Show BANQUET JO IIFL lUFF I Ministerial Association Acted as the Hosts S J < Jl l WAS A PLEASANT AFFAIR Ir I r Toasts Were Responded to In a Happy Vein Rev George Bailey Acting Ins I-ns Toastmaster Rev George Jaync Hon John T Axton Mrs Joel A I Smith Dr McNieco Among ths Speaker Dr rUff Gave the ClosI ing Toast TwentyFive Years in I Utah Which Was a Fine Address I 1 An event which will be remembered I with pleasure by the participants was the banquet given last evening In honor of Dr T C IIII who Is soon to leave I time city for an Indefinite period The affair was given by the Ministerial association as-sociation of which Dr lllff Is a valued member and in a little way expressed I the high esteem in which he Is held by his fellowministers 0 I Several toasts were responded to all In the happiest vein of the speakers and all thoroughly enjoyable Most of I them were of a reminiscent character I recalling the last quarter of a century in Utah with whose progress during that time Dr lllff has been closely Identified Iden-tified Words of praise and goodfel lowship were freely spoken and Dr IllfC will gt away from here feeling that ho carries with him the esteem and love of all the Christian ministers of the elt 0 j city cityRev George Bailey the toastmaster before Introducing the first speaker I made a few remarks appropriate to the occasion He said that the Ministerial association had not accomplished much j up to date but suggested several things which they should doin the future Ono was the organization of the wives ot I I the ministers chief among whose duties du-ties should be to secure wives for the unmarried pastors of the city He felt concerned over the number of bachelors bache-lors In the Ministerial association Another reform hinted at by Mr Bailey and which created much merriment mer-riment was the doing away with so loons He said that Rev Mr Wake who had been appointed a committee of one for this purpose had been very derelict that he should have seen toIl to-Il before Miss Murcutt reached town and added He could have done It without the help of Brother Angus who said they did not have saloons until the Ministerial association came Rev George Jayne was then Introduced Intro-duced and spoke of Methodists as Pioneers Pio-neers He recalled the trials and pleasures pleas-ures of a twentyfive years residence in Utah with Dt 1110 of the progress I made by the Christian sects In that I time and closed his remarks by wishIng wish-Ing Dr lllff and his family richest blessings In their new field Hon John T Alon was then introduced Intro-duced and briefly told of the relation of the Y M C A to the churches of the city saying that the churches were the backbone of the association He thought the utmost credit was due the pioneers of Christian work in Utah and thanked Dr lllff warmly for what ho had done for the upbuilding of Christianity In Utah The Ministers Wife an Important 0 Element In Ills Best Success was responded re-sponded to In a brief but pleasing way by Mrs Joel A Smith She spoke of the mon attributes needed by a ministers min-isters wife chief among which were wisdom and the law of kindness Were the Former Days Better Than These was responded to by Dr Mc Niece who said In beginning The golden age of Utah does not lie in the past the former days were not better than these To sustain this assertion he cited the progress made In free government gov-ernment from an educational or from a social standpoint The closing words of Dr McNIecc were words of farewell to Dr Iliff bidding him go away for a while but to return again take his place at the front and help In tho work of Christianizing and Americanizing Ameri-canizing this splendid State TWENTYFIVE YEARS IN UTAH The closing toast Twentyfive Years Experience Utah was rc snnmlpil to by Dr IIIIT In his best vein He recalled first his coming West going go-ing to Mlssoula and later to UUih where he lion been since 1S7C Whether considered from a material an educational educa-tional a governmental or a social standpoint Dr lllff said the changes wrought In that time In Utah have been marvelous He did not care he said to recall the conditions which existed ex-isted here for so many years but with such conditions a conflict was Inevitable I Inevi-table Dr lllff referred to the part he had taken In the conflict that his was a nature that when he thought It his I duty to fight he fought and was not surprised that he had been the subject of editorial utterances and public addresses ad-dresses For all he had done he had no apology to make for he was convinced In his soul that the blows struck were on the side of right It was not done with any bitterness of feeling but for country for home and for God In closing DI IllfC assured his hearers hear-ers that there were many bright spots In connection with his work in Utah that would live In his memory as long as life should last The guests at the banquet were Dr and Mrs lllff I Dr and Mrs McNlcce Rev and Mrs Richard Wake Rev and Mrs Josiah M Clam Rev and Mrs J A Smith Miss Davis Rev and Mrs George Bailey Rev and Mrs A H Henry Rev and Mrs F N Lapham Rev and Mrs E E Mork Mr and Mrs John T Axton Rev and Mrs F L Arnold Rev George E Jayne Rev H If Hansen H A Hansen Rev and Mrs Joseph Wilkes Dr Munsell Rev and Mrs E G Hunt Rev W N Block Rev F E Bigelow |