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Show fc fhe Ensign. the universe more certain in its operation than that which punishes sensuality. The man who makes a god of his belly feels the result in an unwieldy, gouty frame and a stupid brain. The man who DOES SENSUALITY PAY? delights in the intoxication (yf his senses by tlje use of stimulants, wears them out, ('Cant- per east, do ire pay for every vicious and poisons, even to their death, both jindulgepce. body and soul. The man and the wo. I If you pursue good witjb labor, the labor pasman who seek, by the gratification of ses away, but tyre good remains; if you pursue evil desires unchastened by love and unwarwith pleasure, the pleasure passes away, but the ranted by law, to filch front a heaven-ordaine- d evil remains. relation the delights of its halVirtue and happiness are mothor and lowed commerce, and give themselves .daughter. up to this form of sensuality, never fail win to themselves moral corruption to Life would appear to be a very danger-,pu- s or induration, and bodily imbecility and sea, judging by the number of of this guarding of recks tli,at sfrevv its shores more re disease. At the gate the sensual angel stands with pleasure ,liiackably unsafe, perhaps, for pleasure no man enters and of his sword flame, yachts anci such pther fancy craft as may In of him. the unsmilten path of senbethe ifail to ipaintin proper relations in all its multiplied forms, Cod tween canvas anj ballast. (I know of suality, mountain-high- , to has .barriers placed ,no object of contemplation proje .sad front back them and men, frighten stop (tjian a iuman wreck. I can look upon death when it brings release to a happy tlie certain degradation and destruction it leads. The path to lile is in soul, or even to a miserable body, with to which direction. the ppposite an emotion akin to satisfaction; I can said this much upon the phil(iave (I a it contemplate great calamity, when of the prostitution ot the soul to involves no stain of honor and no loss osophy I the more read.Iy reach sense.that might .of character, with equanimity content of a generation which, conviction the of is in it, and Providence tthat the hand active as it is in intellectual and Christimust come out consequently ;that good I can read of gieat conflicts upon an development, has stronger tenden, of it; where the atmosphere cies to sensuality than any of its prethe battle-field- , decessors in this country. As wealth ,is burddned by expiring life, and blood increases in any country, the tendencies , flows in rivers, and rise from the picture to sensuality, through the temptations of inspired by its heroisms; but I cannot idleness ani the growth of the means of look upon a human wreck, a losi life, a The always increase. ruined man or woman, without being gratification, sick with horror, or saddened into an history of national oecline and downfall To think of youths is but a detail of the effects of sen, unspeakable pity. suality. The elevation of style in living bright hopes and precious innocence of love of truth and purity of honor, beyond a certain point, always impinges Beyond this point, that and manhood , and womanhood of on the sensual we call which commences, and luxuiy genius and talent of all goodly gifts of refined. In this is but sensuality luxury mind of all sweet person and graces of country we are sll seeking lor luxury; affections and aspirations gone down down into the abyss of perdition, blotted and those who cannot afford it, associatout or spoiled ah, this is, by awful em-- j ed with homes, home pleasures, and home restraints, embrace such forms of mence, the horror of the world! Yet visions of ruined men and women sensual gratification as come within their Men who are poor, VVe walk out into the means to purchase. . are not uncommon. ' world on some and look with are seeking on on envy, pleasant day, everything in new and side, every philosophies and fresh around with health us, and, jfar in our blood and peace in our hearts, we systems, and phases ol religion, (or the think how good and beautiful a thing lice rise which shall give them more of life is; yet we rarely walk far without sense with smaller drafts on conscience. meeting some one to whom all its good- As the free spirit of the age breaks sway ness and beauty are lost. VVe meet some from bondage to old ideas, old bigotries, wretch whose haggard face and feeble and old superstitions, it goes wild, and liberty unu daringly limbs and fetid breath betray the victim in its newly-founf, of debauchery, dying by his last foul dis- and blindly into forbidden fields. The doctrines and fiee-Iov- e practiease. Behind him walks the bloated free-Iov- e of form of one who h,1s surrendered his ces of the day, the multiplication will to his appetite. His bloodshot, cases of divorce, and the shameful inmeaningless eyes, and heavy, staggering fidelities that prevail, are all iudeatious feet, give index to the curse which is up- - of the sensual tendencies of the age in - , . , ( WII I fawtii him with a shudder, but only to be greeted by a sight that makes us still more sad VVe meet a form of beauty a woman but the wanton grace of her step, the artificial flush upon her cheek, the hollow