Show OUR CHICAGO LETTERS some political philosopher once said give me the making of a nations ballads and I 1 care not who makes its laws if this is not a whole truth there certainly is much truth in it ballads and lyrics have figured more largely in the political history of the world than the average writer and student stud edt imagines monarchs have been actually sung bung out of thrones and others sung into them republics have been created and maintained mainly by song tyrants and despots have often been humanized by fear of ridicule in song many a question which in the history of a race or nation appears a problem will be very easy of solution if one examines the song attachments and environments viron ments of the time for instance macaulay can cant it understand how ireland of all the western nations adhered to the ruman R uman church though her history shows that she was the earliest of these nations which was independent of rome and most disliked by european romanists Romanis ts if macaulay could examine the gaelic ballads of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries he would soon seen learn the C cause auge the bards ingeniously blended religion race and nationality in their songs until the common people at last came to believe that rome was ireland and the pope only a primitive parnell and it was only because nationality was made a religion that ireland so steadfastly clung to rome ballads have also had bad a good deal to do in the history of our own glorious republic the old refrain tippecanoe and tyler too has an honorable place in american history but if the theold old sage who wanted the making of a nations songs were wee to come among us at present he would be much puzzled at some of our popular bougs and lyrics vor for example we have one song which has heli the boards for nearly six months it is in mouth persons who dont know a musical note from the braying of a burro find themselves chanting chalong it if its chorus has become a catchword the newspapers have devoted col dumns upon columns of space to an alysine this strange melody and still the secret of its popularity remains unrevealed numerous authors are quarreling over the authorship of it the papers say it is universally popular po gular all the way from sandy hook ook to the golden gate if so its soothing strains cannot be unknown in salt lake city and I 1 see no reason why we should not take cognizance of an event which of people are talking about here is the song in its full text DOWN WENT THE SONG THAT IN am IS 18 SINGING sunday morning lat last at 9 dan mcginty dressed dofine so fine was looking at a very high stone atone wall when along came pat mccan and says ill bet 5 dan I 1 can lave you at the top without a tall fall on his back he got poor van dan to climb the ladder he began until hold hed ver very nearly reached the top but for fear hey hed d lose his bis five just as sure anre as youre alive dan let go his hold not thinking of the drop I 1 CHORUS down went mcginty to the bottom of the wall although he won hu his live five he was more jdean than alive with kicks and bruises on his face from such a fearful tall fail dressed in hinbest his best sunday clothes off to hospital they hooked him aud and for dead the doctors booked hini him but mcginty gave the doctors a surprise for he h soon began to shout say bay ye black guards let me out III 1 though his head was twice its ordinary size bound to see his bis wife and child with delight he near went wild he walked along as proud as john the great in the sidewalk was a hole to r receive eive a load of coal mcginty never saw until too late I 1 CHORUS down went mcginty to the bottom of the bole the driver of the cart gave the load of coal a start it took an hour in n a halt to dig mcginty from the coal dressed in his best beat sunday clothes when they dug mcginty out loud loua for vengeance he did shout and the driver of the cart he then did spy he picked up half a brick and he be hit mm him such a lick that it caused a tumefaction of his hia eye then he be kicked up such a fuss fuse that the cops got in the muss they arrested dan for being being very drunk and next worn morn the judge did id say no find and have to pay but six months sleep upon a prison bunk CHORUS down went mcginty to the bottom of the jail he stayed exactly six and his board is cost him nix six long months for nobody went his big bail dressed in his bis best sunday clothes when his halt half a year was waa spent they let mcginty went and he dressed himself as in the lays of yore but image imagine ne his surprise he could scarce believe his eyes when he found his bis wife had skipped the duy day before to lose his wife and child oh such oaf ariet B would drive him wild and to drown himself he went down to the shore I 1 A and n d he ju jumped M ailt in like a fool for he swim and bear in mind that water dan ban neler neer took before CHORUS CHORDS down went mcginty to the bottom of the say they found him yet for the water it was wet and the they aa say his weary ghost haunts the docks at break of day dressed in his best sunday clothes DOWN WENT there is one thing that must be said of it and that is it is a three volume novel in a small compass there is a succession of well con necked disasters ending in a mournful tragedy