Show CHURCHES YESTERDAY AX ADDRESS SOCRATES BY DR UTTER The Young Mens Christian Association Associa-tion A Temperance Meeting at the Presbyterian Cliurcli At thc Tabernacle The usual services were held at the various churches yesterday the congregations con-gregations being uniformly large YMCA The meeting for men only at the Y M C A rooms yesterday aCternoon was led by Rev H B SUllmon The I music was furnished by tine ihoir of the First Baptist church These af crnoori services short and interest f ing as they are are becoming very popular witlh our young men and are attracting many who do lot < attend services elsewhere r A Temperance Meeting At the Firet Presbyterian dhurch last evening a temperance meeting was held under the auspices of the Wo mans Christian Temperance union The attendance was large and savsial Interesting temperance addresses were made Unitarian I Subject Socrates How did it come to pass that this man who died 400 years B C who vas always poor who except as a soldier was hardly ever outside his native city is everywhere known among civilized men It is because be-cause of his greatness as an educator i This is the word used in regard to him by an able writer in the Encyclopedia Britannica and it seems to me to fit I I the man and his work admirably He called into immediate and intense activity ac-tivity the latent intellectual powers of I all who heard him He told his judges that if they condemned him it would be a misfortune to Athens as he was a I sort of gad fly that the somewhat lazy horse the Athenian public needed and that unless the deity sent some one to fill his place his loss would be felt He left no philosophical system indeed he bad none till Plato made one for him and yet his thought has in some measure meas-ure affected all subsequent philisophy We cannot even say that Christianity I would have been what it became if there had been no Socrates It is fhe lasting disgrace of the popular interpretation inter-pretation of Christianity that it has no place among the saved for this first great teacher of the doctrine of immortality immor-tality He neither believed in Christ nor any other savior but in virtue justice jus-tice and wisdom and if no other name is given under heaven among men whereby we may be saved then Socrates So-crates is among the lost But hfl was naturally reverent and religious he was I temperate truthful just and kind and I the company of the spirits of just men I cannot be made perfect without him I At the Tabernacle The services at the tabernacle yesterday yester-day afternoon were largely attended The opening prayer was offered by Elder H P Richards I After singing by the choir Elder Charles Stayner spoke concerning the life and mission of Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith with the following text St John xv 13 and 14 Greater love hath no man than this that fi ian lay down his life for his friends Ye are my friends if y d do whatsoever whatso-ever I command you He stated that it was the llrst speech he had delivered to a Salt Lake congregation owing to the performance of lis missionary labors in the southern states in removing prejudices against this people and introducing the gospel of Christ In reviewing the life and mission of Jesus Christ the son of God and noting the great faith and humility humil-ity that influenced his sinless career there Is no wonder that orations upon the same have been delivered and will b2 delivered unceasingly as long as man exists As John the Baptist prepared pre-pared the way for tne first comIng of Christ so did Joseph Smith the prophet proph-et prepare the way for the second corn inrFifty Fifty years ago this very day did Joseph Jo-seph Smith make utterance of these immortal im-mortal words I go like a lamb to the slaughter but I shall die innocent my conscience is void of all sin against my God and against all men and it shall yet be said of me he was mur cieteddh cold blood On June 27 1844 he was made a martyr for the principles he had taught and for which he was ready to lay down his life No man after reading the life of Joseph Jo-seph Smith the prophet could say he was not a great man He it was who founded the city of Nauvoo who established es-tablished organizations of various kinds for the benfit of the needy who suffered all manner of torture and revilement I I re-vilement for tlie sake of God When asked why it was that he had so influenced influ-enced his people he amply raid I leach them the correct principles they govern themselves I After speaking upon the necessity of baptism for the remission of sins and the laying on of hands for the gift of the I I holy ghost he concluded his remarks by speaking of the missionaries that they should go forth to preach the gospel gos-pel without purse or script and should suffer all things for the sake of God I Elder Charles W Penrose then bore his testimony as to the truth of the principles heard He said that Jesus I Christ the Son of God was our brother I that God his father was our father I and that the only difference between the personality of Jesus Christ and us I I was that he was born the Son of God in body as well as in spirit He said that Joseph Smith was the greatest of all prophets with the exception of Jesus Christ that John the Baptist was the greatest prophet in his time His testimony was that Jesus Christ was the Son of God that he was perfect had died without sins and that he had the power of laying down his life and taking It up again That he died that we might live and go in the body before be-fore God his father and our father Joseph Smith he concluded was born a prophet and died a prophet that the spirit of his mission was present that the spirit of Peter James and John who ordained him to the Aaronic priest I hood was present as also was the spirit of John the Baptist who had II visited this earth for the purpose of preparing the way for the coming of Christ He said his holy influence would abide in the house of God and among men for all time No power upon this earth could overthrow it men may be Killed by fire by water and by all means but the truth of God will i last eternal and should we butprove ourselves faithful and worthy we shall abidewith It forall time > f Benediction was pronounced by Elder Abram Cannon I I D > N |