| Show t n ruin nn ruins s A ON N THE L LIFE LIF Fr OF DR MAESER SER f I IH I 0 I J E Young Academy By flY a pro 3 H H H L when whop or whore tire a n man manu tie little III posters birth Is an all ull import I uh a u II r n It playa only n Slight at I 01 n nos career In the meat eat drama drOu drOun hovel reared I In i burn in a 11 n I nl ail po poverty r 1 while for tor id or ot I palace 1 la in a lt I tu truly Karl K l a 0 ha lea leat iii n Il liW w Genius de deby deCI t I tm hla I Hand handI l bundled d by a master 11 I CI may be done dolle but Ial r t mind bold srn to ail I aU mho genius of that tint B at pire v v ARh i turn Mil d m ln Meissen l m In h his s ua ual r Itt J 1 dl GI l hl heir it to all 1110 the tha slut f 1 he toil l I uI f that nation At t the tha thaI a Wj II twiny IX II x he ne cast his lot with i I 1 nl and anI clime to toI t I IbO found him I I of an 1111 educational 91 head tit or of ofa t 4 m ho ie steeped out 11 WIll i in III pr U ot of for tor It tra mure life life h Mm HUI Ut u If br the before ho he her hor by lye Gutter which he wu was ton to r lain n II tJ th r n hi name of education tn lIh tt J freedom ho ha bore boru ml mI d l t human patience of a u I toad and sith M faced the grim fortune liS as s t roll few on it II hive bad to meet with the his G man determination y made him Lr L U by b the Gospel fed nd 1 mI clothed In a velvet yel Ct Ctr cup a Of 1 foci of steel are re pioneers pioneers made made h stu ot Iu with ith It 1 will HI and r ft lit taun to n nj He lie able leaY jaw aw light where l J beheld V hi he 1111 u darkness a beheld beheld confusion j jL LJ 1 there where others othel Per Ier PerL L ved lip is hp detected good where c dander ho he loed den eI condemn the where and r tine hand bated ha hone front bee A d draw drel forth life where pr Dr death un tiers Ihm distilled his perfect Ju justice fT T t fl to his 10 lofty Ct lq t II nt place before Deore the tho thew 0 tIe of hOnor In history w II Th old rl at 31 lut n a great ot of n II II nation g UPa upon Pa tat noi Its H B Iti It ID character rot nol U II nationality upon this Is pre pro upon eon a treat great whose mountaineers t nUr true of u v their r as aa nn cd uca r Kill 0 G rd his hla wisdom rather t tu ir depended pc upon character not Ills ida thin than bla leads Ms hla army 1 tradition The general hl hla tactics Dr 1 ti through Implicitly hU his students student f In n 4 M led IM m of oC oCI f by W the marked out paths u 11 hi ht rather than IMn by Vi his his echol echo I sifted gifted with the power to 10 toraki was 18 students feel fed what whal he felt foil rake raki his hla hl to 10 hold sin In bo be bof boire tho the with power lower rifted rifled hideous visage and make Its liB f bare ire f them sifted gifted I until they th loathed Its Ita presence to hold truth before I rith the tile power i cheeks oJ them In III ft I light that their burned with an all ardent desire ever to 10 live JIve In Us lis presents pre enre and lift forever forcer their hands hinds and voices s In Ua lis defense How 1101 well this spirit was as Inculcated lot it I I the missionary fields fielda answer let the thousand cities clues towns and hamlets reply rep To 10 know a n truth convinces con the tho Intellect but lut to 10 feel fee a truth excites excite tho the soul MU to action Therefore to feel fed f l n a truth Is grander than to 10 merely know I The Greeks felt loved loreel and anc wor vor it was war their power rower to f feel l that raised railed their Ideals to such lofty lotty heights The early Christian schools produced d great other schools of or higher scholastic basis buls educated theIr thousands that history never named K Karl rl G a Maser va ser had the m loner er to 10 take from this re reo ilon g ion on from every cIer walk of o life Ilfe from fromy ml smell y shade of sin alt and vice Ice and ami In some Inexplicable way ray touch their minds tads till as In MidSummer Ili Ih tR Dream Drum they tj y found hideous i what h ih they 1 hi 1 loved lowd what whal was nas life Itself they the hi rejected reJect eng such mch transformations In what nhat t iv 1 y 1 termed cafes Dr cr ter IU often asked What Whal have you s to that thai ruffian ruman You Vou must hive have haver hn r add him over Oler He Is no more mare like C i former self elt lf than day da like night Then would come that guileless reply I hue hart done nothing It was the Lord did It ItHe Itlie He Ue war liar a teacher by ly birth and ly lW r fe i is s and In this he shone IrM lt lie knew knell students as most r a D know how books He lie felt that his hi In hr t a failure no matter how well oil i ere he found i 1 for tor good In the stu Hw rM h U U life lite Tie 1 has bas often boon been hoard heard to say n that wo two scrubs atthe at It the tho Academy the same name tiny day one from Arizona and DOlt the tho other othel from Idaho would meet and 1 know each other othel bu be bufore Lt before fore foro night at It noon he h would lad them therm perched d upon a fence tence In III per perfect feet composure comparing notus and congratulating each other on their Rood good fortune to 10 meet for the first time limo In III Inthis this Ihla life Jut hut I have seen neon such lIuch com coin