Show THE EVILS OF POLITICS Fres president ident cannons remarks at the tabernacle PRESENT METHODS DEPLORED I 1 the purest men ken cannot speak without being assailed and Villi fled misrepresentations of the partisan press are sickening services at the various varion churches mr utters lecture on oliver wendell holmes nes me tabernacle Taber mico services were commenced by the choir singing the hymn the holy angels tram from on big the joyful message has made known A F madonald Me Donald was the first speaker ile he salil said that ills present held field ot of maior labor was lehe republic of 0 mexico lie ile found there as here that the lat ter day saints saint are moir brine respected reap acted a state or of affers due to the fact anat where men and women live strictly according to the counsels of the priesthood hoad and the spirit of this utter latter day work they will comm nim mand manil the respect of all good men anil w women anle n in any country and under a any ny c conditions they may be placed lie was thankful to be ba able to bear his testimony thit that goi god was blessing bessing and prospering the saints not only in tills this territory but in every land acre they dwal in in many respects the mormons cormons are IA laboring borIng bundar same of the tha disadvantages taps welch tell fell to the lot of tie the early settlers in this b but u t they will wiil outgrow oatta row them and I 1 the bess blessin I 1 G god ad which his has been with thefts in III the past will continue with them and they li will III prosper in that io aind n d david davi 11 II Ciri curtion lort was the bucz succeeding e ding speaker and d that he had within harasck an abiding testimony of the divinity of 01 the work in which the mons are engaged eased cn a testimony t joseph smith was waa a prophet of th the MIS mst high god that Lri ghun young was ji successor and that the aro birx led by men who have been Ins plied by almighty gort god it the saints ants will harken to the counsel that has been given them they will grow wiser and better until they are fitted tor for the privileges and blessings god has in store for who are faithful george Q cannon then took tha stand there are no people he said who are so happy as the th lito lat ter day S saints 9 anil and their happiness Is not of a an n evanescent character it 13 not the happiness that comes to them from external surroundings but it Is a happ happiness ness that Is within ther themselves nelves and caused by the presence of the spirit of god god Is ready and willing at R all 1 times to bestow his blessings upon us but it Is a vain idea of a false religion to think that all a man has to do Is to believe something and then h his a happiness his eternal happiness Is insured if we would receive the messing blessings t that hit god has promised to us it must h be a by our doing that which god requires at our hands it must be bv developing the powers with which H he has endowed us mr cannon in condemning some of the modern methods of conducting conduct ine political ailt leal campal campaigns sms spoke as follows we are right in the midst of 0 a political camp campaign agn and the lies th that at are to tod d ind and the misrepresentations that are made are sickening 1 I will not read a paper I 1 will not permit one to po ire into my house that Is not a political paper I 1 will not read the misrepresentations and falseness that are circulated by political papers I 1 avil I alt read the ead speeches thit are made it men cannot tell tel tnt the truth cruthi ida d not care to read what they sly siy and it if they di speak the truth and are assailed for it I 1 do not want to read the assaults that are made e upon them it is getting so now in this com comma mu baity that the purest men cannot speak without belne being attar attacked ked and vilified Is this of god no it Is not 0 of goi coe there Is no god in it it Is of the devil it if we want to receive the blessings of god we mus must t take a course that ile he wll approve or of and five such lives ilves as will render us worthy of his favors after a fine rendition by the choir of the anthem jerusal jerusalem am sly my glorious home the congregation was dismissed evangelist RANKIN series of union meetings opened ct at westminster the tha rev 11 71 W nankin mikla opened the union gospel services as anjou announced ced in the sunday tribune at the westminster church last evening the house was packed every seat thit that cou could d be crowded in was filled and avery inch of 0 aval available lable standing room was occupied the union in this work Is that of the first and westminster presby lerlan churches mr rankin preached in the rr orning to the congregation of the westminster church at noon to each bachot of the sunday schools ech at the Y it C A in the aber at er aboon and in the evening he chose for text mark xvi 15 go ye into the world and preach the rhe gympel gapel to every creature ile he said ald A bind of dis dilles sitting around the little irttie table were svere comma commanded ded to g i out and preach this blessed gospel tj i every creature they were to be ng ag gres sive and earnest earliest in the work no matter lamer what obstacle presented prea entea itself from this seven or eight dent that sat at that table has haa grown crown a mighty host hoat or of christian workers of to flay day our blessed gospel I 1 Is a today to day spoken in languages ages and is now in ively every land of 0 this ejibe e obe we thank god for the increase never kever was such interest taken in the heralding of the gospel as in this gen er and even in this year the speaker spoke of the souls saved aved in N new e yo york yok k in one months time of dr Champl alna work in detroit where business basi nets men closed their houses of business from 3 to 4 every afternoon to go BO and to let their employees go ami how the crowds flocked to the old gospel iio av als referred to tho the mighty work done in omaha and tes nea mid and how