| Show IN MEMORY OF Knights Templar in inThis This City Last Evening BISHOP TALK lo n to lo All ol Thero was n largely Templar memorial service yesterday morning In St Pauls church churchIn In honor ot tho memory of the lato President who was a Mason and a distinguished member of tho It way In fact day all over the country there were special observances In tho churches In tho various of tho Union The address by Leonard was In response to a request from the Salt Lake and there wera nearly forty of tho Knights present for whom scats reserved and tho ru of tho auditorium was quick quickly ly filled In his Introductory remarks tha referred to the coll upon school children to contribute to the memorial fund said upon this movement one Is led to ask why this outburst of feel feeling ing All of our deceased presidents have not been so treated nor all even of those who have been assassinated There must have bean something In tho mans life and character to call out this expression of feeling Let It be ours then on this occasion to study the life character of the twenty fifth President of the United States It ItIs Is not so easy to put n just esti estimate mate upon his character now nn It will willbe be In a later generation Tho men who his contemporaries moro like likely ly to be swayed by prejudice than will who shall come after him Many estimates already been made but when they go down to posterity they will no doubt bo and revived and another estimate given In the years which arc to come After a brief biographical sketch of the lato President Bishop Leonard said saidI I know It has been Raid that tho golden rule has no place In politics but If It then woo be to politics We know of course that politics arc corrupt but It Is because people them themselves selves are corrupt As It IB that water will not rise higher than Its source so also It Is true that political sentiment will not rise higher than the great moral sentiment of the peo people who create It It Is therefore the part of every political man to do his part In tho right sentiment of which we speak The proposition to erect a monument to Mr which appeals so to nil classes of people shows that Mr was one of those who sought to mould politics In tho right form that ho was one of the most marked characters In our country Speaking of him In a political way his whole bearing during the trying years of his administration manifested his statesmanlike qualities It has faMen to the lot of few men who have tho presidency to be confront il with the many trying problems as did Mr but ho met thorn all allin in n statesmanlike manner As n man was ono In every of the word In the study of the mean of this word wo recall tho Latin and vis the Idea of strength of nil kinds Not alono phy physical but Intellectual and moral as aswell well No ono Is In reality n man who does not posses of these qualities ties It Is certain that President Me possessed them for without them no ono could mako tho appeal which ho did to Ills countrymen Hest of all Mr was a religious nan He was not narrow In his re religious views as Is often tho with mun |
