Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-16

under the seal and sanction OF that
very court,
81 have seen upon that table the
blood-stained scull OF a wife, cleft from
top to base by an axe in the hand OF
a brutal, drunken husband who came
home from a neiEhboring licensed beer
shop, Keeling, drunken. and maddened
by drink there sold by most re-
spectacle dealer. by a man who had a
legal right to sell that poison whose
effects are more terrible than the
plaques confined within the tabled box
of Pandora. and under whose baleful
influence
The hand that should shield the wife
from III,
In drunken wrath Is raised to KILL
II once defended man for killing
his own brother, by whom in n fit OF
drunken frenzy he had been attacked
with a dangerous weapon, thereby com
Polling him in his own defense TO
strike blow that had taken his broth
er's life. He was tried for murder and
In his defense l called the landlord to
prove that the murdered brother was
mad from the effects of the liquor he
had received at the witness bar He
80 testified, yet seemed conscious OF no
wrong. Why should he? He had a
license from the court, and why should
that brothers blood cry to heaven for
vengeance against him? oh no, he
was n respectable citizen, possessing
a good moral character, for the law
grants licenses to none other. He
had q legal right to present the mad
dening cup to his fellows lips. and no
one should complain of him. He had
acted in accordance with the law, and
did not one OF England's greatest and
best of men say that the law was
that science whose voice was the har-
mony OF the world and whose seat was
the bosom of God?'"
AN AWAKENING NEEDED.
There is but one way to stop the sale
of the soul-deadening liquor said Ell
der Grant and that is, at the polls,
where men may be elected who VIII
enact laws prohibiting such traffic. He
had once been delighted to hear
map spoken of in political
meeting, wherein 1t was shown that
Utah stood fourth among all the states
of the Union in the matter of educa-
ton; but had been mortified only re-
Gently to see map upon which Utah
was indicated as one of the six states
painted black because of the liquor
question. This, he said was a disgrace
TO a people who had received as Accom-
mandment from God the Word of WIS
dom. Forty states in the Union are
actively engaged In fighting the demon
drink, and it is time that Utah began
in earnest such a work OF reformation.
Thank God for the glad tldings of
great JOY the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
said Elder Grant.
MORMONISM NOT NARROW.
If any one In the congregation inn
AGNES that the doctrines of the Lat
ter-day Saints are, narrow let him
read carefully the 10th section OF the
Doctrine and Covenants. The word of
the Lord therein contained teaches a
universal salvation, except as to the
sons of perdition. "Much as l like to
read the Bible and the Book of Nor
mon" said Elder Grant. Il love more
to read Gods handdealings with His
people today"
The word of the Lord to all His
children is Keep My commandments"
said Elder Grant. and In conclusion the
speaker bore a strong testimony to the
truth Of the Gospel as taught by the
Latter-day Saints. In all his travels
he had found nothing to weaken his
faith in these doctrines but ON the con-
trary on every hand he had found evil
dence of the divinity Of this work.