Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-04-28

arc preparing a corps Of intelligent aud
valiant men and women for thi, good
work by the little contribution required.
So you are preparing your sons 20 De
ministers OF tLl Gospel, defenders ui the
alh aud opponents of the principles OF
lie and salvation 30 the world by merely
contributing this Insignificant sum Ut
MY cents per year. Parents ought 90
urge their children 90 be faithful TO thIs
little duty. aud chi'lcn who arc not able
90 furnish this themselves ought 90 asE
thtir parents 10 assist them. that we may
no. allow these Interests TO be uucircd
for aud not sustained while they arc
such means OF benefit 10 tIc whole poo.
pie OF the Church
cWD.rlNyiss.
Brother NJ. w. Merrill referred ycttcr.
day TO the subject of cardplayug /
desire not 10 prIIuuE the meeting by goo
IN over this subject again. but merely
Co refer GO 10 by way Of emphasizing, d
can, that which Doc said. want to tell
you "a circumstance that ! heard o. ]
think thc person Is boz this house who
told me, and ] shall therefore DE very
careful TO tell you only what heard
tom that person, Tor Tear ] might be
charged with uycuiatiug matters. This
person b aged. reliable and % good
Llticr-day SAINT ann NOT going TO tell
you whether Do was "a woman uf Il man,
90 aIl events, j shall not tgll YOU % ] can
help Il. though Do may slip on. This
person told mg that he OF sine went Co
hlnt 90 attend 90 some Temple work.
While 10 MJnt sha laughlcrl or De was
stopping %, house where number ui
other people were stopping VINO bad
gone to Mluu iur asiuI ir purpose that
nay Informant hBi gone ilU Aigr sup.
ulr, % number having gathered together,
the question arose, "Mhlt shall W. DO Co
pass tbe timel' And Do was determined
that the best and most profitable the
most intellectual aud useful expenditure
OF the time, from then until three o'clock
the nest morning. was To SO down no the
tables and play cards. A gentleman
whose wife was no o. distant settlement,
in order that she might be present 90
enjoy this game of cards, had sent 40
the way 10 her bomU and invited her 10
come by rail aud take o. hand DO d. Ms
informant was invited TO play also. but
refused but was there and wines ul the
others enjoyment until "a late hour and
finally retired to bed, but was informed
the next day that this party had KEEP up
their card'playing until three o'clock In
the morning.
Here Is an instance Of people who
have gone to administer in the ordinances
Of the House Of God i1r their dead. oe-
CupyIng their time in the worse than idle
habit Of playing cards. say that this
was au evil, ! say that evil will grow
| out Of such practices as this; and ] say
that every Latterdly Saint, whether he
goes % the Temple or stays at home,
ought TO constitute himself teacher Boo
relation 10 this matter. and set bis face
Ike Hint against this evil and pcmiCious
practice The best you can say OF b b.
that there Is no good In 10. except TO kill
| time, and u people have time which
they can murder boz this manner they
have more leisure on their hands than
ever / have, ] call 10 the murder OF
time, and no, only so, but the murder OF
! the spirituality OF men aud women that
| engage in such a practice, Us natural
tendency Is 90 evil, aud not 10 good.
asked one person what good there was
! iu it, aud ] was told, "Oh, itkillcd iimcW
This Is the only virtue that have ever
yet heard In regard TO cardplaying. /
do not signalize card.playing as q per.
niCious thing in ContfadisuuCtilu To-
| other practices that simply tend TO con.
sumo time. TO waste precious moments
aud to duh the sensibilitics Of the head
aud the heart Anything that tends to
a morbid desire for that which Is not
| beneficial Is a sin In the sight OF God,
aud Il ought TO be cried down, whatever
| Il Is. Il Is no more card-playing than Il
| is checEer.playing u CheCker-playing Is
/ INDUCED IN 20 the wasting Of time. Per.
/ haps the one Is as pemicious as the
/ other, although | have not noticed In
my lie the same tendency to evil in
playing checkers for amusement as there
/ is IN playing cards, As / understand,
| u takes four or more 90 make a good
party al card playing, and they get to
cheating one another and puCucing
| fraud IN order to win. You cannot do
| that la checkers. ! know q little about
| checkers myself. lprotest against every
practice that has no better recommends
| ton for ID than the wasting Of precious
| time, ] pronounce Il wrong. And /
say to the Latter-day Saints that idlencss
| Is one OF those things set down in the
| revelations ul God TO this Church rs
| evil, which We should not indulge in,
for he that Is idle shall not eat the
. bread nor wear the garments ol the
/ labOrer," and "the idler shall not have
place in the Church, except he repents
/ and mcnds his ways" Card-playing
/ creates idleness, and worse than that.
| Much might be said TO show you the
great danger there Is Of people who In
/ dulge In this practice being led from
step TO step until they become gambler
and worse than that; for one crime
leads 10 another aud when men get
started upon the road Of crime, however
/ small the beginning, they 20 with accele-
/ rated speed the longer they continue In
that path, until they TALL finally into uitei
ruin.
ROUND. DANCING,
am going to preach another litu,
discourse in regard TO round dancing
| have been out Ia the country lately
visiting the conferences, and at one
| place / understood that the President %
The Stake had finally concluded that th,
Presidency Of the Church had let ul
| with regard to their objection 10 rount
dancing, and he had actually gone ang
danced In that way himself Wherever
have been, the Presidents OF Stake.
have enQuired Of me as to what is IN,
wish OF the Presidency OF the CnuTcl
with regard to this practice OF rount
dancing; for they say that Ia the parIie.
in Salt Lake City aud those held In The
theater, round dancing Is all the rage
and rs it possible for us to prevent thi'