Show CHARITY AND BENEVOLENCE In Iii the tho Snit Salt Lake Lako OUr City JUliO 1 1000 by br ELDER JAMES E TALMAGE A AI I cT cr S of f the thi lr fl Not o n TrUe T tit of Worth Wath I to toof noa noar r r 1 of Lh of 01 anU to toh ii h ue Sick TrUlL In Gods Cod and nii OLve OlvI I 1 Spirit or of Wealth or of Ut the 1 tile the Heart l I t OC to mu mi miI I I hume from their field of o oI I lunt IiSE t I Rot the pleure i Ie ev l the of I rum SAbbath to Sa SaI Sab I elIJ oL 01 ar thou who a i fild of mla HI I work of th Church Ie I lIn and I r of c the world It te teI a I labor who I i of if the tha II nil nilI I I 4 alIa t ot of nt b de r the wealthy ot oC th I II h iiiI t strIVe to outdo one oni f I As Aa to toI t tr I r urn are by byI a aI I II I I fur tor their fellow J ith a dill to Iru iL t and thue thu to win thit the thi thet t II II t 1 a am III tt to be beI III J I I I kno that hit non of O Oj I eI j II III II lack laok of reward i i kind acte will SO go un unI I f I irI i I Hut ut one of the mOlt moe 1 I ot of a at a t II lAm 1 I I 11 i il II the tte pre I 1 hunh out hun huni i I a ot of b b II Iii rm the neld the ork 11 I r and the C cu cuLi 1 Li III leave and a Lillie I their I lIl J i to give up tam for nil Ih and hop bope I 11 it that the 1 oj what hat theli II i r g 1111 th Word of God unto 1 h I I It While I II I r 1 I nd that many man KII that tM the ai may to ao ac aoi acI i 1 I 4 t faith and my gc 0 J lir i If I s wt W are F R 1 a a 11 1111 AIRI while I can t V i I r II i man who may mayi make 1 i I ik all ui that thaI that thai thatIS IS II hall tP JOl all ait I It c that t 3 1 hae no t or rJ I Than nan who jays that thal thu thle t II h hg Jo Jl g ted and hu hae been eo e eI the I u i of cf the earl eAXt n to t l resent NOT A T ST OI OF arl ar r by many man all a a very ry vular I tr and aud pome th mil a i ho I into part paita of 01 Ini that the word ot of rU T this hili une befort I do not nott 1 II t i this tact ft for or on ago aiO I I III t not at att I Ii i t r f worth nor of I 1 r thal when the Ie r 1111 1 In th flit flesh II He WM wae fot fol fotI I j i L in by b but few hw and nd In that cLi If th Itt of the t b e b 1 I aa the truth the ver vert verI I t j I hilI t One gone forth that the thC rd vf 1 od had come corne to naught and andt t It t th the lubor or jf HIm woo who CAlled HimI Him I th li Christ hi Were Ire H HJ He HeI I J I f bi n d to IU His tomb tot tol 1 rM had Iad b t i great Feat extent Mn boon m tend rd ri nd according to 10 the Judg n m t lif f rn n failure bd ha lie fill lieI I t tV While V I 1 liv In the voice ot of the theT fI T ril ry t I 1 i gt f In lily own In InC C a tl tr at vol votes or r In direct t S Iii It a j I hOON I do not cx x 1 t II I i popular In the lif itt tir In III th lien of being t J h hi r h lit tilt tI multitude I do doT T i t t Jfe the maJ majority of I 1 i In tIe faO Cace of the e rth t Jr g n Ui neIves the o t 1 P I i In the Church of the I I Ig g Til T II P la I by Ih t r r t Jr Dr By the way on I a Fl II i I Wa was met upon the theS S I i t y 1 a Rr to this city olty who wha I alt amid sincere n H i II 1 r I old till him at al what I r ct f th p fL the oron would w uld r r It I Imparted Ih the In I i 11 onA or tw two c tr ir r In th COUr of which h l f Ila j I my el had the honor c Len b I In i the Church Then h l suit and In a em t an apology fl I g f r d to the ppl people 1 a aI I no I al a lie he Mid uld 1 was ofa of a aI 1 Ir a J I lold ti him he wu right to toi i ix fX nt f r Ih the term Mormons tIen d r 1 dd d to this b by their t os hi I upon the 5 1 IY m i tS u I II thi th early day ot of the L f ti rc t t the wa was ga I I In fart the tame fame ot of Wh rh tK 1 hd spread Pl al I tk k 1 J I ANure him t rJ I 1 r ft f Church would I r 1 8 I Rt bun or anyone alon Jr 6 g that ter term In a proper I M t ot of tat feet we know h m n b by thO who did not nol J t hu eom ome to be known r t of this f I day 4 y we w ar amp not 1 I T La as found Is its way