Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-08
IS GLAD UTAHNS
BELIEVE BIBLE
Remark by Or. Green in His Won
derfu Lecture on Civic
Bacteriology."
DANGERS OF OUR NATION.
lie Declares They Arc All From Witi'lh
And Not From Without---its
Origin aud Destiny

For two hours and five minutes az
Barratt hall last night Or. Thomas
d Green of Chicago under the aus
pices OF the M l. A. lecture bureau
held his audience spell bound in his
wonderful address on Civic Baoteri-
oiogy." Not for an instant did inter-
est relax Or his hearers wish that tho
end had come.
After laying a foundation for ms
remarks BY describing the slH1i laralty
of the body polite with that of phys
zeal personality and showing When
the latter is sick certain well known
remedies must be applied before re-
covery may be looked for he de-
clarcd that the same was true with
regard to the former First and last
ha said. it should be understood thai
all our dangers were from within anu
not from without. The nation thar
did not have God In II could not eN-
poet TO endure through the ages. one
fact he was glad to refer to and that
was that the people OF Utah adhered
steadfastly to their faith IN the All wise
Providence. source OF strength UNI
TO them. He was glad TO know that
they believed in tho Biblo which 70
years ago had been eliminated from
the schools with the result that me
young men and women Of this genera
ton are growing up in ignorance OF
its sublime truths
THE AMERICAN HABIT.
The American habit of self-com-
placently letting the government run
on whether In good on bad hands,
was severely criticised, although the
criticism was kindly for the most
part.
we Americans" said Mr.. Green,
ARE altogether too prone to regard
ourselves as altogether above criticism,
too self-satlslicd so admit the posi-
billty OF failure and Inclined to take
n far too optimistic view of conditions
generally. l know Of no other ma
ton in the world whose people are 80
certain of their own position There
are, of course many reasons for this
and such condition has not always
existed. To begin with. tho United
States became country under cir
cumstances different to those attend
ing the upbuilding of any other coun-
try in the world. In all the world
powers of today we have the gradual
evolution and steady growth extend
ing over period Of centuries. in
this country we see n nation born
bare $50 years ago and taking its place
almost Immediately In the foremost
ranks of the nations. Its men were
great men before there was a United
States OF America, and the land em-
hraced within the country was among
the richest and most productive In tho
world.
'As proof of the moral strength and
sterling worth of the men whose opin-
ions moulded the nation I'm those trou-
blous times Immediately following it's
birth. two documents, the Declaration
of Independence and the Constitution
OF the United states. may be pointed TO
today as two of the greatest pieces OF
ever brought into being
they were based upon the ideals of the
,est men in the nation and they stand
oday as true to the principals of free
government as they did when they were
drafted.
CouNTRY's BUGBEARs.
This country has had its bugbears.
For long time Germany occupied per-
haps the foremost place, although this
feeling has been steadily declining for
some years past. Lately It has been
japan. Japan. with total area of less
than the state OF California and bare
4s,o00O00 populations; with debt OF
over q billion dollars, and the United
States the only country which would
lend her another scent piece today.
1T doesn't look altogether reasonable
when you come to consider II, does it7
AT various times, and by various
people. plans have been formulated in
this country attempting TO show how
the country could be starved or other
wise beaten into submission by other
powers. principally Japan. Yet II peo-
pie only stopped to think there Ia no
country In the world which could sub
sist for FIVE years without the food
stuffs which this country sends them.
WHERE ITS STRENGTH is.
THE strength OF a country. OF course.
lies largely, IL not altogether, IN the
strength OF its people and this coun-
try is not lacking In rs examples OF
great men. At the same time the peo-
pie as whole are too much wrapped
nip in their own affairs to yield to the
affairs of the nation that attention
which should rlghtfully be given to so
important matter. The attitude or
the average man Is something like this
Why should ] bother about the coun-
try at Target we hire legislatures 10 do
that for us. 1 haven't time: I am too
busy. This IS not as II should be, and
no opportunities should be lost to cor
rect such an attitude"
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