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Show DAILY UTAH STATE JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JANUARY PACE SIX 1 would emphasise tonight Robert bums lives and will live in the luic of mankind not because he uas the greatest port; not because he was always what he ought to be but because he touched the common things i,f life and redeemed them from sordid-,-m- s because he had a heart throbbing for humanity because finally, living in an age of shame and pretense, ne dared to call things by their proper names and to tear the mask of piety from the face of hypocrisy. There was po knight errantry In the life that Bums knew. After his first poems were published he was courted by the titled and the great, and for a brief period he listened to their praise. Rut hla sojourn at Edinburgh Is but ludicrous and pathetic. The literati received hint with open arms and tried tu act as becoming hi the presence of genius. He listened to their plail-uilfor s while, and tlien turned from It alL He, knew tliut lie had no business sway from the trees, and woods and hedge He knew tliat he had no fellowship with the rich. Ills lot was iMiverty and porridge, and hud he lived twice his thirty-seve- n years he would never have been In taste and longtryrs more than the genuine rollicking peasant whose queens and ladlea were the black-eye- d lu sales, and whose knights were the sturdy-hearte- d village that GREAT EULOGY T FULL TEXT OF GREAT ADDRESS DELIVERED BY REV. GOSHEN. At the Burnt Annivartary Calibration Hald in Ogdon Laat Week. many rummditi have been heard on the great address delivered In thia city laat week by Rev. Goshen at the Bunin' anniversary celebration ttiat the Riate Journal take pleasure In producing tlio address In full: Knowing Bum January 25, 1759. with afflicted disease, writing poverty, wliat makes but a scant volume of poems, dying July 1, 1796 thia In brief Hu is tlie biography of Robert Rums. 1 have neither time nor Inclination to recite the history of hla life, for that Is written and on the library shelves tn give It awaiting all who cure enough Thirty-seve- n short time and study. years did he llye years strangely mixed with strength and weakness whose sunlight was often years blotched by licentiousness and dlsaipa-tlo- n und yet he lives tonight as one of the immortal Ten and UN) years have passed sines men laid his body In the earth; 10 and 100 years have jutssed since he, s youth, fell Into an untimely grave, and yet tonight, the anniversary of his birth, all over the civilised world men and women are meeting to sing hla song recite hla virtues and revere his memory. Momer, Virgil and Horace have lived and wrought and passed within tlie shadows, and only the scholar can tell of their life. Ossiun, Itunte and Milton have gilded tlie summits with their genius, yet only the few remember when they lived or when they died. Tet this ploughman poet out of obscurity and poverty hath mule himself a place and Is consplcu. oua among those who dwell In the tem pie of fame, Robert Bums was a flax berkler; ha flailed grain In his father's bam; ha weighed candles of taxes; ha was gauger of ala barrels; he estimated crops for a shilling a day; he danced with the maidens of the tavern; ha abandoned trigonometry for a flllette; his apprentice salary was leas than the price of the diet of oatmeal ; he wrote from .hla heart's full to beg a pittance of loans. Thia waa ona aide of hla character. It was not poetic. He waa bom amid misfortune; he died amid misfortune. The very nght of his birth the wild wind swept over the moors and hllla and "tlrled the roof of the clay biggin'.' The torrent poured upon the family. The mother and the swaddled infant were sheltered in the next hut. Heaven sent 111 houra at the beginning. Ha waa starved In boyhood, twisted Ills Anger There waa not gentle circumstance In hla short life, He was joor wretchedly poor hounded by law agents and theratened with the pillory. There Is nothing In all this to moke a hero. Millions have endured the same. Their namea are listed only In the registers of the graveyards. Their lives left no tminvsslnn even in the parishes where they worshlied. A year nr two or ten and they have been forgotten. Tills man Is a commoner like them. lie hna lain a century In the tomb, hut for some reason there Is scarcely a town In Boot land without hla monument. There la scarcely spot lie trod that la unmarked hla humblest monuments are themes of pity mid rhapsody, his virtuea are lauded. Ills vices forgiven, his loves are endured, and from the banka of the tymn around the world and back again wherever there la a Root by birth or blood, this week Is holy week at hla shrine. He never shed blond nor ever msde fortune Wiever wrote a great epic yet his volume lies on the table alongside the family Bible; It Is thumhod and marked and worn; the common people know him and his fame grows as the years lengthen from the wild January night In 1759. Nor will mere national patriotism account for It all. The Scot! have for. gotten Wallace, have burled Brace and have neglected Walter Scott but there fs not one who does not bring a fresh laurel today to place upon the brow of thia country poet. 31 190S. Ivlled throughout the land; he waa Lord, visit hlin wha did employ him! branded as an aetheist and execrated And pass not in Thy mercy by them. as a heretic. He waa a heretic if to Nor hear their