The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-02-23
REV. CARVER
I ALKS ON
A BOOK

speaking from Ezekiel, 18th chap.
ter, Rev. Carver delivered a patriotic
sermon Sunday evening. using Israel
zangwiI'S The Melting Pot as an
illustration. He said in part,
fou must remember that nlI INV
life I had heard of America. Ever.
body In our town bad friends there or
was going there or got money orders
from there. The earliest game 7
remember was selling nv toy furnI.
ture and setting up in America All
my life America WAS waiting beckon.
Ing, shining, the place where Cod
would wipe away tears from of oil
races. To think that the same great
torch OF liberty which threw It's light
across the broad seas and lands into
my garrett IN Russia is shining also
ior all those other weeping missions
OF Europe. shining wherever men hun.
ger and are oppressed. shining over
/ the starving villages OF Italy and Ire
land over the swarming stony cities
OF Poland and Galacia. over the
ruined farms OF Roumania. over the
shambles OF Russia. oh, when | look
at the Statue of Liberty ! Just seem
~ htbi bht fblNt vi AuGTlCa CTNlnEs
Come unto me all yc that labor and
are heavy laden and | Will give YOU
rest Thus ] understand thai Amer
lea is Gods crucible, the great melt
ing pot. where all races OF Europe
are melting and reforming Here YOU
stand good folk, at Ellis Island; here
you stand In your fifty groups with
your fifty languages and histories.
and your fifty blood hatreds and
riyelrIes. But you won't be long like
that for these are the fires OF God
YOU have come to-these are the fires
OF God. a fig for your feuds md VEN
dettasl Germans and Frenchmen.
Irisbmen and Englishmen, Jews and
Russians. into the crucible all OF YOU
God is making the American
Thus It is that Israel ZangWill por-
trays the forming OF a new race from
the fragments OF the older ones. In
his recent drama, The Melting Pot"
II Is n patriotic drama, and as such
Is a nj illustration for this seaso 4
the year, when our thought turns o
the two great formative Americ: rs.
Lincoln and Washington. We h o
found our text in the great patriotic
parable or story found in the seven.
teenth chapter of Ezekiel II IS
story teaching the curse of disloyal-
ty. disloyalty TO the country adopted
by necessity. and to the guiding Of
God
America was founded by the best
peoples OF the old world They sought
two blessings-liberty Of conscience
and political freedom. II was for
these boons aud the larger economic
advantages that they crossed the
seas. And It is for these same bless
ing that the oppressed OF all lands
and the progressive poor OF all climes
continue to come Zangwill speaks
OF the hope OF the future in this man
Der.
YES. east and west. north and
south. the palm and pine. the pole
and the equator. the crescent and the
cross. how the great ajchemist melts
and fuses them with bis purging
flame. Here they shall all unite to
build the republic OF man and the
kingdom OF God. Oh, what Is the
glory OF Rome and Jerusalem where
all nations come TO worship and look
back. compared with the glory OF
America. where all races and nations
come 10 labor and look forward
1t is indeed the blessing OF AmerI-
ca that 1t Is land to which all turn
Other lands arc homes of peoples OF
yesterday, but ours Is a country of to-
day and tomorrow For us. then,
Ezelliel's parable has a large mean
ing
70 be true to America We must he
true to the sacred covenants with
which our liberty had its birth Ours
is the duty OF passing on TO those
after us flag unsullied by tyrannics
of greed or trust, un9tained by doml-
nation of vice or rum, the ensign of
faith and not the banner of skeptic-
ism or doubt The spiritual riches of
a sincere faith was one OF the
choicest heTitages OF our time. With
all the added wealth and perfected
inventions and discoveries with
which our age shall enhance the
glorles OF the coming year. let us be
sure that We beQueath also the deep
and strength.givi love and fear OF
God which our forefathers gave unto
us.
Have you ever fingered In the post
Office to watch the faces OF few for
eigners rs they open their letters
from far-off home? How the charm
and pathos OF affection Is revealed In
their faces as tho news is eagerly
read? 1t cost much for them to come
so far That they were willing to do
it speaks much for the advantages
which arc often untbouGht of by our
selves. Nor were these advantages
lightly won Many life was gladly
given as a sacrifice In 90" and "6l"
that the America of today could be.
Nor is the work all done. There Is
ample place for all that true man
hood and earnest womanhood can do
today. Let that work be commenced
In your own life. BY giving TO this
day and place the inspiration of a
sincere Christian life you can be
factor for life more true TO the
oovenants OF the past. The Christ
and his teachings are the hope and
inspiration Of both individual and ma
tonal life alike,
The United States geological sur
vey shows that in the last seventeen
wears 22S40 coal miners have been
killed in our mines, almost all OF
them foreigners. Oftimes the only
door that has been opened In
friendly way TO these who are I'M
perillug their lives In hazardous toll
has been by the saloon or other lnflu.
ences equally degrading When We
read a story OF q disaster like that OF
the Cherry mine, we realize OF what
heroic stuff most OF these nre made