In the die I f 1 g and We take no ot of I Ie I I b without quotation n k Y II i hUer known b by far than 1 I name of organization 11 a 1 t f Jemus JelUS Christ of 1 F h with m hi frIends my d l t t I 1 t mc k to the record of In f of old I ree 1 Vl I f w followers of Christ at I I I 1 the epithet II with all the hi I J that their Could i I n 1 word rd ana I remembered Hi Iame came followers of the I T had iel up nAme and r f I I until toay today I know knew of 1 greater ater honor than that 0 h It being called a Christan ChristIan bat greater r on one i Is bing being a Chrie t l I fly IGNORANCE TO 1 N ilie Moreo JOMO popl it If itt ita a tP Unpopular In the b t IY eye I ind and In ther their e some m extent the 1 I hena of G Th They ate ae ii h thIr lit lot and Ind the they are aren a i n 1 all they cn ca to enlIghten t h t abut about the them Hut Dut a I want to te au I 11 i lh I JU T I r I ha his been en my good for amongst Jany nations i n 1 pt of many countries 7 r nv ot of and I 1 have hat ht th the bI baste of the un ular I Ih pp Saints th II is II Ic care mu much b what whal my friends k of tte tk 7 rae It I sum alI sure eUN the more w of m ma the better they will wIl wIli i I II tf I ot 0 me I wilting that thu opinIon 1111 I b a poor r one I it th they co coPo d Dot know I in wn well I 1 sea am willing 10 laVe laVen hay kow Po n I ill name at tM th of t tw wh know kisow little Ie e It i I ca can an od name from thole those who kno know me bt best There are some a 1 ther there ire come ome m mum whose whole suffers wih with Inc of knoWler knowledge an nd wih with bUer better acquaIntance but I hay hY found amongst the thinkers of the tbt da who ho are nut not swayed wet b by evry ever everwind wind ot of POpular prejudice that I if they the know kno anything about abut this people at al a athey they hu have recognised some om of our vIm vir virtu tu This fact I would emphasise In Inan I Ian an extending over quite quit a nm number r ot of year year and travel In I many countrIes I hive have neve never had t lo bow m my head or tilde hide IY my face fao In sham ham bw because I wag a Moron Mormon I Ik thu It I Ito bul to b known where I go 0 that I am Mormon b I force m vIews On no noman n man Moron I do not pree my belief Into tIm tae face ot of others If they want to knoW knol othel I what I beleve believe they cn can JIM out for tor the th and I wl will be ver very pled pleased to t till them Hut Dut I do not feel that tbt I belong to any lowdown church and andI an anI blong I mb not think m my brethren and an sisters allten tel feel o 0 either The proudest rc roe I have ha had In the cours of at long bag travel hat ha been that I am a member of this Church I It ha has brought brough me kind treatment It ha baa brought me meIn rn In contact wih ith intelligent mn men I It ba ha been a meane of educAtion to me to a I 1 marked A extent III and from the of worldly thino alone I would b be a i fol foot I It I 1 thought of giving I it up CHARACTERISTIC OF CHRiSTS WORK You hae have listened to tU from our just jUtt horn bome frol the Aei fleW and I want at 10 b their I bad back add m my to 10 go to a t remark maid mad a lew ew ago 10 that benevolence Is II ot of the th development ment of the ages as am amI And AndI I would add that benevolence e has ha at al ways YI been an feature ot of thi work ot of Tie The to whom I 1 have ut referred talked wih wit me about some of the of o othis abut this Church And he bt wo vae by the menton mention of o one thi purpose or of which I Ii expressed by th tb Relief Society I It I I one of a athe the secondary In the Church I of oi the helps help In government spoken of ir In Inthe irth I the th Scripture I It II I of Il ala ter young amId aud not so 10 younG young bandl bands together for tor th the purpose of f carrying to hief to those thoe who lre are In I ex cx lef red pressed to him AnI and I venture to repeat now no an analogy which forced itself up upon be between on my attention