The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-05

GUS when it passes from parental con-
troll into free manhood; then must the
man bind the righteous law upon HIM
self, more strongly than father or
mother ever bound it upon him. And
when a people leaves the leading
strings Of prescriptive authority. and
enters upon the ground of freedom.
that ground must be fenced with law;
it must be titled with wisdom: it must
be haliowed with prayer. The tribu-
nal of justice, the free school, the holy
church must be built there, to en-
trench, to defend and to keep the sa-
cred heritage. In the universe
there is no trust so awful as moral
freedom; and all good civil freedom de-
ponds upon the use of that. But look
at II. Around every human, every ra-
space within is cleared from obstruc-
tion, or. at least. from all coercion; ii
is sacred to the being himself who
stands there: IL is secured and conse-
Grated to his own responsibility. May
say it?-God himself does not pene-
trate there with any absolute. any co.
ercive power. He compels the winds
and waves to obey him. he compels an
imal instincts to obey him; but he does
not compel man to obey. That sphere
he leaves free: he brings influences to
emn. infinite question between right
and wrong. he leaves to man himself.
All. instead of madly delighting in his
freedom, I could imagine a man TO
protest, TO complain, to tremble that
such tremendous prerogative is ac-
corded to him. But ii is accorded to him.
and nothing but willing obedience can
discharge that solemn trust; nothing
but a heroism greater than that which
fights battles. and pours out its blood
on its country's aItar-the heroism of
self-renunciation and self-control. Come
that liberty. l invoke it with all the
ardor of the poets and orators OF free
dom; with Spenser and Milton, with
Hampden and Sydney, with Rienzi and
Dante, with Hamilton and Washington,
invoke IL. Come that liberty Come
none that does not lead to that, Come
the liberty that shall strike off every
chain, not only of iron, and iron-law,
but of painful construction. of fear, of
enslaving passion. of mad self-will:
the liberty of, perfect truth and love,
of holy faith and glad obediencer
I trust this consideration of some of
the details that enter into the idea that
our constitution is a divinelyi inspired
instrument. will bring home to us more
emphatically the seriousness of that
Declaration, as also that ii will bring
to us the realization of our responsible
tiles that we sustain as free men, as
sovereigns In free government I
trust however, that you will not think
am calling attention to these mat
tiers because l believe there will be any
failure on the part of the people of
our great republic to perpetuate these
institutions so vital to our system of
government. I cannot believe that our
nation was brought into existence I'M
der the circumstances that attended up
on its birth to end at last in failure.
On the contrary, 1 am persuaded that
the time has fully come for the estab-
liShment i'm some permanent way OF
government by the people. That the
reign Of tyrants was ended and that
the rule of the people had begun, and
will remain. The people of our country.
especially the people of our state, 1
trust, and believe. will stand for the
great principles that will perpetuate
free institutions; that there shall be in
our country equal and exact justice to
all men, of whatever state or persua-
sion, religious or political; that our ma.
ton shall continue as an indissoluble
union of indestructible states; that 1.-The
state governments shall be supported
i'm all their rights as the most compe-