pastor there
when the city burned, reducing my
church to ashes. / made speech on
the ruins. urging that the city be at
once rebuilt, ana proclaiming my faith
in the future. The sermon WAS widely
quoted, and | received n letter from
Cornell college, stating that II knew |
was a blacksmith, and that il wanted
horshoe of my own making. there
upon went to a shop nearby, and got
them to lend me a hammer and the use
of the forge In a short time had
made my horseshoe. II was sent on
here and the college paid me $1,000 for
1t. apd that money went into my new
church"
SAN FRANCISCO VS.. CHICAGO.
The conversation here turned 10 the
great fire at San Francisco. and ] re-
ferred to a statement recently made In
sermon that the city was burned on
account OF It's wickedness. DR.. Collyor
replied.
The same charges were made when
Chicago was burned, but | don't believe
that God works that way. The judg-
ments of heaven are not retrospective,
but always perspective God dlsciplnes
without destroying. and builds up with
out pulling down. There was no rea-
son why Chicago should be made an
example for the rest OF the world, and
there was no reason why san Francis
co should have been such. San Fran
cisco will rise, as Chicago rose, 1t
has all the geographical advantages
which made IL great city in the past
II will always be the great city of the
Pacific slope, the Anglo-Saxon metrop-
oils OF the orient.
THE FUTURE OF OUR CouNThi'
"Tben YOU look for a great growth
out west, DOCTOR said !: hore
"yes | look for growth everywhere
we are at the beginning or our you,,,.
AS a nation we are haruiy ou Jul, "
swaddling clothes and IL WI w ,a
thousand years before we reach 'ne
urine OF manhood and begin 10 20
down ON the other side. The AnrelI
can people have a great destiny, ineS
are The people Of the future VINO ~
10 aid most In doing Gods wiz III 'i'
oRut. doctor, many say that we are
going 10 the dogs. They claim .ha.
Ne are politically and socially coIrup,'
that we have gotten beyond reue'i'p'""