| Show sabbath atit service the number cumber ot worshipers present at tho the meeting house on sunday ater a ter noon was somewhat larger than usual after the usual opening exercises and the administration of the sacrament elder joseph H B keeler addressed tle be congregations he referred to the many experiences passed through by the latter day saints durin darins the brief time dine the gospel had bad been on earth eart 1 reference was made to a conversation between several gentlemen who vere tere not members of the mormon church concerning the crusade against the latter day saints during the past five or six six deais years one of th them em bad remark ed that the mormon people would learn a lesson trem ingin these experiences es speak er did not fonow what the gent lemans thoughts thou ecta were but he would agree with him as to the fact that the mormon people would learn ranch from those these experiences there was a 2 possibility of the saints getting into a narrow grofve groove if they did not occasionally meet with pitr some opposition from ane outside world wold speaker menti mentioned ped several incidents ot piousness and debauchery re corded in the news newspapers papers among the young men of america there wa a ireat great tendency toward immorality among the youth of am america rica and this tendency waa beginning to be maee maee manliest manifest in zion eat bat sneaker th thought 0 aught that this cloud which was appearing in the tha horizon would eventually burst burat and be showered in blessings upon the heads of the saints even as for former in er louds had bunt tor for instance the cloud of hata bate had burst and w was 3 now pouring a of frid friendship and good feeling on this people rev david tat tatum um a nA n nister of odthe the friends church of chicago was introduced by bishop john E booth rev mr tatum quoted from isaiah it shall be a stumbling block bloc E in the way of ray my PeO people as apply applying inz to in temperance he made a Ti gorgus attack upon the city cita end and the state with the tha government is as the tha biggest pa partner artner io the concern as a partnership wt anich icci w wi iq i setting up the wine awl the saloons it vis was legalized sia gin and every man was guilty who had not engred calt red his protest a ainet aanet the lier licensing hainz of saloons by the ballot ballor the rha tp eiKer silted tl 6 aa h came irom from chicard Chi carr a cita which had 40 cherches churche eind and oyer over saloons ea loona statistics showed that but one out oat of forty two men who con firmed drunkards were ever redeemed of all the criminals in the world 75 per cent briama so from drink and of the insane persons persona ot of the tha asylums 40 per cent were made so by liquor other statistics s were presented showing a state of affairs resulting rasul ting from the whisky tariff there was a great cloud hanging over the nation which had bad to 0 o be 11 and we have got hurst burst it with the bollot bo box 1 |
