| Show SALT lare LAKE cit august t 3 1876 editor news sir BIR in tn the biographies of the poet burns it is said that on glie pile occasion while at church he saw on the bonnet of or an elegantly dressed lady jady a disgusting little parasite para pira site alte a anti and this circumstance called forth from hid hia muse the famous composition commencing 0 wad some somo power tho tha gittle giftie gie gle us to seo see as athers see us it wad frao mony a blunder free us an foolish notion W while hile bile riding homeward in one of the cars ears of the twentieth ward branch of the street railroad last evening one of the passengers in a state of beastly intoxication forcibly recalled these lines cf burns the party to whom I 1 refer is a member of the church of jesus christ of Latt latter erday enday day saints and has been so for a number of y years ears and emigrated to zion from the land oc akes A A friend at my side acquainted with the inebriate affirmed that that was his condition about four days in six and that withal be lie was wag so zealous in attending to his religious duties that he would not nob miss a meeting for anything 32 N now vv a drunkard I 1 regard asi ai one of the most despicable of characters but no words can express the contempt tem that must be felt felb for a religious arun ehlt drunkard rd such a one aa as is now referred to A man claiming to be a member of the church of jesus christana Chri stand a zealous one toland too drunk to take taker care of himself himsel fl if when sober he be could once see the pic Fic picture iture he presented last evening I 1 can scarcely help believing that his big shame would be so intense that he would never neven get drunk again eyes half closed idiotic leer on hig his countenance 3 and so far gone that he could scarcely retain his searf seat little boys looking and wondering what was the matter and older ones making significant re marks s specimen of humanity I 1 could not b help heip e lp sympathizing with his big wife and children for the family of a poor man under the best of circumstances are none too well provided for but when aher that poor man is a drunkard they muss must go short of many comforts that they might enjoy if they were not cursed wit with h such a husband and sueha sucha such sueh a father the children of sueh sucu men are in variably poverty stricken and reared re ared in ignorance and in time both wife and children learn to despise them then the hypocrisy othe drunken religionist is despicable in the ext extreme reme how can a drunkard be le an honest sincere follower of jesus christ the thing is impossible and such a one who pretends to be a member of or a cli cil church firch knows that he Is a miserable hypocrite and the new testament itself exar expressly essl easl y deci declare aresi sj that the drunkard shall not inherit the kingdom of god A man drunk four days out of s six and an d he is certainly fairly entitled to the appellation drunkard and yet rather than for borako ake ako til tippling PlIng the man whose case is now under consideration is wrecking iipp llad happl haddi pl ness i at home chomej reducing wife and children childr en to poverty ami aud fishing liis ids own salvation jt is to he be hoped that ile lit ivill wilt turn over a a new leaf leap wt wye a confirmed drunkard is a hardcase at att any arate rate if he will hot for forsake sako 01 tilis tills wretched soul boul fild an habit let jet him be man enough e to no longer be bd ardd arid if her will steep himself drink give up all pretensions to religion reif relf gion that will be acting moi mol eap ai an honest man and then a drunkard he will eoin coin command maud more wore respect than if lie he continua conti nuen a alous hypocrite OBSERVER ervell |
