Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-06-15

but their pustciity; Tor the weakening OF
The vital or ans. tie impairment OF the
senses, particularly sight and hearing
these weaknesses are transmitted from
generation to generation, aud truly do
we realize the lulfllment Of the great
declaration that the sins Of the fathers
should be visited upon the children even
unto the third and fourth generation.
Bat closely associated with these
physical or physiological weaknesses
are the intellectual troubles, weaknesses,
dCpTavitics that assert Themselves. lhaye
DECLARED many times, and uO Il again,
tlat ! know not where YOU can mud
another community OF ~ % and women
amongst whom are to be found so many
children tpiomiSc-promise because Of
tN,ir physical perfection, or a condition
approaching perfection, because u!
ihlir intellectual power, because
OF their high moral beliefs and
sentiments, rs amongst the Latter.
day Saints. believe that vs."
have here a chosen people physically
intellectually ami morally, and believe
too that this being che IN this sense,
being distinguished as a community be-
cause OF these elements aud Projections,
concerning them the Lord our God will
allow no triliug, no 'Hupliug under
! loot VI those laws that lie ha, established
and that you have accepted as true aud
! binding. As teacher / can testify to
/ the fact that those who come to US hay.
! ing been born perhaps with this ten.
/ dency toward the use Of such things,
this stimulant OF the appetite, they come
with burden on their backs that il
will perhaps cost them the greatest ci.
| fort OF their lives escape from. What
/ would you think Of starting a boy upon
/ a race tying his hands and legs so that
/ he could scarcely move, and then expect
| him 10 keep pace with his Tree competi.
tors. Yet IN such way are many OF those
| who are IN the habit OF using these
/ things placing an incubus upon their
children aud bringing them into the
/ world with curse from the tine OF
| their birth. But I address my remarks
/ not 50 much to their parents Tor thtir
own sakes as tor the sake OF their
/ children born aud unborn. These
young boys and glrls who have been
| appropriately termed TIE pride OF Utah
| are indeed Cuoice sons aud daughters OF
! God, aud as such they should be guarded
| most jealousy from temptation in We
| htst place. and iIom these weaknesses
that are liable to assert themselves, iht
/ germs aud seeds VI which may be i'm
planted within them through the indis'
| Crctions VI parents and through the
weaknesses Of associates and protested
! friends.
There is one point in tie philosophy
! Of the nineteenth century that / have
never been able TO master-indeed one
among many; but there is one that ap.
pcals TO me rs being particularly Hog
zeal aud absurd, although II Is defended
ol,tlmcs with many so'Called argu.
meuis. 1t Is this, that II We know q
thing to be wrong, Il We know q GER
tain habit to be injurious, II we know
that Il works evil to the state, 10 the
community, to the family, to the indi'
yidual, that then VIC will Cuunienance II
~ any way directly Or indirectly. | do
not mean that would recommend any
effort to destroy the liberty Of the man
who chooses 10 kill himself ia that way
bur / do say that II the Latter.day