The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-07

communities with the saloons vide open
and patronized bv heads OF families.
Do you suppose that the father who
goes there can have any influence with
his child2 l have thought that 1T Is
very foolish indeed for men who claim
TO be even the weakest Saints to say
they cannot help but go to these places.
Men generally 20 where they feel at
home-where they want Co go. II
man wants to come to this meeting he
has the desire in his heart, be-
heve that the man who goes to q sa.
loon and stops there hour after hour,
spends the means that God gave him
and should be given to his children for
their protection and comfort, / believe
he goes there because ne loves the COM
pany that he finds there. | think the
surroundings are agreeable to him.
Advice to Parents.
Apostle Senator Snoot urged the par
ents to begin the work st home. Start
ing with the children. they should try
10 make the home the best place Gu
earth. They should teach the children
TO pray and teach them the truth. They
should end out whether or not the chill
drep were trying TO live according to
the laws of God
In Box Elder county and IN one OF
the southern counties he had heard re-
ports that not boy in all the wards
between IL and q years of age used
tobacco or liquor in any form, and he
wished to God that such report could
be made of every ward in the church.
Senator Smoot spoke of the develop
ment of Utah county, remarking that
250 carloads of fruit had been shipped
from Provo, and 100000 tons Of beets
are to be transported. No man could
complain that there was not work suf-
icient for him; but many wasted their
money on cigarettes and their families
suffered.
Senator Smoot wanted the Saints TO
get home and keep it. "Don t mort
gage it, he cried. There was much
land in Juab county and the southern
portion of the State that they should
acquire, cultivate and keep, for that
win yet be the grapsry of the State.
Senator Slips Cog.
"Eeep your home and hold the
land, - he couDseled. "Don t sell your
inheritances to the--(here he hesi.
was prosperity now, he said, but there
would be a change, and he hoped the
Saints would be prepared for II. He
also coupseled them TO keep out of debt.
Senator Smoot asserted that be had
been told that fifty carloads of tobacco
had been brought into Utah in one year.
4" You need not tell me il is all used by
people not of our faith. ] hope that the
majority of it is, but 1 hope TO see the
somebody other than the Latterday
Saints. Smoking hurts men physically,
and l have an idea 1t does morally.
Yield TO the first temptation--it is the
nrst step and the hardest step to take
and the next step Will be easier 10 yield
70 the breaking OF any law.
More Advice Given.
In conclusion the Apostle-Senator ad-
lured the saints 10 swatch the home
While all the influences around US TO.
day are trying to wean the young peo-
pie from the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Men approach them filed with hatred
IN their hearts and for no other pur.
pose than to embitter them against the
men OF God. / want you to call their
attention TO the fact that it gets in
stllled into their minds, and If the faith
er and mother does not see it and rec
thy 1t II will bring sorrow to you 7
wish you 10 ca!l their attention TO the
character OF the men, to how they live,
10 what they re doing here in the way
OF hylng, those men that are trying
to bring disgrace, as a people, upon us.
/ know that if they knew their lives
they never would want to follow them.
Just as a man becomes corrupt the
more wicked and the more bitter he is
against the church Of God. -
Concluding bo urged them "to be
ioya! and true and sustain the men who
preside over this church,
Afternoon Session. =
NOW Let Us Rejoice in The Day
of Salvation" was the opening hymn,
sung by the congregation and choir, and
Patriarch Lorin Ear Of Ogden.
Apostle Hyrum NJ. Smith opened the
oracular part of the service. Before
he spoke his father bent over him, but
what injuncti2ns he gave him, If any,
were only for his ears.
81 am in some difficulty about what
am to say said the apostle, Gas it
seems there is fear on the part OF
/ some that ] might say something not
very complimentary to the traducers OF
the bretnreo and our people, and while
l desire TO be conservative, if possible,
IN order TO be so ! will read little
| Scripture, so that by reading the Scrip.
ture no one will take offense, and | will
! epdeavor TO studiously avoid d reading
of the twenty.third chapter Of
| Mathew"