The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-17

At the Y. NJ. C. A rally yesterday after
noon the following programme was rem
dered:
Bridal Chorus-CFrom Lohegrin). ......
'-'''..'''''.'..c:. ..;;....;...... r. Wagner
HYMN ofchestra :.ro tho wor,, ).
Chorus, Orchestra and Congregation.
Scripture Lesson.
Hymn II Hear Thy Welcome Voice
Chorus, Orchestra and Congregation
Messrs. Woodward, Burleigh, 'ee Abel
and Jayne.
French Horn Duet. See the Pale Moon"
Messrs- P. Christensen and c. Jasperson.
Hymn ......................'P leyers Hymn"
Chorus, Orchestra and Congregation.
Address. ............ "Rudders and Rocks
Rev. Clarence T. Brown
Woodward. Burleigh, Abel and Jayne.
Closing Hymn "Only Trust Him"
Chorus, Orchestra and Congregation.
Benediction.
Rev. c. 7. Brown began his sermon,
choosing for his subject "Rudders ana
Rocks. He said in part:
Y GU all know that a ship is no better
after having once been on the rocks or
reefs of the sea, and neither is life any
better for having lived in sin. But it is
not the fault of the sinner always. They
are often led astray by people who hold
one has said that the eleventh command
ment should read Suffer not myself to
be hoodwinked
And this is true, as many a person has
sin. But these are only the golden
doors to a large pigpen where a drunk
ard can find the proper place among 7 IS
associates, the hogs.
Henry Ward Beecher once said What
do you think of country boy who comes
to the city to see the town." OF course
he viii come with his pockets full of
money, but where will be get to?
/ knew a young man who went to Chi
cago for that same purpose, Ito see the
town" He had $500 in his pockets and
said he was going TO have good time:
Next morning I saw him lying on the
wharf at Lake Shore drunk and bleed
ing. He had no money in his pockets,
and what is more, he had no pockets. He
had been robbed and beaten. He saw the
town, but was he any better off for it?
say he was not.
Some one else has said that if you
freeze your arm it will make it tough.
For the time being it will but will it not
so with these small boys who drink or
smoke because it is tough Are they
not twice as bad off for doing this?
Certainly they are.
A certain pilot once said: 81 do not
know where the rocks are in this har-
Dor, but I know where they are not. and
that is the road / take" He might be
good enough to steer a boat in a calm,
but in a storm what should he do?
So with life. a man has to know where
the rocks are in order to steer clear of
them. A man who would try to run a
steamer without chart is foolish. He
will wander up and down the sea but
will never reach his destination, unless
by accident.
This is true of life also. A man might
wander through life but if he had no
| religion to guide him would he land in
/ heaven? 1t is doubtful.
There is one rudder that | would like
! to speak of, and that is modesty. The
! creator conferred a great blessing upon
/ mortals when he made their blood Grim
/ son, so that it would color their faces if
| they heard or did anything shameful.
! And young people, you needn't be asham-
! ed of bushes as they are the true in
| sigma of royalty. Rather should you be
| ashamed to lose them.
! The largest reef in our life is the rock
| of intemperance. A subject that is old
/ vet ever new. An old Scotch parson used
/ to advocate the temperate use of liquor
! One day, just after he had been telling
I that temperate drinking did no harm, a
man. half drunk, rose up and said: Hur-
rah, parson, you're on our side"
NC. I'm not" said the parson, from
this day I'm q teetotaler." And he was
/ l am glad that bicycles and physical
sin. and may God speed the Y. NJ. c. a
and their gymnasium. AS / said before
a man who would sail without chart is
! foolish Have you chart to cross life's
ocean? If not you should get one right
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