Show mad MID ola cla BY MR georae GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN in rn the neto nein tabernacle tade Tabe macie macle salt lake otty elty july 1870 I 1 have addressed large assemblies I 1 in u england ireland and scotland I 1 have spoken to public audiences in france and germany I 1 have acted on the stage and coughed in the lecture room hul hub after hearing the three discourses which I 1 heard this morning from president smith elder cannon and president brigham young I 1 can say that I 1 would rather speak ten minutes in the tabernacle in salt lake city than in any place on the face of the globe it has been my habit to debate to have no subject no preparation but to speak upon what has been said by previous speakers this morning I 1 was invited three times to address the audience first before president smith Ideo lined second after him when I 1 declined again I 1 said 1 I have come to church to hear president young and I 1 will speak after he has spoken and when he had finished the ime was up and it was announced that I 1 would speak here this afternoon but the speech of the president had worked me up to such a pitch of mental excitement that if I 1 had got up after him nothing could have stopped me I 1 knew before hearing him this morning that he was a statesman 1 I knew he was a reformer and a writer but I 1 did not know that he was a barn orator it is time that this country understood that he has the es sa cred fire which few possess the art divine the magio magic power of speech which enables him to hold an audience in breathless attention which is possessed by eo so few in this world when I 1 speak no matter where I 1 usually tell what I 1 like and what ido I 1 do not nol like ilke I 1 AM AU LOST HERE this does not seem to me a church where I 1 ask are your stained glass windows where are your gilt edged bibles your gold clasp prayer books this seems no church to tome me where are your velvet cushions mr president where your tapestry and carpet and your magnificent robes in the pulpit how dare you come here with only a light coat on oin and sitting on simala bare benches and bare walls walla like these to preach the word of god this does not seem to be a church and yet I 1 cannot but remember that christ was born in a manger was was waa wrapped in swaddling clothes was warmed with the breath of oxen he saw none of these magnificent temples that we have through the east enst this does not seem to me a Chi cht christian ristian people for aa as I 1 told you last night I 1 see no jails jalis pen ite uti aries arles gam biers prostitutes or drunkards and I 1 am astonished to bee yee lee you give water at your sacrament and allow a poor miserable heathen outsider to have a brinkl I 1 am BO so astonished at all this that it seem seems sto to me I 1 have got into a new world I 1 have said that I 1 generally tell what I 1 like as well weli as what I 1 do not like row low ow what I 1 like here is the simplicity of the peoples att irethe perfectly decorous behavior of the audience a and sud ad in a word the simple fact that yo you are NOT MADE UP OF FALSEHOOD magnificent robes splendid bilks silks chig and all the rest of the claptrap with which the churches east are filled I 1 come here and see manhood and womanhood those who get their living b by Y the sweat of their brow I 1 find wor workers k ers erb boilers toilers toi lers who work all daylong I 1 like these things but ent there are some things I 1 do not like for instance president smith and elder cannon spoke today to day of humility I 1 do not like that I 1 believe that humility is bad a swindle I 1 believe in assumption and for this reason I 1 see as a general thing that humility is assumed but there is no mistake about assumption ASSUME YOUR YOUK POSITION and there are certain natural laws that will keep you yon in your position you a step ep off the roof of this tabernacle and t the e la lafar of gravitation will bring you to the ground step into the lake and you sink it is a natural law you put your hand band into the fire and you get burned and that is a natural law therefore Thee fore 1 I 1 say assume your position and trust to these natural laws to mainwal maintain A you in your place I 1 maintain that if it president young had not had the power to build up this gigantic community he would have fallen long ago he assumed his position took it as a leader and the therefore re when he praises humility as ashe he did today to day in his discourse it is only the humility of power I 1 say that natural laws are so arranged that no man can get beyond his level big logs get over the small logs big stones over the small stones it is a stock idea of mine that if you put a lot of potatoes into a spring carland car tand haul them aver over a rough road the small ones go to the bottom had president young been a small potato like general grant he would have gone down before today to day I 1 see here in this tabernacle men and women come up to wor worship an idea one great mistake that you made elder Cannon was that yaun your people should be on the defensive that they should be defendants it is time mr president that you yon should be plaintiff with mankind defend yourselves no longer what are you to defend it is TIME YOU SHOULD ATTACK in your discourse today you said you were willing