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Show THE DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY, JUKE IS, 1931. 6 Leeds Conference Held CKurcK Department Biographs jof Great Americans And the Meaning of Americanism 0y C. N, Lund JAMES MONROE AND HIS DOCTRINE. j ; why was James Monroe, a J humble man of mediocre ability and limited attainments, elswated to tho presidency of the United States! What was tt that made him fit and worthy te preside J where such giants as Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison had sat! He was the man tor the tiie and place. Destiny brought hlia to the presidency far a purpose. He was placed there to help vindicate for all time the truth that i kings should not rule over any of the countries of the new world. George Washington had! hinted a warning; about making (foreign alUanoes. Jefferson hod coined ths phrase, "entangling alliance," none But had caught the full vision of what might oome it pass If European powprs were permitted to extend their monarchies to th Western hemisphere. J That mission remained for James Monroe and he put hi famous doctrine Into simple and plain words. as follows. "Ths American continents should no longer be Aubjocts for any new European ooloalal settlement, .. .We owe It tot candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United State and the allied powers to declare that w should consider mar attempts on their part tot extend their system to any portion of this our hemisphere ns dangerous ito f peace and safety," Monro Doctrine hna held The from that day to thin and ha been strictly enforced. When the powers of our own government could not act destiny took, a hand and defeated the attempt! of Napoleon III to establish an. empire In Mexico. At n later time it took the majestic figure of Grosr Cleveland to clarify the doctrine when soms thought it had served Its time and purpose. Raising his great right arm and pointing heavenward. ho flung to the word thle slsolflcent sentence: Wit (the Monroe Doctrine) shall not he obsolete while ths republic enAnd still later Theodore dures, Roosevelt found It neeossary Jo emphasise the doctrine In no uncertain terms by speaking,, to th German Kaiser in the only language he could understand.1 the language of might In terms ot giant battleships ready to; clear their decks for action. Ills Career. in James Monroe wan beta Westmoreland county, Va.,1 April 1768. He Was fairly ell educated hut hla schooling was broken into by th war; He Satiated in the Continental army l 1774, at an hour when mens souls were being tried to the lltnlt. fie was wounded ntthd battle of TVenton. He fought at Brandywine, Gurman-tow- n and Monmouth and Acquitted himself rwith ercdlt and honor. After the wnr he studied law and was admitted to the bar, Hf married Miss Kortwrlght and1! the ualon proved to be a happy c.ne. lfe was several times a member of the Virginia legislature and was twice elected governor of Ids native state. He was a del estate to th Continental Congress and In that body he moved a resolution In 1786. empowering Congress lo regulate Interstate trade, iwliloh was a great! stepping stone Coward th Constitution. He was n jntom-be- C of ths famous Vlrglnl convention which was the first to adopt the National Constitution. Sad to say. he stood with Henry and Lee against tile Of the! great Instrument,adoption was elected U. S. senator andUef ajj such opposed th neutrality policy of Washington during th Nspelenoto wars. In spite of this. Washington appointed him mllnetSr to France. Jefferson appointed him envoy extraordinary to negotiate the Louisans purchase. Far five years he wo milnster te j Great Britain. Under James Madison l.e aerved as secretary ot stale and ISIS acting secretary ot war. Just The spring conference of tfaa Leeds district of tha British mts-olwas held on March 11 and 11, with many friends, investigators and members of tha Church attending. On the evening of March It a lantern slide lecture was given, and on the following day, Sunday, three seslons of conference were held, alt betng well attended. Reports showed that this conference was one of the best held In Leeds for some time, with a marked degree f success resulting from the Inwork of the elders. tensive I Ths accompanying photograph is Of the elders and British mission authorities that wars in atten i on (Continued From Page One.) late President George A. Smith, a man who loved spiritual qualities learned of the young man'a musiSaid hs, "Others can cal ability. build temples; I want you to build musical souls." Ths great pioneer leader recogact nised his opportunity and Samuel Jepperson the task of orband. a and ganising an orchestra How important that-- work has been Certain It Is that no man can say, some of the --finest music of the state has come out of Dixie. Whetti-eit was bersuse of, or In spite of the work of this great man you will have te fudge. Mr. Jepperson became a manufacturer of musical Instrument. . He made during his career 130 guitars, some of them with harp accompaniments no