| Show prohibition elder on it at ahe tabernacle there was a large attendance attan dance at the provo tabernacle sanday afternoon the choir was well filled and the sine ing excellent elder abram halladay offered the operine prayer elder A saisy was tha sp oaker ha dealt with gods mercies toward ha manity the human raca in his ooin ion has always been to be rebello GB mans state in the garden of eden was not sufficient to compel him to hearken to gods advice and not touch the forbidden fruit later the posterity of a fallen race wandered for forty years in the wilderness with such a leader as be canso they donld not learn gods law speaker often wondered that if there had been no bethlehem if there had been no calvary what would have been the condition of the human race god in his mercy has aftan placed before man a plan of redemption a saving principle christs rebuke to the scribes and Pharas ces and yet having mercy and compassion for Jerusa lamand the jewa his own people was referred to this led speaker to the question of hypocrisy and assumed religion ha feared many to day were not so sincere in religious affairs the time wag in utah that we had no aristocracy we had no aister so wealthy and well dressed that she could not walk with the humblest sister in the community it was feared that condition does not exist today speaker also regretted the condition of society which allowed gambling dens and other places of degradation in our community he did not believe they would exist were tha people alive to their religious duties it is said though continued ibe speaker that auch places are feces i sary for the public revenue required to run our municipal government whose money goes to run those establishments lish ments and to swell the sum total of the city revenue it comes irom those least able to bear the burden it robs tha women and children of their support the condition is HO wron in my mind and eo fraught with misery that I 1 wiil always bo up in arms against it 1 I have heard it said that prohibition is a failure but I 1 want to say it is a I 1 lived in a state where prohibition was practiced and my sons never saw a saloon shall I 1 say il yea they never saw the painted stream ot baloon misery until they came to provo I 1 inov it is hard to reform the drunks ard but it la not so hard to refrain the nen from euch degradation 1 I have seen tears aal misery and all that eo to make the heart ache from saloon life but I 1 have not yet seen a thin grow out of such a condition the only thing that can be said in favor of the saloons is that they help replenish the treasury and I 1 for one would rather have my taxes doubled and have temptation removed from my sons than to have them constantly aiace 1 in the way of sin the choir sang an anthem benediction by bishop gallantly made this rand affair which stands aa a monument of social charit able and enjoyable eventa of the season D P FELT |
