| Show DIL DB TALMAGE TAIMAGE TAI MAGE IN EUROPE the hc rec recent timit visit of dr tames james B E tal ia to europe ww was a most interesting vat tn in the gent lemans ing it R was also profitable to 00 tote section of the country in that it a great deal of light on an questions taftt were little understood tood abut BB as to the popular verdict re erding the bucce success so of the doctors a ad d on in the united kingdom let the extracts from the british apos for themselves independent published at tw kamsly near eld presents prea eirts the ebe el lowing under date of aug 6 1898 ott a monday evening ajeo electure ture wits was I 1 in th jb arcade hall by dr J age who a reside real dent tit of masland england no now W IF of 0 city U S A prof J H ILI X MA all officiated as a roan man there was an exceptionally good attendance of people from flora hoyland hayland common wombwell royston higham and other parts of the district the lecture was illustrated by limelight views and was waa highly appreciated the first part of the ithe lecture was devoted to an interesting recital of the events leading to the of the mormons cormons westward from their former homes in ohio missouri and illinois and their settlement in the then arid and and forbidding valley of the great salt lake while the speaker retrained refrained from any discussion of mormon tenets or ar creed lie he showed the close connection between the history of utah and that of the pecullar peculiar ar church which has always been dominant in that place the descriptive part of the address was rendered the plainer end and the more interesting by the aid of a large collection of excellent limelight lime light pictures descriptions eloquent and graphic graph le were given illustrative of the wearisome march across the desert fraught with danger at every step the first efforts at raising crops in the desert the deva of the fields by um the dreaded rocky mountain locusts the seasonable arrival of the sea gulls and the providential destruction of the insect pests the effect of the gold fever in to the discovery of the yellow metal in Calif california ornta thee the drafting in of the Mo mairmon irmon battalion to serve in the wax war between the united states and mexico and the more recent re cent rapid de ot of the new state A number of scenes were shown illustrative of the great union pacific rall railway waty that road was referred to as ao the plomer pioneer railway across the plains and as the most important of the gretat trunk trun k lines now reaching ubah there were pictures of mountain scenery canyons mines extensive fields under irrigation towns and cities with their most imposing buildings and important streets spec special lal attention was given to the educational cat ional institutions of utah common schools high schools denominational a academies acad dadles amies and seminaries artes and to the state university and the state agricultural college amongst the churches were the famous tabernacle and temples of the mormons cormons Mor mons the ithe jewish synagogue as well as episcopalian Episco presbyterian by terian catholic MethO methodist cUst and ana oither edifices including eluding the barracks bar of the salvation army dr talmage paid a strong tribute to the pioneers irrespective of creed who have done so BO much to ito establish and develop the commonwealth mon wealth vow now thriving in the th great american desert irrigation was referred to as the magic wand by which the transformation from wilderness to flower garden was effected the value of co operation in business and other enterprises was commended during the evening the audience were favored alt 4 a solo calvary by mr mellor sheffield soloist of the crystal palace choln choir the bradford observer says saya on saturday evening a lecture on utah and its people was given at a t the temperance hall bradford by bar dr J E talmage of salt lake city dr talmage Is making a lecturing ee turIng tour atour in great britain and Is giving addresses in all the principal towns he Is a professor of geology in the university at salt lake aake city and a fellow of the royal society of edinburgh possessing a good platform manner he to is able to bo enlist the attention and the sympathies of his Sud audiences lencs to a marked degree and on saturday evening his bis remarks were followed with close chloee attention by a large audience dr talmage traded the early of the mor mons described the persecutions which they underwent emt end and their finial final migration to salt dake city he then dealt in detail with the ithe work they had its ao complis hed in developing the resources of utah incidentally dr Tal talmage re many charges brought agal against mist the mormons cormons Mor mons and ami pointed out that polygamy had been abo abolished dished some years ago his remarks were illustrated by about eighty lantern views 11 another extract is herewith presented this from the evening times glasgow scotland aug 3 1898 for the average person who has never known the plains of utah mormonism suggests only matrimony run mad and salt lake city a place where even the man who yearns atter after bigamy the law courts of our prosaic land have never done justee to that heroic soul would be overwhelmed with too of opportunity as rare artemus would