prouder his , eon Sam could play a divinely s he used to play on pur Timpan-ogo- a hikes GO violins, a number of violas and cellos, and 4 or 0 doubts bass viols. Those hands with the expertness of .genius, hay reInpaired hundreds, of broken struments. Mr. Jepperson also placed tha flute. The violin, tho guitar, the-' flute merely to name his Instrumen ts Is to describe ths man-te- nder, loving, flnte. full of pathos nd a refined merriment nothing coarse or Jarring In ills mske-uIlls later year he devoted more he reto Ws painting. Here also, undervealed hla sympathetic. soul. standing , . His Telslcher. Hld first teacher ws John German scene palnUr who worked Wt Cluff Hall; his second and only, other Ion was Oeorg Itinerant psrtralt Taggart, painter for whom Hamuel Jepperson had great respect and admiraf ( tion These were his only teschcrs In sens Nature exehpt ths regular and God, but he skelchefk with sueh mssterti as John Hof chi or whom he possessed an undying love and a mounting! admiration. J.l T. Harwood, and Alfred Its had the great pleasure Once ovllt!ng southern Utah in Compan)TwIth E. L. Roller's. Harand old H. Clark. B )F. lemon, n&m-ed Omon Cambell The first two- were In the part merely to enjoy and encourage art! the other three to produce it, To ftamuel Jepperson that was a great outing. He loved the matenlesu cotor'ngs of the southern Utah wonderlands, he hut never quite so dearly aswhose loved his own Utah Lake to his soul there whispers spoke trees surrounding Ws among the where his Its on shore cottage boys pushed out In their ofboatsa darkness into the mystic of fish or fowl. morning in search are Among his finest picture and his wns lake those of the the wine ducks and geese onerect ahd listulcs, and cat-tai-ls faintly light ths morning tening incloud and mountain peak. tinging Rg Future Goncratkm deRecently Brotherto Jepperson the recording voted hie talents old of historic scenes sucholda underlandmarks, oldhe forts, hoe done takings. Here valuable work for future generaarc 'nertedn tion, jwho way and tho mastered his man betore was a eslls-O- o "jwher Jepperson plntef snd yet he caught the cr -- p. Ill k, is Lam-boOr- nc -- I dance at the conference: front row, left to right: Elders G. Dwight Wskcfleld, William Kenneth Lund, Gwen Lund. British Mission President A Wil British liam J Mission Lund, ct Relief Society Presidsnt pres R. Lund, phlne ident Barnard P. Hrockbaik. and District Secretary Elmo H. Lund. Middle row: Elders David Taylor, Nool T. Stoddard. Preside it Gordon B. Taylor of the Liver; ool die. Fay Ephtrlot, Cyril A. Linford. raim Bates, Donald K. Ipsdn, Clifford L. Ashton of the Liverpool district, nqd Joseph D. MaAlHeter, Back row: Elders Elwood A. Gee, William Bailey, Wendell W. Tayi lor and Dan LeRoy Frodsham. remarkable msonlng of things In awhen I was manner. One day a to him hs produced talking book .by Btrg Harrison and read: a "Turn the mind to nature like mirror, and let It reflect exactly what Is thrown upon it. Hs who attempts to Improve upon nature either larks Judgment or Is endowed with a conceit so oloaaal that there Is n health n ; him. The greater the artist, I th! nk, tha more certain he is to cllnr religiously to nature not only for his Inspiration, but for his actual's material of oreatlons " "Then you believe In t ainting nature aa It ls!"il remarked, I only wluti I could paint tt as It Is." ho answered wlsttullj . f Not long ago Brother Je met me on the stjreet one 'person ay1 and him asked me to come and when I could spare an h mr. I have something to say to yo i, said , Jose-Distri- -- e 1 bo. I ' A short time later 'I went down to hla home. Ariln I found him In his pioneer studio patnt ng out old pictures that he might paint new ones. "The depreeslo n s has struck me, too," he said whimsco uplaln. ically. But he didn't When I can't afford new canvas or new board I paint out some former picture onV scMpe It off In order thnt I mn plaint another, j for, I must paint A New Itrvetofton, Then ho eat down and opened his heart to me He believed ho had come upon a new revelation if God Oh, no, not In thi sense that God had spoken to him bv word of mouth. If had merely madi a new discovery among Ills helpve I trees and grasses and flowers, lie! hsd found that God Is not fortnul, that God dies not do things In evens: that God probable doesn't like a straight line, hut that God b veej the nays of freedom. I haven't time now to nlnrge upon his Idea but some duyilf I I had hern can. I shall do forward to man" elher looking hours In his tlnyi studio vith Its scores of paintings! standing around everv which wav ifcith It hollyhocks and its ntlolng lake; with Its paint even where; s. and with Brothel Jepperson, animated. Interested voung In spirit. standing like god nin( hie i creations ho. I shall do lo was It hot But only now the best enn 'without the promptings of the beloved ilopeer artist end friend. God and the angels hr hsnpy today boon me this gentle, artist soul has r, (turned, borne. And Parley is hs pt y, too. Both will be discussing th probable