Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1911-04-28
Moral Standard.
tcontlnued from last weekl

partly sentiment ana partly OF reason.
That there ls higher aud lower
virtue of which mao naturally per
takes 10 bis rational state.
A life Of virtue is very essential TO
n pleasant and happy life, bat some
pleasure also must cnms TO make life
enc OF we'll being. Nowadays we are
impelled TO make use OF the practical
phases OF life and these truly look on
both sides OF mans nature. The two
moral types are considered both 10
actual life aud IN philosophy. In
every community we cen easily dis.
tinguished the stern mau OF reasou
from the sausuous man OF Instinct.
We all. l think, look upon ourselves
as instruments which reflect i'm
pulses and Civilizations Pleasure is
not excluded from a perfect life, but
included 10 it.
with the usheriug 10 OF Christianity
Pagauism found its defeat. OhristaDi-
~ teaches that q good life 10
rational life, life wherein reason
must guide and be master. 1t also
rsco an Uses the rights OF patuIe or In
stiuct. Each man must win the crown
of Joy by experiencing both rein end
pleasure. The rational spirits ccn-
sists OF Goth reason aud nature. Man
lsbors and gradually rsises himself
from evil to goodness; his narrow and
and sefish self dies. ~bile his larger
and uuselflsh self lives. The Son OF
man came eating and drinking, shar-
Ing mans common life aud realizing
the divine ideal In IL. Even so, by
his lowly and willingly acceptance Of
a human life Ia the entirely OF Its
actual relations, did be trans1gura
that life ny turning to devine account
of all it's uses aud occasion. by
making of each an element in the life
OF goodness.
To cot good We must have good To-
tentions. Sometimes wa may have
,s-a4At -tenticus. act good spd TIE re
snltx hs5. Again BAD scNIon mss
lead 70 a86d .rssoit qps mIRm
alm coin at a heeper's head aud
miss the mark T,o teRgsr picks ~
the cain aud feed bis hungry stomach.
hut the morality Of any action truly
depeuds upon the motive by wbicb
we act. We do not aud cannot right.
fully Judge the act by its result, but
by the purpose of the actor. The
feeling OF good oonscisnoe is good
morals. A determined effort to pro.
duce a good result though It may fail
to produce the good 10 from moral
point OF view a supreme good. Again
person flight have good intentions
and not make efforts to be moral,
such person is not acting morally.
Talented and rich meu are moral only
when they subordinate those powers { !
high results The happiness which
they produce is regarded as good only
on the conditions that the coed lie
produced viii good will.
think to get a code OF moral rules
10 follow In OF no use for the action
Cf one person may not b" proper
while for another person that same
ection would be proper rs circum
stances are not always the same nor
IL every mind always looking along
the same path. A code OF moral rules
does not include the big and rec.
ognlzsd rules OF morality as they are
the first and universal principles such
ss theft, murder ungrauted by law,
wilfuL prevsrication, suicide etc.
Every person lie duty bound TO give
his best services to ell humanity and
to be able to do that be mDst live In
a way that he will be worthy, able
and competent to give his beet pos
sible services. That means that one
must will to produce healthy mind
and body.
"Tl act that the rule on which
you act would admit of being adopt