Show DR YORKS LECTURES A Salt Laker Who AVauts to Skeet the Gentleman The following is selfexplanatory The writer will probably have an opportunity to gratify his ambition when Dr York returns here in the fall EDITOR DEMOCRAT By your permission permis-sion I would like to make a few brief remarks upon Dr Yorks lectures Not that we wish to find fault with the Doctor Doc-tor as a man for we believe him to be a gentleman In every sense ot the term But in his lectures he made some very broad and to our mind statements that he ncr any other gentleman can sustain We listened to him for three nights in hopes that we should have an opportunity oppor-tunity of replying to some of his theological queries and falacious statements state-ments But the Doctor gave no opportunity oppor-tunity for any one to even question his I position until the last evening and not I then until near 11 oclock and the congregation con-gregation was tired and manifested it by some of them leaving the house before he was through speaking Now for me or any one else to have undertaken the task of answering the Doctors arguments which had taken him three nights to delineate at that late hour of the night would have been simply ridiculous Consequently we treated the proposition made by the doctor doc-tor at such a time with silence We should hve been glad to have had an opportunity to have met the doctor on his favorite theme in public discussion And in fact the doctor and myself had had some talk to that effect as intimated several times in THE DEMOCRAT But the doctor said his previous engagements prevented his tarrying any longer in the city I write this brief note by way of explanation ex-planation for the rumor had so far spread abroad that many are questioning why the debate did not take place With all due respect to Dr York I remain re-main his controversial friend J W BuRRoucms |