Show A alim TO i C hitov y i 1 iti rati ml LAST DAY ie year 18 bean stormy anil cheerless the sun lad burst through the snow laden c louda but once or twice during the day to light the dying yeara to its exi tinto eternity and the people of the little town of C in utah were hurrying along at the close of tuo day anxious to reach their comfortable homce where blazing firca mocked ahe shrieking wind which on the outs lda droye the snow in drifts at the population of C was not very great nor were there residents of the little alid could boast tit their opulence but avey we re an industrious and hardworking com had succeeded in surrounding themselves with most of the comforts 01 life the absence oflus amply compensated fur by the happiness ak nual adge of ahe performance of duty bogod to neighbor to country and to self is certain to create the majority of the people who comprised this happy liello jonm members bribe mor 1 1 inon church I 1 they r acre staunch adherents to its principles and by example were faithful exponents of its doctrines they hail been united in lv when the rude log cabin with its mud and roughly constructed windows and door was the most pretentious domicile they could provide for themselves and cow these had displaced by more pleas ing structures of a more advanced order of architecture and which the eidia of the broad and well kept streets each loved his neighbor as himself and wished no ill to anyone aa few months before the close of th e yead above referred to there came into this happy community a young man who bj reason of the profession he had choden or perhaps the prof castou his parents had chueca for hin iwas enabled to inake u se ortho arelis reverend cheole kittil cause to transfer his patronymic to paper M L valley linnae or to be more correct the itea M L valley he waa accompanied by bis difo and two little children a boy and a garl and had been cent Q utah by the charch of which be claimed to be a to perform a missionary labor among the mor mons in the town of C which bo bad fixed epou aa ahlai there were a few who professed the earne faith as the mr valley yet ahey never obtruded religious opinions upon the majority of the residents if their town who were cormons mormons Mor mons they were willing to allow their neighbors to at the altara of be faith to which they were devoted while the cormons mormons never interfered with the religious devotions af their arienda who preferred the doctrines doctrin cs of the church which the key mr valley represented the newspaper reports of the aila ces which bad attended alie afaf hinr rev mr valley in hi former field thai been read care fully by all the people in C his bril Hancy as a public speaker and he with which lie advocated tho cause of which lie was an exponent were depicted in the Rg lowing tacitus fraim the regret which his former friends bad expressed nt bis departure from their the peo JIB amon was henceforth to pursue his choden cl luig judged that bia presence would be far fram to them indeed during the first few month of lla ministerial labors be to fully come up to their greatest expectations hid eemmons with matters of fact were polished with the choicest rhetoric rhe andi though it did not probable that he would make any new converts in J it was evident thai his followers were well with their new shepherd but life in G was too tame for the rev mr valley it evident to him that ii he would not lave bis name covered up in the pastoral heemst fiorio other course ho had read during hii hort tny in utah talca which charged every kind of diabolism against the cormons mormons Mor mons it was wetted that they acro of the moat houi practices hat their were with tho gore of those who attached themselves the melves lo 10 ent faitha from aliat they were grossly unmoral anil brought up their children in crinini nal ignorance the rev mr vat leys experience with the cormons mormons Mor mons with whom bo was perforce brought in cose contact gave liim proof of the absurdity and utter falseness of these charges but hii soul ached for notoriety arid he finally determined that if he could accomplish his ambition in no other way he would descend to the villi fi calion of the cormons mormons Mor mons he carefully advertised his intention of riving ou a certain sunday what he secretly said to himself woud be the hardest blow that had ever received from the pulpit sunday came and the little church aher 0 the rev mr valley usually expounded what ho considered to bo tho doam nea of the great master was crowded all his own ful lowera were present the balance of the congregation being composed of those whom he was about to tra duac i it H unnecessary to reproduce what mr alley said on that particular sunday evening it U sufficient to state thit ho appeared app ehred during the timo occupied in caration pa ration of hla subject to have metamorphosed himself a sponge he had absorbed all the craib which came in his way had held it till the time for the squeezing pro cei and then had squirted all that ho had absorbed at his congregation gre gation and to carry the comparison still farther that which had been absorbed hen ejected waa almost in the same condition as before it was the samo old dirty water with perhaps a lion of dirt which it had acquired iu passing through the sponge in