Show irit T 1 I 1 t 40 J I 1 I 1 1 1 ft I 1 OT 0 T I 1 i beg DER geb ies A ol 01 1 1 1 I s it iott the ward assembly i boonis scorns feegh 1879 0 11 cn written bythe bytho lecture rat theW quest t n vot rot bishop S H hpreston for the i bucolt of tha the Y MN M H JA r I 1 A ot of cacho cache VA valley iley I 1 91 f I 1 li 14 onmin what dost thou mean 11 lao IACO o good name namo in th man i dear my wy lord isi a tho iho he immediate jewel sewel qt theirs wull mull who ste ate steila 03 ds 03 my purse furse ste aleth tra b tty tji lis n tyas mine L tf hia hla I 1 3 awl has been heen slave siave to thousands ant tw that filches from lay ray good name rohs robs at me ine ot that which not enriches himl himi him and anil mo me poor indeed if shakespeare in trie play of othello a h utah the people have wiell vita out lou Iou louit lt advanced materially jn eiith elith and power duning during the pat fi fifteen or awen twenty ty years ye yet set t 1 in n some particulars I 1 regret to say gay we have failed tailed to biti prove our social affair the reason for tar this may not be ol 01 0 to all oil I 1 do not nol desire desiro to ake a gloomy ploomy view of the subject nar nor igo imo fido ildo I 1 wish to till fill the minds of pur our youn people with needless I 1 heli hell or fibel el to impress up their minds that their fathers an 1 kothera mo thera possessed all virtues girt Pes cr r ebo eto died within themselves a I 1 purity url uri ty their childre nare polte essed of neither for such a tate at tats t dhent by w whomsoever fi 0 mso ever made equi not sand stand band being untrue I 1 earnestly desire however b his hii s bu humble bumble libo effort to a accompli c co m p I 1 is 1 good iii in briefly reviewing revl ewine the tha pan pal past and comparing it with the pr present sent 1 practices orsome of some among us w who bb claim the fellowship ol 01 the church af christ lre I 1 came rile tiie to utah a little over ri nineteen ile rie years ago knew something of the ideas and practices obtaining obtain il 1 the tho aen aile tile world and yas tas mit hen I 1 am now now that 4 among many christian jaa joa tion I 1 the thief wio steals the purse is with more moro ty than h K i wio alo 1 0 r robs another r of that which fw c cannot a n u 0 t restore an unsullied ni me in istah utah I 1 found that both were held as crimes punishable under the laws of god and man but the tho degrees as ei estimated l by a healthy public mind were separated ed tery very widely and the spirit of my subject wa was fully understood and the pure of the people forg fort forced ed a practice corresponding therewith i ille rhe lile thief who under the dar dark shadows of the ahe night stoe stole th he e fiu fit purse iree irbe of h his Is brother was wag condemi bed aed lythe lytho by the tho la law jaw T but bu pitied by the people for iino lino ignorance caused him hint to uni unlawfully awfully take trash in exchange for the tho confidence and respect of flir 1119 ih brethren i I 1 remember but few who p I 1 those bose days of primitive purity sac so for so little and I 1 remember no ingle mingle instance where any were nvere so lost to the whisperings of tiie the spirit or who so far strayed d from the paths of virtue as to rob the innocent and unsuspecting of that which anee once onee lost can never again be restored t amean mean the good name of a virtuous son ar or chaste ehaste daughter of zion I 1 wy why in I 1 those early ars air ana and hap happy py r d days daya Ys wast was 8 t thus the chastity ot our elria girla esteemed to be th the tho 6 brighte lesl if te jewel wl possible fb pos bese sese why wh y was waa the virtue of our boys boss highly than the purest diadems diadema worn by the crowned heads of mhd world because so long as these holy senti me nm aff joua W tain in practice so 80 long also must nope node 1 sh inq ing brightly irl in W hearts ia arts of afo aj nr p parents and ard an pa B ate ata ry attain byor blid hild ocer ecer oer ta am u I 1 1 I 1 i L he f mical A gien of 17 ry greaff haon has beci becy becci A iii lil in m p the khe practice I 1 lil pure ana and holy principle byis byla beope conation No nation if kingdom dig fig dompf or empl empi faeta and pd their bap ners lers may float neVery e ij sea sa they ther their imps max may nill etli jai jal lande idi jl Q busy hum of their amay malte musie music fp every barf eart t their h ei r merchants alati q the land jand with glittering g 1 liag ipg ing jewels jewoir heir their thein statesmen may speak wa jha bo eloquence 41 oa de mos thene their thoughts in may mat y alasa ath lightning A speed barp darr darp aro arp urta d a world and tiie tried whole wh ole oie body ajl po t tig 9 may appear heal beaith health chyan jand yand d tron bui U L whery the tho he social p prevails avails there is ls death in ip inthe tho thib b heart 0 and ench each pulsation must scatter disease throughout 1 the whole wb ole sy eyb syb te tem m and the writing ti f ug wiil will ippei ip pai pal upon po the wali wall T thou 1 1 01 bast hast hen weighed in the ba lla lia loudd vinti wanting ng 1 r for an impure foun tip taip cannot send far forth th a pure pur deanthis death 8 flat P e 11 life ilfe ife ire and the he br 1 e kia of Gods Jaws daws dein doin demands alid of ail all al klo klc kin pred ored drewsand