eye and brazen gaze, tell of the ' prostitution or loss of that which seems Itoustheone angelic element of the ' ' voxjcj . All these are human wrecks j'lost lives men and women who have surrendered all that is best in them to that which is basest men and women f who have turned their backs upon God and heaven, and gone down into a veiy hell of beastliness. Whence and why are these wrecks? Let us see. Iii the constitution of man a constitution which associates spirit with matter by marvelous marriage of organisms, and intimately interchanging sympathies, and subtle interdependencies the Creator has so constructed the body that it shall convey to the mind, for its compre-l- i nsioii, the properties and qualities of material things. These properties and bv and qualities ar6 communicated through the senses, and these senses are so cohstitiited as, in their exercise and "'ofhee, to affect us by pleasure or by pain. Chiefly the office of the senses is that of conveying pleasure. For the sense of smell, the vital alchemy at work in the flower elaborates an infinite of perfumes. 'For (he sense of taste, the food' is ti in nieats'ahd fruits and grains of an infinite variety of flavors. The auditory sense is regaled by birds and brooks, by instruments which the cunning hand of man has made, and by that "greatest of all instruments, the human voice. Light ministers to the pleasure 'of v.sion, reflected by numbeiless forms of beauty. In fact, there is no pathway that leads into the penetralia of our 'natures,' and gives passage to the comprehension of the good things of God hhat' does not alisoTD something of the divine aroma of that which it beats. The process of eating, by which we prepare for tiegluttiion the food necessary for our support, is a process of pleasure. AVe do not gorge our food like the anaconda, impelled by a bald and beastly greed; but its qualities please our senses. faow, so. long as these senses are kept to their appropriate ministry always a subordinate one, in that they deal entirely with the qualities and properties of matter so long will it be well with the soul to which they minister; but whenever the soul turns to them hs the source of its highest pleasure, and seeks for the multiplication aiid intension of those pleasnres as the great end of its life, then the whole being is prostituted, and absolute, unmixed evil is the natural and inevitable result. There is no law pre-"paire- theie may seem to be rather poor encouragement for preaching; but, in my opinion, the teachers and preachers of the age should direct more of their power against a tendency which is doing more to undermine the character of the American people than their sateless thirst for gold, liven in the general strife for wealth, the desire for luxury is he object largely the motive power. kept prominently in view is feasting 1 g, tongue-feastin- g, or the feasting of other or ot all the senses and this oeyond natural desire, and with the wish and in iutent to coax from the organs of sense more of pleasure than they can afford with health to themselves and the suuls to which they minister. Now my opinion is, that to a man, or a boJy of men, prostituted or in process Ol prostitution to sense, theie is very little use in talking of leligion or morals. Those are motives which they do nut So I addiess myself to the understand. selfishness of the age, as a motive, the strength ol which may not be questioned, and bid it wilhdiaw its hand from this liie on pain of losing it. Cent, per cent, do we pay for every vicious indulgence,' says the proveib; but it is too moderate by half in its estimate of expense, for a youth of sensual pleasure can never compensate for a lile of pain. If you do not believe this, ask the debauchee whose senses and sensibilities were long since burned to ashes. Seek further testimony, if you will, of Iter whose biief life of sensuality is closed by abandonment; or of him whose gluttony lias made him a disgustingly bulky bundle of ailments, or of him whose nerves shiver with the poison bn which they live. If you say that I am dealing with extiemes, without analogies to yourselves, retire into yom own consciousness, and question what you find theie old sins of sense that start up and fill you with remotse aiid lear old wounds of conscience gaping and bleeding still old fia luies of character that refuse to unite, and make you shudder at your own .weakness old stains upon your ptuiiy that memoir will not allow to facie. Th:s process will prove to any man of ordinary weakness, who has' been subjected to oidmniy temptations, that never, in a single instance, has he indulged in an unlawful sensual pleasure without paying for it a thousand times in pain. The universal fact, based on universal experience, is, that there is nothing in the world that makes so poor a return lor its cost as sensual pleasure. No man ever traded extensively in this line without becoming a bankiupt in happiness. It does not pay, and cannot be made to pay, and every man would see and derstand this if he would keep an un- self-denia- l, RAILROADS. ac- count of his receipts and expenditures. Let me help you to open a book of this kind. Credit Sensual Pleasure for a spree a night o' hilarity, produced