question the same bloodcurdling tales and anathemas ana themas were echoed iu this little church in C aa they had echoed and re echoed and re echoed again in churches in other places during the previous three decades the rev mr Val leya were all disgusted there had deeni expressions of fear that lie was getting into deep water afier lie had announced his subject and before ita delivery now those fears were confirmed the cormons mormons pitied him ilia own adherents inwardly wished their shepherd safely home in hu native detate again the rev mr valley was not lon in doubt aa to the feeling his rashness and stupidity aroused but be determined ter mined to junue the correo he had marked out fur himself the following fallowing fal lowing sunday another harangue in which tho wildest hargea were made but which he rev mr valley knew he could not the congregation at the little church gradually diminished chose who formerly had been hta adherents and supporters tho rev mr valley as he absolute stronger aien who before hia advent ia 3 had always levei on the best if term their mormon neigh tors were not inclined to blast their own happiness and neighbors simply to gratify the ambition of one who bud every lhing to nothing to loio hug tima passed along lill christ bias in the which illy prevail at this joyous if tho year the rev mr valley nd hia family were not forgotten hi s children attended he carlat maa tree which had been prepared jy abo mormon i and they returned home brimming with deight and faden with presents A sturdy good matured ariael had dropped in with a europ turkey which tho aroi ablo ahra valley had prepared fajr din ner 1 I thought anay be you would accept thu raid the farmer when io brought tha turkey 1 I relieve iu doingo I 1 would be done y you eef beef and today especial ty he show bood will to all some odthe former members 0 aia church had also remembered alio llio minister anddie fared luring season the days between and iho last day of the year glided by aud during this the rev mr valley had beba doing a great amount of thinking and the more he thought tho more perplexed ha became here bo had assailed a iwho in returning good fur carl he bad asserted n fruct which he knew go far he had unable to prove but then bo argufy to have pursued this course aud have gained tho admiration of world and eliy hould I 1 bot tread the path that leads to earh ly or seek a gilded reputation I 1 did not make the charges batt ot I 1 only ostra cased the whole community i liace pursued this coins aland haw been successful I 1 will do the same thi ee cormons mormons are insincere they to bo long suC iring and charitable but they only da this fur n purpose they profess to be friendly towards all men to be staunch supporters of liberty it is all a trick and a sham I 1 will con the fight I 1 have commenced and will push on to victory other similar thoughts occupied the mind of the reva mr valley aade sat in lia alile parlor on new years eve mrs valley and the children were gone to bed the minister had excused himself from retiring with the real of the family on the ground that ho lad edmo important matters to write about and ho desired to be left alone for a short time assoun as he was alone he drew hia chair to the stove ani began to meditate the firo bad just been replenished and the blue flames darted hither and thither in the open gratt outsider the wind howled and shrieked Tho minister was nut superstitious but he had been raised in a portion ut the country where goblin stories beio common and in his boyhood days he had read some old legends w hichi now came lack to him the faces in the fire appeared to speak to him and he was lapsing into that dreamy condition which sometimes overtakes one who knows lie is still awake but yet is occupied with other than substantial and tangible surroundings that there will be a state successive to ane mor lal condition tho rev air valley well knew lie was a firm believer in the resurrection and he as a sterling exponent of the doctrine that all men will ba judged for deeds in this life annl that upon the result of that judgment the future eternal happiness of every one depends it is true the minister relieved he was taking the proper course to secure eternal happiness and in all that ho had done he believed that in hu anxiety to secure worldly gory he had bof tha maark which circumscribed th possibility of se cu i ing an enjoyable hereafter the fire continued to sputter and the wind moaned lut the noise from either was unobserved by the rev mr valley was asleep yet he believed he was awake with him it was new years day and he was walking along the principal street of the littleto litt loto isn of 0 when he was accosted by a pleasing lady who asked jahe was the rev mr valley the minister acknowledged thai he was when acquaintance informed him that she had been looking for him an enchanting light radiated from the person of the lady and the rev mr valley was somewhat embarrassed by her easy grace but sho reassured him somewhat by wishing him a happy new year this done she bade the follow hr and without any apparent effort on his part he did BO by some ous power which his guide had possessed and which the had also seemed to acquire they were enabled to penetrate into houses without tho necessity ot having to apen a door to