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Show TIIE Lemons LONGFELLOW AND Dates POEMS Figs INTERESTING ADDRESS BY REV. WM. THURSTON BROWN. fine Red Apples . supie a GROCERIES Fancy . r The Best I HIS Delivered at the Firet Unitarian a Large Congregation Last Evoning. Church Before I I on the Market The following address on "Poetry and the Poet in the Evolution of Man," was delivered at the First church. In this city, last events by Rev. WillJtm Thurston Brown. One hundred years ago this month, it is said, the port Longfellow, was torn. That, of course, is not a true statement of fact. It was not a ort trutt waa born a hundred ynara ago named Henry Wadsworth Jxugfel'uw, hut only a babe that did not kuow lta right hand from iu left. The Old adage that the poet ia born, not made," U not literally true. Poets are not the product of natural genii ration they are not born, they are made- - made by facta and forces which .ave nothing to do with physical generation. Suppose on this anniversary, Instead of attempting the Impossible task of appraising the worth or determining J.e place ainonc of Longfellow, we devote s little time to the far more fruitful issk of trying to see and understand what poetry is and what the piet ia what accounts for he fact of 'poetry and poets in our human life. Let me remind you at the beginning that you and I have a point of view lrom which to regard this and all other questiona of human concern almost infinitely better and more fruitful than our fathers had. rntil comparatively recent time and even now n the case of perhaps the majority of people our human view of life haa lorn and ia a backward one. It ha not been a view of life as something now in process of unfolding, but something finished once fur all. Creation haa seemed to our fathers one tingle act, a thing completed, and not u long slow process with no possible ending. The idea haa been a part of all our mental processes, reflecting m all the teaching of what we have called religion and In many of the institutions of aociety, that the human race began in moral and Intellectual lerfection six thousand years ara For nearly two thousand years this l as been the basis of all moral thinking among western nations. It waa the best guess the men of long ago could make la the absence of knowl, edge. , . That view we know now to be without foundation in fact. Man in not a soeclal creation, but ia himself blood kindred with every form of Ilfs his eyes can see or his senses know. Brother is he lo brush the tree, to 'rd and beast, to field and wood, to ciuud and aun and earth nothing in all the universe Is alien to him. There haa been no such thing aa a fall. There is no such thing ai a aln, aa that has been conceived and taught. Instead of seeing ourselves In 'he lsfbt of that old Hebrew myth, it la our duty, aa it Is our prlrllrge, to see ourselves as evolutionary science has developed the unerring photograph. Instead of a backward look, it ia a forward look that we must take, of finding the key to the meaning of life In Genesis, we must find it in the picture which evolution afford. If we will place ourselves, in imagination, as spectators of this wonderful panorama at unfolding which the very word evolution' conjures up, we may then see and understand, as re cannot otherwise, the meaning of our life. We shall understand that toe time waa when man did not exist, we know him now, and no one (i veil what la to he. In that process the time arrives for the dawn of min.i. Man then begins to look out upon the earth and up into the skies and deep within himself with feelings and emotions which no other species of emu I'ni-eria- n 4 t prompt Delivery E. A. 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What explains the transformation that changes a hairy neature of Jungle or tree or cave into al ante, a Shakespeare, a Bocratrs. a Jesus? What explains the thought H men their Imagining, their hones dreams, faiths, idea, law, civilisation? These cannot be found hack in Jungle or cave. No hint of these IHWttHHHHIMHHM MOUSING EXAMIXL1I: ooes the silent museum f the earti s The mint give to our patient skh-Ii- . seeds mbence they hair sprung a: never turned up by spade nr Haw ha man become a living i on I. living, hoping, aspiring, corny: unlversr in hi thought, measurug ttie pu. tnflni'e spaces, weighing i i,i spanning death with hi hope and and seeking ward that are mortal? There la no clue to the answer to these questiona so sure as that which and the poet give. You caunot think deeply of what poetry is or what he poet is, without earning iu aignt of the secret of mans higher and highest unfolding. Perhaps a notion, of I'uetry has gained currency which la t meagre and small, and so untrue, ia uot vtrse or rhyme or even t iytlitn-uo- ne of thsee ia even essential to poetry and the verse-make- r or ihymester 1 not. on that account, a poet. Poetry ia not n mechanism or a method that oan he taught. The poet i the man any man who finds a earning in the world about him In all 'be moods at nature, la history and Vfe. He la the man who discovers a:. Intimate and vital relationship