Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-27
DELIVERS
SUNDAY SPEECH
IN TABERNACLE
PRESIDENT AT SALT LAKE;
ADDRESSES MORMONS
BREACHES SERMON ON TEXT
FROM PROVERBS
Chief Executive Faces Large Assem-
bIaee of Brigham Youne's Dis
clpIes In Discussion of
Right Living
LEY Associated Press. ]

n ALT LAKE, Sept. 26.-ln the pul-
~ pit of the famous Mormon taber-
~ nacle in this city, where four
years ago Theodore Roosevelt then the
chief executive of the nation, preached
a long sermon on right living and the
duties of good citizenship, President
Taft today faced an audience which
he said inspired him to try to follow in
the footsteps of his predecessor and
deliver preachment.
Mr.. Taft did preach sermon-teXt
and all. The immense audience in the
ag-draped edfice, the splendid mu-
steal program of operate and patriotic
selections, the enthusiastic cheering as
President Taft appeared and the quick
response of the audience to the polnts
he endeavored to impress on his near
ers inspired him, the president declared,
with higher thoughts of country ana
patriotism.
The presidents sermon was an ap-
peal for amity between the people, for
attributing the best rather than the
worst motives to the actions of others
; when possible to do so, and not to har-
Dor hatred or animosity.
"A soft answer turneth away wrath,
but grievous words stir up anger" was
the text selected by the chief magis-
trate from the Book of Proverbs. Inc
sermon was homely utterance, large
ly made UP of a relation OF stories 10
/ give emphasis to the points the presl-
} dent desired to make.
Reviews Parade
!, From the tabernacle the president
was driven in review of some twenty
thousand school children.
At one point along the line thous-
l, 1 1en a oFFs0
: lin a living flag, red, white and plue
! capes and caps serving to outline the
: national emblem.
Thence the president proceeded to
, the Young Mems Christian association,
{ where he made brief address TO an
audience composed entirely of men.
: Lastly the president attended services
especially arranged for him at the Uni
tartan church.
After this unusually busy Sunday
morning, he left Salt Lake at noon for
Ogden, where he enjoyed an eighteen
J mile ride through ogden canyon, and
made his third address of the day at
Lester park there.
When Senator Smoot introduced the
president to the audience in the taber-
nacle here this morning, the cheering
was so great that Mr.. Taft could not
begin his address for several minutes.
II thank you from the bottom of
T.,
expression of welcome and good WILL
| have been impressed since coming
into this magnificent structure with the
thought that you have gathered here
in part to hear me, and that had
nothing to address to you worthy of
such a magnificent presence.
His Predecessor
'T am told that my distinguished
predecessor under the inspiration of an
audience like this delivered an ad-
dress in the nature of a sermon up
wards of two hours in length. NOW,
he had the capacity; he had the spirit
and he had the mission to make such
: preachment of moral force and in
spiration. He knew how to appeal to
the best that is in man and woman
and to arouse them to lift themselves
, to higher standards and higher ideals.
"But it has not been given to me to
exercise that great influence which
was his and which shone forth from
him as he stood before men upon
= platform. And yet, l have felt that on
this Sunday morning it was necessary
for me to make such effort as I could
S to follow him in something that may
l sound a bit like sermon.
"And as sermons are begun with a
l quotation of a text having more or
less relation to what follows, am
going to give you a text from Prov
erbs: "A soft answer turneth away
wrath, but grievous words stir up
anger
TT is a text that has enforced it
self upon my mind during the last ten
I years with especial emphasis, because
| have come into contact with oriental
peoples and with those descended from
the Latin races of Europe, and have
had a chance to compare their views
of life and their methods of speech
and their social conventions and ameni-
ties with those of the Anglo-Saxon
race.
eve Anglo-Saxons are, we admit a
great race We have accomplished
much in hammering out. against odds
that seemed insurmountable, the prin-
ciples of civil liberty and popular gov
| ernment and making them practical
and showing to the world their bene-
fits.
"But in so doing, and in the course
; of our life. it seems to me we have ig-
} nored some things that our fellows of
southern climes have studied and made
much of; and that is the forms of
speech and the method of everyday
treatment between themselves and
others
"At first that seems superficial to
us, who prefer mo- and yes and alb
rupt methods and communications in
, NV friends we have much to learn
from people of that kind of courtesy
and politeness
"The truth is that a mans life with
his family. with his wife, with his
children, with his mother, with his
: neighbor. is not made up of grand
stand plays and defiance of the ele-
! ments and all that sort of thing.
ut is made up of a series of little
acts and those little acts and those lit
tie self restraints are what go to make
up the mans character. / agree that
, there are men. and many of them,
hope, who are great deal better than
} they seem to be in their families and
to their wives, and to their children,
{ and to their neighbors, and that when
exigencies arise they do betray and
show forth elements of strength Of
character that ought to commend them
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