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Show lory; - When ert Fulton m-pelled m-pelled ma steamboat up the Hid lie dated a new era in navi&tna V nen Benjamin Franklin whipped lightning from the skv in Phila. pnia he flashed a new davbresfc over the world. When anyone lavs hold of a great truth from God and sets it in motion among men, he brings a ? daybreak to the world. Now tfc greatest truth the human mind hat ever grasped is just this of which the apostle boasts, the relation of Chris to the individual and the race, thi privileges and possibilities of gract lie terms it a heavenly vision becaw spiritual realities are revealed clearly to the soul. Poets Were Visionary. In the vision there is revealed, fntf uf all. the fact of sin. To know:;, reality of sin. a man needs only t look deeply within. Men who are fir from theological training nave ofta j given striking expression of the universal uni-versal fact of sin, as, for instac- . the ooet. Shelly, who claimed to b( ' an atheist, says in one of his poem "All fulfill the works of love, all an ti e outcast man." And Byron exclaims. ex-claims. "Ours is a false nature: it i not in the harmony of thina" And Burns. "Where e'er you feel ytrar honor :rrin lei that ave he vn'tr lim. METHODISTS CLOSE UTAH CONFERENCE List of Appointments for Ensuing Year Announced. An-nounced. One of the most interesting and sne-cessful sne-cessful conferenrcfi in the history of -Methodism in Utah closed at the First Methodist church last night, when Bishop Naptbali Lnccotg of Helena announced an-nounced the conference appointments lor the ensuing year. The appoint- 111 P 11 1 urr be f ntlnn n The Rev. Edward lairri Mills, super intendent of the Ctah mission and Salt Lake district; the ReV. Thomas Mao waring, pastor at Kingham canyon: the Rev. R T. Fisk. pastor at orinne and Tremontoii; the Rev. .V. C. Oliver. Tr., pastor at Kurcka and Mammoth: the Rev. Samuel Allison, pastor at MUford and Heaver; the Rev. B. K. Moxk. pastor at Murrav an.l Midvale; the Rev. T. P. t ook, pastor at Park Cltyj the Rev. L. A. Jones, assistant pastor at Trice pastor vet to be supplied; sup-plied; the Rev. 0. C. tfartsJer. pastor, af Provo and KUerta; the Rev. F. W. Bros;. paMor at Tooele; the Re. Will A. Rett. paMnr First Methodist church at 8alt Lake; the Rev. E. J. Major, pastor of the IlifT Methodist church. Salt Lake; the Rev. 0. E. Carter, pastor of the liberty Park Methodist church. Salt Lake; the Rev Martin Thnmai m.inr f 11 i- j it." Tennyson makes one of his char- j acters exclaim, "Oh, for a mar. n ; arise in me. that the man I am ma? , ease to be." What is this but a 1 recognition of the existence and pd of higher and better things. Hal poet Coleridge once blew a thistle- : down from him and remarked. 'Tsil tendency of that thistle-down is ts- J ward China, but it will never rwdt China for the gravitation of the earta is too strong for it." So. every mar is conscious in his best moments that he !:as not overtaken Ms besJ sA aud more than that, that he need! help in doing it. Good Done Is Proof. TV greatest proof of the gospel a in the result it achieves in all ap Long ago Jacob exclaimed. "G Almightv appeared unto me at Ui and Messed me." And the psatoC; also testifies. "That poor man rrw and the Ixmi heard him and deltverea him from all Ms troubles." And t paean of the victorious apostle rinrj out. "Thanks be unto GM. who rivets up the victory through our Lord Jesff Christ." And through the ag w same results appeaV as a Hvin? trM hears fruit through successive yeaix Furthermore, it was a glorious vision vis-ion of immortality. The reality aj pull of another world was upon t -onl of tee apostle. He always swJ anxious to depart and be at rest 3 the Lord Jesus which he knew u better than earl hi v life. "Ev JjJ not seen, ear hath not heard, nor fit" it entered into the heart of man wi Cod hath prepared for them 1" him." K von were to hail the apoe' and ask him to name what he remaned reman-ed a. the greatest event of nw m the response would be that he twj loud the light that shown swa-him swa-him on the Pamascan way ' not disobedient unto the neavtiw vision." J Waterloo churches. Salt Lake; top Kr-v. J, U Deraaroe, paster of Richfield. Marysvaie and .Junction: the Rev. Henry Fryer, pastor on the Kphraim-Mt. Kphraim-Mt. Pleasant circuit; the Rev. E. & Mork. superintendent of ihr Richfield district and Salt Lake Norwegian-Danigo Norwegian-Danigo mission. Paul's Masterly Defense. Tlie principal speakers hi last DtRbt's mooting wore TV. l M. Lark in ot SHn Francisco, editor of the California Christian Advocate, an.l the Hew lUrrv McCain of Topeka, Kan. r. Lsrkin talked on "Methodism in the Making ' 1 and the Rev, Mr. McCaijn spoke on "The Prohibition Movement of Today. To-day. ' ' Yesterday morning Bishop Naptbali Uicepck of Helena ga e a sermon In which he said. In part : Paul's defense before Agrippa was probably one of the most ImprosslvQ addresses ever delivered on the sar.th; more so than the sublime oration ora-tion of i temoBthanes against phiitD of Macedon. which so moved the Athenlnn populace: more so than the remarkable eloquence of Glcero Whose niasterK spell Julius Caesar acknowledged. The spontaneous utterance ut-terance of Abmhani Lincoln at Gettysburg, Get-tysburg, voicing the heart-throb of a wtthVt pro,,,c- 3l0np ran 60 compared The best things men do come to UN through the gates of the linagl-nat linagl-nat on. M,.n spc ft vHiwn of (,lc , , Itself before t. takes concrete rorn? ' Tins has been true or the great ln-'f"11""-'1 'Hl forVrard movements in |