The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-25
"On the Straightaway Track. -

after he had finished his Sunday din
-er and complimented his wife on its
excellence, Colonel Sneed lighted his
cigar and strolled around the corner TO
his son-in-law's home.
81 come over" he said, after the usual
ssutations, to see if anything's wrong
,ri-b vou-aH. Didn't notice you at
.burch this morning, an come to think
,e # L don't recoIlect SEEM you there
fast sunday. What's the matter, Will
Ham2'
well. the fact is, colonel answered
,ouug Rollins, that we didn't get up
fbis morning until it was rather late to
dress for church"
You see, papa added Mrs. Rollins,
eff was nearly midnight before we got
home last night, and we just had to get
some rest, you know
.0f course, Of course" said the col
o,a1. that's one of the things that Sun
DAVIS supposed TO be made for. Some
folks cut il clear out of the calendar
and sleep all day. But, Bill, you don't
have any trouble getting down town on
time week day mornin's, do your
Certainly not. I'm at my Office right
OH the dot every day
Even if you were out late the night
bsfore?'
of course. I can't allow our diver
gfons 10 interfere with business"
No, indeed said the colonel, that
would never do. Still, I've noticed in
The course Of some sixty-Odd years of
observation that the sun usually rises
about the same time on Sunday morn
I'M as on Monday mornin', and that
eight hours on Saturday night is just as
long as eight hours on Friday night.
Eight hours sleep ought to be enough
for any we'll man or woman, but it's
mighty easy to tack on a few an per-
suade yourself that you couldn't get
along without EN-. There's a million
excuses for sleepin' late on Sunday
r0ornin'. and none of them's any ac-
count. It's Just laziness, Bill, pure, IN
aduIterated laziness. That's what it is.
We're all af US lazy. more or less, most
Is more, and it's a powerful temptation
10 loaf in bed until the church bells
quit Yingin'; but all the same, children,
its a bad habit to get into.
You know we'll enough that your old
daddy amt pillar of the church, and
reckon if they was to send out a search
party after new deacOns I'd be about
the last man they'd pick: but l come to
Ile CONCLUSION a long dSO lndl lAlS
church is a mighty good thing TO hitch
ON to. whether you're figuTin' on happi-
ness in this world or the next. I don {
mean to say that the churchill carry a
man into heaven. Not by a long jump.
Anybody can join the church, but get
tin through the pearly gates is a diff
fGrent proposition. Some of the mean
est. no 'countest people I ever had any
deahn's with belong to the church, and
If I thought they had through tickets
to the green fields of Eden I'd want to
go the other way. But I know they
haven't. I know they'll all be brushed
of when they try 10 come under the
wire at the finish, and so the things
they do and the things they say don't
bother me a little bit.
"On the other hand, I believe a man
or q woman. if they've got the right
kind Of q disposition and the necessary
stiffness of backbone, can worry along
through life and get satisfa ctOrily set
tied in the hereafter without any help
from the church. But-and 7 can't
make that but too strengths only
one in a thousand who can do that. The
other 999 need some help TO keep 'em