Show MAN M WOMAN OM ASP AD AND CHILD What Wat They Tey Ae A and ad How Eow ow They Tey May Mayb Elevated b be Morally To the Editor of The A truism tris the statement s of which need nee not nt shock sheck she the themo most timid modesty moet Is the fact fat known and ed d admitted by hI b all al physicians demon demonstrated deon and advocated by b all an eminent anatomists a for fr f hundreds of years year time that men mn and women ome ate are a animals au related by many ties tes of kinship to a long ln long line there them ther of or animal life Ufe said sid to be below blow This being beIng the case c no consultation of the competent as a to how toe so s called cled social evil evi shall be overcome w will ill m result reul in good g that does do not nt start from the conceded fact that that men and nd women are ara animals belonging to and developed develop from the animal life Ife that peopled the earth erth so S to t speak for probably mil millions mi lions lons of ot years before bore mankind reached rahe the upright position with wit feet fet on the th soil sU and head hed toward towar the th stars str above abe him So considered the question is Is How shall shaU we overcome the appetites and passions pion that work together for forthe forthe forthe the downfall ot of 0 our young men and women That starts another anther question What Tat is the th cause cus ef or this evil evi As I have intimated Intimate in the statement that we are animals the cause cus is in n part an inheritance It I Is in part also als due to euston custon customs acquired long before morals had ha reached rach even their present level In a state stat of ot nature or 01 savagery man did as he pleased pl with wih woman by violence By and an by when woman had acquired a kind of o independence man manha had ha to buy her This process proe produced the harlot harot or courtesan who became beme powerful in political social lal and even religious matters maters The founder an of Buddhism the greatest body by of de devotees devotees devotees existing is said sid to have declined the honors honor of a great get city because buse he lie had already accepted the hospitality of Its ita It most famous famus The foun founder founder founder der of our Christian religion if the ac accepted accepted gospels do him no wrong had hadI I women of the same Mme class cas among ang his in intimate intimate companions and his treatment of ot the person taken in adultery shows him wise wis enough to understand that the Ule passions were an inheritance from him himself himself himself self as Creator and only those tho who had ha not indulged them could uld cast cat stones stores aUthe aLthe weak one on Today Toay we find in civilization a tendency never In fact wholly outgrown to t revert to the tha savage s age methods of dealing with wih unprotected unprotected tete ties tion women a perversion of civilization I believe beleve this ts evil evi clings to society largely through a mistaken sense of ot duty to God Go In religious rel lous training of or the young youn and I shall refer reer to Utah Uth in Il ii Illustration i of or my meaning meing We Ve have had here for half hal a century a growing sect set that was va professedly a new ious ions cult cult denounced and opposed by hy byall hyal byall all al other sects st and practically all al who were of no sect as unChristian irre Irr beastly and vile vie Opposition intensifies belief belef and creates create bigotry bl These Tese opposing religious bodies bies all al be became bl became came more rigid in their devotion to doctrine than they would have been bees without the local hatred Each saw sw In Inthe Inthe Inthe the other an enemy against whom it I must guard gard Its it young There must be beno beno beno no conversions from either side The elber re xe result result sult suit was a religious training more per persistent persistent persistent and rigorous than tin has baa ha been seen in this country countr since e Puritanism I ruled New England years ago It was long an adage that ministers minister sons were the worst wrt of all al sons sn not because their fathers were bad bd but because they the were so s rigid with ih their boys that when they the obtained freedom they went ent wild wid as calves do when released from confinement in In the stall In Utah we have a similar result The young have been crammed with wih religious instruction much as a sometimes fatten faten turkeys by forcing the food fO Into their throats threats and com corn compelling them to swallow it I or choke when the natural appetite was already surfeited The difference i i Is that when Wh 1 the bird was fat he was wa killed kle but bitt when the th boy or Gr r girl was wag ws supposed to be in perfect condition they tey fretted it all l l away in a fever of constraint and at last l st broke loose lo and perhaps p killed themselves In the delirium of their th lr Another thought presents Itself bee bec he ular education and the thousand influences ence of or modern life Ufe brought here In the tho last thirty years yer have hV silently worked vast changes in the younger generation as they have done all al over the nation Today a latent skepticism exists exits Christendom toward reli bus doctrines that few dared to ques tion ton fifty years ago ag and this is equally true among the devotees devote of the sect set that has ha so s long given Iven Utah a 8 not al always always always ways pleasant notoriety The point is here hereIn herein in mental development along pint sec secular secular secular ular lines we have grown gw rapidly rapid b while along religious and theological lines lne we have made little or no progress what wha whatever whatever t ever This is true tre of or all sects and it I Is because we wo lay down a 8 revelation call cal It the word wor and will wi of God and hold ourselves and children rigidly to It It forgetting the te very ver Important fact that mental development in other directions lions tons inevitably throws the revelation Into the shade excites excle