by drinking and feasting; and then turn to the other side of the account, and debit it with the details of cost money enough to furnisli bread for a hundred hungry mouths; a day of languor, pain, and indolence; a damaged reputation which may interfere with the projects and prospects of a whole life; a loss of and a deadening of moral sensibility; a leduction of the capacity of enjoyment and of the stock of vitality; the sullen pangs of a reproving conscience; the tears cf a mother and the severer anguish of a father, all these, and more, for an hour of artificial insanity! How does the account look? Suppose we try another: Credit Sensual Pleasure with the illicit indulgence of a powerful passion. Then place the cost upon the debit si de of the ledger shame and lear, conscious loss of purity, the possession of a foul secret that is to be carried into all society, and into all relationships, disease and remorse, or what is more than all these, hardness, brutality, and the formation of habits whose only end is rum. I may not, through fear of giving offence, enter into all the details of the debit side of this account. They may be found and read of all men in graveyards, in hospitals, in brothels, in garrets, and cellars, in ruined families, and ruined hearts and hopes. Now does this thing pay? I have presented only the private side of this account, and that but imperfectly. There is a public side. The innumerable paupers, whose life is supported by the State, owe their pauperism, directly or remotely, in three cases out of foui , to sensuality to strong drink, licentiousness, or some form of extravagance that proceeded from a devotion to sensual pleasure. Idiots begotten in drunkenness, lunatics through various foims of sensual vice, criminals who are caged in every iai! and prison like wild beasts, diseased creatures, alike loathsome to themselves and others, crowded into numbeiless pestilent hospitals, all these are public burdens, imposed by the sins of sensuality. ' If we run through the whole catalogue of crimes, we shall find them all growing directly or indirectly out of this rompiehensive vice . In fact, it may be said that all crime, with all its consequences, is but a manifestation of the dominance of sense over reason and conscience. In tliis view nd no one knows better than its victims that it is the coriect iMi intrf ptMilkm of the grand scourge cf mankind. It is the mother of d.sease, the nurse ol crime, the burden of laxa'iou, and the destroyer of souls. Oil, if the world could rise out of this swamp of sensuality, rank with weeds and dank with deadly full of vipers, thick with pit. vapors tails, and lurid with deceptive lights, and stand upon the secure heights of virtue where Gods sun shines, and the winds ol heaven breathe blandly and healthfully, how would human life become blessed and beautiful! The great burden of the woild rolled off, how would it spring forward into a grand career of prosperity and progress! This change, lor this country, rests almost entirely with the young men of our country. It lies with them moie than any otiier class, and mote than all other classes, to say whether this country shall descend still lower in its path to brutality, or rise higher than the standard of its loftiest dreams. The devotees of sense, themselves, have gieally lost their power for good, and comparatively lew will change their course of life. Woman will be pure if man will be line. Young men, this great result abides with you. II you could but see how beautiful a llower grows upon the thorny stalk ot you would give the plant the honor it deserves. If it seem hard and homely, despise it not, for in it sleep the beauty of heaven and the breath of angels. If you do not witness the gloiy of its blossoming during the day ot life, its petals will open when the night ol ieath conies, and gladden your ( losing eyes with the'r marvelous loveliness, and fill your soul with their grateful peilunie. t, ADVICE TO MOTHERS Mrs. Winslows Soothing Syrup, for Curb I do not mean merely to When I say aton tliem lor a time, anil then have them return again. I aunABAWCAL I have made the disease ol CUIUS. FITS, EPILEPSY or FALLING SICKNESS, study. I WARRANT my remedy to Because others have Curb the worst cases. for not now receiving a cure. reason no is failed 8end at once for a treatise and a Free Bottlb of my Infallible Remedy. Give Express and Post Office. It costs you nothing lor a trial, and it will cure you. Address H.C. 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Chester TEE EUREKA. CHEMICAL CO.. Detroit. Mich Moroni Lv. 2.30 9.30 945 Draper THE tHARGU OF PROGRESS! OUB LATEST IMPROVEMENTS Competition is the Life of Trade, and If you have not seen our latest Improved goods you cannot Imagine how lively trade Is, or how hard our competitors have to woi k to keep within sight of ns. Ask your retailer for the JA.UES HIE AN 6 83 SHOE, or the JAMES MEANS $1 SHOE needs. according to yournone genuine unless having our name and price stamped plainly on the soles. Your Positively retailer will supply you with shoes so stamped If you Insist upon his doing so; If you do not insist some retailers will coax you Into buying Inferior shoes upon which they make a larger preflt. ?JAMES MEANS $3 JAMES MEANS $4 SHOE SHOE UNEXCELLED IN lSTYLE UNEQUALLED DURABILITY AND THEODORE BRUBACK, Gen.Managei H. S. KERR. Gen. Superintendent. j FAIL CANNOT TO - - SATIS Utah THE MOST FIT. 2.15 Fountain Green 1.55 Divide 10.30 " 1.30 11.20 Main St. Nephi 12.30 Lv. 12.30 11.25 Ar. Nephi Trains run daily, Sunday excepted. Trains stop at stations marked only when signaled. Stages connect at Moroni for ail parts of Sanpete and Sevier. 