The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-06
A SUNDAY SERMON.

Ingratitude is considered so base crime
that no man has yet been found to plead
guilty to it, yet there is one other crime
that exceeds ingratitude; it is the crime
of Indifference. Who will be bold enough
to maintain the doctrine of infallihility in
the administration of national affairs! If,
therefore, wrongs can exist either in polit-
ical or ecclesiastical government, indiffer
ence to wrongs gives license and strength
to men to plot against the purity of consti-
tutional liberty. No nation has ever been
known to fall by single blow from trai-
! tors. Step by step men wander away
from constitutional restraints under the
guise of working for the public good. In
novation upon innovation is being made
upon our institutions to meet what politici-
ans term ''the spirit of the times" Our ma
tional polity, like Christianity, is made to
] bend to every shade of thought, which pro-
| duces Indifference among the masses, who
| should of right hold the balance of power
in defence of national entegrity. Men be-
| come indifferent to future results as indi-
vldual interest becomes lucrative and at
| tractlVe. There has ever been among man.
kind thirst for notoriety which must be
gained at any price whether that price be
the sacrifice of principle, honor or veracity.
Lie is so short in this highly cultivated
| age, that scramble for Office and opu-
| lence becomes to some men, inevitable. A
| gaudy inscription upon marble slab has
more charms for the ambitious, than the
virtues That follow national honor and a
vital Christianity.
The tendency of the age is not towards
| good government, but rather towards the
accumulation of wealth and the extension
OF territory. On every hand and in every
nation on the earth, this is the greatest
incentive to public and individual action.
This great nation is following the foot
steps of all others for the attainment of ma
| tlonal greatness at the sacrifice Of national
! unity. We do not mean altogether unity
OF states; we refer to a unity of the people
ON national questions. What harmony is
there existing among the Representatives of
the people for the general welfare! Every
move that is being made by the present
dominant party points to an exclusive right
to control our national and state affairs,
which, II 1t has any meaning at all, pre-
sages central government. 1t requires
no prophet to read the future of this ma
ton when party triumph is accepted as
of more value than national rectitude.
| The patronage of a dominant party, when
used for party ends, will prove fatal to
constitutional liberty, for the simple rea-
son, that, men will too often sacrifice their
better Judgment for the sake of reward,
which will create an Indifference towards
political corruption. Indifference is the
| gate through which men escape from in
| dividual responsibility. We saw America
for Americans, but who are truly Ameri-
cans! Those only who maintain the spirit
and genius of American institutions at all
hazards. An American has no party. The
spirit OF democracy, or government by the
people, as whole, bind him hand and foot
to his sacred pledge to maintain constitu-
tional government as against political rob
berry and party spoliatlon. Let honest men
say whether or not the spirit and schemine
| for the possession of political power in
Utah is not permeating the whole nation
| When the people in these mountains ap.
pealed to certain chief executive and laiC
their grievances before him he asked: ssDc
you say that this condition of things really
exists in your midst2" ''Yes,n was the re
ply. ''Then | can do nothing for people
that will not defend themselves against
| such atrocities
We ask now, of what avail is it to plead
with rulers? The whole nation is against
US. Processing Christians, infdels, and
traitors anything, even a mongrel car
smile at and rob a Mormon; not because
he is disloyal or ever has been towards a
constitutional government Disoyalty tC
US means an unlawful course for the attain
ment of political ends. The heaven that
| political manipulatOrs have introduced into
the body polite in Utah will work until
| the whole American lump is leavened In
| fall1blllty and negative Christianity will
| fail in the attempt to establish peace on
earth and good will among men. Of what
value is simple admission of the truth OF
the Christian system if men hope to obtain
eternal life? That life must begin on earth
by practical maintenance of the Christian
virtues. Loyalty to our government must
be blended with love for God and man
There is no such thing as separation OF
| the Christian virtues from our allegince tC
our government. Church and state are
divided only by line that places all things
in its own order Our national govern
ment is equally responsible to God for its
acts as the church is.
1t is the imperative duty of the state tC
protect the citizen in his political rights; il
should maintain the rights of all, whether
Christian or infidel; it is the perogrative oil
| a civil government to use force when re-
| sisted in the maintenance of Justice and
| equity. The church breaches Christ and a
| life to come and finds it's strength in Goo
and the vitality of eternal law founded
upon love and truth, and whenever man
becomes Christian he becomes the better
citizen as Gods laws forbid disobedience
to constitutional and Christian law. NV
church, right or wrong, is a misnomer; my
country, right or wrong, is also misno-
mer, and my party, right or wrong, is as
the deadly upas tree that destroys ali that
comes within its deadly influence. know
| nothing aside from God and Just laws
| God and my country, one and inseparable.
} am citizen of America, because she pro
fesses to love me and protects me in nv
| rights, and when she forsakes me or gives
| me over to spoilsmen and traitors to law,
| can still look up to God that founded ou1
grand constitutional government and ask
him to restrain the wrath of MEN.
VERITAs.
If you feel all broke up and out of sorts
| agitate your liver with Simmons Live,