The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-27

| deCessOr, under the insDiration of an audi
! ence like this, delivered an address in the
nature OF a sermon. upwards of two
| hours in length. Now. he mad the Capa-
| city, he had the spirit aud he had the
! mission to make such pUeachment of
! moral force and inspiration. He knew
! how to appeal to the best that is i'm q
man and woman, and arouse them to
uplift 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 ne
stood before men upon a platform, and
yet I have felt that this Sunday morning
/ 1t was necessary for me to make such
effort as I could to follow him in some
thing that may sound a bit like a ser
mon. daughter and applause) And as
sermons are begun with the quotation Of
text, having more or less relation to
what follows it laughter, l am going to
give you the text from Proverbs: A soft
answer turneth away wrath, but greviOus
words stir up anger It is a text that
| has enforced itself upon my mind during
/ the last ten years with especial en-
phaSis, because I have come In contact
with Oriental peoples and with those do
Scended from the Latin race of Europe,
and I have had a chance to compare their
views of life and their methods of speech
and their social conventions and amen
tiles with those Of the AnglO-SaXOn race.
We AnglO-SaXOns are. we admit
great race. We have accomplished Won
ders in hammeTing out, against odds that
seemed insuTmOUntable, the principles #
civil liberty and popular government and
making them practical and show to the
world their benefits: but in so doing.
and in the course of our life it seems to
me, We have ignored some things that our
fellows Of southern cline have studied
and made much of, and that is the forms
OF speech and the method Of everyday
treatment between themselves and others.
Oriental Courtesy.
'The Oriental will tell you. in all his
various beautiful forms, of his anxiety for
your health, his respect for your char
acter and his almost love of you and your
family, and he will put you in a good
humOr with him and with the world; and
he will not expect, exactly, that you take
him literally, but he Will hope that you
Will understand that he has goodwill to-
ward YOU, as YOU have toward him. Now,
that, to our AnglO-SaXOn nature. seems
al first hypocritical, when, probably, you
th1nk-and perhaps righuy-uhat he does
not care much about you at any rate: but
he understands, and hopes you under
stand, that what he means to do is to
make life more agreeable to you and life
more agreeable to him-to lubricate, so
to speak. the wheels of society and to
make things move more smoothly, with
out Earring and jolting the nerves of
either side.
Now, at first. that seems superficial
to us who prefer No and Yes and alb
rupt methods and communication in the
shortest and cUTteSt sentences, but, my
friends, we have much to learn from peO-
pie of that kind of courtesy and polite
ness. The truth is that a mans life i'm
his family, with his wife, with his chill
dren, with his mother, with his neigh
boTs, is not made up Of grand-stand play
and defiance of the elements and all that
sort of thing: it is made UD by a series
of little acts and those little acts and lit
tie restraints are what go to make up the
mans character.
Il agree that there are men-and many
of them I think-whO are a great deal
better than they seem to be in their fam
lilies and to their wives and TO their chill
dren and to their neighbOTs, and that
when exigencies arise, they do betray and
show forth elements of strength of Cha--
acter that ought to commend them to
their fellow citizens and their families, but
it does seem as if they were depriving
their families and their nelghbOrs of
something in their not living up to that
standard all the time in little things as
well in big.
In Little Things.
1.-THE truth is that if we yield to negli-
genCe in the little things. if we yield TO
the momentary desire TO be lazy and not
to