between man and all other thing. Poetry la simpiy and only the of the universal life to which we all belong, the universal mind from 'thick we come, the Divine being in raponae to wnnm we have risen step by atep from the least and lowest beginnings to the stature of soul. Let us try to see more fully all that this mean and Implies. Out In your garden, down in the unpromising soil, ia a hard unsightly teed or an ugly looking bulb. Neither seed nor bulb baa any comeliness about It or any promise of beauty that can be found. There Is nothing in either that makes us cherish It for Its own sake. But ns the day grow warm a change comes on, a green shoot pushes up through the soil Into the sunlight, grows Into a stalk and, crowning all, ia a thing of beauty and fragrance the blossom. Whence came that thing of beauty? It was not in seed or bulb no dissection can find It there, no photography can disclose a hint of it .here. Something was there, but not the thing of beauty that crown the talk. But the bulb or seed la not the only element In the picture there are soil and air and sun and sky. May ft not be, must It not be, that the unsightly seed or bulb la only the the call, which an unseen beauty in the world about ua answers, and answer In the fragrance and loveliness of flower? Whenoe, then, comes the marvel of 'he mind, of imagination and the ret? Nut alone out of the strange, uncouth forms which we know hare at one time or another been the material husk or shell of mans upward unfolding life, but out of the surrounding unseen universe. More than beauty of 's (xprenaion was there in George little verse: sum-uion- s. Mas-dunald- Where did you oome from, babv dear? Out of everywhere. Into here." OGDES. UTAH. MONDAY. (he poet has - t relation and a . in. ns hi a lit t hie .Mu- - something which i l.uMth m.d ietiiad and within the thing that iiu r. Bay hraesi ( r.by. on- of 'be truest poets of our ilnir and a :u - aii-w- fce but recently a P-- : not I tnnt have sriieu; li is aot I that hate aim 'li The chord that au.ihei ha "it i. i The chime To that anotr.er lias runt;. uot blame me. for how can any man turn leave unrecorded t.ehind The iruths which the gr. i n.agir lantern lashed bright ou the ul.uk or hi mind? five but the things am given: show but the thing that see: draw, but my pencil ia driven By a force that la inaier of me. 1 1 1 1 It is the same wltnes that hears when he sing: the character o( 1 M b wo mpply our p PrBPt, reliable and at kn Uaa T Nb end U. yon any well be oi handle U oxpodiUoua ALLEN TRANSFER CO. - li HUNTER Sftnne tl for Torre W'NT ADS YIELD BIG REBULTB. RYE BTHE BEST WHBKEY. HENCE THE MOST WHOLESOME. NO PRASE COULD BE STRONGER NO TESTIMONY MORE THAN THE APPROVAL OF IT'S MILLIONS OF PATRONS Uiugfel-In- "As the birds come in the spring. We know not where: As ihe stars come at evening Frm depths of the sir. Aa the rain comes front the cloud. And the brook from the ground; Aa suddenly, low or loud. Oui of silence n suuud; As the grape comes u the vine. The fruit to tho tree: As the wind comes to the pine. And the tide to the sea; I 3 had already bee.-I and suffered. nq ail Lhat was : done and suffered; the Sins ui Nero, uf Caeaar Borgia, of Alexandei D. and ot him who was Emperor oi Koine and Priest of Bun: the auf feriugs of those whue name ia legion an whose dwelling i among the y. nationalities, factor cnlldren, thieves, people in prison, outcast., those who are dumb under oppression and whose silence is beard only of God: and not merely Imagining this hut actually achieving It, so thu at the present moment all who come iu coutnct with his personality, even tuoiigh they may never how iu hi altar nor kneel before hia priest, In some way find that the ugliness of their sin 1 taken away and the beauty of their sorrow revealed to them. The Whole Life of Christ, he says, "i really an Idyll. One thiuka of him aa a yuung bridegroom with his companions, as indeed he sometimes hlmelf; as a shepherd straying through a valley with his sheep in search of green meadow aud roll stream; as a singer trying to build out of the music the wslls of the City of God: or as a lover for whose love the whole world was too small. Hla miracles seem to me to be a emquiaite and the aomlug of spring, and quite as natural. 1 see no difficulty at all in believing that such was the charm of hla personality that his mere presence could bring peace to aoula in anguish, and that those who touched Ilia garments or hia hands forgot their pain; or that as he paxed by on the highway of life people who had seen nothing of life's mystery saw it clearly, and others who had been deaf to every- voice but that at pleasure heard for the first time the voice of hive sad found It an musical as Apollo's lute;" r that evil passions fled at his approach. and men whose dull unlmag-luativlives had bees hut a mode of death rose oa it were from the grave when he called them; or that when he taught on the hillside the multitude forgot ibelr hunger and thirst nnd the cares of thla world, and that to hla friends who listened to him as he sat a BRATZ E. 