The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-22
DISCUSS TRUTH
AND TOLERANCE
DR.. c. +. Middleton Talks Some
Facts to Saints at
Tabernacle.
WORD OF TRADUCER
HELD TO BE NECESSITY
Speaker Declares That New
England People Are Failing
to Reproduce Themselves.

Truth and tolerance were the main
subjects discussed by DR., G. T. Middle
Ton, who was the principal speaker at
the big tabernacle Sunday afternoon,
Elder w. E. Rydalch was the other
speaker, but he kept we'll within the
bounds of propriety, although he as
cribcd all the good things that have
come to this commonwealth to the ef-
forts and industry of tho pioneers, no
Gentile, according TO his dictum, need
apply for my honor in the upbuilding
Of the so.called "Mormon kingdom -
DR.. Middleton. in tho course of his
address. said that the search after truth
has occupied q good portion of time
since man began. Mon had undergone
all hardships in order that they might
enjoy the possession of the truth.
=" How do we know that we have at
tained the truth in the midst of the
many illusions that are presented by
our physical sense and by our contact
speaker, How arc we to know that
we are IN possession of the truth7 The
world of science has arrayed itself
against n revealed religion. There can
not be two sides to truth. Somebody
has erred somewhere, but when we get
Mt the great universal truth it will dis.
close itself 10 u.s. He believed there
was a means whereby they might be
enlightened as to the truth when it
came to them. There was the great
SQUIRE of omnIscience and omnipotence
en1anating from the Creator, and after
We. put our brain cells in proper con-
dllion we can receive them. But If we
are not living IN unison with them,
they Will pass us over.
The Method of Life.
The faith that we have espoused is
that method of life that shall enable
rs to get in communion with the great
moaItCr that shall teach us what truths
are transcendent and whether they are
from God or not. The men who with
stood the prosecutions, drivings and
trials. who left their tracks of blood on
the desert as they came here, one by
one are passing away, and we wonder
If they viii produce in us the high ten
sion faith that they lived for It was
tions IN order that we may have that
character to live the transcendent
truth.
The word of the traducer is necessary
to pulveriZe out Of us the dross in
order TINT the gold may shine. We
cannot do away with the traducer, be-
cause If we did then we would cease
III ~ Gro"tBr IneY are part or the
great plan for your growth and my
growth
Takes Rap at Irish.
The speaker said that recently he
met n prominent citizen of Boston and
in discussing with him the conditions
in New England, the Bosuonian said
that the intelligent and educated class
IN New England was not reproducing
itself. The low bred Irish and Pol
lsh Jew and the Italian are coming into
this country and are occupying it and
What he said about that section of the
country is true almost about every Sec
tlon Of the country. But referring to
conditions In Utah, the Bostonian said, |
- You are most fortunately located
Ion have been near the soil and have
lived naturally, and what the fathers
suffered, the privations that they I'M
ing race, tThere will rise here,' the
speaker said. "that light of intelli-
gcnce and civilization that is to en-
tighten all the world, and when other
sections of the country have gone into
decadenee. if we are true to the prin~
eip1es that we have espoused and live
for the truth then it is we are des-
tined to hand down this heritage to
the races yet unborn.'
AoSoCdteS IOleTauCPs
DR.. Middleton then advocated tolera
tion. He asserted that saints should
recognize that others have right to
their way Of thinking, and it was not
their right or .prerogatlve to criticize
them in their beliefs. "There is one
thing lncking in this community Of
Salt Lake. said the doctor, "and that
is toleration by the people in tho
church and outside of tho church. If
we treat them kindly. if we return kind
ness for anger, then people will think
more of our faith. Look for the good
In everybody and appeal to the highest
that is in everybody"
Elder w. L. Rydalch was the next
speaker. Elder Rydalch addressed his
principally to those in the con-
gregation who were not of the Mormon
faith. He said he was willing. to leave
the sixty-three years Of work of the
Mormons in this territory to an impair
tial world. The pioneers came here to
live their religion They came here to
found the kingdom of God on the tops
OF the mountains. This country was
not then what it is now. The pioneers
came here and raised the standard of
liberty. raised the Gag of their country
because their fealty. their patriotism,
WAS Ia tho land Of their birth. When
the country called for five hundred
men they were given. and were known
pa the Mormon battalion. They marched
2200 miles to southern California and
aided in the colonization of California,
and after tllcv were mustered out they
returned to the valleys of the noun
fains In thr meantime the church
provided for the widows and orphans
IF ihe men of the battalion. Elder
Rydalch spoke of the bljshment
of library hero by the Mormon pco.
pic. but he did not give its location.