Show fr prospects asp acts the ground ia is dryer than it has been een at this thim season of the tho year for tile the past seven years tho grasshoppers have done dons and are doing doing considerable damage da inage indge clouds appear and arid disa disappear er without dropping rain upon tile the valle valie valleys and what is to be b done dolie and what 14 u to liappes li appen trust in it the lord plant sow eow irrigate odd adil to your faith falth patience and rest assured blidt tiie the almighty will overrule not only the eie ele elements ments but lut all fill things for th the welfare of his saint saints the going forth of truth and tile tiie cutting his work short la n righteousness however ina lna inasmuch as a few fow of the tile timid are shaking in their shoes lest a lamine famine ia Is decreed it may not bo a amiss amis to tb callily consider a ten points S in ili which we are li kl ail all 11 famine or no fan far famine iline there thero is probably not even evena evens a professed promised faint paint not to courine confine the question to saints ln aee dut what came into it to these valleys a dived resolution and stroll strong g determination det erml ermi aaion ailon to do tim lim will of the tho lorland Lor dand to strictly follow ilia tile counsel of his servants what has there been to prevent rit lit tiie the utmost ful ailment of the great object of our being here 7 nothing but ourselves what lil ill there therb ever be b nothing but ourselves whether in prosperity ril rii y or adversity health or sick or famine there ia Is no leason reason reason aliat ilmoni u person ili in tillers should not walk ili in tho the light of tila the countenance of the most alost high rejoice id IA his ills spirit hini and enjoy that falth faith tind and hore hofe which above abito file trifling cares and ai pi of this tel I 1 brief probation we are far from mobs molls far fromm the crowded crow dd dwelling places of the wie wic and through the tho week our cars are not by tho iho fol ool of lie obscene and owr our minds aad and bacs boks qi re e net ilet kept upon tila ilia to lo resie a livelihood for ourselves und offspring frain rom the hand fraud of the ibe deceitful decel ful and oppressive our vur gur pure and mr fali wire hire ii iwa s and daughters tire not subject 10 0 o die I 1 wili wily I 1 arh of the unhallowed seducer lor compelled by tho iho iron hand of want to barter their forillo for fori foo loo and raiment sabbath we arent obliged bilged 0 to feed upon the ito lynsky ks 1 med ind and hireling but ut are blessed w oje oie dju privilege of receiving i ng spiritual atrev ote ate 0 o living oracle oracles sauk sank saud end and of or being gamed ji it oti oil daily dally walk arid and dutle dutte bythan light which cometh comelli from above and is again fr freely eely shed abria fb 10 theu ri vait cf ul till who al walk without culle guile an 1 nd 14 wil wll without hypocrisy wo lyno cari can the enjoy and contrast coul rast thein tile spiritual it ard distress is the earli alvi wih the tra bitter N tt ars krs ArB of clime cilmo and its ils Non ebalo ebato ebale A whose mind is lit fit ip vp by tile tik candle candie af fa ibe the ibo jaon plon and alid unless that Is i kept carefully V 1 and tind burning barning it wll wil be remove til tit and net hil the c 1 ati from ilia tila ver very contrast will be becee cRe cro dense derise and the condemnation ahki and pair t must of necessity be far merto severe in albrect P proportion to P to the rejection of greater i i ties these truths nw raw to the thee sin sid btty btag not always that persons stop to refi rell get oct apold wisely use the tho information in their possess 1 essig essid ibri li hence when the body is worn word doum by bt wil oil t bil ald aud the mind distracted by cares carm the spirit olan vian fo liable to become unduly inAnen ced ceJ by the i a aber sary of truth and to lose sight vot tot things as they were are and are to come therefore ilie llie wis his so very strange when garden after garden gamin anu ana field after field are stripped bare of mg the 1 yon arid and promising results of foresight and toil toll that here bere aud and there one should occasionally become despondent and forget for fora forn a momen inocent ino rno ment t that there thera is a G god od in tit heaven who provid etil etli seed 1 i m e a ind harvest and who alone nione tile tho iscra increase is e such however being the fact and we being here hero toda hii hig will we repeat dial th atit it sir simply devolves devol upon U bim LIM us ils to w wisely isely us use usa tie tle tle tie diligence in intelligence telli gence means and ud opportunities placed nt at our control tu ba be careful to increase in cressa creasa daily ili in faith and obedience that ile he who boeth all alt ence nee and then rest assured things aright will ill overrule th tho the e elp ele elements ments and arid order the dispensations of hi provi dences for the tiie welfare of his people ia leaning ning upon the tha devil aad and trusting to the tile world will prove to be but a dependence that will most assumedly assuredly fail and piere piers 1 the soul with ith sorrow ro v for fr they til y are exceedingly busy in their own vocation for usurping the dominion of this earth and will u II 11 not extend means and fac illies to those whose profession requires them to oppose all evil unless they them it imagine ta tint lat thereby they can alburo ule vie henl heni n i fro from M lle ile I 1 the lie li pith itil of 11 |