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The divine ship sails the divine sea I know 1 space, and was for you! Whoever you are! Tou are he or fur whom the earth Is solid liquid. You are he or she for whom the and muon hang In (he sky. I will confront these shows of the she and sun day There waa scientific fact In drat sad night! mofor utterance. Think a poetic will know if I a mto be less than ment of the evolutionary process. i They! What Is It? As wo know It, it Is a I will see if I am .not as buhtle as tirocesa by which through an almost .. they! infinitely long period at time, by my- I will see if 1 am to he less generous riad changes, man has flowered out of ,, than they!" star dust Into tho thing ho is today one can predict Into what furand no I have said that poetry la the disther and higher things he may yet covery of meaning, intelligence, purunfold. pose, beauty. wurth.Jn the universe But how could man, with the power in li nature, history, In man. It Is to think, to love, to suffer, to hope, tho communion of tho awakened soul to aspire, to worship how could all with that Relalty unseen from which, this come from star - dust or Jelly in the process of evolution, all that fish? What had star dust or Jelly fish makes bp the soul has come. Poetry out of which such a product could he Is therefore of the very essence Of fashioned? It must he answered that religion. The two "things are absothey bad nothing out of which alone lutely interchangeable. There la no that sublime fruitage could be born. religion which ia not poetry, and there Hut down at the lowest stage of being ia no poetry which 'Is not religion. waa some form of sensation. And There never yet was n religious man what is sensation? It la capacity to who was not a poet, and there have receive Impressions from without. been no poets who were not genuinely Here, then, Is the beginning of man-ti- ght religious. Fur example, the prophtlc here la this capacity of receiv- writings and the Psalm inoompar-abl- y ing impressions from the surrounding the ricliest, indeed, the only viral jnlverse. Out at that capacity and poetry, and poetry of the highest orout of the impreesUina It receives der. have never been surpasswere slowly developed five avenues of ed. IuThey some respects, they have not which we call sensation, feeling, taste, been equalled. The men who wrote smell, hearing and sight. We can theae were poets. They were the men easily understand what a tremendous of that distant time who did find a part these hve played in the process in the universe, who did ennf evolution which out of star Juat meaning communion with the Spirit ter into has produced, man. Without these that la beneath and within and behind avenues of sensation we could not nil More aubliine poetry has things. nave been. But where did these never been written tram the opening senses come (ram? Bey they were words of the 9Hh Psalm: . possibilities In star dust. In Jelly fish-n- ow did they grow to be realities? Thou hast been our dwelling Science telly ns that the eye t simply "Lord. place in all generations. an only the' Inner response to an exmountains were brought ternal reality. Had there been no Before the forth, or ever Thou hadet formed the such thing as sight, there would have earth and the world. been no inch things as eyes. Take Even from everlasting to everlasting, all for a away light long period and Thou art God. the eye disappears. Tbs fish of Mammoth cave are eyeless. The eye What poet haa ever shown a deeper was summoned into being by the light. of nature or been more appreciation was the outer reality and the Light to her moods than he who eve was the physical response which responsive wrote: life made to that outer fact. That la a symbol of thq whole Thou makest the outgoings of the All that makes up man la morning and evening to rejoice. simply tha response which the germ Tnou vlsitest the earth, and waterest of life in matter makes to the sumIt, mons of that, which is outside it, or Thou aettiest the ridges thereof; :t is the answer which the outer Thou makest it soft with showers; . verse makes to tho inner call of life. Thou blesaest the springing thereof; It Is the response of the seen to the Thou crowneat the year, with Thy unseen, of tho tangible to the Intangoodness. gible, the eternal miracle of incarnaAnd Thy paths drop fatness. divine of (he unithe tion, meaning Thev drop upon the pastures of the verse translated Into the language wilderness: human aoul. And the hills are girded with joy." Poetry, then, Is very properly the For nineteen hundred years to the name we give to mens discovery of the people of the meaning In the universe, Whoever great majority ofnation of the earth makes that discovery Is a poet. It Is moat progressive the consciousness that every sound In Jesus has been and is Mill the noblest nature is a voice of the unseen intel- embodiment off religion our earth haa It seems aa first ligence or power or presence of whom known. Perhaps the argument that we ourselves are the offspring, and nil thought that here that we can know la an utterance, an poetry and religion are one and the same breaks down, for Jesus never expression of that unseen life. And that la what makes any poetry wrote a line. But if you will think appeal to you. If there Is something about it, you will see that he was him-sei- f in the verses of Burns that makes the very embodiment of poetry. 