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Show A It It 1 K K HOMILY FiMl StNDAV. Halt Lake City, Nov. 17, lsTl. Editors Herald: j Tho real condition of the country present?, at the present time, to the candid and reflecting mind, a mat melancholy and disastrous state of lacts that cannot fail to bring upon it the withering blight of demoralization, anarchy, rottenness and death. To say nothing of political gambling in high places which is odious, the stealingand robbing, by avaricious hands, from the public treasuries, federal, Slate aud j municipal, directly and indirectly, by a j thousand specious devices and unblush ing villany which arc enough, m them- j selves, to swamp the nation in bank-; ruplcy and financial ruin. Taking license from suoh examples, the incendiary, incen-diary, with his torch, becomes emboldened embold-ened to creato seas of fire, to open the way to successful stealing and plundering. plunder-ing. The highwayman and midnight 1 assassin, also, esteem the publio as a j bird of line feathers, and they intend j to have equal shares of the plumago i with Iho more honorable (?) brother- j hood. Others possessing the same : spirit, but less courage, oontent them- j selves with counterfeiting, forgery and tho levying of black-mail in divers gen- tlemanly and philanthropic ways, j deceiving and lying to cheat and de- fraud in a more humble sphere. ( Why this inordinate and criminal i greed of gain? Thero aro, perhaps, I in the United States, no less than a ! hundred and twenty-five thousand , acknowledged prostitutes of different 1 grades and classes; and possibly double that number of mistresses, wives or concubines if you please, kept by all classes of men, especially by those most successful and forlunalo in iho "stealings in." This is not called polygamy, though a paramount greater evil, with a more fashionable, christian and popular name. Tliceo must all bo supported in luxury and extravagance corresponding with the highest stale ol' inflated yanity and amorous excitement. excite-ment. The ordinary or est inordinary incomes in-comes of legitimate business and callings call-ings are entirely inadequate to meet the expenses ot tins modern baby Ion, especially when we add about two hundred thousand licensed liquor shops, which must all be liberally patronized and supported as the inspiring in-spiring power of this gigantic "beast." This weight of expenditure drives men to unlawful extremes: dishonesty and crime 1 It is said that about fifty thousand of the abandoned women are afflicted with an incurable and loathsome disease; dis-ease; but they disguise it by paints, flowers, laces, silks and satins, so that tho unsuspecting, the foolish and the wayward are ensnared by their apparent appar-ent charms, become infected with their polluted virus, and carry homo the seeds of dcalh to plant in nn unpolluted un-polluted soil, from which spring forth the deadly upas and nightshade to the present race and to prospective generations. gen-erations. Axe not these things sufficiently suffi-ciently wide-sproad and potent to effect the nation's ruin without any direct judgment from on High? If, however, it should please the Lord to persecute the nation with as much determined vindictiveness for tho violation of His law as judge McKean docs the poor Mormons for conscientiously trying to keep that law, what must be the state of affairs in that day ? Think of Sodom and consider, of Gomorrah and tremble ! When vico and crime become the rule, and virtue and innocence inno-cence the execution. "Wc shall not all sleep, but shall all be changed, (the saints) in a momcut in the twinkling of an eye and be caught up to meet the Lord in the air." Reflector, i |