legacy they have left th i world ' esin their pointings, hut mo and grsnd-aon- s. pecially in their Won . For alter ell. and daughtep-sone of the most tangible ft rms of In thse we Immortality isto found rarrv on ou work. leave behind As Tennyson so aptly put Its i H from soul to soul. One echoes And grow forever and forever," Rudyard Kipling rould not have envisioned thle occasion so perfectly had he been here when i he i wrote "When earth's tasl picture Is painted. sn the tubes are twisted And dried. When the oldest colors have ifad d end tho youngest cyltle has died. faith.! we We shall It need It lie down foy an eon or two. 111 Good Work-- n Till the Master of men shell set a to work anew! And those that wi ere good wllj he happy; hhev shall stt in j a golden chair: They I. shall splash at a ten-leag- , I. j I - I : u canvas with brushes ot iometa hair; f They shall find real saints o draw j from Magdalen. Petek, end I Paul; , . j They shall work for an eg at a wind never be tired at sitting t r all. , And only Ule Master shall prates us. and only the Master shall - blame; i And no one shall work tori money, and no one shall wtsrk fqr ( fame; But each for the Joy of this Workhie ing, and each, la separate star. j Shall draw the Thing aa hi sees tt for the God ot Things a they are!" J Samuel Jepperson's Immortalte assured. ity i -- 4 ' he was elected president and res elected la 1820. Ills administrations were someahat commonplace and uneventful. It was an era of peace and good feeling such a the country hoe seldom, If ever, aeon. HI achievements were, outstanding the purchase of Florida, the adoption of the Missouri compromise, end th announcing (Ion of the Monroe Doctrine. Ha died in New York July 4. 18S1. I James Monroe woe. In many respects, an Ideal American, a titan Ot humility and faith. When the Whole world shell corns to enjov the peace, th good will and th true prosperity that the nation enjoyed during Ills presidency the millennium will he Just around in corner. A matter of Interest to thd readers of this paper la the fact that at about the.aam time he was bringing forth his doctrine: a voice was speaking low out of the dust," the words. "There shall be o kings upon this land." He know nothing of this voloe. But he snd acted as If moved uponspoke by the spirit of one standing in the shadow keeping watch above this favored I, . land r a - Beyond the Grave (Continued From Page Four nence given In many quarters ) ia spiritualism." The Spirit Survives Death. j That the survives the process we callspirit bdeath, 'ha comes the more evident says, when we discuss the qutslloa In terms ot that wider view of the. universe Welch we can only call spiritual. If, as ts now very generally agreed the purely mechanistic and male-ri- al of the universe conception must be abandoned. It la difficult to 'see that any stopping-plac- e I possible short of the full thelstlo view of things Tills conclusion very closely affect our view of things " And this leads Into the itheologleat re ilm be says. Then Dr. Selble concludes: "In Christianity, there Is revealed a God whose relation with men are based on a hih conception of tho intrinsic worth of human person ailty In Gods sight thors ara Value h(rR which are worth pr- serving, and it U unthinkable that th God who them will ever suffer themcreated tor perish. Nothing ran shako pur conviction! that tho highest life we know hero la but a dim shsdow and fore taste of a far higher and more glorious life b),l W)ih Christ' In God. This is neither egotism nor delusion. It n conclusion not, without warrant both In modern science and modern philosophy," This conclusion then, all must ad! mit Is at least reasonable. "Here, then." says the Doetok-.- ; 'Is the conclusion the whole! matter. W are such ofstuff, as dreams are made of but as not life la. made of. The ultimate reality is life, and a Ufa that Is persistent and undestructlble Jt knows and live by change. But only that! Which Is mortal In It decays. There, Is a seed In us of the Immortal,1 eternal, and Invisible, of whose, growth and fat wo can only speak In symbol and metaphor and with bated breath. Beloved, now see we ths sons of God. and It dolh not yet appear what we shall be:! hut w know that, when he shall appear, we s trail be tike him; fori we ahall see him as he la " Thus faith, but faith Justified by spnaks reason. sound And so with tes of living fa'th many real Christians see w th j ' . Longfeltow "There ts no Jfth t What see: so is transition: This life of mortal hreath Ts hut a suburb of the life elysion. Whose portal we call Death." At this hour next Sunday eve-ulI shall continue a dlscus-io- g of the question. "If a man die shall h live again?" Thanks to all and , 1 I good night A "A LITTLE WORK" LITTLE work, little plajr To keep ns going and so good day! A little warmth, a little light Of Ihves bestowing and to good night! j A little fan, to match the sorrow Ot each days growing and so,1 good morrow. ' A llttlq trust that when ws dig ( Wo reap-osowing! ( And so ur good-by- e dm 1 Jfa .iWMIHi |