prayr. But for Thy people's sake destroy be heretical mean a to honestly apeak against sham and pretense; and for them. such the world haa always held perse-- j An' dlnna spare! cution and misrepresentation. Because he rebelled against the superstition But, Lord, remember me arid mine Wl' mercies temporal and divine, 'of hla day and taught a larger truth, 'the world held for Socratea the prison That I for grace an' gear may shine land the hemlock. Excell d by nane; And a the glory shall be Thine Because he dared to rebuke hypoc- -i Ainen, Amen! rUy and duplicity, the age held for the teacher of San Marco the gibbet and And when honest men hear such the stake. Because he departed from an enpraying, then or now, It turns them against the whole thing, and some-tim- e trenched orthodoxy and preached the make them go too far. universality of God's love, the world This poem caused Bums to be re- - held Insult, torture and the cross for I ! , ' him who 1 the Christ. (Nor is this God knows I'm no th t - i . i tULj; be, confined to centuries gone.) Nor am I even the . Because they were true enough to But twenty time. I ratLr peak the truth, and honest enough to An Atheist voice their belief, therefore were Da- Than under guiel color i.i Just for a screen vid Swing and Hiram W. Thomas exand Aa pelled from church fellowship you study this man i;f branded aa unsafe men. Qi Oh, It has also been so for men who your teafh your bora and : r. r, r the wonderful beauty of hi Vrr were great enough to be unorthodox ' true enough to voice the biggest idea them the whole story: tell thfe that swept o'er their soul; and through he was not always what 1. such men haa the world found all the have been, but tell them tha- I1' i?? truths that It know loved humanity that he as'Tiv Bums hated hypocrisy. He despised crite, and that he helped to "'s It., Hear pretense. He abhorred a He. him aa in the lines to John McMartyi' (Continued on Page : he aaya: 4 es It la this simplicity that haa kept his name and his fame alive. How significantly dues he put 11 thi how wonderfully does he betray his real heart when he aings: la there for hottest poverty That hangs his head, an' a that? The coward slave, we pass him by We dare be poor fur a that! For a' that, an' a' that. Our tolls obscure, an' a that. The rank Is hut the guinea's stamp, The mans the gowd for ' that. TO OUR. READERS ONLY Special arrangements have just been completed whereby we are able to offer to our readers the greatest periodical bargain ever made to the American people. What though on hainely fare we din Wear hoddin grey, an a that? Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine man's a man for a' that. Fur a' that, an' a' that. Their tinsel ahow, an a that. The honest man, Iho e'er sue pour, la king o men for s' that. 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And Just today, when character is too apt to be rated by the money poa sensed; today when graft and Intrigue dare to alt In high plucea; today when men crush bodies and ruin aoula to make their miserable per emit, and yet dare to wear holy fare and sit among the elect In thia day, from the moun talna of the north to the plalnlnnds of the south from the ocean on the east to the sea on the west, there needs to ring this clarion note of the Caledonian poet The honest man, thif e'er sae poor Is king o' men for s' that Let us be honest aa we study life-- let ua not blame fate nor chance nor attribute HI to God let ua be dead square and looking at the Ills that humanity suffers, let ua say with Burna: Man's Inhumanity to man Makea countless thouaanda mourn." Robert Bums lived In an age that was very punctllloua about Ita orthodoxy; very many concerned about out Ills imems were wild flower that ward forma and ceremonies, and too breathed of heather, "and In them hla II ( tie concerned about charity and glory will endure longer than It will kindness and downright honesty. And In that axe he dared to breathe take the bleak winds and mists to w hip away the towering granite shaft In A1 the not of honesty; dared to turn hla wit and sarcasm against a pretended loway But how explain all this? Why has piety, and because he so dared, he waa he won and retained the love of men In visited by clumny and misrepresents this far-o- ff day? Why are we gath- tlon. The sham and pretense of a bigoted ered tonight to celebrate bis birth? There have been greater poets a church and of intolerant theology few. Busy Is the world and many are chilled and sickened the honest heart there to remember and how do we of this holiest man, and he dared to find time and Inclination to tarry In speak. Just cf.lebratlng a birth that waa one and a I can't refrain from reading Holy Willie's Prayeri--poehalf centuries ago, If we study his line from that brought down maledictions poetry Just from the literary side we shall have little trouble In seeing why upon Its authors head a poem that he holds a commanding place In . the mlxht be studied with profit In modern times: world of letters. The force of Burna lay In the power of his understanding and In the sensi- 0 thou that In the heavens does dwell heat ThyaeL bility of his heart: and these will be Wha. aa It topleases heaven an ten to hell, found to Infuse the living principles Sends ane A' for Thy glory. Into ell the works of geniuses which seem destined tn Immortality. 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