to change ten errors of the mormons cormons Mor mons for one truth of the gentiles I 1 would like mohave you find ten errors of the mormons cormons Mor mons and then I 1 would like ilke you to fendol nind find one truth of the gentiles I 1 have not seen it I 1 know ihnow this I 1 have traveled far and in many lands and countries and in china I 1 simply shake hands with a chinaman and that is sufficient sunni clent to buy a of tea in hindostan hindustan HInd where nearly two hundred millions of people worship buddha and brahma a mere word is sufficient to buy an indigo plantation in persia among the followers of I 1 can buy a city with a word iut Jut in christian lands among the gentiles I 1 cannot buy a corner lot without the aid of pen ink paper and sealing wax and two witnesses to prove that the man is not a thief I 1 say that here in utah in sait bait lake I 1 find a MANS WORD IS HIS bonk BOND therefore the time has come for you not to defend but attack and carry the war into the heart of the enemies camp do not bay say that you yon are here on sufferance but you are american citizens and you have a right to be here the time has come in this nation for free opinion the president in his remarks this morning bald said there was much ignorance in the land lord bacon is said to have made the remark knowledge ia Is power he never said so bacon was a trump he had brains and he would never make such a stupid remark as that but if he ever did make it it is false because knowledge is not power in this country ignorance is power ignorance in th the eWhite white house in the cabinet in the senate ignorance on the floor of congress and in the pulpit ignorance in the law school in the medical college and everywhere ignorance reigns in and governs this magnificent nili nill ent cent republic socie society is ORGANIZED HYPOCRISY crime is not hideous but it is getting found bund out take the money out of his bocket pocket said but dont bru break the law do not pick up that flower in the path or steal a peach in the yard the policeman may see you 6 john dont play marbles there in the street it is sunday come in and play in the back baek backyard yard Is it not sunday in the back yard says john the poor little fellow follow understand the system james have you sanded the bu sugar bugar arfi arif yes pa 11 have you wetted t eg the tobacco coT yea father have you watered the rum yes father then come into prayers george have you charged that flour yes uncle charge it before you forget it y this is the system which prevails in the east I 1 come here and what do I 1 find the religion of nature you may ask me what my religion is yoi you ishall shall know in a nutshell THE RELIGION OF NATURE was a beautiful fountain with waters pellucid clear and pure but how polluted have sectarian creeds made it as president smith said this morning do you suppose for a moment that if christ and his simple fishermen were to walk up to the entrance of christ church that the miserable flankey flunkey of a sexton would let them enter in their fis hermens garments no he would turn them inlo into the streets there is no place for you here go 60 to the fashionable churches of new york today to day god is all right and so is christ in the winter spring and fall but the fashionable preacher must have a recess he cannot afford to preach in the heat of the summer their CHURCHES ARE FOR THE RICH A man may maybe be a christian in a small one horse town for fifty dollars a year but in new york it will cost hi him M a thousand religion is simply a matter matten ma t ter ten of money society is organized hypocrisy h Y po crisy the lawyer doctor and e clergyman er are the crutches upon which humanity hobble through the world when ahen men take possession of your body or your soul they are after your pocket and like victor hugos devil fish they are hard to shake off this is the reason that our fourth of july is such a gigantic sham why the declaration of independence is such a miserable farce and why our much boasted bonsted american republic is ruled and controlled by a gantle gigantic umi gri moneyed oligarchy so when I 1 come here to the tabernacle and find a people practicing the LIFE ilife TAUGHT BY THE SAVIOR I 1 hardly know what to td say or how bow to speak my religion ia Is the religion of nature I 1 worship god in everything I 1 see him in the rustling leaves the rii rig rippling rippling pling current in the moaning of the tide tlde ti e and the chirping of the birds I 1 find all through this great world that great power which you this mor morning ning mr president said was in us all that grand mystery which makes us rive five by which we are born and by which we die between two breaths the perfect world by adam trod was the first temple built by god ile he hung its starry roof on high the broad illimitable and spread its pavement green and bright and curtained it with morning light the mountains in their places stood the sea and sky and all was good and when its first pure praises rang the morning stars together sang lord I 1 itis not ours to make the sea and earth and sky a house for thee but in thy sight our offering stands and an humbler temple built with hands my religion is this grand religion of nature where you can enjoy air water earth sun and which leads one to study as referred to by the