have put it but last night we had mormonism presented in a pleasanter plea santer light dr james E talmage lectured in the city hall on utah and its people I lad had the cinnamon colored placards been more plentifully posted on the city board ings there had doubtless been a bigger audience As it was the area of the hall was filled and ladies were not in a minority the doctor is worth hearing with clean shaven intellectual face he has the appearance of a man who would look well in a wig and gown and he has a power of persuasive ORATORY which might carry him ahead at the bar owing to the promptness with which trains are run in this country the doctor was half an hour late appearing on the platform he did not start speaking until after 9 but so interesting was his matter and so 1 fascinating his style that he held the attention of his audience for close on a couple of hours the doctor halls hails from utah he did not preach mormonism but he praised the mormons cormons in many an eloquent sentence he rax re minded his hearers that in the early days of christianity the enemies of the meek man of nazareth infused into the term christian all the hatred and rancor they could summon to be called a christian now was the greatest honor said the doctor and having got his audience he added while I 1 dont claim there is any honor in being called a mormon mormons cormons no longer feel that the name is used to in ridicule the doctor has the knack of the orator he proceeds to tell with ith NO MEAN descriptive ME howg of the struggles of the mormon sett mettlen left in their march to utah over 1000 miles and more the roads they tra traversed verma marked by a boundary of graveno grave and when they got to the valley of the salt lake how a swarm of locusts came down and threatened to devastate deva the land and how just then a nock flock of seagulls swooped down and dos destroyed troyed the insect pest peet from that day the seagull is sacred in utah at the beginning the cormons mormons established a sort of operative cooperative co commonwealth when the first wagon of merchandise can came the people agreed that it should be distributed 7 tri buted according to the size of odthe the families the principle has been carried out to this day there is a touch of socialism in the doctors nature ninel nine L tenths of the complaints of society are he believes based upon not that the people have so little but that someone else has more there to is no more ia ht utah and hence he claims the PEOPLE ARE AND HAPPY the lecturer showed a number of limelight bews salt lake olty city and the plans of utah we were shown temples and colleges and oo co buildings fine which stand as monuments ft f afar mon industry and culture they amft ha electric cars in salt lake city the tk force being got from a waterfall haty miles away and not only that but pe fhe power is also utilized tor for other othar industries dus tries the doctor also spoke glo glowingly wi bigly of brigham young though he was not there to defend brighams Brig hams virtues or his vices there are different denominations in salt lake city catholics jews Episco and the Salva salvation army but they all get along harmoniously because everybody minds his own business and he who does that gets along all right in utah and that damns the place as a resort tor for the average briton it is interesting to note that in no instance have unfavorable comments appeared in the press concerning these lectures praise liberal and genuine has been the rule addresses were given in newcastle on tyne norwich loudon london bristol nottingham bradford oldham barnsley wigan glasgow and belfast aseen from the foregoing extracts the lecture dealt with the story of growth and her present greatness the sincerity and earnestness of the people the evident blessing of divine favor under which they have prospered and the strength of their institutions founded on operation cooperation co and union were very properly praised but a strictly nonsectarian non sectarian treatment was presented A salt lake gentleman writing from Engl england azid dilates on the graphic way in which the subject was treated saying that part of the address was virtually a railway journey through utah many scenes along the line of the union pacific having been shown that road received special attention not only because of its present importance among the great lines of the west but also because of its effect in the early history of this region ligion as the boneer line across the plains and the one which utah in communication with the frontier of civilization to the east As descriptive of the conditions which induced the church authorities to request lectures on the subject and as illustrative of the success by which the under ng has ben marked we quote from editorial columns of the millennial millennia star P under date of august 11 THE stereopticon VERSUS PREJUDICE it la Is a little more than a year a ago 90 that several elders were discussing upon missionary topics and above all a w reef rv ista whitt what would be the best rn order to peacefully combat tl extraordinary ideas prevalent in tiffi efte world regarding the moral status a f the latter day saints sainte as a people the arii elders had just returned from an outdoor out oot door vie meeting eting that they had