The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-03


cause as follows:
The subject which 1 wish briefly TO
present for your thoughtful considera-
ton tonight, is not new one. 1t is
as old as the history of the race itself.
1t is the perennial conflict between
right and wrong, between truth and
error, between good and evil, between
light and darkness, between righteous
ness and unrighteousness. The open
ing chapters Of Genesis record the first
struggle between the evil and the good,
in which the evil triumphed in the temp
tation and fall of mar. The struggle
has been renewed and continued in the
history Of every nation that has ever
existed, and in every individual human
life that has trod the Stage of action
in all the worlds history.
The old testament history of the cho-
sen people OF God reveals an ever recur-
ring struggle between the lower appe-
tites and passions that tended to drag
them down to the level of the idoia-
trous tribes and nations by whom they
were surTounded-and those higher as
pirations and desires that reached out
ward and upward towards the higher
spiritual life that was typified to them
in the ark of the covenant, where
7re the mercy seat between the
G. ubims, God had promised to meet
and commune with his people.
They are led out of Egypt towards
the promised land by miraculous signs
and wonders under the guidance Of the
wonderful leader whom God had called
before the burning bush in the desert,
but when they see the waters of the
Red sea rolling before them and the
pursuing hosts of Pharaoh pressing
behind, they lose faith and begin to
murmur; a little later when Moses pro-
longs his stay in Mount Sinai, they
prevail upon Aaron to make them a
golden calf to worship; when they get
in sight of Canaan they are filled with
fear on account Of the giants and
walled cities reported by the spies, and
lose faith again and are turned back
to wander forty years in the wilder
ness; there again, when they are mi
raculeusly fed with mama from heav-
en- they tire of it, and in their hearts
turn back TO the lash and rod and flesh
pots OF Egypt. And so it was again
and again through all their history;
they cast into dungeons and killed
the Lords prophets and stoned them
that were sent unto them, until they
reached the elimination and climax Of
their sin in the erueifXion of the Mes
siah.
ACCENTUATED THE STRUGGLE.
The coming Of Christ accentuated the
struggle anew, when the choice being
freely offered to them, the great ma
Serity of the then known world chose
darkness rather than light and re-
jeeted him. Stree that time the strug-
sic between a Christian civilization
and heatheniea bar5arity has contin-
I'D and is sill being waged. Human
ity has come up through the long
night of darkness and superstition by
slow and laboriegs stages, frequently
through much travail and sorrow and
even shedding of blood, TO where it
stands today. Christ on the cross say
ing Father forgive them for they
know not what they do Paul, on his
way TO Damascus to persecute the
disciples, stricken physically blind but
receiving a new spiritual light that
made him the great logical expositer of
the goSpel-LlHher, the German monk
doing penance at Rome by ascending
the scala santa on his knees, hears the
voice within proelajming the great
truth The just shall live by faith
begins the reformation that shook the
German empire and the church of
Rome to their foundations-tfe Pill
grim fathers, sailing across unknown
seas that they might find freedom to
that enbodies today the best hopes of
the race-these are some illustrations
of the steps by which the evolution of
the race towards better things has been
accomplished.
So in every human life. By sad ex-
periences the child learns that nettles
sting, that the sharp instrument cuts
the flesh and that fire burns; by slow
processes the young man learns that
'tall is net gold that glitters." and that
Sowing wild OATS produces a. bounte-
Gus crop of lost virtue and manhood
and blessed indeed is that young man
or woman who early learns that ster-
ling virtue, honesty, sobriety and up
rightness are the only sure foundations
on which to build or secure happiness
here or hereafter
THE ABOMINATION OF DESoLA-
TION.
Today the most prominent phase of
this constantly recurring struggle is
that between that determination of desc
lation spoken of by Daniel the prophet
known as the organized liquor traffic.
on the one hand, and the church of the
living G5G, on the other. 1t is we'll at
the outset &c get q clear understanding
Of the nature of this gigantic evil with
which we contend. No person who has
not made the question a study has any
adequate conception OF the hideOuSneSS
and power of this beast of seven heads
and ten horns which the feyelador saw
in his vision. Paul says, I'VE contend
not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities and powers, against the
rulers of the powers of darkness of this
world. against wicked spirits in high
places" The liquor traffic as it exists
today, is a vast organized force. with
its head source in the capital of the ma
ton, and its branches in every city
village and hamlet in the country
wherever a saloon or retail liquor shop
exists. Like a veritable devil fish
with its head in Washington and other
great cities, it reaches out with its
thousand Shiny tentacies and envelops
in IFS vice-like folds every part of the
country. Every individual brewer and
distiller, every saloon keeper and ban
tender, is a homogeneous part and par
eel eff this giant octopus When the
people of North Dakota or some other
prohibition state have apparently
stabbed to the death the particular
fentacse that enveloped that state, they
find that they have hardly inflicted 9
flesh wound to the great monster it
seW: and very soon new life-blood and
tissue is being poured into the injured
member from the heart and vitals 0.
the monster in other states. In South
Dakota today, where re-submisSion OF
the prohibition article is to be. voted
,,nor, in November, the whole vast IN
Thence of the liquor traffic of the whole
country in the way of money, speaker:
and political influence, is being brough'
to bear to accomplish the defeat of pro