10.10 - falley Jan. Pete FAST1D10 (Jentbl TIME GABDo Such has boon the recent progress In our branch of industry that we are now able to affirm that the James Means $1 Shoe Is in every respect equal to the shoes which only a few years ago were retailed at eight or tcu dollars. If you will try on a pair you will be convinced that we do not exaggerate. Ours are the original $.1 nnl St Shoes, and those who Imitate our system of business are unable to compete with us lu products, lu our linos we are the largest manufacturers In the United States. quality of factory One of our traveling salesmen who Is now ialttng the shoe retailers of the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain Region writes from there as follows : I am more than satisfied with the results of my trip. I have thus far succeeded in placing our full Hue In the hands of 'A No. 1 dealers in every point I havo visited." He goes on to "This is a region for us to sell shoes In, because most of the retailers are charging their customers at eplendid retail alKHit double the prices which the shoes have cost at wholesale. The consequence Is that the or people who wear shoes are paying six O seven dollars a pair for shoes which are not worth ns much as our 1 fell !I niitl EH. Our shoes with their very low retail prices stamped on the JAM EH 1I BANS soles of every psir are brenkiiiu down the high prices which have hitherto ruled in the retail markets here, and when a tvtader puts a full line cf goods ju his stock they at once begin togool? like hot cakes, so great is the demand for them. Now, kind reader, just stop and consider what the above signifies so farasyoti Areconeemed. It azures you that If you keep on buying shoes bearing no manufacturers name or fixed retail price stamped on the solo, you eauuot tell what you are getting and your retailer Is probably making you pay double what your shoe have cost him. Now, can you afford to do this while we are protecting you by stamping our name and the fixed retail price upon the soles of our shoes before they leave our factory so that you eauuot, b mn le to pay more for your shoes than they are worth ? Mums fmun snr celebrated factory ore sold by wide-awaretnllers its all parts ef the country. We will place them easily w.thiu your reach In any State or Territory If you will luvest one cent i.i n pVt ft caul and write to us. JAMES MEANS & CO., 41 Lincoln St., Boston, Mass. w - CL p 5 5 P- - Francis Cope, W. OAG3D,Pr. Oliargo Stools, of Toot la Amor-- S WINES clean, and.UVXL.333SSI Foreign rortr-nEJB.xvndL ZsHQfJlS S. 05 T3 rJJ a C SA CIGARS AND BOTTLED GOODS Clu3 SPECIALTY A Salt ake City Provo NprinsviUe Itviiver co iEr 2-- r PEOPLES MEAT MARKET WHOLESALE AND RETAIL RUTCHERS Dealers in all hinds of Live Stock. to mail Prompt attention Orders.paid & m T 3D33kAXs3DS US M , Co., 0 Kf9 JLPJ T ablets. Mon uments, Head-stone- s, The lltsiin Wifkh' last Saturday) night finished its fust six months and at EXECUTED the same time suspended publication. It was an aide weekly and g,.e general satisfaction to i:s rcuiteis, but it takes the stun than is eiy easily nt( le ( 2 2G collected, to mu a paper and rather than tun in il brand w..ik for nothing the published of the lic.de.n ll'tiktv decided to tiy something else 46 NEPHI. 111 fpringvi.lp Salt Lake City Onion San 1 rnncisco D. C. DOliGE, General Manager. J. Returning, H. BENNETT, Gen. Paw. Ag't S. L. Jackson, UNDERTAKER. KINDS OF Caskets and Coffin Hardware Home made Coffins constantly on hand Embalming done on the shortest notice. I le also has a good line of Furnituie and sells at cost. Repaii ing of all kinds done 011 .he shortest notice. Agent for New Home Sewing Machine and Machine extras, Neadles, etc. etc Give him a call. Nephi, Utah. KT. OIAWSON Manufacturer of & SHOES BOOTS Mr. Clawson is to prepared mauufac-tui- e Boots and Shoes in any style and guarantees FIRST CLASS WORK. All kinds of repairing neatly done. Prices reasonable. 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P, Ry.and the U.& N. Ry.,at 740 cun & 1 150 p.m. and arrive in Salt Lake Cin at 10.50 a. m. and 5.00 p. m. Freight trains leave Nephi for the North at 7:55 a.m. and for the vonb at XX. 0.3 0 3--a Passenger Trains leave Nephi follows: General Offices, Main Citv. CITY LIQUOR STORE. S2i p 10, 1883. Gen F. John Sharp, Gen. Supt. PLh C3q p- Feb. & GO. BHI IIAFLNESS, NOSE BLES, SAOK.S, BOBBLES. ETO IV. G. BKOADUEAD, MANAGER They keep n full line of goods hand winch ate disponed of at oil lowost prices Depot St., Nepal. First door West ot Livery Stable. Mai I orders wilt be promptly athnued to. Address O. Uox 321, Nephi, Utah. f Wilkes & Howe, OFFICE IN U. S. LAND OFFICE BUILDING. LAND AGENTS Obtain Patent Represented Nephi, AND ATTORNEYS or Agricultural - and Mineral Lands by Jas. W. Paxman, - Utah, |