composure compO pO lIro suddenly ended by the tho principals principals pals appearing on the scene and In that Ihal brogue peculiar to himself hs h would call out OUI Here Hero you OU fellows got fot gotoff off ort that fence I dont don t want lInt you YOl to 10 bo be seen scull together again This Thin would most mo t likely be he thou their Introduction to the tho they thoy tho afterwards learned to 10 know love Jovo as few fow ow men Inert have over ever been loved love lint It may muy lie be admitted that fear ear preceded love To ro those however who trio knew him leave gave place Illace to admiration Tho The doctor wan arcs equal c to nil all occasions occasion for Cor ho lie was ns to receiving young men crude mind untutored from Utah Arizona and New Mexico some fresh from fromm fro tho the range where they had been lieen schooled In the 1110 se so severest verest experiences e of ot recklessness and heroism horol One Ono circumstance Is related reIn led where whore n a hardened cow cowboy cowboy boy bo untie carao from front Arizona and entered the tho booted Looted nod spurred with hh tits hl belted upon him and announced himself a n candidate for fOI school How nonplussed ho Imo was when the tho principal nothing daunted by b this strung appearance of at the tho desperado told lold him to hand over his guns gUlls for he never never talked to 10 men with arms upon them theme Yet Ills Ida request was complied compiled with An Ao 0 the pistols were be beIng big Ing Jn handed over he remarked You are the only man nail I would have given my guns gunn toJI to 10 This was waR the first step slop to toIls hU Ils civilization and In III a short time thin this terror of or the West lived on the earth earthlike like other mon men and amid became no as docile liB as n a lamb Iamb Dr mode mollo of at discipline was wall truly his hla own oln Ilia Ill rebuke was wan like n sword and yet when he had accomplished his purpose his criticism left no sting no wound no scar near but bUI you OU never forgot the time sensation I heard him hlll thundering through n a 1 de department and It II had an electrical Influence Influence ence upon the whole school It did lid not stultify the tho students nor make muke them sullen HUllen nor moroso on the tho contrary It ft energized Ih the hit most mod ho Th nt of e I feet upon pon the t moral status t i ti of fth the school h l was ilea tho some same that thunder and aid light lightning lightning ning have hao upon the tho atmosphere It lt eternized clarified and purified purpled Tho rho sting If any nm was eliminated when In a 1 short hort time he lie returned to that mar lar department with a n kindly smile playing over his whole countenance Then all felt We Ye are forgiven No man had Imd greater Influence upon the youth of this church than Dr Mae Mac ser eer Few Pew men have been boen more universally sally loved lovell George Q Cannon ace nce said sahl to 10 him Mm Brother you must be Lo extremely happy In the great greal love loy the youth of Zion hear bear you yen Yes said paid Brother I would rather lopo P my III right arm than do anything that would affect the tho love and conO confidence confidence dence placed In me Praise did not lift him up III with pride nor did he grow envious emlous for fame Should those about him become Leeomo ambitious for tame famo mime and for their names to be bo hlll had between the tho putrid lips of or public opinion he ever eer gave nn an encouraging word But he himself had no time to seek seeh for tor fame tame famelie He lie was wan too loo busy uplifting mankind that thoy they should grovel In the dust no nomore nomore more marl In this labor un 1111 unmindful mindful of self tonic fame ollie sought ht him And were every one olle who had been benefited by h his teachings to cast t a n flower upon his hili grave grae he lle would sleep beneath a n wilderness B of flowers It was not alone his students who re rc and amI appreciated his hlA gr greatness A During the Ihl 1692 ClIt gathering was holt held In till the Tab Tah Tabernacle Tabe of o this l tU In honor of Francis Kranch I W Parker In tin addressing the congre congregation con rc gation J Dr Ir MacHer Maeser told In simple lan Inn language guage the tho genius 1 of oC the system of at edit edu education cation catton of which he h was the founder When he lie was through Colonel Parker larker arose nrose and with streaming eyes e ep em con braced and kissed ed the venerable tor tar saying In a n husky voice nice I am nm standing In hr the presence of a n 1 man In Infinitely Infinite Infinitely finitely finite greater grealer than Ihan I L Then como came the thunderous from rein basement and und gallery echoing the amen of or those who know kness kill full lull well ell the truth of that eloquent sentence I mil HI labor in forming this unique IHS tem tent ht of bf education had no M precedent He lie Hewan wrap wan without n 1 model mOd l ho hI had but one ono motto You cannot to rh time the multi multiplication table without th Ih Spirit of God Out of the uncertain and untried future ho he grasped his Inspiration Greater than n Franklin drew from beyond tho the clouds the lightning which aaa Illuminated and re his life lit litA A prophet