Show UNION dr iliff delivers the discourse OUR CONDITION Is it on hie decline the S pea her argues that it Is not union thanksgiving services were hold held in the M E church provo prove and dr iliff came down from salt lake and delivered deliver od the thanksgiving address he took for his subject the broad ques tion Is our country on the decline in the aggregate he argued that it was warnot not there was no fear in his nind ind of this country ever plunging into the abyss of anarchy though he realized that there were many who had such fears maybe they were born bor pessimistic many times in the lat last three or four years he h d heard beard the doleful expression our countr country y is going but be never felt that way still he be realized in the light of history that our country is not free from dangers there are four great elements of strength he reasoned necessary to the perpetuity of our government 1 the best beat material conditions for mans hap 2 the best intellectual condi eions for mans happiness 3 the best political conditions for mans happiness and 4 the best beat moral conditions for mans hl thee ebeo various bub bab divisions were considered si the political part however beine beinie gone over very lightly tle bound boundless lees resources of the country were portrayed and the part intelligence had played and is playing m n the material advance mp ua lia caul liy p 1 he showed what machinery macai nery had bad done in the harvest field and in other pursuits of the people these conditions he be thought were pt at their best and argued well in favor ol of our oar country morally be thought there was an improvement pro god ne said eaid had bad be been en with washington with lincoln when slavery and states rights were both relegated to the prays gravs forever and god was with the man in the whit house today McKinl cys entire devotion to hia I 1 sif s if i for or many years and his com committal m ittel of the care ul b hl to brov providence idenie at the altar of his G god oa 1 showed him to be a man ot god dr iliff alan baw a moral advancement in the tha fact that presbyterians rians baptists methodists etc had bad laid aside abide all dogmatic disputation dia and were now preaching along the same lines egainer all that thai was evil A stranger in new york or washington or any of our large cities citius might never naver know the difference in denominations lations from the discourses it was good to see denominations more united in the tha great warf warfare tre against evil and not turning their batteries on each other in conclusion the reverend doe tor dealt deah with utah applying the same four rules to this state that he had apa plied to the nation utah is most woo won blessed in a material sence and he thanked god for tho the public school system chien now seems well established there must be no turning backward nor must any church be per bitted milted to lay jay its ita hands on our public schools let them go on teaching patriotism and the churches in their sphere can give the principles ot ta tie ie gospel the tha two must not be intermixed in the public schools schoola he did not think utah would go backward in education though be bed been bean pained on his return from the east to hear bear the talk in his own city relative to the high school there politically conditions in utah were quite badly baal 1 mixed but mighty advances had aiso here been made in the last few years he know knew there were mis ai vinca for the love of political power would often lead to excesses but he was waa ever ready to raise his voice against any church catholic presbyterian latter day saints sainta or even the board ot of bishops of his own church should an attempt be nde to lav hand 3 on the aate ate the church and the statu must ferver fer ver be separate personally dr iliff had bad great faith in the people of 0 utah for they in a position to wield a fre emens ballot untrammeled ILl morally orally he also saw advancement in our oar state stale though thee were many t ings that we might improve all in all we have much to ba thankful for as ft people and commonwealth |