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Show Good Intentions Will Not Excuse if Dry Bill Fails, Pastor Says. PAUL'S PLEA, SERMON The Rev. Arthur V. Willey Tells About the Ministerial Minis-terial Interview. " Alrnn.t ' ' a prohibition law will not M.'iUsl'y tin: p 0 ri 1 1 1 of l.'tiih. GoO'l ill-ti'ntiiins ill-ti'ntiiins will not t'xi'iise th( it''islatiire nor tlifi ovornnr il' a prohibition law i.H not parsed, or, belnj pHHel, is not cnfoii'od. t Clovornor P.anibcrger shall i-av, ns wiiil H"'rnl Afjrippa to Paul: ''Almost thou porsnadcrtt nip," it will not favt' him from the judgment of 1 1 ah 's -itizciiH. This was the warninj dolivored by the Rev. Arthur V. Willey of tlio Jiur-linKton Jiur-linKton Baptist church in his hermon hist nif,'ht. Dr. Willey was one of the lil'teen in inist ers who ealleil on Governor Gov-ernor Bamberger last week to inquire as to the governor's course with respeet to the Youni; prohibition nbill. !)r, Vil-ley's Vil-ley's sermon, entitled " 'I hu Governor's b'eply,' is a eoniment on what took plai'ci at that interview. Ilo siikl in part : Last Monday the Ministerial Alliums Al-liums ealleil upon Governor Rain-herder. Rain-herder. We were not seeking favors, fa-vors, nor lobbying for any pot measure. Nevertheless we were deeply interested in the governor's remarks concerning the Young bill. The Governor's Pledge. A inoii" other things the governor said : "We shall have prohibition on August 1; not on January 1, nor on August l.T, hut on August 1. Thev have been trying to get me to put 'oft' the date, but my pledge to the people of Utah must be fulfilled. Gentlemen, 1 am not in favor of the commissioner clause, and if the bill conies to me with that clause in it it will go back fa-ster than it came. ' ' About 20(1(1 years ago the Apostle l'aul stood before another Jewish governor, Herod Agrippa, one of the tetrarehy of the Roman empire, under tho appointment of Caesar. The reply that Agrippa made to Paul 'a argument concerning temperance, temper-ance, righteousness and tho judgment judg-ment to come is interesting and instructive. in-structive. Cites Paul's Plea. IVrthermore, if the Democrats fail to give the people of Utah prohibition pro-hibition on account of some party tight or for any other reason, or if the law is not enforced when it has been enacted, then most surely I the governor and the legislators will lie brought before the judgment throne of the -loO.OOO people of Vtah. Paul's plea before Agrippa was for temperance, righteousness, and for regard to the judgment to come. Thus wc see how old the temperance temper-ance questiqn is. Agrippa was a Jew, as so many of the greatest characters of history have been. He was well acquainted with Jewish morals and customs, and so was well qualified to judge Paul's case. For two years Paul had been held unjustly a prisoner at Caesarca. And now Paul had an opportunity to plead his cause before an unprejudiced un-prejudiced judge. "Almost" Will Not Do. Ajjrippa at tij.t was only niri-o.is, niri-o.is, hut later lie begun to see tiie intemperance of his own life, tho w icke-lncss of his own deeds, so that wc find him trembling before this man who v;ts his own prisoner; we find him muttering: ' 'Almost thou persuadest me to bo a Christian. ' ' But "almost" is not sufficient, (iood intenfc cannot take the place of good deeds. The people of I'tah will not take yood intent instead of Ood laws. Agrippa and his good intent were soon forgotten and he went on his way to end in hopeless failure. Almost ' ' cannot prevail. |