Ill he stood alone Upon the horizon of a U nosy new Intellectual world pointing painting to 10 a standard different from front net iet up by other educators Though ho lie ld gone Ione his Index linger finger still Pointing point ing Ilig the Iho way 11 Is brightly illuminated from n a 1 hidden sky Hk One word from front President Young anti Dr nr Maeser cut the I knot l not of elt educational perplexities Throwing aside ashle the Ideals of ot nations he took look to the Iho woods and Holds highways den following none nano save sae time the voice vole of at his Maker While In III the time desert lie he tested his Id Ideals In III time thu crucible of experience There alone he ho and fused and amalgamated the Iho discordant elements element of science mid and religion Into the tho genius of or American liberty and religious fieo ree thorn dom He lie labored with Herculean strength to convince the doubting public of the divinity of ot the tho cause he had espoused Like all nil great creal truths It had to be proved like other reformers he h must trust face the tho adversity mind and his ids place glare I pIes beyond the grasp of those tho c who would clutch them thom to death Ho lie H begged ed edCor for Cor a nn nil n audience ho lie pleaded for far hearers that ho he might tell 1111 of the marvelous things 8 which would b bl beb wrought lIe He stood upon the tho Ih cry very threshold o of his career and prophesied tin time results re What a n contrast Then he ho sought recognition r now no his fume famo fUll Is III n a word al in almost inmost most the length and breadths breadth of the Rocky Hooky Mountains For sixteen yearn oars the tho Influence of DC the academy grew under his wise direction During that whole period for that wag Its lis epoch of oC travail and purification by Vy he convinced convincer all 1111 Israel of nr Its It II mission In n educating and purify In the youth Like a l Moses he smote the HIP rock of ot Ignorance and streams of o living truth gushed forth The lIw analogy Is not yot ot complete for ho he Id Ir 1 tho the school to Its new now home the home which ho he had seen years before In vision and then thou standing upon the threshold of or orth the th magnificent structure ho lie laid his mantle upon ulon the shoulders of a Joshua and wept as ns did Moses roHeR from heights Time The difference Is h ht he nits not notto notto notto to die tile In the valley of ot Moab oab Clod had a 11 higher mission for him Ills His prophet Wilford Woodruff called and blessed him to bo ho a II teacher leacher of ot all Israel In all the world and gave KIle him direct super supervision supervision vision of all Church schools Ho lIo lived to establish nineteen Church schools and organized religion classes In every ery ward in Zion lion Ion The fhe lost last tune time I heard him helm speak lie felt his mission here her was nearly at nt an nn end nd for he lie had fulfilled the thus prophecies uttered upon his head He lIe said that he was ready read and willing willingto to go when hod should say It Is I In Un finished He lie longed to pass to the tho great Krent beyond to see s e how things were there He Ho felt and prophesied that these Church schools school were re after aCter the pattern of the tile hool In heaven This brave and tender man ever sought the bet bel betterment torment of oC mankind Ills His soul was like n a restless son sea In his waking hours he soothed the down downcast downcast cast and gave hope to those tho e who tolled under the sun BUn of adversity At night he hefa paw fa visions of or time the future Through the Iho dark lauds clouds of sin and oppression he beheld behold the bow vow of at peace glided gilded with all the possibilities that hope and reason renson could comprehend At no time did his powers power shine shin more brightly than on the platform He lie Hens was ns pro preeminently eminently an nn orator nn orator who stirred sUrrell the limo hearts of ot men mell Persua Persuasion ler sion flon Itself sat ent upon pan his lips At t times tines his tongue ton ue was clothed cloU 11 with thunderbolts thunder holts bolts that struck terror to 10 the heart of or ortho tho the culprit His eloquence at times was Willi a It flushing fore force declamatory ve vehemence vehemence which reminded one of the roar of the cataract or the tho dash of the time torrent Yet Yel with all alt this thU there therl was a n made charm In his hili voice that outlined cd laughter to cense cease the giddy youths became transfixed under the time spell until their hearts leaped for Joy jO Tears gushed from tram their eyes lyell and their souls wars MM 1 with Ith hU his bl magnetic mn Influence nf could not be torn from the magic spot Ip felt pit that they could sit down nt nr athis his hl feet fett nail never grow row weary wan weal In Hs hIs to the time marvelous marvellous music of or his him hi clan v The life lite of Dr Tt Mawr M has hns Into hl too As 8 he fell felt peacefully o the thi snows of oC age upon hits hs brad h could hear the Ihl of ot two generations heralded from the bleak winds nf nt o Canada la to the thO th stir nut of or Mexico HP lie II l I is gone goni but hut hl hi will live hive until legend and history nr or dead |