president this morning the moon and the planetary system and under which we can carry out the great question of morality my SERMON IS IN FEW WORDS dont drink dont smoke dont chew chow dont swear dont gamble dont lie ile dont cheat dont steal dont commit adultery that Is my sermon and if you carry it out you will be all right I 1 ido do not believe in going back two i thousand years to prove something I 1 cant make out or in looking ahead two thousand years to prove something after I 1 die and to live now aa as corrupt as a devil I 1 believe in morality now in good now so as to be prepared for anything in the future one great point is this never again defend yourselves your seNes benes but attack never again practice humility but simply assume your position and remember th this gigantic ig antle power pow eryou you have built up here 1 are re you aware aawar e that during the first four hundred years of the christian dispensation there were not a thousand converts made but here in a generation are TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND MORMONS I 1 simply say bay take accomplished facts remember what has been done donel this people have been outraged as no people ever were outraged on the face of the globe except the north A amerlean american sa savages v the mormon people have been DRIVEN FROM CITY TO CITY from state to state their wives and children have been driven forth into the wilderness and their homes burned their leaders have been killed all on account of a miserable fanaticism in our country I 1 do not mean fanaticism but bigotry and intolerance thank god they are wearing away the president spoke this morning of fanaticism I 1 would like to give my idea of a fanatic I 1 am a fanatic and my life illustrates what a fanatic is I 1 was once going from east boston over across the ferry on board the boat was a mule team six fat mules one or two of them backed up to the side of the boat as if berthat means they were seeking to costay stay the progress of the boat but the little fanatic in the hold bold attended to his duties and despite their efforts took them over what I 1 call fanaticism is an undying determination to carry out and accomplish what you believe you ought to it is this which has made a territory for the mor mons which if it had not been outraged raaf d would have been a state fifteen years ago as has been the case with nebraska and oregon and would have been with any other gentile community another word in my illustration of what I 1 understand by fanaticism the Preside president ut this morning spoke of morse moree as a fanatic the steed called cabled 11 the fates was born in the united states franklins hand that caught the I 1 horse barnested harne barne sed by professor morse stevenson was also aiso called a fanatic and all reformers are called the same jn in a community of lunatics the first sane man that hat appears is called a fanatic and the grea greatest great tsat sst sensation you yon can create in this age is to tell the truth wherever you go now this system of government in utah has been built up by fanaticism on a great grand floor of morals on which to establish empire I 1 simply simp y say here that this is the only place in the united states of america where infanticide IS NOT PRACTICED and I 1 would like to know where our protestant fashionable preachers are saying baying anything against that terrible crime I 1 say that you are rearing healthier children here than in any place on the face of the globe what young man can marry in new now york borkon on a thousand dollars a year why it would cost costa a wife that for high heeled boots and chignon chignons chig tl there is no chance to marry hence there is no alternative but dissipation and licence lutherea but Bu therea here a one man power has been developed as the president was telling you this morning association is the great power for association is a natural law fish go in shoals insects in swarms animals in herds birds in flocks drop by drop the ocean the mountain so by association has this GRAND COMMUNITY beet BEEN X BUILT UP all free thought and independent minds minda I 1 isay ibay say bay if it is not free why is anybody jew or gentile methodist or baptist allowed to preach in this pul elt eit it they would sooner have the devil r n i their pulpits than change with any of their christian brethren yet here anybody can have the privilege even the charlatan mountebank lunatic clergyman and is blatherskite GEO FRANCIS TRAIN As I 1 see domany so many gentiles in your congregation gre gation including a distinguished clergyman from pennsylvania the distinguished marshal P wilder with his arty party just returned from the east mr dobinson Wo dobinson Eo binson and a large party from sacramento and probably as many as five hundred gentiles gen tilea in your youn our oun aud and audience ence I 1 call ll 11 attention to one ona fact you know T stated last flight that in the east easi a minister who may be a president of a temperance temperance society will administer ni hilster to a brother brothen rother rothen in n the church a solemn oath that he shall not tough touch taste or handle wine but the very next nest morning that minister will POUR WINE DOWN THE THROAT of that brother at the altar but here among the mormons cormons Mor mons you see water used |