| Show 1476lellICATza I Tilt IIU W CIIWE I Many considerations nnd element enter > Into the formation of human livels Whal these think about makes or mat the books they rend color the fish rrcctc 1nd association do determine deter-mine In great part what an IndivIdual may become rrom this pretty well I determined conclusion much of the counsel given Is I based As a man thlnketh BO he Is I say a an observant writer X mans rending la I ore of the touchstones by which one Intelligent mind estimates and weighs another Evil communication old Paul corrupt good mann and tho old English versifier claimed that one sickly sheep affects the nock and poisons poi-sons all the rest Bo the Idea has tho sanction ot human expeilence phil ewophers agree to It educators seek to fortify the plastic mind against the In llucicea of evil while Apostlea nnd holy men under Inspiration approbate as It twere fundamental truth J It Is I asserted by physicists and physiologists that Ihe man Is I affected fundamentally by that which he eats and that through sympathy the mind becomes affected In tome mysterious and undetermined way through diet In the course ot time home have said that the submissive character of the Chinese and Hindoos Is the result of vegetable diet acting upon their generations gen-erations and that British pluck and Indian perversity are due In the first nstance to animal food and In the alter to their methods of life and war Knowing onessay that when they are worked up to a high state of bloodshed and vengeance the drinking of human blood Is a stimulus beyond contradiction contradic-tion Whether an abnormal appetite for hog meat would make a7 man hoggish or Uint one who uses much mutton will become heeplh may not hMO been determined by scientific methods or Is I probably not yet clear But it has been determined that ns diet does affect the physical BO also does the mental pabulum supplied the mind determine the mental development develop-ment at mono nnd a man speech will often betray 1y his expressions the special drift nndcnllber oMhe one to whom men listen It used to be said that the fecundity I I of the Irish peasantry was a consa to Qngya apt quence of st oi n flu m Dillon and theorlsts have claimed that the phod Pharos In I fish made It a peculiarly suitable l food for the student and thinker brain food U was called But whether oatmeal or finnln hnddl la most potent In the tissues and makeup make-up at nn average Secsichnian probably only few can tell Science has not essayed es-sayed to establish the Idea that Yar mouth or Douglas men are any more brainy than others because of bloaters any more than religionists would claim for the fishermen of Galileo special mental or spiritual preeminence because be-cause to their profession Nevertheless diethas been legislated upon from time Immemorial One ot tile earliest Communications made to Adam and Eve WO In regard to what they should eat andtho Mo sale economy was In part devoted to declaring things clean and unclean and commending or commanding In regard re-gard to one or the other In our very early experiences of association with members of the Church after some years ot dietary consideration and practice the question vas asked ol the most devout hether living In nn era of socalled revelation any restrictions as to diet Iad been placed upon the Church members Tho reply was no which brought out the rejoinder that If the new system was erlly and Indeed In-deed divine sooner or later that regulation regu-lation was ureand the pccochlng ot he Word Wlslom Was not longde ay ed to the half consternation of some and tile general abandonment ot he old fashioned tea party which nl that dot was as much of n feature ot their social gatherings as It was among the sectarian churches Both under Moses and under Christ blood was prohibited upon the argument ar-gument that It was the life but Is I blood the life or Is I It the vehicle used hs the Indwelling spirit for the anslrnl fiction of material things by the body The Spirit Is life according to good authority and no better recognised Teacher than Jesus ever declared one side of the truth at least when He Paid It Is I not that which Booth Into the mouth that dcOleth a man but that which cometh out of ho mouth tilts denicth a man The punctilious harlsees were offemlel at this being ticklers for the law and the commen fairies thereon which constituted a burthen grlevou to be Write Hre the Savior eluded their quibbling spirit and thrust home that Inner meaning which gives the key to the present consideration Applicable to this It may be said 1 that a Kuud tree brlngeth forth good fruit and a corrupt tree rlngeth forth evil fruit and no fountain can yield nt the same time alt water anti freh Tile I natural man seems to absorb i evil and by virtue ot agency elects to prefer It he Is I weak and susceptible he Cuts forbidden fruit ho drink stolen vvjtus and rejects the bread unit water of life and his spiritual itiimlni Is I affected I > the varied thnnt around him Invlrnment Is I In Part i Ills life virility depends upon bisi surroundings Ion might transit trans-it I Chlmie Infant Into I Christian house and lie would doubtless become I s Chrlttlnn mid vice versa Just ns the child of leflnement and civilization a I captured by an Indian becomes nn Indian after all he Is I dwarfed and stunted he partakes through the senes poKk and resources ot his IIres surround lag Not to make the contrast tew striking r move at an early age the child of cultured parents establlsn him In the midst of dissipation let all his surroundings be criminal and 1m moral and It would be contrary to experience ex-perience to find In him a lofty type ot all the virtues The boy who acquires a habit of reading prurient literature and continues It In 1 manhood literatureff apt to become sensual O a moral wreck Observation has proved that the reading of a local dally paper In gone by 1 demoralized whole households and uprooted the faith which had withstood years ot persecution and variety of trial A dentine reader In the mind eye Is I ao saturated with the nomenclature of science that greater truths are halt lost In tho verbiage of words An Individual In-dividual raised until past maturity In the Methodist church receives the Gospel Gos-pel and dies at a good old age but In his phraseology and quotallons he won wo-n Methodist to the day of his death Thousands who gather to Utah from wlo foreign lands IiI master the language guage ot their adopted country All over the wide world are persons from I the different counties of England who I nr lose the twang of early days the Scotchman Irishman Welshman otter enlarged travel and much human friction hardly ever become changed In tone and accent though they are cosmopolitan In thought and denatlo allzed In habit or action Associations mental moral and religious re-ligious do affect the mal Ills eduea tlon his development his aspirations are very much under the control of lur oundlngs and as most observers thInk the result are Been and realIzed real-Ized most easily nnd keenly when the discipline and surroundings are applied I and purified in the morning hours of I youth Parents teachers guardians of the unsophisticated and unperverted minds of youth should make It as much a matter of anxious solicitude I that companionship I including mental I I and spiritual food shall be nourishing and healthy as pure and unadulterated I as are the supplies for securing a vigorous vig-orous long lived perfect physique The Latterday Saints cannot build to I their destiny on any other foundation The end thpy seek cannot be achieved only through unremitting undaunted I spiritual und religious faith and habit I Schools and institutions can only minister min-ister I In this 1 direction as their cant amna I leus comprehend the work on hand and i the essentials of success I True education aim to round the I man It will pot cultivate or overbalance overbal-ance one port of the fabric at the expense ex-pense pf another nor can I Ignoru neglect Or belittle attributes or faculties facul-ties as they pre True educators whether divines sclentlats or special profceaors must think and seek unit edly tb harmonize the delllond ot organization t horonlze ganliatlon which Includes the physical moral muitnl and rellglou that the I pupil i or student may bo thoroughly furnished unto every good word and I work Broad most whore equilibrium Is I above ouspirlonprid whose complhen lion ot manhe fromilhine uuree tire needed moie now than at any1 other potential po-tential period nt human history for everything Ithfory or practice that can be shaken will be In the fervent and t searching processes ot the great last days when the batnught are very numerous anti the teachers but = few I |
