Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-27
THE GOSPEL or WORK.

The brains OF the world today are
preaching the Gospel Of Work-the
gospel Of accomplishment and self re-
aiization-the gospel in short, com
monty called "Mormonism."
A contemporary journalist Milo
Hastings, tells us that he recently at
tended three lectures given before
large. popular audiences In New York
C1ty-the first delivered by well
known political leader; the second. by
an art critic, the third. by a brilliant
preacher.
Although the titles OF these address
es were respectively politics, art and
religion. yet the themes were practical
" identical-industry, the work OF the
world the making Of clothes, houses
and food.
Politics. while always pretending to
concern itself with the working peo-
ple (they are the votersD has always
In this country, dealt mainly with the
functions of government, and has con-
cerned itself very little with real work
Religion and art have appeared in
the past as II they were a refuge from
workplaces In which % escape from
toll and 20 forget the drudgory Of this
work-a-day world in the realms OF the
ideal
The three addresses instanced by
Mr. Hastings reveal how I'm our day.
earnest men are saying that the chief
use Of politics IS In the Improvement
and regulation Of industry, and that
"the coal in Alaska, the pasturing OF
sheep In forest reserves and the pres
crvatlon Of tomato ketchup with So
dunn benzoate are political questions
This writer argues that while politics
may FOR n long time yet continue 70
no a haven of refuge for men who, like
Macbeth. would profit by crime, and
vet lack the nerve TO carry a shooting
iron and a glycerine bottle, while men
who call themselves artists may for
years to come rave over the form and
proportions OF Greek IDOL" and
gneer at the Greensboro Bridge as an
ugly necessity; and while, as for the
Kingdom OF God. which the preacher
sees I'm the near future OF mankind
upon this earth, there win be many
who will prefer 70 take their
chances OF finding a ready-to-wear
heaven In the next world rather than
to help prepare one here; yet notwith-
standing these shortcomings Of human
nature. one cannot help but feel that
with politics and art and religion be-
coming not things aloof from industry,
but merely tho equity-the beauty, the
morality OF the work Of the world-ths
age OF the man with the hoe and the
man with the hammer is not far dis
tant.
In proof OF his argument, tho writer
declares that the artist, whom no eX-
pected 20 dwell upon Corinthian COLI
umns and sistine Madonnas saw art in
cantilever bridges and beauty IN the
tune OF a steam turbine-not because
they initiate something Florentine or
Romancsque, but because they are the
best work OF the brain OF living man.
and are beautiful IN their fulflment
OF the purpose Tor which they are de-
signed.
similarly, the preacher told him not
| Of an ethereal paradise where the
! wrongs and iniquitles Of this life would
be compensated for boy am eternal
| membership IN a heavenly choir but Of
the coming Kingdom Of God upon this
| EARTH where the worker shall enjoy
the full fruits Of his toll and the ma
ton shall husband IT'S God given boun-
ties for the equal benefit OF an.
We have long beon accustomed 10
hearing 'Mormonism' preached by the
casual remarks Of artisans. artists, and
workers generally; and IL is refreshing