Show AIMS AND OBJECTS I A l BY OA8KELL But faitb fanatic faith once wadded fast To some dear falsehood hugs it to the last Moore The world owes me a living and I will have it has been called tile i ogues motto So it is when that living is to be obtained anyhow and in any manner regardless of honesty of deal the rights of others or sympathy sym-pathy for the sufferings and sorrows sor-rows of misfortune The world owes all of us a livingthat is if we are industrious prudent and economical l and work for what we want But too many people are like the old man upon his deathbed was said to be When he understood he was to die he called his sons to his bedside and said John get money I get it honestly if you can he i made a pause and then shortly afterwards concluded but get money anyhow It would be better bet-ter howeer not to get money unless un-less we cau get it honestly To rob and oppress the widow and the fatherless to i t enrich ourselves to filch from others or to take advantage ad-vantage of their necessities to up build our fortune will never lastingly las-tingly benefit us What is got easy generally goes easy few preserving an equilibrium of conduct in the full glare of a suddenly acquired prosperity Wealth and position at the cost of injustice and wrong bring no blessing with thempeace and happiness under such conditions condi-tions are not increased as was the widows cruise of oil and either ourselves or our children or our childrens children will have to pay for such wrong and perhaps pay dearly too Many a blessing descends by hereditary descent rnd so do punishment and curses and all by natural and physical laws from which there is no escape Nature seldom if ever turns from her course at the calls of charity or mercy and If dragons teeth are sown some one early or late must reap the harvest Ill gotten wealth is a curse as clinging and as destructive to moral worth and excellence ex-cellence as was physically the poisoned poi-soned tunic to Hercules It may surround us with creature comforts and beauties and supply the wants of passion to satiation but as the apples ap-ples of Sodom they become as ashes to our use as the waters of Marah they will become bitter and nauseous nause-ous Nature it the most kind and bountiful boun-tiful provider but to enable her t > give forth ot her abundance we must assist her Well tilled fields plentifully supply the necessities and reward the dilligence and toils of the husbandman but to cause those fields to give forth their full strength the weeds must be pulled up the ground be kept moist and mellow Nor can we anywhere find anything given for nothing for fruits are spontaneous in growth they have to be gathered and stored till time of future scarcity nor were they without price to be had for the askincr would they be valued as the cost of production pro-duction always an important factor fac-tor in the valuation of a substance of whatever kind nature Action labor in some form or other is uni vernally displayed throughout the universe II we seek legitimate wealth we must strive and labor and toilif we seek wisdom we must study and observe and be ready to hold fast to every coign of advance Knowledge is the chid of experience born of suffering and failure being the garnered results of countless lives of lives successful and of lives clouded in gloom ana misfortune Items have been gathered gath-ered up one by one have been compared com-pared tested and proven to be true or false and if found true were stored away for future use and reference ref-erence Generations have been but as the links in the chain of knowledge knowl-edge each one adding to the whole So with everything else Ask and ye shall receive say the scriptures but that asking must ba accompanied accom-panied by deeds and acts Faith witnout works is dead say they again faith is the Incentive teJ actionit points ever to a reward in wisdom in substance or in position posi-tion pointing to heaven eventually as a magnet to the Polar star It is the assurance of things hoped for As hope it shines amid the thunderladen darkening storm the obscuring blackness of misfortune giving earnest as a tow of promise of future calm and peace and the recurrenceof seed time and harvest Faith is one of the most valuable gifts a person can have in possession posses-sion for aiding on the accomplishment accomplish-ment of a purpose or a certain work in human affairs as well as in religion In human affairs it begets confidence and certainty of action and in religion it is the foundation of all of it It may be faith in a good or faith in a bad cause yet it IS equally necessary to the success of boat cause be it what it may It is the compass pointing ever to the end successpointing ever to the aims and purposes of life as developed by the desires and won by the unswerving actions of individuals In religion it points ever as the aim of existence to salvation sal-vation and life eternalto immortal association with the good and great It cheers on the weary footsteps of the blind wanderer in the mazy I labyrinth of life or over the burning burn-ing deserts and wastes of human selfishness and sin to those thither shores of existence where eternal verdure waves and celestial fountains foun-tains of righteousness send forth their sjarkllng streams joining In the rejoicing refrains of the angels and the praises of the redeemed Whether as prophets and religious I reformers as statesmen and war riors or as discoverers and inventors invent-ors each person that has achieved success in his sphere has been noted as much for the determination determina-tion and energetic perseverance he used as for the victory he won One was conquered and despondent de-spondent before the other and they were relatively in ratio exhibited similarly A Mahomet had a faith as strong as a Luther a Calvin a Wesley or Joseph Smith According to our ideas it may not have been as true as pure and as free from sin and error yet ic was as powerful in upholding and cheering cheer-ing his soul when under persecution and trouble and as active in developing devel-oping him and defining his purposes pur-poses shaping his aims and leading him on to final victory and triumph as in any of the later cases A Washington Wash-ington or a Napoleon had equally a faith in their eventual success but were not equally as pure in their desires The former sought victory for his country the latter for himself him-self and the accomplishment of his own ambitious purposes Gallileo had faith in himself and a confidence confi-dence in the truth of his discovery of planetary rotation though the whole world OL churchmen said he was wrong and fulminated against him the spiritual thunders of the church When Columbus discoveredor rediscovered if we believe the Book of Mormon or the Scandinavian and Icelandic sages and traditions of the Northmen their explorations in Vineland after nineteen years of anxious watching and weary waitingAmerica he presented an example of faith and reliance in his own judgment and knowledge noble and inspiringand worthy of all emulation and following follow-ing |