The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06
nan. are as dishonest and dlsgraceful

man, are as dishonest and disgracefuI
IN a society, a, state or a. nation.
1t is our duty again, to watch the
men we have placed in Office TO see
whether they have fulfilled their duty
That so at every election and every
mt Juncture we may be ready to
thrust out the unfit men who misuse
power, who maladminister Office, who
fail to legislate justly, or whose char
acter proves unworthy the dignity of
their position 1t becomes our duty,
men and women. to set our faces
against all self-seeking in politics for
individual or state. all narrow or God
less principles. And none the less our
duty, let us not forget, to support with
words of praise and sympathy and
with our votes the men in legislative
or in judicial or in executive or finan-
cal or educational offices who do full
I'LL conScientiously their duties
Men and women, l say, for I would
not pass on without reminding You
that women, under our constitution
are admitted to suffrage. The light Of
the glory OF the Lord. so far as
popular government can be called So
mas risen upon Womankind The fact
has its meanings, its possibilities, its
warnings.
There are women to whom the cry
Tor suffrage was only the cry of the
Weah-minded, childish jealousy, anxf-
Gus that women should be treated as
men, only because they hated to have
men enjoy anything they might not
share.
There are other woc1en with whom
the cry for suffrage wa\ mere coquetrv.
ground for playful badinage and
witty fencing with men, the talk of
the tea table or the parlor.
With women of both sorts. I can
forsee that the suffrage means little.
once attained, 1t will be laid on a
shelf like child's coveted toy when
the Christmas holiday is over-broken.
perhaps, in the fervor of the first day.
But to women of both sorts, must
we not say that unless women learn
to exercise that suffrage. and exercise
IL with conscientious seif-reliant de.
liberation. il will prove a curse. For.
ADDED to the yenial vote of ignorant.
wicked men, we shall have the venial
vote of ignorant. wicked women, and
beside 1t the vote of those who simply
echo the voice of friends; tools of
demagogues through the very good
ness of their hearts.
There are again, women who did not
want the suffrage. But to those too
&,
you women rests the duty of seeing
that it is not misused- That the power
OF worthless women is not allowed to
injure the state if worthy women NAV
counterfeit it
Study the question. Find your own
way OF dealing with 1t; but do not for
get that upon women is thrust a new
responsibility.
You cannot fail to see then, men
and women, that in this. our new era.
individual character becomes more i'm
portant than ever
AS the character of the state is the
'composite"-shall I say the "compo-
site photograph" of the various char
acter5 in it? AS high principle or low.
morality or immortality preponderate
IN It's citizens so VIII 1t tell in the ma
tional life, in the world. in Gods great
course of evolution. for good or evil.
or retardation, life or death.
And 50 do you not see that more
than all | may repeat Isaiahs exhor-
tation today to church men and wo-
men Arise, shine, your light is come.
Inc glory of the Lord is risen upon
you" Most fifty on the eve of this
feast OF Epiphany, when we worship
the Christ who came down from
heaven to be a light to tighten the
Gentiles. land to found the church
which was to be- A lamp of burn
tshed gold"
ITO bear before the nations
His true light as of old?'
For behold, men and women, dark
ness does cover the earth. SeIfshness.
alike in political, in financial and in
social circles. Ignorance, black and
Religious ignorance.
Ignorance of both learned and un-
fortunate people. Ignorance both of
false science and false religion. More
lamentable here than in Utah So
utter that l doubt that one person in
i've could give me in barest outline 2,
correct statement Of the history of
our Lord
1 know of at least one large class
Of young men and women in an insti-
tuition of this city, who did not know
That on Easter they would celebrate
his resurrection, and could not tel
anything correctly about his birth.
While in the monthly magazines con-
Quoted by the students, words Of
prophets and angels are indiscrtni-
nately ascribed to him. a vague t,nge
Of this feeling colors the paper. but
an accurate statement can be
found in it. And this is, in fact, only
part Of deeper darkness. The dark 7
ness of an outworn religious system. I
WHICH, ny us Hl.SS uIQeQ zeal, mas Durn- p
ed all real spirituality out of men; so
that too often they come out Of the
Did faith, once dominant here, scorning
Alas. that I must add there is a
deeper darkness still. n moral degra- [
1ation which few people realize except (
the school teachers and the clergy.
Men and women, remember the /
words Of the Lord Jesus. Eye are the .
light of the world"
Darkness nav cover the earth. and
gross darkness the people, but the .
Lord shall arise-hath arisen upon you:
lis glory shall be seen-hath been seen /
Upon You, and the Gentiles shah come [
% YOUR light and kings to the bright
ness Of your rising.
The church of Christ is the ideal
already established in the
midst of humanity.
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