At the moment tween that organization and the Chute ot of the as a whole Just as AI these a t Society cad clad tn In the mantle manUe ot oJ charity o from hOUM houe to house hout seek ek ekIng Leg Ing out th the hungry tb the weak and distressed and unto them suet aid u as II Is their ruh roach 1 t go thu Hie ot of thIs h Church clothed wit with thu id Hol from countr country to oun along the thi tr try from naton nation to aaton nation hIghways and the byways of ane threading the streets of frt great Chico going down Into inlo the quarters hunt out thoI who bC are ara Ir In Inne need ot of and Ind help heh ne and offering them the water o 01 the I the bread of If UI Q o nourishment that gives ol oland bep and vitality As AI I think ot of It further I lind that Christ cae came to ve to a i z wold world to U Urie rie the burden ot of i mat It WN wea lag down ad anil wlm wb ther lIved Yo wl wilt fd find that th the wok of 01 God Hod always has bu U IJ some or of I ha founta lunI ton tion lion benevolence JO bce for bl ho kindness to on one another al an exercise lii Ilch auch wo work wi will I Would h he fUI cue ot of th the Elda who dId not In hi labor a as a You heard toa that Was wal not always at hand but I bul have b 1 rome come convinced tbt that the there is a rl I between b al pleas ur Ut I If I cannot have haxe both I wl will tt take th the an and le lit the pleasure KO go and ther there Is t In doing what whal w we know to be I AND GOD GODI Th OF I have he heard se some IH th that the Saints hints believing as they ther do u am the they theyo a do o that the they a arc the chosen ppl people a ol Ot ad and that although a bt battle I is g Oo waged and is II going oin 10 to b be waged vie Ic tory ory for Co them Is aurI say lay I have hM eard surprIse n expressed d I a people wih with smith luh convictions wok work 1 so har hard tad and send 1 Co Ilan many mIssionaries out mUm th be H wold world when they kow know th that the Lord is il going to do It sIh 1 anyway Yes Yel 11 u bey ar are ging I a very t pele people ad and they believe th the Lord lArd II I going to do I Ito It to roc them I if they wIll UI do all I the they c can canor to or Tb They have no DO fAith faUb hat the Lord II l t hi do fo foe them In gong what le If them to do to fot thOrn elvia You kow know this od oh Id idea tb that we weare ire are to be saved by the gr grae It of G God In ot Of all we do Is bing being to oblivion ad tn en UCh men n a among the of tim tho thoda da lay he have nt not muCh much use for It nw now reda are a nl revised and that Idea le leof of If I I being c t out out that IC we I t u used to b be I lid did anything for tor olve we sort r Iy y could not Me have 8 so much faith In God tad so much gratitude to him for tor ad Chat 8 He If did for tor UI us Why It II is only on n other step to the great extreme that u to b be held by of f the Gospel that the greater amber 1 a anan nan man WA was the more glory God would lava hae In Paving him ad and that It would b me a shame for al all men to b be It would rb rob Oo God ot of II Ills glory that e was to save the sinner and wo Ive le the for or the honor of oftie Je tie name nam We wi wIll have to do some thing hing for ourselves he and I it Is n no Jonge longer as sacrilegious ul to M say It In B Christan generally In to that which we do for our HIYI will 11 the Lr Lord do for tor u us W We wt will willare hue are to pay the price for 11 help and the he coin eoln py with which We have hae to pay III u ernet earnest effort individual work I ml that tb the wager oter ae are snot nor the Is 11 a Oat flat sting on one that the returns ar are almOl nevertheless the mn man that r not Invest IRvid I 11 will not work tot fot hese return I harly hardly believe he II g go Inc t to ef get them d w we are going to toler ler earn after atter a white that It I Is I n no lee I an I ct of the grace ot of Oo God when I lie helps ne who Is II trying to help himself than I L would b be If I lIe stretched