suspicion of its It validity tIes tion and finally rejects It as a fic fc For or this result our religious teachers teacher In my opinion are to blame They have taken upon themselves the care of humanity in the name of God but they tey assumed that God Go wanted th work worl worl done according to rules laid dow 2000 0 or seventy years ye ago for the guid guidance guidance ance of people living then They have loet lot sight l ht of the fact that progress is fully as much the law of God Go as salva salvation salvation salvation tion can be the will wi of God They The have exerted themselves faithfully and 1 constantly to fit ft men and women oid Old and young for a life that is to conic come I But we can cn have only one life at a time and the one we have bave is here with us every day and night and it I is this 81 one God Go wants want us fitted for first nat naturally since he lie is I an a all wise Father dissoluteness and worse wore of our young youn people are therefore the he result of unwise efforts to force them to Ignore the present prent and live lve in the past in order to secure sure a reward in the future after they are dead de Time was wa not so s long ago a o when v hen the theology theolog theology held the Christian world through h fear The future was wa a horror that re xe restrained restrained strained the passionate by its Is terrors Today man men women and even children look lok upon that punitive theology theolog as blasphemy they laugh l h at future tor torments torments torments ments and sneer at religion because they have acquired acquire a a wrong conception of It i Those of them who keep alive aUve the social evil evi have fallen falen below their churches Others have grown up through h and Out of them and gown walk the world in communing with wih the Infinite and finding the true tre the beautiful and the te good as they never neve could do while forced fo g to search serch for them In the attics of the dead past What Is to be done to overcome the evil evI complained of Breed Bre the race up into a broad bread broa and strong morality that will wl hold the passions in control There Is no other way and as it will wi take thousands tho sands of or years yer to accomplish it the work cannot be begun bosn too soon New times make mke new duties new conditions ns and we must fit ft ourselves tor for them fit ft our ur religion and theology thel for lor them or orbe orbe orbe be content to see things ting g grow row worse socially until cure becomes me impossible and our boasted bosted civilization with wih all aU aUIt allIta its Ita It revealed religion goes g down dow in the night of ruin rin ne nee never to t know another dawn da daHer Here Her then ten in my m opinion is the true field feld of labor for church and religious teachers teacher In the present not preparation preparation tion ton for a future life of which none of ofus Ofus ofus us have any personal knowledge but fitness to realize the best possible in Inthis inthis this life ute with full assurance urance that such Is the duty du required of or us by God Godby G d dby by the law laws of that tha infinite and eter eternal eternal eternal nal movement of oft the universe that Is expressed In ip and through development t from fm more to more moe f fLaws Laws against drinking wilt will wi not eradicate eradicate cate te drunkenness Laws against licen licentiousness licentiousness i will 11 not make men and wo women women women men chaste Violence is a bad bd b d teach teacher er Prevent the incorrigible from prop propagating propagating their kind Breed Bree up the te weak of will 1 the fair to middling Treat hu humanity inanity manity manit as wisely at least leat as we do de d our Ur horses and cattle Breed better morals In better beter children and by so s much and so lar you put the ideal the te Godlike them make rak thi them m bring heaven to earth build the kingdom of or earh righteousness and make the world of or orman man divine There Is no n 0 other way Nay The social evil Tere of the present prent is Isa iran an Inheritance Te from 81 a pagan pa nn n pest past pst but b t It I clings to society sol t because of a false fawe fl conception that the chief chie end of ofIs man manis is to o know God and enjoy him for tar forever forever ever in a life that is said to await awai us usall usall all beyond the grave while the real rel al ge duty of or every human being Is to t maKe of or himself the best that Is possible out of or his Inheritance and environment In Inthis inthis inthis I this life as the surest suret preparation for whatever may await us if we pass th the awai dark valley of or the shadow of death deth The stream valey Is never as a high as a 8 Its source When equilibrium is reached reach the stream stem no longer exists The morals of a people are good breeding in the sense of the terms terms plus good teachers teacher at home home in school church and college cole e from the mother moter on through h the years until man and wo woman woman woman man stand and sublime the very crown crow and glory of or this dear der old ver world When the young go wrong It is s snot not always because they g are vicious Think of ot a mother refusing to let her hI children talk t lk with wih a Infidel through fear that they hey may lose their ther souls yet taking her daughter upon the streets at night and teaching teching her to pick up strange men just for fun She is not vicious but only ignorantly igo ty immoral and reckless When Wen the young youn go astray astry look for their teachers In sundry ways and In most Instances instance you will find the th beginning In their care carelessness cr carelessness wi Keep the fountain clean if I you want the stream pure Make the therace therace therace race what it I may become through do doIng doIng doing Ing Its Is duty to Itself itel and the social evil evl will have disappeared under that iron law wi of necessity that we often oten mis mistakenly mi mistakenly call cal the law of God GodCHARLES GodCHARLES CHARLES CHALES ELLIS Salt Lake City Utah |