effect an entrance and the rev mr valley soon what he recognized recognised as the residence of one of the mormon families in C dinner was on the table and tho little folks were joyous in anticipation of plenty pudding anil other the food was blead by the father of the household and in the prayer he asked god to bacas all with health and plenty during the loftly born year ho invoked the blessings of heaven upon all of god creatures alike and prayed th at the diroe might be hastened when the will of god should bo lompon lon pon earth as it is in heaven the minister noted alie good which prevailed around hi board and would joined the company presently the conversation turned oa himself and hia recent sermons aguinel tho mor jnona were the father however had feeling for abo minister and explained that wo should always endeavor to return evil fur good it was far better to arny for choso who despiteful ly to them he said the ch ildron were to have a party during the afternoon and invitations lad been to the rev children the mathei said and alio little fulks were to dc alt they could to make them corn the children assented ami indeed were quite pleased an opportunity of helping t make liello pleasure for the luin estera BOM and daughter who ap scared ti have formed very few no e anco tho lime thea falit came to C tho guide motions to him to follow and the acen changed this kiino another bouse well known to the minister was entered but tho beail of alie family was the minister knew why the head of that family was not present lie knew that he was eating ha new years dinner in another part of the territory away from homo and its tender association because he had preferred to honor choso whom god had given him the children epoco of the absence of their father and their mother brushed away the tears that ran down her check but no word of reproach for those who had in weighed against her and had characterized her home as ft one than a brothel escaped her lips and when one sturdy lutfe fellow exi a wish that those who had been instrumental iu bringing about the separation of alj father from the bosom of his family should bo repair in kind for their injustice be was gently reproved by hid who told him that it was goda will that it was so and that he should strive not to seek revenge that all would yet be well numerous other houses were visited aud in all the same of love and charily to all was ox pressed abo minister soon found himself at home the first day of the new year was nearly spent and his darling children had returned from the party delighted with the treatment they had received and speaking only good words fr hoac with whom they had associated during tho afternoon tho rev mr valley had been too much surprised and engrossed with his own thoughts to ask many questions but ho auw found opportunity to aek who his guide was and what was the meakin oi tic sights he had seen i the answer he received was that the guideway guid ewas known among glicr associates as tho golden rule llo was about to ask what course she would have him pursue but was lo 10 find i that his friend waa gone tho surprise half awakened him he noted that the fire was still bright and he heard the wind as it whistled past on the outside lie fell to thinking of what he had seen and was soon wrapped in slumber again by ahat mysterious power which the mind acquires under the influence of slumber yeara are compressed into Be coude and the greater part of the lifetime of a man may be reviewed in the space of a few minutes it was so with the rev air valley once more he was a boy and sat in the old church which hia parents had at tended for years before their boa saw the light the clergyman a fatherly earnest old advocate of the simple faith which makes all men caval before G A true shepherd offia little flock A wave had rolled through ha state over the advent of eolie men who had been preaching in the towns and villages and proclaim ag that the heavens bad opened again and god had revealed the correct plan of salvation they lad visited the home of the now rev sir valley and as hafl the case everywhere had been met with much prejudice 1 I ho good old minister however had recommended his little alk to real the mor mons as aliey called with respect aud on this aright bunday morn in g he contrary to tho usual of his lexi from scripture selected the subject of his bermon from tho declaration af pf in dependence all men arc created equal he proceeded to show how easy it is fur buu tu overlook this important truth he warned hia bearers not to part in tle persecution of those who did not choose to believe as they believed because all had the tight to worship as they pleased if they did not care to give consideration to the doctrines doctrin ea another taught they should at least permit him to continue n his belief alio irinea of the great muster from prejudice and tho tortured of hu adherents because of their belief iu christianity were pictured in plan yet touching language and all had its effect on the aag boy abi boy that ho would make it the rule of lis life never to a man because ot his belief the llev mr valley aroused himself again but lail hardly had time tu think of bis breuni before he lapiad into again ebli time the scene was laid in 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