Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-11
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Rev. Albert Buxton States Plainly
Some Causes for Effects Which
Work for His Downfall.

''Who sent Tom to holl2" was the
theme of an interesting sermon de-
llvered last evening by Rev. Albert
Buxton, of the Central Christian
church. After reading from the
Scriptures of the solicitude of King
David for his Maynard son Absllom,
Mr., Buxton said in part:
''David's grief over his erring boy
was genuine, but too late. The time
for his paternal solicitude was durins
the tender years of the boy He
would have given his kingdom Tor ms
boy at the wrong time--at the right
time he should have given the boy
simple protection.
The kings fault Is our govern
mental fault today. The chief con-
Germ should be the protection OF the
growing manhood and womanhood OF
the nation. Politicians talk bravely
of protective policy--and they
mean mere hides and wool. the
chief American product is American
manhood. Utah sends her souvenir
postcards, 'Utahs Chief Product. The
protection of these babies should be
the paramount political issue of the
state. Our fathers started with only
manhood for capital and have coined
gold. You may pitch all our coinage
into mid-ocean, and if this were
completely righteous people. in hVe
years We would again be the richest
nation on the globe.
That boy Tom was composite BOY,
reared in a pure country home to high
ideals. His entrance to city life faint
ed his lofty principles The deacon
he thought he was to sell for taught
him the very first morning not to sell
cigars--but to gamble them away; ana
to rattle a watch-and to Taught at
preachers who objected. although the
United States that has put down the
Louisiana lottery would send it's mar
shall 100 miles to arrest one VINO
would advertise the rattle.
Tom saw an officer chase boy a
mile for riding his wheel carelessly
on the sidewalk, and 1t cost him So
for tlisrespect for the sacred sidewalk
He saw an officer take In charge an
unsophisticated countryman, and hold
him In Jail two days waiting trial FOR
hitching his horse to a lamp post
so strenuous was the respect for TINS
totem pole And yet. when citizen
protested that Tom was sent on an
errand to wait 10 minutes in a den of
ill-fame. the police merely looked at
the ledger to see If the regular IL
cense had been paid, and turned the
complaint down with laugh. Fro
lection OF the sacred sidewalk. of tho
fetch lamp post, of the tax receipts
were more holy than the safety OF
Tom. And what wonder that Tom
went down. until the night before his
execution he wrote his mother that
he was going to hell the next day.
who sent Tom to he'll? His faith
err. who cared more for his farm than
his boy. His sweetheart, who laugh
ed at his waywardness and said. oh,
Won naughty boy with such a tap that
he was hayward some more for an
other pat His preacher. who preach.
ed on The Philosophy of the Plan OF
Salvation when he should have been
planning to save Tom. The deacon,
who said politics. O., civic clean
nesst-should be kept out OF the pull
pit. and the message should be the
gospel meaning some husks of the
gospel, some quarrel about baptism or
some theory of atonement. The city
and county and state and national Of
ficers, whose concern was revenue, not
Toms ruin.
who might save Tom? You men
when YOU wake to care for Tom and
TO vote for him. In spite of the ward
heelers' hook for your nose, or their
specious and empty platform for your
ballot