Show for the deseret news A chapter ampter on Resti restitution tation MR in the main our conceptions of the grand work of restitution in ia the last days are am but speculative and superficial As in many other matters aters pertaining to the welfare of mankind in this also the mass of us are apt to be content with admiration of the beautiful theory overlooking the plain substantial reality A few suggestions will not perhaps be amiss growing as we are a great people among these mountains around us to an eminent degree are a the elements to make us truly great not in numbers only but in wisdom power of intellect muscular strength activity beauty and perfection of form indeed a every requisite for a most perfect development of the organs digs functions and faculties of man to compare mans man Is present with his primeval estate shows a fearful degeneracy his physical force la is abated and his bis age greatly diminished his energy and endurance visibly decreased our F father ather adam lived nine hundred and thirty years abraham lived an hundred and seventy five moses lived an hundred and twenty years year s and his eye wag waa not dim nor ner his natt natural iral f force orce abated job after all his bis afflictions lived an hundred sad Q I 1 forty years it is now BOW computed that a generation passes way overy every thirty years why so BO groat great a decline ask the thousands of crowded cities who but seldom breathe i air ask the thousands nods whose are never strained by labor ask the thousands who fare sumptuously every day ask the thousands who eat more in one day than should be eaten in a week ask the thousands who never find time to masticate their food but crew cram it down whole to sour and rot in the stomach aeb the thousands w alio ho distract di tract their nerves by the use of tobacco tea coffee and other poisons who boil the blood by spices who ossify the broin brain by alcohol or obstruct perspiration by or injure the internal organs by external pressure or acquiring an unnatural posture and who are continually in a thousand ways violating the unchangeable laws of being and that too for the most part unconsciously from the force of false education and tradition can we marvel that our days are few and full of trouble that our years are made up of pain and disease and premature death ifa if a restitution or restoration is to take place where shall it begin among the heavenly bodies the earth the beasts beasto thereon no it must begin with man alan his fall brought the he curse upon tile earth and everything on it and his bis restitution must remove that curse no theory however perfect eau can alone bring to pass this restitution the mind may expand and contemplate the glory and excellence and fullness of the plan of restitution its happy affe effects teta upon creation but unless the practical fundamental laws of improvement in the physical as well as mental man main are reduced to every day life and rigidly enforced regardless of tradition or custom progress will be slow indeed if you have advanced so far in years that habit has become nature see to it thild that your e children n are set on the right track teach them the laws of health as well da aa the laws of god I 1 indeed the they are both one lead the infants feet in t the e path that uncorrupted nature dictates la lay the foundation for future eminence and usefulness in an iron constitution be not overanxious over anxious that your ell children I 1 I 1 dr en 8 should hou I 1 d be prodigies in intellect before they are am men in strength destroy not bot their bodies by too early confinement in school give them their perpetual fill of exercise instruct them in honesty sincerity virtue charity humility it ty submission AT have wd and when they shall have become somewhat matured in I 1 inthey if they lack farther knowledge send them where i they may obtain it and they will acquire and retain more in one year yaw than they do now in fifteen and when acquired they will then alien have physical stamina to impel the giant intellect without which the most brilliant talents or attainments tain ments are futile bitile they will then have truth implanted in their hearts as an anchor to the soul 1 both sure and steadfast that all the powers of hell bell cannot remove ye saints do ye pray for the progress of the tte work of god and me restitution of all things spoken by the mouths month of alt all the holy prophets since the world began do you desire to we see a pure pirre and my holy generation raised up p unto the lorm lord do you want ant a mighty might I 1 az and powerful nation mi mighty in ia faith at powerful aortal in acao action on to sustain the ty adt rd balti b burden u e n and maintain in the ascendancy whose bivs shall behold the fourth and fifth generations of their children 7 establish the laws of natu nature re and of natures god in your houses and teach them to your offspring thus shall zion boast of noble sons and fair daughters and so shall man be brought back into the presence of his maker G S L CITY jan 1 1854 PAULOS |