ina lna of the penalties thereof i t Jt jabine bine seiti sitting ing upon hei hec seven bals by hr imperial power nation who bowed in bumble st bugi bugy i to her mrm mandates ditel an and I 1 d ma made e hers bers af mistress s I 1 of the aea seas sije glie bue sue planted her fee feet trimly tf iMly the af pf Engl engi eagland aridi and 1 djaved y 4 b her r banners oer the r pj itel 1111 heava 4 a of ai europe ip i p but w wat wal ati was homei and whence vh ce kench tench jp ower over hen nen 11 r strength grew from 4 the fountains a of life made pure by thep ohp preserve pre reg serva tion lion in chastity of alei her children childred but how long did rome continue ner ncr away sway of empire after iha introduction tro of vaie vile mlle mile practices ep the corrupting poison of which as with a hot iron the mord bentt benti ments menta of the mase massek her d day dayt a t 4 were measured with vitha a t pan ana ada 1 her pride was humbled bumbled the very e t gates dofher of her ci cities prey to a horde of gauis and vandals bai bal battams bau bat inna iana known before by the romans only to be pitied and deso deao laed why to be a roman boman in the dayn of her glory was waa greater than to be ile the hinz of an any v other othel nation natio n thy falig fail fall thou mistress of the past trace the history of the downward course of 0 hey bey pepsin anil aup see even to glance at t over causes the tho blush of shame dhame to mantle the cheek of the pure the brutality bru brutality of their ways waya was wa onty only by those of rf bodom bodo tl and gomorrah clothe language langua 9 e a as we may we we dare not nante name nay we dare not intimate the vileness vil vii eness enesa which 04 obtained bained among them before they perished I 1 isow yew mark the rise and con eon condition condit clit iop iola of modern nations lations and say if it yop cau can that history ignot re itself itself in thel uth were the they not got without a single more more chaste and laore moje j pure I 1 than wan novt now woj va q there not 3 a s ar that thit later generations have khon only in theory ao 30 99 to england the parent of a our 0 w J nation aion and ask her people W what a virtue is and aud if you do not nofe e a direct answer you will nill ort opt ebor ebon li I 1 learn earn hat that it is almost a thing af pf the b pas past the starving beggar arl ari driven ven perhaps by th thie I 1 0 of hungen hunger a steal teal a penny loaf oaf is seized py bV the of the law and ancl bl ba qa omis the inmate of a prison hs af put he who violes s ghali ghail alt ant aup destroys virtue virttie pays the penalty if there thero be labue of two shillings and sixpence per week thou christian nation shores ores bres are washed upon every hand band by the billows of the mighty seas yet thou art full of all manner of bf uit urt un the streets of thy cities by night and day are the abodes of abomination prostitution stalks and in thy fair falc places the hot breath of vice has fanned thy villages and passed not by thy hamlets corruption disease and death are eating away thy vitals and none can stay the destroyer destroy r thy streets are polluted thy prison houses and asylums are full of lot the nulls hulls of natures na tures turea outraged laws flee hway from this sad loure picture acro across anve a fihe bat baw chairse cha irme iroe caf t ra in it cent tent and beautiful tul taL capital the famed olty city uty of ina ira paris r s ellree i admire tier structure her spacious tb 3 lher gardens 11 ls 11 and palaces her halls filled with the fruits or of art ait wr monuments sunsui unsurpassed passed in number 1 and leuma irby am ryoe awe hr fame written inice gj aar galleries by ors nind dlud dind paia pajA pant teis feis e rs of renown behold hen her dr y I 1 t h jig r agest ages af accumulated tc eu 4 wealth b boag 4 in n humble leverence to ON EL of h her er ambition and glori alio thon elky cly oly of chaste beauty thy habitat fobs I 1 appear fit dwellings for angels aby people as saints the towering spires of thy churches touch he fleecy clouds and thy beema written in golden s orver orv pr 1 thy beau beauty thy glory ory ony thy fhy great greatness niss never dieTr Not die who hah hath so declared not him who has pierced by glittering tazi dg surface cc pro probed ed idee pinto den ways way and round found aund the thee hlo hio e thy people drinking deeply from bispo pus streams flowing thip chip fountains fountain a of life pie are aie drunken but not with with ane they stagger but not with strong drink darkness are area behind them and I 1 coming events vents cast their shadows before isolation desolation and ruin mark their footprints as they trea tren aba downward path and the hand guided by an all ali A 11 seeing eye is writing their fate iii in the one word deabill DeM death bill which is and udd ever everham has hat been libe wa wages ibs of sib sin sih now note tho pro progress ress ross of this thid national disease tiie tile tri do ocial ih evil 1 among frances thirty mil mii liona of people and form own estimate as to how long iong that bation contiL continuing etling in their rin sinful oin fill can w ain aln t aln ain t guancial and political position in tue the light of truth they have rno rio moral 11 in n the year 1663 the population bf paris