Show SALT SUIT LAKE GAY BUT NOT VICIOUS The Rev Albert Buxton Talks on Other Pastors Remarks At the Central Christian church yester yesterday yesterday ester day da morning Rev Re Albert ilbert Buxton took for tor his theme Salt Lake Another Sodom and Gomorrah Dr Buxton read for tor his lesson the passage In Genesis describing the wickedness and overthrow of ot those two cities and took for his text Matt Mats ad xi 21 to i 22 Woe Voe unto thee Woe thee and thou Capernaum Ca thou be exalted unto heaven Thou be brought down to hell for If it the mighty might works which have hae been done In thee had been done In So Sodom Sodom Sodom dom It would have remained Dr Buxton said In part This theme is thrust upon us at this time A loved col eel colleague colleague league of mine has been mis misreported misreported misreported reported as telling an eastern audience that Salt Lake Is worse than Sodom I Idid Idid Idid did not give full credit to the th report from the first and am glad to read to you OU the same report as It appeared till the next morn mornIng morning Ing ng In the city where the sermon was de dc delivered livered Dr Buxton then th n read from th Cincinnati Commercial Tribune Ye Yet a newspaper paper has hurled this theme Into our forum Jorum and as one of the religious leaders of civic chic thought I cannot escape the theme this morning morn In As an un accurate fact of at course Salt Lake Is not to be com corn compared compared pared with Sodom No city has ever been as bad nor can be beNot beNot beNot Not Town of Vice Whether Salt Lake Is better or worse than Utan other cities is merely a n question of oC curiosity We Vo may ma only plead for our ourselves ours ourselves selves s in the day of ot Judgment Although this is not my theme yet et It has been such sucha a n current topic this week that I pause to say emphatically that Salt Lake though she needs to hide her face tace before her God need not stand abashed in the presence of oC oCher her sister cities clUes This Is not mere loyalty to o my city elt It Is a Judg jUd Judgment judgment ment I have preached In about thirty of our states and In over halt half of or our thirty largest cities and I am proud of ot Salt Lake She has faults of her own Possibly no American city Is more given ghen to o thoughtless pleasure to eless gaiety galeto to the Epicurean philosophy hy but when you ou speak of ot crime of or vice let no one de deame defame defame fame ame mv my town and laud her rivals To Todo Todo Todo do so is either bigotry or Ignorance Compared American cities Salt I vice Lake is a gay CRy city but not a II town of ot |