The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-09-21
CHRISTIANITY" ExBmPL1F1ED.

In Salt Lake City there appears semi
systematically and tri-occasionally q
bucOlic and altogether peculiar sheet
sailing under the banner of religion and
calling itself the Christian Aduocate. Its
typographical appearance and size
might do credit TO a town of 500 OF say
1000 inhabitants; but here it is some
what obscure, and, desiring to do a
good turn where and when we can,
The HERALD makes this mention in
order that struggling genius may OBJ
tain that recognition which is some
times, in fact quite too often, withheld
by an exacting and overriding popu-
lace. The Advoeats is gem in its
way, and in its columns viii be found
the digested thought OF sages whose
minds are intent upon the further diff
fusion of godliness and whose
souls swell like an inflated balloon
at the prospect of grasping
some thoughtless wanderer from grace
by the hair before he reaches the brink
of the bottomIess pit and pulling him
back into the atmosphere of the just
spirits made perfect. And then the
thought that in the sweet by and bye,
when we join hands and circle round
the top of the topless throne, there will
be some brands snatched from the burn
ing, as the work of these good people,
is sufficient reward for the ills and
Affections with which this hard, cruel
life is beset-a life where the generous
and the pious are so poorly requited for
their good and glorious work that but
for the reward held out by the hand Of
omnipotence in the grand, glowing and
peculiar beyond, they would withdraw
from the contest and let the sinful sin
till they ran the game out or got some
more money to spare.
As 3 sample of the pious and Chris
tanlike work in which this truly good
publication is engaged, we republish
from its columns specimen brick, as
follows:
On the 9th day OF this month the Salt Lake
City Council, which is g strictly Mormon
body and composed mostly of Leading Off
license TO not less than thirty-one saloon
keepers in this city. 1t also renewed the
license of the "Zion's Cooperative Mercan-
tile Institution as q. wholesale liquor house.
After which startling announcement
it proceeds to raise Ned with the Nor
mon Council for doing as above stated,
and, judging from the red-hot style in
which the whole article sis written,
it is q fair supposition that not
oneof the said Council or its supporters
will ever get within hailing distance of
the acephalous pedestal. What it would
substitute for the action complained of
does not, however, appear. It can't be
that the C. Il. would have those estab-
hshments run without the payment of
license, yet that seems to be the con-
clusion which the lines lead to if closely
followed; and just why fault should be
found because u. C. NJ. l. is treated like
the Others, is peculiar to say the least of
1t. Would our Christian neighbor be
any better pleased if that concern were
exempted from the taxation which its
neighborS are compelled to pay? We
cannot believe it. Perhaps our religious
friend thinks it immoral and improper
to issue licenses at all; but if SO it should
remember that all appetites are not
alike, and that while he and ourselves
can get along without the fiery fluid,
being satisfied on all occasions with yell
low7legged chicken broth, there are a few
untorsunates that will have the former;
so long as they will have it there will be
found Others to sell it, and, in order to
restrict the traffic in such wares to the
lowest possible proportions, restrictive
fee with binding regulations are fixed
upon the business, and severe penalties
provided for infringement of either. 1t
being practically impossible to prevent
the sale of that which cheers and does
why, our Christian friend,
should there be any objection to its
being regulated and the evil reduced by
heavy duties and rigid surveillance to
the lowest possible proportions?
Here are some lines of a different
nature from the same source:
The members of the mission arc kindly &c
minded OF the resolutions passed at our
annual meeting touching the AGTocGte.
Please read them again carefully, and let rs
nave your prompt assistance.
Our revered and reverend neighbor,
Who objects to wine being looked
lpon when it (tho wine) is red,
hould search the Scriptures m
il he finds a sentence pronouncing
money the root of al evil; and, as show
ag the estimation IN which our Savior
eId those who hoard, covet or love the
rticle, will be found by reading further,
hat on certain occasion He inpro-
ised a whip and drove some specula-
DIS out OF the temple; in another place
a suggestion relative to the kingdom
f heaven and its righteousness being
Re first considerations. sitter which