stas atas 6 and anil therode thero there were 0 solemnized during that year 3 marriages mar riDges and children were botar L la ift 1865 1863 two years later the population bad gab notwithstanding wilch iv ilch lich however marriages marni marri agea aged r had decreased and births thus showing tan iad in in population of over 13 pen per nent cent a decrease 0 of marriages of 12 percent pereen t and a decline in births oi 01 nearly 13 per cent renti but the sad ead beek feature of the whole ibi isi i that hat 61 the ihfe births duning during thom the year 1865 51 or nearly niel fiel arly one third were the en spring of illegitimacy the fruits of tf unbridled passion the heirs or ornace namo name the census of fiance flance in showed that here vere yere did maids anid ano 4 widows 1 arnd arid abd odly about beven seven M millions of mai mal mar kled tied couples thus indicating cAtIng eating that more han ihan ban half of the adi adgit adgil population had no linard 1 1 whatever for the marriage marria gd relation the entire population of france at tuat that date being only a little over and audas as X J have shown shonn were agi widow and widower wl dower ki and d only 3 maryie i leavin only auly an average of one o hild every ovely married ier per l etsch a h or we oue to t I 1 six of the lattif population bays says says the fiene writers it re remarked markim that families constantly ic siding in paria ParlA soon become extinct 1 wiit wco with a belore them like wonder that such huch is the fact 0 01 france thou iid ild land lid of lof waving vineyards thou nation of glittering wealth ardd arid palatial i cities where are thy statesmen can none deliver thee rot corruption of which is gnawing a at t thy social heart icah none deliver thee from the of thy thyl ways way a I 1 I 1 i tell teh A short brt years ago pran ranc 6 auel fuei one of the theu then theuret theurel arat rel ret powers pov ers of f europe gave to the admiring gaze of the world the great iu in which in he her r dropla drs pla of the alts alta and and power she rhe deemed to be bo ri bi ugly val she ehe he ws the n admiration 0 ml rt as weil well well weli aade as the envy af the crowned heads of europ europe and to all bu human man appearance her future was that of oi worldwide world wide glory yet three hort years after she lell jell tol toi to a third rate place the victim of her own weakness and folly and crime erime crime I 1 need not trace this tale of woe christian chris Chri lan ian nation bof the continent the history of the one in immorality i aty is he ae bictory of all other vary vany ing perhaps a few lades bades in the graue grade of sin upon which they move the way marks traced upon the pages of ancient and modern history all sho wone striking ding fact r ra a H r 81 an andt it hais hals bais J Is that that out of the tho decay t governments an je lement element of comparative purity hldi hl di reil ilges ages has haa abert ed the rights of government and d qua gum less jess always been brought out under tha th guiding influence of the spirit of him who rules above trace w a immediately connected with the rise and 0 our ur own na nation kioh it A barume tyra the tho church fio feo 0 also my we say with some bome degree e of certainty that p abi gut dut rn h has tho the salt sall of the wp world corpt it flo jio aa bound th the hearts hears 0 of f add mea to tb gethel aethel an caused themo lene lend kene keneval geraly ial fai y to inquire after god W witness atness t the e ethers the founders f 6 gur ur DA nation fl fleeing 6 eing flom aiom illo ilio te tile score i ing blasts df persecution kinda klif dl d against theli a on tiie tile 19 res reb f europe their lvke wee we e unwilling to allo ailo allow w them to we arsh p ethen ether than by prescribed creeds creed a ai a d rules while lethey they under th e sp ii r t of inspiration were determined to 0 perform ger set vice vica accord I 1 ng neto to the tb e dictates of their own cons CODs consciences cien clen ct P hence bence we abid them then upon apon ili ill ihler ocean cear ceal borne across the deep by tile 11 speedwell and aud the tho IN fly flower they T ey were a prayerful pray bumble able peb ale p virtuous pure annd lively t J jy my holy they worshipped wor w arshi shipped aped god od honestly hon estly and und with the ligat they hey had bad as best beit they knew how thay they honored the marriage vow and held hold in contempt the tile spoiler fp oller trace their history and find if you cap for for years and und years after thel r landing on plymouth rock the fiame flame name of then ohe the libertine bertine dr th fruits of adultery there bastio was no traffic for ul unfortunates fort furt and tho iho wab was scarcely known the land of jes elph eiph ab for at feast least a a century was not nut polluted by the follies fabion fashions and bina sina no eo so prevalent preva tent among vig wig tue the presa present th in inhabitants a otlis coun try liy wh N and purity of ane 1 people in early daye dge w ete eto 1 weil well C d anil and chastity was h beld held e 1 d as the I 1 pearl peari of great ance the marriage vow was sacre sacra sacrey d ly guarded and a abe aue state tae taa of public morals morais was the result ofa of a healthy public 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