The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-19
SER MON BY
REVEREND
BROWN
DELIVERED AT UNITARIAN HALL
LAST EVENING.
STRENGTHENING as Religious Beings
TouIc-"BIessed Is The Man
Who Has Found Work"

Speaking from the theme 'Function-
ing as Religious Beings at the Uni
tartan hall In Ogden last evening Kew.
Brown said in part:
Today, In the very middle of Boston's
proudest boulevard, Commonwealth
avenue, Is a bronze statue OF heroic
size-the most conspicuous statue OF
a private citizen that the whole city
contains. 1t is the statue OF a man,
who more than any other who lived IN
Boston seventy-1ve years ago, iunc-
toned In the sphere Of religion: VIII
liam Lloyd Garrison. What made VIII
liam Lloyd Garrison the power he be-
came in this human world? Born OF
drunken father who early deserted his
family. and never was heard OF again,
becoming almost as child the depend
encc of his mother and the younger
children, with scantiest opportunities
OF education, this mere stripping Oh
26, without reputation and without q
dollar OF capital came to Boston IN
1881 and began publishing the LIBERIA
tor, a paper devoted to the abolition
OF negro slavery In the United states
In Boston, then a great cotton mart
he tried In vain to procure church or
vestry for the delivery OF some lectures
by means Of which he hoped to inter
est people In his enterprise Finally.
a body of infdels offered him the use
of their small hall. He visited pri-
vately many of the leading citizens Oh
the city, statesmen, diyines and mer-
chants. and besought them to take the
lead In national movement against
slavery; but they all with one consent
began to make excuse. some OF them
listening to his plea with manifest im-
patience He WAS disappointed, but
not disheartened His conviction OF
the righteousness OF his cause, OF the
evils and dangers OF slavery. and the
absolute necessity OF the contemplated
movement, was only intensified by op.
position. and he resolved to go ahead,
And these were the words which he
made the motto of that paper: THE
standard OF emancipation is now un~
furled. Let ali the enemies of the
persecuted blacks tremble. will be
AS harsh as truth and as uncompromis-
ing as justice. | am in earnest; l
will not equivocate: will not excuse;
] will not retreat a single inch, and l
Will be heard. Posterfty Will bear teS-
timony that | was right" For over
thirty years that paper was published.
through poverty and persecution and
opposition almost unparalleled In mod
ern times. But the paper founded un-
der such inauspicious circumstances,
says the Encyclopedia Britannica. ex-
erted a mighty influence, and lived
to record not only President Lincoln's
proclamation of emancipation. but the
adoption Of an amendment to the con-
stitution OF the United States forever
prohibiting slavery. What is the sig
nificance of William Lloyd Garrison?
There is but one answer to the ques-
tion. but one way of accounting for
the man or his life: he was man
who funotioned In the world Of religion
not the limp and nerveless thing
which went by that name, not the NOR
ally impotent form and dogma Of
church which was nothing under the
sun but a monument to antiquity and
antiquated things, but the world of liv-
ing moral and ethical reality. The