Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-06-12 | Page 6 | Good Advice

GOpD ADVICE. Joseph F. Smith: What Is tho good of further pre-teneo, pre-teneo, Joseph F. ? You know It Is all a game on your part. Down In your heart you do not believe that you aro called of God to rule over mankind. The Lord Almighty does not tell you that it Is your right to bind on earth and loo.9o In heaven, or vice versa. The Creator of tho Universe has not reposed in you the authority to direct the affairs of three hundred and fifty thousand people; and the proof of that assertion Is found In the fact that He has not endowed you with the wisdom or the unselfishness requisite for tho proper discharge of such authority. Really. It Is dangerous to yourself and to your schemes to keep up tho fiction much longer. You can now retire re-tire with a competency that wealth for which your soul has always yearned. TV'hy not do so, and lhe upon your gains, rather than to continue con-tinue your accumulations and Jeopardize Jeopar-dize your gains? It can't last, you know. These things never do. After a while your people will "get on to your syBtem," and they Will refuse to longer support you as a revelator or follow you as a prophet; they will c?ape to hew wood and draw water that you may be maintained In luxurious Indolence. And It Is quite certain, too that the law will mnk-you mnk-you disgorge; It will dissolve your improper im-proper and Illegal scheme of extortion The prophet business has been sufficiently suf-ficiently profitable to you. You may count yourself lucky tho luckiest of all men living that with your meager abilities you have been able to realize such big returns. Do not commit the folly which characterizes most grafters graft-ers who continue their gome until they are caught and punished. Be w ise In your day and generation. To quote the language of your fellow sports. "Cash In your chips while you are winner." This is good advice. It copts you nothing to take It; and by taking It you may preserve yourself and your family In aftluence instead of provoking provok-ing your followers to attack your holding hold-ing of wealth which they havo produced, pro-duced, with a possibility that you may be left In tho poverty of finance, which Iff the twin of your poverty of soul.