| Show 0 MEMORIAL DAY A number of papers have been discussing the appropriate lobeer vance ance of memorial day in salt lake aud and elsewhere protest a against the profanation of the day by baseball racing and other 7 sports snorts were entered in in the pulpit a and nd elsewhere and the sacred nature of the day dwelt on at great length the idea generally prevalent appears to be that the morning shall be devoted to honoring the dead and the afternoon to forgetting them in the amusement of the living there is IB too great a tendency manifest to make light of sacred things there are holidays enough upon which the people may give themselves up to pleasure without trenching drenching tren ching upon those of a sacred red character to devote the first half of the day to heart stir ang r ing memories of the loved and lost thoughts though ta of a joyous reunion where sorrow pain and death are unknown or dwell with reverential love upon ane ne patriotic otio deeds and heroic death of the thousands who b fell in defense of their country during the civil war and then within an hour to tsume the garb earb and mauner manner of gayety gaiety indulge in boisterous doport and loud laughter appears appear not only incongruous but positively indecent the heart that has si a recently been stirred to ta its depths cannot so goon coon shake off its feelings of reverential ir verent ial sadness and to those who observe the day as a memorial day in the spirit and deanin meaning me anin 0 for which it was set apart its profanation fa bv those who cannot have shared these sacred feelings il ir 1 both painful nd disgusting dis gustino and Is is even more shocking than desecration of the sabbath all the dowers cowers of the pulpit press school room and home should unite in frowning down the practices which have so great a tendency to rob Ale memorial morial may of its sacred character |
