Show I F B SMITH WELCOMED TO CITY i PREACHERS PREA CHERS ADDRESS A SHOP MEN MENT MENI t T i I rt t I i it iL iL ir t L L f I i ri r F I q I t I ki kii i Aty Pf PA S k 4 Jl Rev i iSalt i be Salt Lake clergymen who addressed shop meetings yesterday and will continue this work today i I Fred B Smith was welcomed to the city I last evening at a dinner given In the Y YM YI Yr M r I C A cafe The program opened with a violin I olin solo solI by Claude J Nettleton Vice President John Dern Dem then welcomed Mr Ir Smith to the city and association He then handed the program over to General Secretary Oscar L Cox After Alter two plen splendid I splendid did tenor selections by b M J Brines W WH WH V VH H was introduced representing the board of management of the Y M 1 C CA CA CA A Ho He expressed his satisfaction with the broad religious platform upon which whirl the association stands Bishop F S SpaldIng SpaldIng Ing lag was called upon to represent the min ministers minIsters mm of the city In speaking of the function of ot the Y M C A he declared It to be to prepare the field for the gospel of the ministers The field of the city pastor he lie declared Is becoming more and more difficult in its problems because God made the country but man made the city With all the temptations open to men he said we expect the Y M I C CA CA CA A to tempt men to do good Mr Smiths Speech In his response Mr Ir Smith said This assemblage of ot men of all creeds represents the most vital Issue in the world If we can save men to their moral integrity we are safe If f we should lose our young oung men to the church of God we weare weare weare are a doomed nation In n the solution of or orthe the problem and meeting of this issue we wedo wedo wedo do not propose any Rn experiment At least the Y M U C As field of this great work is beyond the tha experimental stage Mr Smith then sketched rapidly rapid his world tour since last speaking in Salt Lake City CIt A most significant feature of his trip was the way wa In which he was greeted by the heads of ot nations provinces and cities He told of his visit with the sturdy men of or Great Britain France Ger Germany German German many man Switzerland Italy Ital Ceylon India and From his world observation observation tion he declared emphatically that the pendulum of world achievement Is unquestionably unquestionably swinging to the Pacific ocean and away awa from the Atlantic From a sweep of worldwide topics which he treated In Ina ina a most masterful way iway he deduced educed this conclusion When Vh n the history of or the twentieth century Is fully written the mightiest achievement will not be the wonderful advancement of transportation communication or commerce even een though these are already the greatest of oC any an eight years ears of any century but the greatest thing In this century will be the forward movement of the church of God in taking the world In speaking of the achievements of the local association in comparison with what was being done at his last visit to this city Mr Smith declared It did not seem then that you could accomplish in years ears what you have hae already done There Is la only one peril before you OU as it is before beCore every association and that thatis is not the peril of failing falling to raise enough money to clear your our debt but It is the peril of forgetfulness forgot of ot fundamental prin principles principles principles which have made this organization powerful If It takes a great man to prosper and keep his religion It takes a great association to have material prosperity and comforts and yet keep warm in its Christian message At the conclusion of his address the de details details details tails of or Mr 11 Smiths meetings while in the city elt were fully announced He gives his first public address ad at the Colonial the theatre theatre theatre atre today at noon 1215 to 1215 15 and andt speaks peaks t again this evening at the Y M 1 C CA CA CA A at S 8 The shop meetings in inaugurated inaugurated d yesterday will ill be continued to today today today day and tomorrow I Thursday Shop Meetings I At the Denver Rio Grande shops dur during durIng durIng ing the noon hour yesterday Bishop Spalding SpaldIng Spalding ing spoke to about 00 men on A Mans Ians Duty Dut to His Body Dr Spalding said I 1 wish to state that I II I believe one of ot the great responsibilities which rests upon us as man and citizen is first to provide and promote those con conditions conditions which make possible the highest human development We Ve must provide I pure air for our children they the must be properly fed and clothed they should have every advantage possible to give them In order that the human race rare may continue Ifs les advancement It Is our duty as citi citizens citizens zens to promote and foster all ail such or organizations organizations as tend toward the bettering of conditions affect the great masses of our out people In conclusion he said There are just two ways In which a man may do injury to his body bod You know what they are They are the evils of intemperance and lust Physicians tell us that more men mendie mendie mendie die from the effects of gluttony glutton than are destroyed by alcoholic drinks terrific as this curse Is Men my one message to you today is provide for your our home such conditions that your sons and daughters will have a fair chance in the world But first keep your our own bodies pure and clean and tem tern temperate temperate In every even detail I The Tho Christensen brass quartet consist consisting consistIng consisting ing of L P Christensen R B L Sweeton Sweeten J S J E Thompson and Sam Bennett made the meeting attractive by b their music Bishop Spalding will address addrE s the men of the Denver Rio Grande shops today toda on the topic The Duty of a Mans Body to His Ills Mind Rev P A Simpkin at the Oregon Short Line shops said saide We e are going to consider the three sides of the Y M I C A triAngle the body bod mind and spirit which make up an all allaround allaround allaround around man Like any sane man we wc begin at the bottom and consider the tilE body It is absolutely necessary that you become master of your own body As di dl director director rector for the last six years In the state blind asylum of Ogden I have had ample opportunity to study the results of bodily abuse upon the children of the next gen generation generation oration I have found that SO 90 0 per cent of the blind children can directly charge their parents with lack of bodily care car Statis Statistics Statistics Statistics tics gathered from the mental asylum at Provo show that 76 70 G per cent of the in inmates inmates Inmates mates are there thre because of bodily abuse upon their part or their parents In no other realm of Gods kingdom Is that law of his more operative which visits the sins of the father upon the children unto the third and fourth generation than it itIs ItIs itIs Is In the realm of physical life Rev He Mr Ir Goshen at Sliver Silver Bros used as text Ye are the temple of God GodI I simply ask you men that you take as much care of your boGies bodies as you give to the th machines s of this shop he said You would not think of throw throwIng throwIng throwing Ing a handful of or dust into the delicate mechanism which you ou operate here every cery everyday everyday day and yet Ot some of you choke the human machine with bad food and habits thus destroying the efficiency of a It much more delicate mechanism than one made of steel |