The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-25

About fifteen centuries before the
Christian era Moses read the law to
the Hebrew people. It was delivered
at the foot of Sinai in the bald desert
70 haif million slaves Just escaped
from bondage
ABOUT eighteen centuries after Christ
me declaration of independence was
puohsned TO the world from the little
city of Philadelphia. an outnost 81 81
vilization on the edge of a vast wilder
ness, the home of wild beasts and of
men no less savage than the brute ere
alton. -
Midway between these two events
the man Christ Jesus sat upon a rocky
neadiand looking out over the Lake Of
Genesaret, and to a company comnosed
OF the outcasts of their time delivered
the discourse Known now as the Ser
mon on the Mount.
About two weeks ago. standing in
the light OF these opening years of the
twentieth century of Christian civili-
cation, an American citizen stood i'm an
American court of law and made a
violent attack upon all these three an
nouncementS of the past stand for. and
all their PRONUNCIATION represents in
human life today. This speech OF
Clarence Darrow, in the case in which
W. D. Haywood was being tried for
murder, is to be printed in pamphlet
form and sent broadcast throughout
the world as an important document in
the agitation being carried on in be-
half of socialism.
Here, then, we have a clear issue
boldly joined. There can be no mis-
take. The purpose of socialism is to
overthrow if it can all the Mosaic dec
alogue, all the Sermon on the Mount,
all the declaration of independence,
and all the constitution of the United
states represent in human life today.
There can be no separa ting the three
events referred to above. They inter-
lock as Intimately and as necessarily
as do the functions of the human body.
They are links in one great chain of
evolution as old as man. and as last
ing. The gospel of Christ is the full
hilment of the law of Moses, and the
constitution of the United States is
founded in its every principle on the
decalogue read at the foot of Sinai.
and reflects in the most concrete and
practical form ever known the senti-
ments of the sermon spoken from the
hilltop by the Sea Of GaliIee
This issue Joined by the attorney at
Boise City and to be carried forward
by socialists all over the world is not
theory on either side Mankind has
been raising fig trees and uprooting
thistles for long ages. BY their fruits
shall We know them,' is the practical
rule laid down by the preacher of the
Sermon on the Mount It is an easy
rule to apply. Men are accustomed to
work by It. and know by experience
how to use it. In the most primitive
conditions of life one plant after an
other was tried by man to see what it's
uses were in daily life. How much
physical sustenance and comfort could
be had from the apple tree, compared
with the bramble? By careful. skill
full, wise selection, based on experience,
the apple tree was encOurag ed to grow
and the brambe was extirpated from
every patch of useful soil on earth as
the human family spread over its sur
face.
So it is with the Mosaic law. the gos-
pei of Jesus Christ. and the cOnstitu-
ton of the United States. These plants
of intellectual and moral growth have
taken root in the minds and hearts of