Deseret Evening News

SERMON AT ST. MARK'S.

Bishop Tuttle Makes an Interesting Reminiscent Address.

Bishop Tuttle was the speaker at the St. Mark's cathedral yesterday morning, and he had an audience to talk to that crowded the auditorium to overflowing. His remarks, which were closely followed, were in part as follows:

"It has fallen to my lot to preach before so many of my old friends. I see before me the dear faces which remind me of those who have passed into the great beyond. To stand where for fifteen years I stood among those whom I had learned to love so much, is, indeed, a blessed privilege, and this occasion is made many fold more pleasurable to me inasmuch as it brings me into contact with so many leading spirits of our church from all parts of the country.

"When I first came to Salt Lake the mother church in England sent me between £700 and £800 with which to spread the good work, but the first large gift was from a Presbyterian of St. Louis, who sent $1,000. We made our first start in a bowling alley back of the Walker house and on July 16, 1867, I confirmed my first class of twenty-one in Independence hall, the building now occupied as a school for terpsichore.

"You all know the history of our trials and struggles from that time until we dedicated this fine cathedral, and how nobly, through love, law, faith and morality, our efforts have been crowned with success. Just the same as a horse, according to the Scriptures, is a vain thing to save man, so are love and faith. But it is not the gun which is a power of strength and force, it is the man behind the gun. It was not for the reason of her being a queen that commanded the respect and admiration for Victoria. The beautiful qualities of her womanly nature compelled the whole world to love her."

Bishop Tuttle concluded with a warm eulogy of the late President McKinley.