all of which must be balm to the heart of the sensationalist it may seem strange that a person would fall six stories in order to gain a small wager but it will be remembered that when the par kellites nel lites in the british parliament charged the government with brutality to convicts in irish prisons balfour replied that irish prisoners made themselves sick purposely to embarrass the government finally one prisoner named mandeville died in prison and henry labouchere bou chere asked balfour did mandeville kill himself to harass the tories an irish patriot in ireland may put himself in the way of being killed but there is little fear of an irish patriot in america doing so but mcginty though an irish citizen does not rank as a patriot in my opinion we have many lyrics in our own literature far surpassing McGinty the on one eboth both in dramatic strength and practical vigor I 1 read a short time ago in gea history of salt lake city a poem entitled the prospector which in my opinion far transcends mcginty in the prospector there are a few slips in the rhyme could be adjusted inthe if the bard availed himself of the usual poetic license for instance in these lines lineal from the wondrous visions of long ago to the naked shade that we call now ago and now are supposed to rhyme but the author is careless about the matter notice in the mcginty poem where the poet was irk in a similar perplexity how he got out of it he says when his half a year was spent they lot let mcginty Ginty went you see went is much better than ago go 22 and the ear is not offended ended if the prospector may ring in the kerry gow 11 1 1 then there would be a nice rhyme for now As to wondrous visions we were led to believe gentiles in utah did not dot have visions here is a passage from the prospector 21 and the others too the they are all dead by the turgid gila peri perished aled ned brave noble ernest he was lost amid ice and frost and bennies life went out in gloom deep in the Ooma Com tocks stocks vaul vaults to of doom and I 1 am left the last of all and as tonight the cold snows tall fall and barbarous winds around me roar I 1 think the long past oer and oer tent I 1 have hoped and suffered all from the twenty years roll back the pall from the dusty thorny weary track and the tortuous path I 1 follow back now this to is something more mournful more tenderly pathetic than mcginty think of bennie poor bennie I 1 down in the vaults of gloom that to Is grander and more poetic than mcginty at the bottom of the sea though the comstock ought to be more suggestive of gold and silver than of gloom but the chief beauty of the prospector lies in the fact that bill nye drew his inspiration from it to write his apostrophe TO AN ORPHAN MULE oh I 1 lonely gentle unobtrusive mule thou stan dest idly the azure azare sky and sadly sing like pat hannans Lan nane nans hired hired man who bought thee thus to wai waible ble in the noontide heat and wrestle with thy deep corroding grief and joyless woe who taught thy simple heart its pent up wildly warning waste of wanton woe to carve forth upon the silent air I 1 chide thee not because thy song bong is fraught with grief embittered monotone and joyless minor chords of wild imported i melody for thou art restless woe begirt and compassed round about with gloom thou timid trusting orphan mule few joys indeed are there thou thrice be stricken madly mournful melancholy mule and he alone who strews thy pathway with his cold remains can give thee recompense of I 1 woe he who hath sought to steer thy limber yielding trail thy clusper band hath given thee joy andee and be alone sing on 0 mule and warble in the twilight gray by the heartless throng sing of thy parents on thy fathers side I 1 yearn for the days now past and gone for he who pens these halting limping lines to thee doth bid thee yearn and yearn and yearn comment is superfluous on mr nyes ayes lyric of course its beauty pathos and melody must be attrib buted to the inspiration derived from perusing the prospector last sunday the famous evangelist mr moody preached a sermon in this city which has raised a commotion in religious communities he preached on the second coming of christ his language has no equivocation or ambiguity about it orthodox preachers are abusing h him I 1 m and strict sectarians sect arians are calling him a gM mormon ormon 32 f a follower of joseph smith etc and really his sermon is well worth perusing especially by utah citizens inasmuch as this sermon was delivered to a vast fad attentive congregation it to is a good index of what is coming and will show to latter day saints that light is breaking on several occasions heretofore I 1 have stated that mr moody was borrowing largely from cm M rmon doctrine and mormon discipline his bible I 1 institute is now completed and in full working order he to is training students male and female for evangelical work this institute is simply a mormon sunday school on a large scale the work teaching discipline and doctrine he has taken bodily from the mor church and some day he be will perhaps say so As his sermon of last sunday makes much letter better reading than that about prize fight ing or baseball playing I 1 cannot do better than submit a lengthened extract from it as published in one of 0 our ur local