The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-04-06
SALT LAKE DAILY HERALD WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIL 1881


them. They make splendid teach
ers in going around and looking after
the welfare of their sisters. They
are producing very good
moral effect. We have many pure,
lhigh-minded ladies who go forth
among the people and travel from
place to place as missionaries,
Teaching, instructing, guiding, bless
ing and benefiting the people; and
say God bless the sisters for their
labOrs, and L say to you, continue in
good work and God will continue
to bless you and your children after
you, and many thousands will yet
rise up and call you blessed Seek
to instill into your daughters, as
iyou are doing, and into your SONS
the principles of chastity, VIRTUE
and honor, that while men without
principle and without honor, ana
contrary to truth, are mahgnins
you, you may stand forth, and YOU
children with you, as the protectors
and maintainers of virtue; and KEEP
your daughters from the contami-
mating influence of those abOmin-
able wretcheS-characters who are
seeking to introduce iniquity in
your midst and to destroy your viz
tue. There are numbers of these
men, and they publish unblushingly
in their papers that they would
rather your sons and your daughters
were drunkards and prostitutes and
whoremasters than be subject TO the
tyranny we exercise over you. Do
you want their tender mercies? Do
you want to wallOw in their corrup-
ton? Do you want to be be-
smeared with their infamy? God
forbid "a voice ''AmenP) God for
bid! say my soul enter not thou
into their secret, and with them
mine honor be 4aot Athnu unified .,
They are too low, too degraded for
honorable men and women to have
anything 10 do with, and / call
upon the elders, and upon the
fathers of this people, and
upon the sisters and mothers
of this people, to protect your sons
and daughters from these loathsome
lepers that have come among you,
who profess to be the advocates of
freedom, forsooth, and equal rights
just as much as the devil is. The
devil is an advocate of freedom and
of the rights and happiness of men :;
but we do not want to place our
selves under his tender mercies. /
am pleased to listen to the state
ments that have been made in re-
gard to our Sunday schools, and l
would say there is not a more hon
orable employment in which our
elders, our sisters and our brethren
can be engaged in than in training
up our children in the ways of life
and am happy to find that there
are nearly $4,000 of our children
that are under their influence, who
are teaching them the Bible, the
Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and
Covenants, and the revelations of
GOd-who are teaching them mo-
rality and purity and virtue, and
training them up in the fear of God
Continue to do it, and you will have
a generation that will rise up and
bless you, and bless mankind in
spite of themselves, and in spite of
the corruption with which we are
God bIesses all men
and women who seek to promote
good and pure, virtuouS, holy and
honorable principles, and the curse
of God will rest upon those who
take a contrary course. These things
do not always appear right at once,
but these things will follow as sure
DIS God reigns in the heavens. Then,
in regard to the views, ideas and no
tons of those outside, many of
whom are consistent and thought
full, and a great many of whom are
and led by improper princi-
ples-in regard to their ideas we ask
very little odds of them. We Will
try to pursue the even tenor of our
way; we will cleaYe to God, tOl
truth, TO righteousness; we will
stand as saviOrs upon Mount Zion,
and bless all who will receive the
truth; will maintain the principles
of liberty, equality and brotherhood
among all peoples, and we will op-
pose fraud and corruption and illib-
erality and degradation in every
form, and bondage in every shape,
and we will pray to the Almighty
TO help us carry out those principles
which are in the interests of human
ity, so far as he gives us power and
strength to do it. But TO barter
away the principles that God has
committed TO us-never, no never,
no never, and may all the congrega-
ton say amen. The whole con-
responded with a loud
"Amen."l God bless you and lead
you in the paths of truth. Amen.
The choir sang the hymn:
We thank thee, o God, for a prophet,
To guide US in these latter dsyt.
BenedictiOn by Apostle Erastus
Snow.
Meeting adjourned until 10 o'clock
on Wednesday morning.