Arizona republican., 1917-11-19
HEAP BLESS|NCSOR
 CURS|NGS BY LIFE

Two texts were chosen by the Rev. J. E. Yates for his sermon yester day at the Latter Day Saints chapel as follows:
 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse.' Deut. Il, 26:
 The curse causeless shall not come.
 A blessing and a curse has been set before us all, each day of our lives. We reap blessings or cursings today as a result of our decisions and actions during a succession of ! yesterdays. What We are today is merely the sum total of all that we ! have thought and done up to this hour.
 r Our destiny in eternity is to be wholly determined, whether good Or 1 bad by what we think and what we do today and each successive to- morrow while time is ours. Curses do not fall upon sinful men merely because God has decreed that they 1 shall, but because it is a part of the -unchangeable law of cause and effect. The same is true of blessings and God has stated it so, not to make 1t true, but because it is true. Blessed is the man who has true friends, but in order to have them, he must be one himself
 The greatest blessings to- men from God are not bestowed from without, but spring from within. Conformity to the law of the Lord constructs the most powerful dynamo, in the universe, generating a current ol blessing which floods homes with the truest light and furnishes power for | e pf af rl,+; e-t work ever designed by men or angels Blessed is the soul that revels ir the luxuries of peace, but the pre- tense of peace in the ungodly life is at best an illfitting mask which sooner or later becomes a misery tt the wearer.
 Blessed is the home where husband and wife cultivate the flower of for bearance, and where the lily of fl. delity to the marriage vow is pre- served untarnished; but woe to the home where the fragrance of sucl bloom is destroyed by the noxious poison of sin, for purity of charactel ends where purification of moralit, begins. Blessed is the man who in all his doings keeps a conscien. tious line drawn between. that whicf is right and that which is wrong; fol he shall find peace, even in diversity but woe to every one who lives care | lessly concerning so great a matte, for calamity and cursings will sureI, overtake them. Cursed is the ma, who gets gain by fraud and oppres sion, for he may enjoy his spells fo season, but this cannot compensat t for the loss of true delights to whicl he will awaken when morose ha clarified his vision.
 Cursings do not wait for the fire of hell; nor blessings for the glorie Of heaven before they become op erative, but either becomes effectiv here and now according to the char acter of our works. The curse o blighted homes and ruined lives eve Turk. with poisonous venom to strike where men and women indulge i the public dance, whether it be con ducted in the reckless abandon 0 careiessness and sin. or a ritual cloa of religious piety: but many do no discern that fact or are indifferen to 1t until it is too late
 The only remedy for sin and CUTS ings Is repentance; the only safet is abseinence and the only true an permanent blessing is obtained b obedience to the everlasting gospe Hear the words of the great teacher Come unto me all ye that labor ar, are heavy laden and will give yo rest. Blessed are they that do Hi commandments. that they may hay a right to the tree of life and ma enter in through the gates into tn ".