out 11 ills end to Mlp haip on one who would never do for himself I stood but a few days ago upon one ot f the peaks of the great afo wall to 0 the east It of us UI I looke looked down u upon n his valley and saw aw it I as it whole Its Il appele appealed to me the towns like warming here an and there upon the valey alley floor r the felds fields forming a sait ot of gren green and the rain patches tche that told of a hav harvest t to toom om omne the that spoke of oC IW sweet t tt t b amid ld lD fruit fui II alt of It bearin te to t tb IndustrY ot of m an anthe n nth th the let if Up t I 1 asked ked a I 15 I It tl to Say y tbt II II a but tt the ot of man alan I Ii I 1 to l say that ht It is II but cAP rbt Gods tavo favot Gods per power was In het before r our ou father cam to thu onte barren spot It the tb grace of God Gu nl had been bee needed this wul would hae have been a nee plane Iao o of pr part of the Great De Des rt is which til regIon was U famed No thO those beauties had been bought at th t ot of e exertion md bad bard sweat wat sp of the brow and nd th the sweat ot of U t theart heart 0 t that wet sweat tb the 11 aol under tb the grace and nd ot of G God I 1 am jut u t practical enough to tt that the lord fd I Ii Willing eno to bl bIte tl thoa who will tr try to ble be themselves an anI wi I have a great dil dial more faith la in my m gt prayer that limit G led wl wili send lend m mc tM the bar har vt veal I if I go out and plow In n t the Mun thereof and S sow ow and pow carefully tend my m farm tarm tha than I would hUt have to lt sit doWl lel Idly and d ry pray Go God 40 does no not for favor pt He ne will pay u uc well 1 for our la ha harer hut Ih IX p ll Ut work or and am 11 that tIt w we I do is II reckoned b by him In InI Ii Iia a minner not only In the nurn num I br beI If f ar s not on only I I II the amount or CI ork ac man ma may count It but In the tb amount Ut that w we do 40 a U om oem pared pard with what w we could do Whet When I 1 have done all 1 that I 1 can under circumstance I have ha faith t li goins to the Lord lArd and Ut U to do 40 the tb refit whether that ug that UIl Iwu I was able ble to ti tido dowal do ret waa great rt or emal small You Yoi remember the poor widow who oae tame to ti tithe the temple when Jr Christ wb was there Ju th before her visit there hd had come oom a rich richman rid man swaggering tr skis In hll hi pride In ret tb robi and there wll with a i jingle and anc a tinkle that tat al all might hear bear and nd with ostentation that al ill mIght eec hI he dropp dropped hil his sol gold piece Into th box Ther There stole tole out from anI Ow ot of th the of edifice the widow and she when no one was wal looking ci I she thought cm came to tb the treasury and am dropped In her kr two mites which al she make up abut about hilt hall a celt cent lut Itu wha the Mister Master 1 waa there cud and saw IW abe did ed and turning to 0 tb thou wh who were I bout about Him I lie said Of a truth I I is unto you ou that this poor widow hah hat Jr cast In more than they all 1 for tor al all th II Olt mor t have of their cast ct ff 10 unto the ot of 0 God but abe bt of a aher h her r penury bath ct cut In al all the that she had ba lk ThAnk God t that H hl reckons not to lO l the amont amount a as men reckon but to tt the de deIr 4 Ir irve o ot our sincerity Inet FAITH AND WORKS SICK TO HEAL TlC TH Our people are kown known 51 a 5 plu people and on of their bli on o comment They be forth multi a 0 b cle Here In the Instruction Ut tha th lee when any ny be sick Ick amr among they the shall send nd for the Elders who chAt hl tal with and I anoint the sick oil ad unto them by lk the power o of U the boly hol and th they have It In ad th the accompanying promise that thu prayer r of rh baJ Ive save th the sick For Foi pr this we have ben been by the th Ignorant ad and by the who laV b had th the cuc chance pf a knowing better who h say MY ta that w we a ao arm bl mical skill ud and have |