papers and one too especially ally inimical to latter day saints sainte and to utah here it IS as 1 I have announced that I 1 will preach this morning upon christ returned 1 11 said mr moody in beginning the sermon it is called a controvert ed suba subject act I 1 dont propose to take it up in that teat way christian people are all agreed that the lord will return the time of his coming is alone in doubt the pre say that christ will return to reign over the world and setup set up his kingdom among us for a thousand years the post say that the world will grow better and better until christ will be drawn right down here from heaven I 1 believe that christ is going to reign here on earth man will have his day and then christ will come and reign what if our watches do not agree as time take that grand old first corinthians int hians behold I 1 show you a mystery we shall not all steep sleep but we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye paul believed that not all of us should die in the fourteenth chapter of john christ says for 1 I go 0 to prepare a place for you ai and nd if igo go and ana prepare a place for you I 1 will come again and receive you with myself BIBLE prophecies OP OF CHRISTS RETURN notice this thing that we have the same authority that christ will come again in that was given to the world of his him first 8 t coming when the disciples stood looking up into heaven at the time of his ascension there appeared two angels who said unto thern them ye men of galileo galilee why stand ye gazing up into heaven this same jesus which is ia taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as you have seen him go to heaven of the five great sermons in the gospel of st matthew we have in the last the sermon on mount olivet the promise of his return but he gives no time in the twenty fourth chapter thirty fiata verse of matthew he be says heaven and earth shall pass away but my word shall not pass away I 1 now nineteen hundred years almost have passed away and at no time has the world known him so well the bible is just coming comin in you have heard what the moon lid did when the dog barked at it it just kept on shining the infidels can keep on barking at christ he will come again perhaps when he is most expected the world will be busy busy making mony money and wont be ready y chicago wont won t ne be ready chicago will be reading the sunday newspapers therefore be ye e also ready what a stir it will make e in chicago for as the lightning cometh out of tile the east and chineth even unto the weitso shall also the coming of the son of man be the first portion of the new testament was written on t the he second coming of christ before matthew luke mark and john before the acts and the other epistles paul wrote his first latter to the me thessalonians Thess alonians for of me believe that christ died and rose again even so them also that sleep in jesus will god bring with him for this we say unto you by the word of the lord that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the lord shall not prevent them which are asleep for the lord himself shall descend from heaven then we which are alive shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the lord NO SIGN WILL BE that glorious then say it to is too wonderful to be true tod glorious and grand but it is not half so wonderful as his first coming take ye heed watch and pray for ye know not when the time Is is ain in those verses christ tells you vou to watch watch in luke axi 33 we find the same principle I 1 find and so that day come upon you unawares Asi As long as chicago spends a year for whisky she will not be ready she is overcharged over charged with whisky he does not tell you to watch for the rebuilding of jerusalem but for his return the true attitude of the Christ christian ibm is watching for christ and band to wait for his son from heaven I 1 the true attitude of every son of adam since the fall has been one oae of waiting waiting Tig for christ except the thirty three years he was here on earth he may come before I 1 got gel through this sermon now dont go off and say that brother moody said that ch christ rs t w was m going i ing to come this morning I 1 aa said id we he might come what he will do when he comes none of us know some people believe it will be like a lightning in the east and that he will do things like a whirlwind 10 mr moody then began reading a poem entitled I 1 coming founded upon the thirty fifth verse of mark xiii at even or at midnight or at the or in the morning it may be in the evening when the work of the day is done and you have time to sit in the twilight and watch the sinking sun mr moodys moods voice became husky and faltered he stopped and applied his handkerchief to his eyes and then turned to mr torrey wont you please finish it he said and then sat down and buried his face in his handkerchief overcome by his emotion sensitive women allowed the tears to trickle down their faces the men huskily cleared their throats to control their manly sympathies mr torrey ended ende finished the poem which I 1 lift my head to watch the door and ask it if he is come and the angel answers sweetly in my home only a few more shadows and he will come on sunday night mr moody 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