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Show "Our Country at It Is." Mr. Charles Lilts gave his lecturo on the aliove-iiauu-d topic, according to announct ment, In the Theatre, Hunday Hun-day evening, to an audience that filled the largo building. The lecturo was a fearless jrtra)al of tho existing conditions con-ditions of aoulety and government In the nation today,withoiit exaggeration, nnd with a dtslrotosee curative conditions con-ditions set up that would arrest downward down-ward tendencies aud rtstore theOov tfnment to the iiriBes of the great mon who founded It. Hpeuklng of the Influence of the churchta lu general It was said that any religion that waa worth Iiavlui; must be baaed mon thu brotherhood of man, and win ru citi zens nnd class distinctions txltled n high religion nut Impossible. Thu tinker hu ed that (he Mormon Church would I ruats the tendency of Us (kjoj le to set up such eoclal class dlsllnctlona and got back tu 1U democracy of the tiirly yeart of the new dispensation, lie eitld this, at ho remarked, from no dlipoiltfou to Ilnd fault, hut betauso lie wanted tu stu "Mormotilsm" tiecome all that Ita broad rationalism gave him reason lo hope for It. Thu lecture gave general satisfaction, as wie evinced by the frequent fre-quent uud hturty applause. Thu muslo was excelleut. Mite Maude l'ratt leading oh with two te-lecllona te-lecllona on the plan ,, tho sei-uml lielng In answer to a recall. Ihe Union (llee Club nlsutreatul Iho audleucutu twogltes, re u. If ltd with slrlt and to Iho deliihl of tho audleure, After the lecture Mrs. Hilverwood, acoom-I acoom-I nnled on the piano by Miss l'ratt, sang beautifully, and grtntly to thu satisfaction of the autlltnce, "Love ltequeet." It la a ehtirmlug song aud the singer was at her best. Mr, l.llls auuounietl that his subject! sub-ject! for next buuday evt nlug would be "Our Country at It Ought to lit-," an I that It would oIoko the course. Judge 1'yper was uamed at tho soloist for lli-t evening. |
