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

Saint fathers aud mothers know how
extensive IS this practice amongst their
children. ] made It rule a few years
ago to 30 out at night upon The streets
aud wander about, and whenever ! saw
a little knot Of boys or Young men
gathering ] watched them from q dis
lance and then mingled with them ami
talked with them aud came To the
conclusion that at that time IN the town
in which lived, nearly tnrec.iourths Of
the boys under sixteen years ofage were
addicted to the use OF tobacco. Aud do
you know what that carries withiR The
love for unhOly associations. lnc to-
baCco users among the boys are IN
many Instances the pToianc boys, the
boys who have no love for home nor Tor
anything that j., good II / lind boy
whose delight IL Is TO use tobacco or
who has become addicted to any other
Of these destructive habits / do not need
to ask much about ht, hUme.lile, much
about us moral nature. believe with
the great Ruskin that II you can find out
what q pgnou', tastes are YOU know
what hi, religion Is and you will know
Just about what his spiritual status is.
Bul these physiological aud these in.
icIicglual objections are to q very great
gStent but stcppin.stoncs In the great
objection that can be urged lrlm q
moral standpoint am not prepared to
siy that every man VINO smokes IS a
criminal, hut ! am prepared 10 say that
every boy who smokes IS more likely to
become criminal than he would be II
DE did not smoke. We only need TO
look it a smoker when IN the company
OF others to see In the fret place how
every feeling Ol regard Tor his fellows
Is stamped out by that terrible habit.
Selhshutss IS cultivated, and with selfish.
ness come host OF weaknesses and a
horde Of minor and major sins The
un5e.iish man cannot sin as can the one
who puts himself before al Others
These Childfcns' bodies are like a vessel
upon the pottcr's wheel, Of plastic clay,
taking every impression aud mark OF ms
finger, the shape Of his nail, The imprint
ui a pattern that B., laid upon D.. lie can
shape II aud change II % be will. Bat 10
It has been put il the fire and hardened
aud stamped, every mark aud impgficc-
ton vii, be there, aud Il will require q
miracle to alter Il, to cause the flaws
to disappear. The day Is speedily com.
INK when ,Hess Chlldreh will be beyond
your power to control. These vessels
will have been hardened and will have
taken the form that they will hold
through life, stamped with honor or
stamped with shame.
look upon il as q very significant
thing, though care not to refer to
SPECIAL advertisements or particular
companies, that the people who are adj.
yerlisug the sale OF cigarettes have
taken this very time aud occasion, wncn
people are gathered here from other
places by the thousands, to advertise
their wares. Not content with that, they
have turned one Of the greatest inven.
tons OF modern times the powerful
electric search light into a recommen'
datiOn Tor the use Ui that which the
Lord mas declared to be an abomnation
aud curse among people. want
simply to ask you to beware OF these
thng,. Work with those TO whom you
are gntrusuug your children believe
there should We a closer association be-
tween tue teachers and the parents,