Show GOVERNOR m m m m m SPRY IS GIVEN DUE CREDIT Rev L S Bowerman Praises S Stand of Chief Executive Regarding Fight BATTLE TO GO ELSEWHERE NO LIKELIHOOD OF STATE BEING DISGRACED HE SAYS SA YS But I buffet my body and bring it Into bondage was the tho text of an able discourse delivered by Roy Rov Louis LOllis S Bowerman at the Immanuel Baptist church yesterday morning Rev Mr Ir Bowerman spoke In part as follows The word used t by y the apostle Is a strong one and literally means to strike heavily in the face faco so as to render black and blue It was no tight light contest with gloved hands and many attendants that the man Paul had in mind The verse erse because of o some local ex excitement excitement excitement has been often In our minds With reference to a certain anticipated contest we have not worried any over Its coming to our city In the initial discussion In company with a brother minister we called upon Governor Spry and anti received assurances from himas him as to his on the matter In substance he said sald saidI S 1 I do not anticipate that the fight will come to Salt Lake and that I shall thus need to face the question but It if the attempt attempts s made I shall certainly enforce the law And the law lay 1 Is plain Praises Governor We are glad to have a governor with backbone So we have not thought of ot any likelihood Uk of our state being dis disgraced disgraced disgraced graced with a contest of ot the character known as a prize fight Modern prize prizefighting fighting belongs to the order of the bull bullfight bullfight fight tight the game cock and the ancient arenas It is brutal in the extreme and with the gambling spirit Is utterly de demoralizing demoralizing moralizing to a community We Ve are thoroughgoing admirers of sports but not one word of oC apology can be offered for fol modern pugilism It with the race track should be abolished utterly and ami the sooner the better A magniri magnificent magnificent cent physical organism Is something to tobe tobe tobe be admired but not something to be used In ignoble ways Alas that the perfection tion of physical condition is so quickly followed by the th debauch and then the wreckage of dissipation Paul had seen many a boxers contest but nothing like our modern contests The prize was not the thousands of dollars and newspaper notoriety but the fading flowers and the memory for tor a generation What Paul saw was sport a vastly different thing from the modern contest In the ring S Finds a Lesson Paul studies the contest cont st in order to draw some lesson for tor himself He is not long in finding it He finds a contestant immediately at hand It Is nothing other than himself fighting with his other self the better nature contending with the lower Paul Is strictly modern In making this for tor his Of animal animalism animalIsm animalism ism the evolution of animal to rational we hear much Paul Is modern In striving against this inherited nature of ot the an ancestors ancestors ancestors The flesh is the word that he Is using again and again to show what is to be overcome and the spiritual the tha thing to be b gained I or won This was to Paul the gaining of a mastery and the mastery was a I prize To reach the full spiritual the fleshly and the tle mental needed to be kept under that Is In subordination What He Learned Here Is when Paul was learning from the boxer It is to know just when and how to place the effective blow Not as beating the air there Is lots of that done Lots of aimless endeavor lots lota of defeats because of uncertain blows Paul says sas strike your sins In the face or to use an expression of the modern ring gUm glim his peepers render the op opponent opponent portent helpless by blinding his vision vision vIllon This may sound brutal but It Is practical cal language for Cor the modern man and he can quickly catch the meaning To reach the ideal of your our manhood dont play or trifle with sin or dally daily with temptation Be honest with your own self and your own sins Keep the animal of your own nature under Keeping sin under In your own self you are going to be prepared to help another fight the fight tIght and win the bat battles battles batties ties |