The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-02-18
DIR. BULLS DISCOURSE
ON TEMPTATION
ArChdeacOn of Salt Lake Arrai9nS
Society For Its Errors in
Lenten Sermon

SOcleIy Ill MS SERMON laSC nlgnC on the
Temptations of Lent" at the Good
Time Club hall A large congregation
listened to the gifted divine with deep
interest
Dr. Bull chose his text from the
fourth chapter of st. Luke, reading
from the third to the eight verses,
which describe the Lords temptation
by Satan, who asked that the Savior
show his power by turning stones into
bread. The preacher applied the Lords
temptation to every. cay life, with is
neutrality-suspicious., bringing out the
point that men and women sin through
the proud desire to possess or display
power.
DR.. Bull said that men today are
tempted to sin through their desires or
through their fears.
"Christ, being man," he said,
Subjected himself to the temptations
of humanity. We are temple like
Him, as He was tempted like us. The
world, the flesh and the devil ell2av-
ored to thwart Him and make his work
a failure.
Taking up the subject of the tempta-
tions in Ely, he spoke of eating and
drinking, not to sustain life, bit for
overstimulation, dealing particularly
with overindalgsnce in wine.
He then spoke Of the inordinate de-
votion to amusements, not for diver
son ald recratioa, but for the crafty
ing of unhea' thy desires. Concerning
gambling, he said:
1.-The man who carries on the bust
ness is not earning an honest living and
is debasing himself, yielding to his
lover nature. Men who gamble, he
said may say that they have right to
d. as they like with their money, but
they have not that right. every
dollar,'' he said, represents the labor
Of thousands in the past and should be
rightly used. -
The temptation to make wealth
rather than to live fuller life is
peculiarly American temptation, he
said, although it has been felt by
other nations.
"Ely's history" he said, may be
summarized as follows: First the dis
covery of the precious metals by pros
pectors and mining men;then the build
ing of homes for families, next the
coming of the ubiquitous saloons, the
red light district; after this the stores,
and the schools and lastly, the church.
In this town of Ely, now about forty
years old, the protestents are about to
erect their first house of worhip. The
Catholics, let it be said to their credit
alreal have built church. -
DR.. Bull said that Ely's history might
have better begun with the founding
of the home and the church, then the
stores, and then the proper and virtu-
GUS amusements.
The archdeacon said that nothing in
his discourse was intended as a TRADE
against wealth, but that he spoke
against allowing the desire for wealth
to assume dominance over noble as
pirations. He told the anecdote of
Stephen Girard, one of the first Ameli-
caulmiIlionairs, who said: 81 don't own
nv wealth, my wealth owns me.
"We stamp the pious legend upon
our coins, "In God we trust, :" he said,
"but we are more apt to trust to the
almighty dollar underneath the inserip-
tion."
He then told of the temptation of St.
Luke, dwelling upon the fallacy Of the
argument that the end justifies the
means, or "Do evil that good may
come"
Taking up spec...c examples of those
who yield to temptations, he cited;
The minister who, for the sake of
popularity, tries to say "broad things
to gain his little world.
The politician who, to gain his ends,
is guilty of moral cowardice.
The business man who is guilty Of
practices which are morally, II not
legally wrong, in selling goods that are
not strictly UP to the mark.
The woman in society who, to hold
her position, will wink at immortality
and associate with people she does not
approve of, for example, those who
wink at the divorce law.
The young man who, to please his
companions, will do things that are
against his conscience, for fear of not
being considered a good fellow
DR.. Bull added that there IS no one
who is above temptation, and read