Show < SUNDAY EXCURSIONS ETC l I There is Pethaps no other community in America which entertains a higher regard for the second cbm1J 1 den t than that of SallLake GityiandUtah Territory Terri-tory This is emphatically a Sabbath observing community tile great majority major-ity of the people holding it to be a re ligfqus dutyto make of the first day of Ute week theChrlst Sabbath This is i true of the Mormons as a religious order and it is true of the members of the other denominations Ko one topic furnishes material for more sermons no subject ii oftener spoken of fro pI the pulpits the cxhortstipus of the preachers and teachers and minister are steadily in the line of holding the people to a literally tcriptura observance of the dar to impress im-press upon the minds of all the command IterigtBDe the Sabbath day to keep it holy It is to the credit oi the masses that any other than the Christian Sablssith has to ever found edt couragemeut and support here that violations of the Sunday haveever beefti Crowned uponby the public Theilaws against Sabbathbreaking have also been cnforoedyith degree of < < strictness i and determination which is rarely met wit4n the application of ptherstatutej There hate been fOI1 i contents behr en theauthorities ana those persons who from personal inclinations or a desire to make money have undertaken to defy the Christian idea regarding the Sabbtith but the public sentiment ha been so overwhelmingly onthe able o > the Iwthat the latter has been able to effectively assert itself vande Sunday Sun-day beer and liquor selling is carried on if at all through back doors and at the great peril of the dealers theatrical perforjniintes and secular I concerts are unknown the pleasure gardens and reports within the city are closed and only absolutely necessary labor is performed except by those who work under cover so snot to offend the sensibilities of the comiunUy It is eliefto the Christian to come from the noisy cbllic spoiling thrifty Sundays of San Franck Denver and other cities of the weft to the truly quiet peaceful and Christian Sabbath of Silt Lake wth its drawn blinds closed doors hushed bands of music and decoronschurchgoingv I There is one Ihing however thatthe i healthy public sentiment has not been able toovercome and suppress though frowning upon it with all the seyerity is can command and exercising the in flucnceof Ihepulpit and press JVe refer to theSundy railway excursions to the lake and the mountains an latterly as our readers are aware Sunday con certs have been added to the defiances of the healthy public sentiment regarding arding Sabbath day observances THE HEaALllia on severilJoccasionf pr6 tested agcihsti these detecratloiM III Sunday for they are desecrations in n community which holds as this one does tEitythe second ce alt1andi ment anil the teachiues ChrStianity on the subject mean all they say It la gratifying to note that the churches of the city with few if any exceptions have taken up the matter and jntfie doubling their efforts to lestroyf the tnUSaSbath infinepcevwhfcb JB being rested and stimulated by these excur lIons and concerts and as there is I I back of the several pulpits a powerful public sentiment there is reason to hope that the managers ot railways and outoftown resorts and the get tersup of concerts and public entertainments enter-tainments will discover it to bu to their interest to respeci the popular feeling wbjfh drniandsTthatSundey fee turned neither into a day of toilPnorinto one of merrymaking and frivolous sports and pastimes The money which is drawn from the Sabbathbreakers ought not to be an inducement to offend society and put at defiance a sentiment which is both sacred and praiseworthy Itts abrlghFandhappy featnre of tSe ommnnity thai it has a Sabbath and anything that tends tot to-t e destruction of that Sabbath or to the encouraggment and development 01 a disregard or disrespect for itis injurious injuri-ous to society defiant of religion and should call forth the earnest protest oft of-t o intelligent and better classes There will ever be too much of Sabbath breaking just hs there always is too much of immorality without inducements induce-ments bting beldiout entice and allure al-lure people to go wrong |