been attempting to hold bold but the proceedings had been broken up by an in who had indulged in statements regarding the characters of theae particular elders and the saints at orve large the accusations made bel being na 0 of the usual nature indulged in by persona of f that ilk finally one elder bm broke ae out with the observation that vie the only wayte way to remove this prejudice wo e to have some good lectures de mowed in the principal cities of the kingdom and to illustrate the 90 oame by t otere stereopticon views of utah aanie and bo her r institution the suggestion wibb 4 a good one ohe at the convention of abd tbd presidency and conference presidents of the n mission held in the latter day saints sainto chapel birmingham on the ath to bo the inclusive january 1898 the matter was ventilated and its adoption pending the sanction tIon of the first presidency of the church strongly urged A pe oh h to tae above effect was enon on parchment alfi aoda nato iet NW to the r ata t office at a later date by a nv mea on M june afie ath 1898 dr jams james E talmage arrived in liverpool per cunard S S etruria having in his possession a set of artistic views of Utahn dan scenery enterprises etc etc after a brief stay he proceeded to norway with a party of scientists in the meantime preparations were in progress for a succession ot of lectures to be delivered throughout great grea t britain within a week halls were engaged and saffron colored two sheet double crown posters began to appear on the dead walls of the prominent cities of england scotland and ireland they bore the legend that dr jas E talmage F R S E F G S etc would deliver a lecture on utah and its people in the meanwhile elders geo palmer and robert anderson on behala of the british mission purchased a latest improved stereopticon together with all necessary adjuncts connected with th the same the elders mentioned donating a part of the purchase money from their own pockets after all preparations were consummated there were a few days remaining to sit down and anxiously debate over the result of the venture it seemed to be the universally conceded verdict that the tour was waa IlI timed and that discouraging results in the way of slim audiences were inevitable it was the wrong time of year for a stereopticon lecture darkness did n not ot ensue until p m the weather was too hot and above all it was the august bank holiday week wherein there is a general migration from town to gourary cour itry and the seaside sea side on the part of everyone who can afford it why even the theaters were closed it if it were only in the winter time the season of long evenings the result would be so different such were the words of encouragement received from the authorities ties in charge of the various halls engaged how different the results really were will be seen upon another page never in the history of the church have such a a high class army of well known halls been thrown open for the use of the latter day saints in almost every case the best hall that money could furnish in every town had been secured in oldham it is estimated that people were reluctantly turned away from the doors it remained for the year 1898 to produce the phenomenal spectacle of men rising to their feet and cheering the mention of brigham Youngs name in conjunction with co operation whilst the well known picture of best beat crop thrown upon the screen never failed to create a furore of enthusiasm A curious development of the tour was the tact fact that rabid anti mormons cormons mistook the name of the eminent lecturer for that of a well known american preacher whose pamphlet on mormonism an i urell ure Is extensively circulated among the credulous in one case in bartic ular for a week before the lecture one of these individuals stood upon the market place and urged all the passers by to attend the lecture and hear the truth regarding mormonism ulam they attended and cheered the truth t 0 the echo the millennial star takes take this occasion on behalf jot lof the presidency of the european mission and the elders la boring in great britain to herewith heartily thank dr talmage for the splendid series ol of lectures he has ha delivered which have been the means of removing a vast amount of prejudice that only otherwise could have been accomplished by a personal trip to the state of utah elder robert An andersen demon who battled the distinguished lecturer as aa operator to is not to be forgotten for upon hill bin rested the ical part of the program lots of honest hanest hard work and little glory to V pack ack up the various chattels at midnight and like the famous arab silently steal away to travel eight or nine hot hours to the next stand a little sleep snatched then the screen to be hung windows darkened gas generated etc such were his daily round of task all true and faithfully volunteered for the cause both brethren have the hearty thanks of every member of th church in th british isles for or their noble efforts performed during the last twelve days the results ot at which labor together with the 87 that has been expended on placing these theae interesting te lectures before the public bubli cannot be estimated G E C to test the opinion of the local missionary 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