| Show LUTHERS NATAL DAY nAY MATED CELEBRATED Lutherans of Salt Lake City Cit v Hear Eloquent Sermons at Union Meeting THREE MINISTERS SPEAK SERVICES HELD AT HOLY TRIN TRINITY TRINITY TRINITY ITY CHURCH The birth of Martin Luther was cele ceTh celebrated brat d last ast evening by joint services ervice held by the Swedish Danish and Eng English English lish Lutheran churches in the Holy Huh Trinity English Lutheran church 33 South Fourth East Fat street Three ad address addresses dresses dress s were delivered The opening op nin sermon was wa on the subject Lutheran Lutheranism ism Its Founder by the Rev Re F AV W V Bussard Busard ot of the Holy Trinity church The other speakers were the Rev Kev Har Harold Harold old Jensen of ot tho the Danish Lutheran ran church who chose cholle for or his subject Lu Lutheranism Lutheranism Its Struggles and Victo Victories rles ries and the Rev nev Emanuel of the Swedish Lutheran church who spoke on Lutheranism Its Present and Its Prospects A large congregation attended the services the choirs of the three churches churche taking part Miss Mabel Cooper Coop r sang a solo flolo The remarks of or orthe o othe the Rev Mr Buzzard had to do with Martin larUn Luther In an eloquent arid and Impressive manner the speaker told of f the chief traits of character of the leader lead r of the reformation He said in part J art Rev Address On that dUlt day da in Lu October 1492 when ahen hen Christopher Columbus first se sei foot upon a new world there sat upon Jils Is bench in the public school at Mans Mane Mansfeld feld a restless I peasant boy of 9 who in the provi providence dence of God was destined It if not to discover a new world at least to make the old world over new whose ids ideas were to fashion and mould the stalwart hearts hearth of those who subdued the tho wil wilderness wilderness 11 dern of the new world and whose burning lips poured po red forth In words of living Jiving fire tire the priceless heritage of In h Individual in individual liberty which was to make that new world for all time the home of ot the free and the haven of the op 01 oppressed pressed of all nations Martin Luther i acknowledged by b friend and foe alike aUke as the most gifted and most man genius benefactor that the Christian era has yet produced falls galls to my lot tonight the very difficult cult task of trying to portray in a tea fe moments some sone of the traits of charac character ter of this mental and spiritual giant among men A task difficult because the qualities of his heart and mind were so matchless difficult because his ills genius shone along so many man different lines ines and thrice difficult because he heso is isso s so inseparably bound up with t tu o his history history history tory of ol his Iris time for the life Ufe of Luther is practically the history of ol Europe for thirty years However we shall confine ourselves to the person personality allty of the great reformer Perhaps the first thing about Lu Luther ther that strikes the ordinary or cr is his heroic courage l It never once deserted him in all those trying tr ing years jears not even when he lie stood against the world and when he him himself himself self relf daily expected every day to be his last Sublime Trust in God GodIt hit It must not be supposed that this bravery was the bravery bravoy of reckless recklessness recklessness ness and ess None knew the dangers better than he and he wan wai abundantly warned Besides soul of f of fire though he ho was Luther was pre preeminently preeminently preeminently eminently a cautious man else the complex intricate structure of the re reformation reformation reformation formation would soon have hao toppled in into o ruin and chaos No His courage was torn born of ot that other greatest virture of his character a supreme trust and anJa anda a sublime faith in God together with unflinching fidelity to convictions finn firm finnas as ns rock lock Rare Oratorical Powers To this tireless activity he ho added rare oratorical powers Even his ene enemies enemies mies admitted him to be one of the most eloquent men of ot his time elo eloquent quent luent not because of any an fine chiseling and polishing of phrases but because Ills his words heated heat d in the thc furnace of his hili soul leaped forth with a fiery impetuosity that kindled a like In the hearts of his hearers With this elo eloquence el ei quence was united a logic which his opponents braved to their sorrow and through it ft all ran a vein eln of ot never failing falling humor which fascinated even while his logic convinced and his fer fervid fervId fervid vid imagination entranced It was a arou rough rou h and rugged oratory carrying all before it One of tho most frequent criticisms upon him Is that his lan Ian language language guage was rough and uncouth So Sf were the times So was the struggle It t was war to the death for priceless principles against a an unprincipled foe Epitome of His Traits This calm trust and amI abiding faith in God od and ris word of which was be begotten begotten begotten gotten the courage that never faltered it seems to me are the two tro O great traits which made male Martin Luther the rock that shattered forever the haughty tyranny of Rome And this man scholar r preacher theologian theo orator author reformer organizer musician poet was at the sakie satie time a consummate and far farsighted sighted d stateman n the man who out outgeneraled outgeneraled gen the wildest wilLest agents of Rame Rome and Rome neme itself at every turn the theman theman theman man who pleaded the cause of the peo people people pie with the nobles the cause of ot the nobles noble with the people and the cause caule 1 of all Germany against a foreign usurpation the man who first fired that German patriotism and first set setin setIn setin in motion that policy which was finally crowned with success suc success success cess only when William I In 1871 was crowned emperor of ot all the Germans the man moreover who laid broad and deep and firm the foundations of o that educational system which in our da day has made Germany the schoolmaster of the world |
