Article January 26, 1899 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from A. A. Weaver, H. H. Morrill

In introducing Mr. Kimball to his audience at Webster City, Iowa, Mr. A. A. Weaver of that city, made the following apt remarks:—

The silent thinker in his closet, the bold reformer in the field, may conceive and enunciate sublimest truths; but rarely does public opinion immediately respond to the messages of God.

Public opinion is right by education, seldom by instinct. It is walled in by prejudices and treasured associations, which it deems sacrilege to scale or destroy; and whoever dares to pull down the imprisoning barriers to let the contented bondman go free does so at his peril: for, instead of being rewarded by those he would deliver and befriend, his life is often sacrificed to their bigoted and malicious hatred.

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