0u glad to be alive, that somehow In- a one of the most brilliant of British terprets your own feelings at tboo poets says of him: He realised in the entire sphere times when you have looked with seeing eyes upon the fields anj woods, of human relations that Imaginative upon the owers and streams, upon hill sympathy which in the the sphere of rad cloud and sky, It is because he has art Is the sole secret of creation. He found a close and sympathetic kinship understood the leprosy of the leper, between these things In, nature and the darkness of the blind, the fierce our own aoul, and haa given It misery of those who live for pleasure, That made him a poet. And the strung poverty of the rich. His the very fact that we respond to his whole conception of humanity sprang words as We do proves that we pos-ttt- s right out of the Imagination and can all the poetic mind. If, again, only be realised by it- - What God waa "ere is something in the morally to the pantheist man wan to Christ. c opening words of Lowell which He was the first to conceive the dlvld-ederaces as a unitj. Before hla time strangely and deeply stir our hearts, as through those word we are made there had been gods Nd men, and, to contemplate history and human life feeling through the mysticism or sym:n a new way if by that medium new pathy that In himself each had tieen visions open before our eyea and made Incarnate, he calls himself the perhaps a wholly new expression for Son of the one or the Son of the our It hut other, according to his mood. More us, what-Itnat this man haa lifted the curtain than anyone else in history he wakes between our aoul sad those hidden, In us that temper of wonder to which but unresting forces which are workromance always appesla. There is ing out higher and morq righteous still something to roe slmost Incredible i cuds? in the Idea of the young Galilean pennSo, we are not. surprised to flnj ant Imagining that he could hear on that this is exactly the consciousness his own shoulders the burden of the pro-ces- s. d s 1907. s of-th- N 25, mi:v vorid ; all that 'ni:: oppressed mii-le- And I FEBI1UAKY at meat, the coarse food seemed delicate, and the water had the taete of wine, and the whole house became full of the odor nnd sweetness of nard." There ia no way lu whtrh men can think of the life of Jesus even If they deny the existence of such n pep on which does not make the very picture of that life, the conception, the story, a poem, and the noblest poem the world knows anything about. The goal toward which all our thinking tonight has bees lesdlug us the goal toward which all thluking that is fruitful is bound to lend us- - la the truth that religion la aa natural and Inevitable for ua men and wumen as blossom Is to lily bulb, as fruit ia to seed. To aay that a man la not religious la simply to aay that he Is finding no meaning In the universe, no meaning In hla own being. In the skies above him. In the changing face of Nature, In the movements of hla own mind, the longings of his own heart to meaning In this marvelous product of uncounted ages, the human soul. To aay that a man ia religious Is simply to say that he haa awakened to aometblng of the meaning of the process of1 creation in which lie finds himself, Is to say that he no longer Is content to be a passive ckid of earlh, unconscious of the divine forces which besiege It with the summons to a higher life rather, that he has become an intelHgant with these foroea, that he is becoming conscious of his aonshlp to something infinitely higher than star dust nr Jelly fis- h- to an Infinite Power, Intelligence, Life, Truth, Love which alone can explain his own existence, the manner of lta coming, the direction of iu progress, the law of Its fulfillment which must henceforward be a part of hla own life, the championship if hla task, the Life of his life. Does It, not follow, therefore, that the surest tokens of religion that Is to say, of humanity, of are to be found In the voice of those wbo are demanding that life shall have meaning and worth, that It ahall not be made a mere article of commerce, mere refuse to be cast aside as soon ns it has ministered to some brutal lust for gain of those who are giving dearest evidence of their need of liberty, of righteousness, of fratenlty? They who have no Ideal for life except a monotonous round of have g money-makin- no right lo think themselves religious. They are not finding any meaning In the universe. Their faces are not turned They are not facing Ihe future. They have halted lu the march of man. They need to know what Browning says, that Man is not Man ns on Our Lands in Ogden Canyon Will Be Vigorously Prose cuted. je dt je dt i UTAH LIGHT & RAILWAY ( E. W. WADE. Agent are very small and have been found often curled up in oyster shells. 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