The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-14


take them to Sunday school, teach
then, the lessons read to them all Sun
day afternoons (while papa sleeps, or rests or Is
oui ridingl and the first knowledge We have OF
their approaching manhood Is the prompt re
iusaI 10 attend church. I'm a man, now, /
can do as | please I'm too tired after
working like a dog all week" Men think it all
well enough for their women folks TO go, in fact
encourage them to do so, but for them they
do not need to- The encroachments OF bust
ness and the demands of corporations compel
men to work at their desks upon Sunday, but
to many of them ii has become habit TO go
TO their Offices To many ii is the only rest
OF the week-the only quiet hour-and who shall
say that 1t is not often Of more real benefit 10
them, than going to church TO listen TO the
drivel usually doled out to them;
But farther back the reason can be found;
the idea is soon eradcated from the BOYS minds
by mems example with whom they associate
that they do not need what the church offers
and they have little relaxation. SO little OF
Gods beautiful outdoors, it is asking too much
curlailng of freedom and liberty to be shut
up IN dark church a bright Sunday morning
to listen to dull sermon, or some inferior nan
from an unhedged theological graduate or a ha-
raneuc upon some sensational subject
1t Is not that they do not feel they need
Christ and forgiveness of sin, or want of faith
bnt they have fallen into Indifference and 20 on
willing TO - they have lived
Ministers driven TO furnish such se,sat;ono,
subjects as Fresh and Sailed Christians Co,no
tonight and sec which you are" Curiosity NAV
take some of them. Especially fine music NAV
be lure for some, but men do not have 10 %
to church to listen to good music They find
that elsewhere, I'M pfn
voices than the churches are willing TO pay for.
Every woman wants TO take her husband and
son into the great beyond with her, but if we
dared Judge by our churches, the representation
would seem small. &
Men are critical In everything in life; they do
not put up with insists anywhere In all the
best OF public life it is the men who are catered
TO- a ,-
Men are bound to enjoy The good things OF this
life and they usually get them, Give them some
thing to to church for, aud the present
houses would not hold them all. Until then.
the man of intelligence will be apt to ind his
time OF more value elsewhere Fancy a. man of
hne intelligence and literary ability listening TO
pseudo preacher repeating the twiddy twaddy
anecdotes floating around in the newspapers to
illustrate points in his sermon; fancy such a
nan listening TO story like this illustrating
such grand text as Isaiah 1918. ~ bachelor
said once he hated to two girls kiss each
'thcr; 1t was such u waste of good material"
Isn't there enough in God4 word to call out
thought free from drivcls And that is what is
keeping our out OF church; not that they
IRE any worse than women, for they are not
out women satisfied with less than men
md SO our men prefer their Offices upon Sunday
The reverend gentleman closes by SAYING; 1--WE
crown won,an queen of the home, the church
and the world, God pity the man who has no
Christian home All very Hattering, my dear
cir, but what kind of kingdom is it unless you
are fitting yourselves to be king beside your
queen and rendering Your assistance in the ruling
OF the kingdom!