in flie of the lie wl western states 4 lial had united the churches chui in only it a few months ile iia referred to the Y P S C E r movement ps pd ui an evidence of gods mighty working 11 this notation how they have grown from a little handful liand ful to the largest of the he time now numbering over a million the motto of the time Is as the cleveland christian endeavor convention idaa its formed tt ft the world for christ lie he then spoke of the work that could and Is being brin by the christian business men of the ape age the work and influence that the mother does and his is in the carrying at 0 this gospel la Is wonder fUi fuZ and then the earnest child childlike ike fath fa th which the children CN can use Is another means of advancing the langdom of christ mr rankin came to this city from his home in pueblo ills m work I 1 not a new one he be having been engaged encased in it for fourteen years working principally in the tha west the music of the evening was very good the anthem by the choir was especially enjoyed and was wag right to the polo t the evan evangelist 9 elest will ahll conduct meetings elc cich h event evening ng nils week in the same place R at prec cleil bv 4 ofin niI prayer every ever r afternoon noon n from 3 2 to ta 4 he will ill III bd j bible readings which are ald to be the not most practicable and helpful of all the meetings on day pill an 1 day afternoons ce be conducts childrens s i grand twiss Mec anKs tha re central public la Is invited to all tie the meeting all the this week are to be held in the ithe westminster church south fourth west street atter after this week weak in the FIrSt baptist church OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES mr utters interesting Inte restle lecture at the theater the me audience atthe atna the theater ter comfortably filled the lower noor floor to bear mr utters lecture on dr oliver wendell 1101 holmes m es the service opened with his sunday sun day hymn beginning lord ot of all being thrones afar and many selections of prose and poetry were read the chief points of mr utters discourse were the following first his 1419 versatility dr was a man ot of science as as well ell as a ot i literature was a teacher and practitioner ot of medicine lie ile invented the hand band stereoscope thus bringing what hat had been an expensive instrument into the hands bands ot of everybody out but he rave a it to the world not obtaining a patent lie ile wrote poetry poetry and prose with equal facility and in chiq essays touched a thousand subjects in n a way as to win all hearts second his kindliness there Is a human quality about ut all that holmes has written that disarms all opposition As cuitis said ot of emerson ills his was riot not the stroke of 0 the trip hammer that shatters but the touch of the sunbeam that melts lie ile seems never to have forgotten any possible reader it la is as though he had asked himself how each thought that he expressed would strike a child a V philosopher a woman oman in sorrow and so on till he had thought of a al IL and so shaped his expression RD aa to 10 give never more than truth de carded third As a poet his reputation was made long lone ago in 1829 just after his graduation from harvard he wrote the verses that saved the falcate con rho last leaf to an insect and others followed and many of his shorter apices had a way of clinging in fit the memory and nestling in the heart that soon placed their author among amon the best beat boned el it if not the greatest of american poets lie he might have shone mure brightly had he not t appealed with that brilliant company y that have been now for halt half a century the file glory ot of american literature holmes IIo lines emerson Di nerson longfellow bryant INT hIttler these are our greatest Bren lest names and now the iest liat leal leaf has haa fallen who will lake I 1 I 1 their th places lesl no one such stich la Is p n noc ih the c way of f nature the present Is not and is not to be nn an era of literature it is a period of iclene balen vc lene e ot of invention ven tion of study and experiment in boci and in these directions our minda will be called on such fields our ofir greatest triumphs won in III holmes as a s well as longfellow lowell LoN vell bryant and emersion Em erbon was a in nia Ms lite lie he was greatly beloved and we feel like saying it if he was not a great man he was better than great the announcement was mails that the next sundays serece sen ice would commemorate me the life and character ot of professor david swing of chicago the following hymn of fiust by dr holmes was mas sung 0 love loe divine tint that stooped to sharo share our bliar pesi pest pans pang our bitte bitterest reSL tear on oil thee we cat each cartti born care we va smile at al adin N while hile ahou 1 I hou are near though thou long the weary way we tread and A n fh sorrow crown each lingering year no path we shun no darkness dArk nesa dread our hearts still whispering thou art near when dro pleasure turns to grief anu and trem groeting etIng ling faith Is 1 s hanged changed C to fer fear the murmuring wind t the h e quler Ing leaf snail tell us thou abt al t near on thee we nine fling our burdening woe 0 love divine forever dear to while we know living and ding thou art near I 1 lecture on martin luther A large congregation was present at the congregational cone church last night nigh to hear the second of the rev clarence T TM brawns series of lectures on hb torio young wen men his subject last 1 evening was martin luther and the I 1 lecture was a carefully prepared and well we 11 delivered history ot of luther from his childhood to the acme of his grea breit t ness the lecture was an interesting one lecture on punctuality C Ll landel ndel 1 l a talented young colored man delivered a we l prepared and interesting I 1 te lecture at the african methodist dist church last evening MIS ills subject wig punctuality and it was ably handled handed the house was crowded |